RUMFORD – As of 4 p.m. Thursday, Rumford was without a town manager, because no one was chosen to lead the town until voters can decide if they want to share Mexico’s leader.

At 4 p.m., Town Manager Jim Doar, who chose not to renew his one-year contract in April, left, according to Selectmen Chairman J. Arthur Boivin. Doar’s term was up on Tuesday.

“Currently, Rumford has no town manager, so, in case of an emergency, the people at the town office have been told to contact me at home, not at the town office,” Boivin said by phone from home Thursday evening.

The matter was to have been settled Thursday morning when the board chose an interim town manager, Boivin said.

“A few of us picked out one person we would have liked to have seen in there, and gave his name, and some of the others said why not expand it. So, if anyone wants to be considered, they need to contact me,” he said.

The name given was Len Greaney.

Boivin said he may be reached by phone at 364-3471, by e-mail at [email protected] or by mailing a letter to him at 671 Crescent Avenue, Rumford, ME 04276.

“If anybody’s interested, they should let me know. We will meet again at 4 o’clock on Monday downstairs in the conference room and I will get the names in and we’ll probably conduct some type of interviews.

“The interim town manager could be in that position for a couple of months or six, seven or eight months. It depends on if we make a motion to have a special type of meeting and another poll if we are going to share a town manager with Mexico,” Boivin said of Mexico Town Manager John Madigan.

When Greaney’s name was mentioned at Thursday morning’s meeting as someone who could serve as Rumford’s interim town manager, Boivin said Selectman Brad Adley asked if the board couldn’t expand it to include other possible interested people.

“We said OK, because you can’t have too much tunnel vision,” Boivin added.

Last week, selectmen voted to convene a public hearing on two proposed amendments to the charter, which would allow Rumford to share Madigan as its town manager.

That hearing will be held Wednesday, June 18, in the town hall.

The second amendment is to change the wording that states the town manager needs to be available for full-time service to say selectmen are allowed to determine available services.