Business View Civil and Municipal l December 2022

95 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 SELLERSBURG, INDI ANA Sellersburg hired Smith as town manager. The role was a new one for the town, which has helped streamline improvement projects. “It’s a small town, so you have five elected officials who realistically all have full- time jobs, and the position of councilman is really a part-time job,” Smith explains. “Traditionally, they’d show up in meetings twice a month to try to get an assessment of what’s going on, but there really wasn’t a point person on the ground to handle the day-to-day and take whatever vision the councils might have had and execute those on a daily basis. “So when the council decided to take on a town manager position, it’s really the first time that there’s really been anybody on site to really kind of take the direction that has been outlined by the council and move to execute that.”