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In response to a Daily News request, Town Administrator Richard Villani said the town is using consultant investigator Thomas Greene and consultant attorney John M. Collins for the investigation.
Greene, whose website for his Blackstone-based private detective agency, Greene Shield Protection, says he has 28 years of law enforcement experience with the Massachusetts State Police, declined to comment when reached on Friday.
Greene charges $130 per hour and Collins charges $275 per hour, Villani said, but the town has not yet received invoices.
Pighetti continues to be paid his salary of $197,098 plus benefits.
The investigation is now bleeding into the town’s budget season, and acting Police Chief James Falvey is handling the Police Department’s finances.
MILFORD Police Chief Michael Pighetti is on paid leave, pending the results of an investigation, according to local officials. The board received a complaint regarding the police chief, Michael Pighetti, Select Board Chairman William Kingkade Jr. said during Monday night s board meeting. It was decided by the board to bring in a third party to investigate the incident.
It s unclear what the incident was or how long the investigation will take, but Kingkade said Pighetti will be on paid leave until the investigation report comes back.
Lt. James Falvey will serve as acting police chief in the meantime. I want to assure the public that everything is fine, Select Board member Michael Walsh said Tuesday morning, adding that he couldn t yet provide details. Everything is fine.
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In two votes on Jan. 7, Milford Town Meeting voted to change Board of Selectmen to Select Board. (Samantha Mercado/Patch)
MILFORD, MA Milford will soon join the dozens of other towns across Massachusetts that have changed from using the term Board of Selectmen to the gender-neutral Select Board.
Town Meeting approved the change during the Jan. 7 session after pushing the matter off the warrant last summer. The article was sponsored by member Lauren Wilton, who said the change could encourage more women to run for the town s top governing board. Any woman can run for Board of Selectmen, but the name implies she should not, Wilton said during the meeting.