Ogunquit residents have started the process to recall three Select Board members who voted earlier this month to uphold the termination of the town’s fire chief.
The residents, upset with the board members’ support of Town Manager Patricia Finnigan and her decision to fire Fire Chief Mark O’Brien, want to remove Madeline Mooney, Charles Waite III and Robert Winn from office. It is the first effort to recall town selectmen in a decade, according to a town official.
Mooney, Waite and Winn voted Oct. 9 to uphold Finnigan’s decision following a tense termination appeal hearing that culminated with 200 residents being asked to leave the meeting because some people were shouting comments at selectmen. Selectmen John Daley and Richard Dolliver voted against upholding O’Brien’s termination.