Foxborough Town Manager Gets 2 Percent Raise

Foxborough Town Manager Kevin Paicos will make $151,286.40 in fiscal year 2014 after the town’s Board of Selectmen awarded him with a 2 percent increase Tuesday.

After two years of no salary increases, Foxborough Town Manager Kevin Paicos is getting a raise. The town’s Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday to give the third-year town manager a 2 percent increase, which will net Paicos a salary of $151,286.40 in fiscal year 2014 – effective July 1. Selectmen determined Paicos’ performance in FY13 met the board’s expectations and on Tuesday, decided that performance warranted a 2 percent increase in salary. Tuesday’s salary review was the third component in the review process of the town manager’s performance, as required by his contract. Board of Selectmen vice chair Lorraine Brue opened the discussion Tuesday for a merit increase in Paicos’ salary. “I think we should talk about an increase …

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Town Officials Thank Foxborough Police Officers for Answering Call in Aftermath of Marathon Bombings

Foxborough selectmen and Town Manager Kevin Paicos publicly thanked the town’s three police officers that were deployed to Boston last week to assist in the aftermath of the Marathon bombings.

Foxborough police officers Scott Hodson, James Payne and Lt. John Hannon were each deployed to Boston last week as part of the region’s Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council to assist in the Marathon bombings investigation. “They were all in there Monday night and stayed in for quite awhile,” said Town Manager Kevin Paicos. … “I will tell you they were, the two SWAT officers [Hodson and Payne] and John Hannon were right there in the thick of things [during the investigation] … they were right in the heart of everything going on. … All performed in an exemplary manner and made themselves proud and the community of Foxborough very proud.” Paicos, an Army veteran and a National Guard Special Forces Operator, too answered the call to assist in …

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5 Things You Need To Know Today

5 Things: Selectmen to Review Town Manager Salary; Have You Seen This Dog & More

Here's five things you need to know in Foxborough for today, April 23.

For more town news and instant updates on stories like this, follow Foxborough Patch on Facebook and Twitter, or sign-up for our e-mail newsletter.  Today’s weather in Foxborough, according to the National Weather Service based in Taunton, calls for rain likely, mainly after 11 a.m. Cloudy, with a high near 46. Northeast wind 10 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70 percent. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Tuesday night: Rain likely, mainly before 10 p.m. Cloudy, with a low around 41. North wind 10 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. After giving Town Manager Kevin Paicos a “satisfactory” rating during his …

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Annual Review of Town Manager Under Way as Paicos Details FY13 Accomplishments

Foxborough Town Manager Kevin Paicos provided selectmen with his self-assessment of goals, objectives and accomplishments over the past fiscal year.

The annual review of Foxborough Town Manager Kevin Paicos got under way this week with the town official providing selectmen a self-assessment of his goals and objectives over the past year. Paicos submitted a five-page document detailing accomplishments he said were the result of a team effort approach at Town Hall. “It’s very important that everybody understands that I don’t do anything alone,” Paicos told selectmen Tuesday. “Everything that gets accomplished around here is a composite of a whole bunch of people’s work. It’s very hard for me to write a document that says here’s what I did.” Specifically, Paicos credited the work of the town’s department heads for the result of many of the listed accomplishments. “I will tell you that we …

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Selectmen Continue Jake n JOES Liquor License Hearing to Feb. 26

Selectmen will review Jake n JOES’ application for alteration of premises for All Alcohol Restaurant License.

Foxborough’s Board of Selectmen continued Tuesday’s public hearing to review Jake n JOES’ application for alteration of premises for the establishment’s All Alcohol Restaurant License to Feb. 26. Foxborough Town Manager Kevin Paicos said Jake n JOES needed to file an application for alteration of premises with the town after Building Inspector Bill Casbarra discovered the establishment’s floor plan did not match the one submitted with the All Alcohol Restaurant License. “It was very different,” Paicos said of the floor plan. “The owners didn’t realize they needed to come in with a different plan so it’s just an unfortunate error because as many restaurants as they’ve owned, they’ve never opened a new place. It’s always been other …

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Paicos: 'Don't Be an Idiot During Blizzard'

Foxborough Town Manager Kevin Paicos says he expects most residents to stay off the roads during Friday's storm but believes there will be "some idiots."

Foxborough Town Manager Kevin Paicos says most of the town will take Friday’s blizzard seriously and stay home and off the roads. “If it is as bad as they say I don’t think anybody is moving on the roads by 8 p.m.,” Paicos said. “I don’t think people will be able to get to and from their homes.” But then there are just some people who are cavalier to caution. “People are not going to be on the roads unless they are complete idiots,” Paicos said. … “Expect the normal drop off in human behavior that come from these events.” The town departments and agencies met Friday morning to outline Foxborough’s emergency preparedness plan for the blizzard. “Sounds like we are really prepared,” Paicos said. “Nothing prepares you like experience and God …

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Foxborough to Cancel March Special Town Meeting; Move Sewer Vote to May

Foxborough Town Manager Kevin Paicos told selectmen Tuesday that Norton and Mansfield won't be ready to move forward with the Intermunicipal Agreement (IMA) to form a Regional Sewer District until after their respective Annual Town Meetings.

Foxborough will have more time to prepare its pitch to voters to enter into an Intermunicipal Agreement (IMA) with Norton and Mansfield to form a Regional Sewer District, according to Foxborough Town Manager Kevin Paicos. "The towns of Mansfield and Norton have been working through their own planning issues [with the IMA], town finance plan issues and they let us know [Monday] night that they won’t be submitting their final plans to their voters until their Annual Town Meetings in the spring," Paicos said. "Therefore, the good news is we do not have to have this March 4 Special Town Meeting, which was predicated on the requirement by our partners to give them an answer by the end of February or in March." The news was well received by …

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Dennis Naughton

9:44 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Who should not pay for it is anyone who does not have access to a sewer hookup.   more ›

Town Manager: Adding Police Officers ‘Enormous Priority’ in FY14 Budget

Foxborough Town Manager Kevin Paicos told selectmen Tuesday he is "desperately trying to [find funds for additional police officers] in the context of a [FY14] budget that's already very tight" because it is an "enormous priority."

“We need more police officers. Plain and simple.” That was the message Foxborough Town Manager Kevin Paicos relayed to selectmen at Tuesday’s meeting during a discussion of the town’s FY14 budget goals. Paicos identified the need for more police officers as the top priority while discussing the possibility of finding the financial flexibility needed in the FY14 budget to hire new employees in town. “I’m well into the budget [writing process] at this point,” Paicos told selectmen Tuesday. … “I’m desperately trying to [find funds for additional police officers] in the context of the budget that’s already very tight.” Paicos told selectmen the town’s top priority for new employees should be public safety/police, followed by laborers for the …

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Foxborough Town Planner Says Town Hall Needs to be Addressed, Should Stay in Downtown

Foxborough Town Planner Sharon Wason says the current Town Hall is in “real rough shape” and the condition of the building needs to be addressed.

Built 48 years ago, Foxborough’s Town Hall has seen better days, according to Town Planner Sharon Wason. “Whenever it rains, we get water in through the old garage,” Wason said, whose office is in the basement of Town Hall next to the old police dispatch center. “We get water that comes in through the windows. There’s mold … you can just smell the disgusting mold … there’s old jail cells. That’s what’s the matter with the [basement].” Go upstairs to the main floor and it doesn’t get much better. “Above the suspended ceiling on the second floor there’s no ceiling, it just goes up to the attic and there’s between an inch or so of dust that includes lead and gunpowder and all that horrible stuff,” Wason said. “Whatever is up above the ceiling…

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R. Hood

12:59 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

Sounds like the BOS wants to build Foxboro's equivalent to the Federal Courthouse downtown. (Marble Tile, Solid Gold Faucets, etc.....) Do we really need an 8mil (100% financed) building to pay your water bill at and a place for Paicos to hang his crown?   more ›

Selectmen: No Salary Increase for Foxborough Town Manager

The Foxborough Board of Selectmen voted 3-2 Tuesday to keep Town Manager Kevin Paicos’ salary “status quo” at $148,320 for fiscal year 2013.

After nearly 38 minutes of discussion and debate Tuesday, The Foxborough Board of Selectmen voted 3-2 in favor of keeping Town Manager Kevin Paicos’ salary at $148,320 for fiscal year 2013. Members of the board engaged in what BOS chairman James DeVellis called an “uncomfortable” process in publicly discussing whether or not to increase Paicos’ salary for fiscal year 2013. Selectmen Clerk Lorraine Brue and Vice Chair Mark Sullivan voted against Sullivan’s motion “to keep town manager’s pay at status quo with no increase” because they each believed Paicos’ performance over the past year warranted an increase in salary. “I think last year was the most difficult year I have ever seen this town go through,” Sullivan said. “A natural disaster, …

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