Technology consultants are expected to advise selectmen tonight to hire a new information-technology chief to oversee operations in the general government and the schools. In a report to the board, consultants from the Edward J. Collins Jr. Center for Public Management call the town a $66 million entity whose mid-1980s technology model is causing gross inefficiencies. Those problems, they say, have resulted mainly from the town’s failure to consolidate the school and town technology departments and from the school department’s redundant payroll process.

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