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Clancy Main, Billerica’s current town manager, has been hired by the Haverhill School Committee to serve as chief financial officer.
Main, 36, begins his new position May 19.
A resident of Derry, N.H., Main will take over many of duties of the school department’s former assistant superintendent of finance and operations, Michael J. Pfifferling, who left for a similar position with the Marblehead Public School system last May. Greg Labrecque, the former business manager for the Pentucket Regional School System, has been serving as the school system’s interim business manager since Pfifferling left.
The School Committee decided last fall to look for a chief financial officer with a reduction in duties and salary after an extensive search turned up no acceptable candidates for the assistant superintendent of finance and operations position.
Pfifferling was being paid $181,000 a year. Main will receive $147,000 a year to begin. The school department offered Main a three-year contract which includes a salary increase to $155,000 a year on July 1, 2026 and $159,650 a year on July 1, 2027. His contract also includes a $100-a-month cell phone allowance and 26 vacation days and 15 sick days as year.
Additionally, Main must complete a 300-hour administrative apprentice program offered by the Massachusetts Association of School Business Officials because he comes to Haverhill without a state-required school business administrator’s license, according to School Committee Vice Chair Richard J. Rosa. Once Main qualifies for the license, he will receive a $3,000 payment, according to his contract.
Main told WHAV he sought the Haverhill position after the birth of his second child seven months ago because he was looking for a better work-life balance with fewer night meetings. He said he clocked over 100 night meetings last year as a town manager which meant he rarely saw his young family.
Main noted that he has extensive experience managing municipal budgets as his first position in Billerica was as a budget and management analyst. He then was promoted to director of administrative services, then to assistant town manager and, finally, interim town manager. A native of North Reading, he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science in 2013 and a master’s degree in public administration in 2019 from the UMass Lowell.