Onancock Hires Town Manager

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Matt Spuck. Submitted photo.

By Carol Vaughn —

Onancock’s new town manager is a familiar face, after a search that attracted more than 20 applicants.
Matthew Spuck, who owns and operates The Inn at Onancock with his wife, Kim Moore, will begin work July 1. He signed a three-year contract, Mayor Fletcher Fosque said at a town council meeting last week.
The town hired a consultant to assist with the search, after former Town Manager Bill Kerbin resigned to take a position in Vermont.
Spuck resigned from his seat on the Onancock Town Council before being named town manager.
Spuck was appointed to fill Josh Bundick’s term on the council in April 2019, after Bundick resigned. Spuck ran for a seat on the council in 2018, but was not elected.
Spuck has been a member of the town’s Sewer Line Transmission Study Committee, the Onancock Planning Commission, and the Onancock Business and Civic Association, according to a press release.
He and his wife moved from Boston to Onancock in 2016.
In addition to operating the inn, Spuck works as a consultant with professional services firm CliftonLarsonAllen.
During a 30-year career, he previously held positions as vice president of finance at the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston; practice manager – business intelligence at JMT Consulting Group in the greater Boston area; and finance officer for Diploma Plus, Inc., among others.
He also served on the board of a large suburban school system in western New York for five years.
Spuck earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Quinnipiac University in 1988.
“Matt plans to use his experience to lead Onancock in future negotiations with HRSD (the Hampton Roads Sanitation District), to facilitate strategic planning and to implement subsequent action plans reasonably tied to the resources of the town. He also intends to secure non-tax related funding for economic development and Onancock’s Main Street Initiative, with a goal to fill empty storefronts and to bring an increased vibrancy to the town,” according to the release.
Spuck can be reached via email at [email protected]

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