GREENFIELD — The Town Council will take from the table a vote on whether to approve an employment contract for an interim municipal internet manager that was tabled during last month’s meeting, during its monthly meeting tonight.

This summer, Mayor William Martin appointed Daniel Kelley as acting general manager of Greenfield Community Energy and Technology, the town-owned service that will eventually provide low-cost internet, telephone and possibly television services to all residents and businesses. Martin is requesting that Kelley be paid $120,000 a year for two years, a change from the five-year, $150,000-per-year contract that Martin originally brought to the council last month.

Councilors decided to table the vote until this month after receiving word from the town’s attorney before the meeting that the vote needed to be up or down — either completely approving or rejecting the mayor’s proposed contract — meaning the council could not set Kelley’s term and salary as it previously thought. However, there was confusion as to whether that legal advice was correct.

Some councilors also had reservations about the high pay the mayor proposed for the job and that there was no public search for candidates for the job. 

The council is also expected to vote on special legislation that would allow the town to create its own Municipal Light Commission. With approval from the mayor, council and state, the legislation would allow the mayor to appoint a five-person board  — with council approval — to oversee the internet service. That board would be responsible for conducting a search process and approving the manager’s contract.

Council President Brickett Allis said the proposed contract for the interim manager contains language that would make the contract null and void — if approved — once the commission conducts a search to find a new manager. 

“I assume that the special legislation will probably pass so we can actually do an appropriate search,” Allis said. 

He added that the legal opinions provided to the council about whether it can set the manager’s term and salary are still open to interpretation.

“You would need 10 more lawyers to give you 10 more opinions to figure that out,” he said. 

Other items on the council’s agenda include committee appointments and approval of several small Fiscal Year 2016 bills.

The meeting will take place at the GCTV-15 studio, 393 Main St., at 7 p.m.