WENDELL — All 12 articles sailed through last week’s Special Town Meeting in just 18 minutes, receiving unanimous approval from the 21 voters in attendance.

Article 7 asked to use $8,000 from available funds to increase the town coordinator’s salary if necessary while hiring a new person to fill the position after Glenn Johnson-Mussad’s departure.

Johnson-Mussad has been the town coordinator since January 2022, and his final day on the job in Wendell will be Feb. 28, after which time he will begin his new job as Erving’s town planner. Currently, he earns $41,164 working 28 hours a week. He said the next town coordinator’s job description calls for a 32-hour workweek and this Special Town Meeting article offers some “wiggle room.”

“The town recognizes the pay for the town coordinator has not been up to the standard of other towns,” Johnson-Mussad said on Tuesday.

Wednesday’s Special Town Meeting came nearly a year after Johnson-Mussad, referencing data compiled by the Franklin Regional Council of Governments (FRCOG), proposed a salary increase he said would better mirror the pay of leadership positions in towns similar in size to Wendell.

During the meeting, Finance Committee member Al MacIntyre noted that because each town’s coordinator has responsibilities unique to his or her town’s needs, the salary comparison is not always straightforward. However, MacIntyre said the $8,000 increase would put Wendell’s town coordinator pay in a similar range to the salaries of coordinators in nearby towns.

Articles 8 and 9 pertained to funding for Swift River School. Article 8 requested the town pay $58,500 for school transportation while Article 9 requested $68,500 for “an increased assessment to Swift River School.” Swift River School Principal Kelley Sullivan explained this funding supports out-of-district placement for a student who is in need of services not provided by Swift River School.

Article 10 requested the town adopt Massachusetts General Law Chapter 60, Section 62A as amended, which allows the treasurer to enter into a payment agreement for up to 10 years with taxpayers whose residential property is subjected to a lien or has entered the tax title taking process on or after Nov. 1, 2024.

“This would give me, as the treasurer, the flexibility to enter into a payment agreement with [those whose property was entered into tax title],” Treasurer Carolyn Manley explained. When a property owner fails to pay their property taxes, the town can take ownership of the property. “Somebody who is living in their property, I don’t really want to take their property.”

The passage of Article 5 enabled the town to add $2,500 to the town clerk’s salary for the increased responsibility of monitoring and posting meetings on the town website, and the approval of Article 6 allowed the town to pay $2,755 for the printing of annual reports for fiscal year 2025. The remaining articles pertained to paying bills from previous years and transferring money from free cash to the Stabilization Fund.