Alna selectmen on Aug. 24 will take up Code Enforcement Officer Greg Lumbert’s resignation and discuss the vacancy, according to an agenda out Aug. 18 and First Selectman Ed Pentaleri in a phone interview. Lumbert, the town’s CEO and plumbing inspector since April, told town officials via email Aug. 15, he would be leaving his keys.

“It's not a typical letter of resignation, but the sentence about leaving the keys made the situation perfectly clear to us,” Pentaleri said via email Friday when providing Lumbert’s email at Wiscasset Newspaper’s request. Lumbert wrote to the town clerk, all three selectmen and Planning Board Chair Cathy Johnson. He said he had a conditional permit to sign and then, “I will leave my keys ...”

Wiscasset Newspaper has sought comment from Lumbert.

In Friday’s phone interview, Pentaleri recalled being surprised and disappointed when he read the email. He described Lumbert as the best CEO Alna had had in years. “It’s a real disappointment,” he reiterated. And with no deputy CEO onboard, “We’re not in a good way,” Pentaleri said. He added, filling the CEO job “is a tough situation for all communities. So I would be stupid if I wasn’t concerned.”

The town will advertise the opening, he said.

Also on the Aug. 24 agenda are updates on a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant for a backup generator for the town office and a Community Resiliency Partnership grant and an update and possible decision on a Pinkham Pond matter that involved rocks put down in the area of a walk-in ramp last spring. The meeting starts at 6 p.m. at the town office and on Zoom (Meeting ID: 899 4504 5186) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89945045186