Meet Brendan

About Brendan

• At-Large City Councilor
• Assistant Town Administrator/Finance Director, Town of Boxford
• Four years in Mass. State budget office
• Suffolk University – MPA, Gordon College – BA
• Beverly Kiwanis Club President
• Mass. Municipal Association Board of Directors
• Former Planning Board member

Firsthand Experience

First elected in 2021, Brendan has been serving Beverly as one of its three At-Large City Councilors since January 2022. During his time on the Council, Brendan has worked to improve the communication of information to residents, provide timely constituent services, and rein in City spending. He has also advocated for the needs of seniors and veterans in Beverly – in 2024, his proposal to double property tax exemptions for qualifying veterans and seniors was unanimously approved by the City Council and signed into law by the Mayor.

Brendan knows what it takes to run a city from firsthand experience. He currently works in municipal management as the Assistant Town Administrator/Finance Director for the Town of Boxford. Serving as a senior member of the Town’s management team, he’s in charge of creating the Town’s multi-million-dollar annual operating budget and five-year capital improvement plan. He also negotiates collective bargaining agreements with unions and handles high profile procurements. Previously, Brendan spent four years working in the Baker Administration in the Commonwealth’s Executive Office for Administration and Finance.

Deep Roots in The North Shore

Born in Beverly, Brendan is a North Shore native whose family relocated to upstate New York and southeastern Massachusetts before returning to the North Shore. He graduated from Ipswich High School and then earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Gordon College with dual majors in Political Science and Business Administration. At Gordon, Brendan honed his leadership abilities through several extracurricular activities, including as captain of the varsity men’s lacrosse team. Planning for a career in municipal management, he went on to attain a Master of Public Administration from Suffolk University, which he completed while working full-time in state government.

After internships in both the state legislature and local government in Wenham, Brendan started his career Reading, Massachusetts, where he worked for the Town Manager. There, his passion for local government took hold, as he saw firsthand the positive impact that good government at the local level can have on residents and the important role that the essential services of local government play in their day-to-day lives.

Prepared to Lead

During the Baker Administration, Brendan worked at the state level in the Commonwealth’s executive financial management office. He began his tenure as a budget analyst, working to craft the education, economic development, and housing portions of the Commonwealth’s multi-billion-dollar annual operating budget, as well as its separate five-year capital improvement plan. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was given the opportunity to serve in an emergency division dedicated to COVID-19 response and recovery efforts. In this role, Brendan led the division’s work with the mayors, town managers, and finance officials of the Commonwealth’s 351 cities and towns and administered multi-million-dollar streams of federal COVID-19 relief funding, which ensured that local officials had the resources that they needed to successfully implement COVID-19 response and recovery initiatives.

In 2022, Brendan returned to municipal government full-time and currently serves as the Town of Boxford’s Assistant Town Administrator/Finance Director. There, Brendan is responsible for developing the Town’s more than $40-million annual operating budget and multi-million-dollar five-year capital improvement plan. He also manages the Town’s accounting, treasury, and assessing departments. As a member of the Town’s senior management team, he participates in negotiations with all of the Town’s unions. He has conducted a number of high-profile procurements, such as the negotiation of a new trash and recycling curbside collection contract, which saved Boxford residents millions of dollars.

A Passion for Community Service