Shrewsbury – The Shrewsbury Education Foundation (SEF) announced its annual Community Service Award will be presented to Shrewsbury Town Manager Daniel J. Morgado. He will formally receive this honor at the foundation’s annual Awards and Recognitions Dinner Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, at Cyprian Keyes Golf Club in Boylston.
“It’s an honor to be selected for this award,” Morgado said. “I know that several other people have received the award previously that I very much admire their careers and their work in Shrewsbury and it’s an honor, but it also means a lot relative to all the work that people are able to do in this community, the volunteers and the like.”
Morgado has worked in municipal administrative offices since 1978, first as executive secretary to the selectmen of Swansea, before first coming to Shrewsbury briefly as an administrative assistant to the longtime Town Manager Richard Carney. He then served as town administrator in three towns: Blackstone, Easton and Grafton. In 1997 he returned to Shrewsbury to succeed Carney as town manager, becoming only the third person holding the job since the position was created in 1953.
Morgado holds a Masters of Public Administration degree from Clark University, a program in which he now teaches. He is also a member of the Massachusetts Water Resources Management Advisory Committee, the Massachusetts 495/Metro West Suburban Edge Community Commission, and the Massachusetts Joint Labor-Management Committee for Municipal Police and Fire (having previously served as its management chair.)
Born in Fall River and raised in Swansea, Morgado currently resides in Shrewsbury with his wife, Luanne, where he attends Trinity Episcopal Church. He is an advocate for libraries, education and has managed the town of Shrewsbury with firm fiscal principles.
The SEF Community Service Award, now in its seventh year, honors a special community member who has shown leadership and outstanding community values. This individual is dedicated to Shrewsbury and goes above and beyond in delivering outstanding contributions to the Shrewsbury community and the Shrewsbury Public Schools.
For more information about the Shrewsbury Education Foundation, visit www.SEFgrants.org.
