TRURO — The select board voted unanimously on July 1 to interview only one of 16 applicants for the job of town manager: current acting Town Manager Kelly Clark. She has been the assistant town manager since 2016 and assumed the duties of town manager when Darrin Tangeman announced his resignation on Feb. 7.

Chair Susan Areson said at the select board’s June 24 meeting that 16 applications had been submitted, but the details of those applications, including the names of the applicants, will not be made public.

“These applications are confidential,” said Areson, “and unless we notify them that they will be discussed publicly, we cannot provide any names.” Clark had already told the board she would apply for the job.

“I felt like one candidate far surpassed [the others] in experience,” said select board member Stephanie Rein on June 24, clearly referring to Clark. “There was not a lot of town manager experience” among the candidates, she said, adding that there were only a few had who had held even an assistant town manager job.

At the board’s July 1 meeting, member Susan Girard-Irwin said Clark was a “tier one” candidate. “I think she’s in a unique position because she’s been in the acting role,” Girard-Irwin said. “The difference between that tier one and tier two, when I was looking at it, is vast.”

Other members agreed, and the board decided not to schedule interviews with any other candidates. Instead, the board is planning a meet-and-greet for the public to ask Clark questions on Thursday, July 10 and then to conduct a formal interview with Clark on July 17.

Each board member is supposed to prepare two questions for that interview. There will be public comments at the July 17 meeting, but no direct questions for Clark from the public. After the interview, the board plans to vote on whether to offer Clark the job.

“I would love the opportunity for a meet-and-greet,” Clark said on July 1. “I think it would be a nice chance to see people and meet new people.”

Clark grew up in the suburbs of Boston and spent her summers in Truro, she told the Independent this week. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in social work. She began working for Truro’s summer recreation program when she was in high school. In 2008, she became the town’s recreation director, and she became assistant town manager in 2016. She lives in Orleans with her husband and children.

Tangeman served as town manager for four years and was in the first year of a three-year contract when he and the select board jointly announced his resignation. He received a severance payment of $237,370 when he left — equal to one year’s salary at $202,180, plus $24,049 in accumulated vacation time and $11,141 in unused sick leave.

Truro’s job listing in June gave the salary for town manager as $190,000 but said it was “negotiable.”