By Meg Hibbert
Contributing Writer
More than 51 years ago, Angela Sellers started working for the five-year-old City of Salem as a payroll clerk.
Monday night Salem City Council and an audience filled with supporters gave Sellers a standing ovation for her service to the city, and for being the longest tenured full-time employee in Salem’s history.
She also received a framed proclamation that declared Jan. 27 as Angela Sellers Day.
Sellers was a fixture in the finance department, when 51 years ago there were no computers, cell phones or word processors, the proclamation pointed out.
She advanced to accountant and eventually to assistant finance director. In 2008 she transitioned to director of technology systems, playing a major role “in implementing systems that enhanced service delivery, modernized operations and ensured that the City of Salem remained in the forefront of technological innovation,” the proclamation states.
Five years later became special projects coordinator and the city’s process improvement and business efficiency director.
Actually, Sellers started out with Salem working part-time at the Salem Civic Center’s Community Room from 1970-1973.
