[A]fter more than a quarter century in state government, Andy Pallito is moving on.
Pallito will leave his post with the Green Mountain Care Board in March, and he’s set to become Community College of Vermont’s new dean of administration the following month.
The Burlington resident brings a long governmental resume to the college: He currently leads the care board’s hospital budget review process, and his past state positions have included commissioner of corrections and commissioner of finance and management.
“I think, for me, it’s an opportunity to be in higher ed,” Pallito said. “I have a lot of experience with running an organization that’s statewide, with multiple sites spread around the state. I think I can really help CCV.”
Pallito started his state government career in 1992, working for the Agency of Human Services and the Agency of Natural Resources before moving in 2001 to the Department of Corrections, where he worked on creation of the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield.
Pallito became the department’s deputy commissioner in 2006. Two years later, he was appointed corrections commissioner, a post he filled under Republican Gov. Jim Douglas and Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin.
In 2015, Pallito succeeded the retiring Jim Reardon as head of the [Department of Finance and Management]. Last June, he moved over to the Green Mountain Care Board, where he became director of health systems finance.
At the care board, Pallito’s responsibilities touch on hospitals, insurance rates and accountable care organizations. The board currently is in the middle of reviewing hospitals’ fiscal year 2017 budgetary performance, and Pallito is leading that discussion.
“We are certainly disappointed to lose Andy, but we could not be more excited for him in his new role,” said care board spokesman Conor Kennedy.
Pallito is leaving the care board in mid-March. The board will work “to get someone on board as soon as possible” to replace him, Kennedy said.
Pallito, an accountant by training, said his departure from the Green Mountain Care Board has nothing to do with his work there. Rather, he said the college job is a “great opportunity” that he hadn’t envisioned when he took the care board job last summer.
To pursue that opportunity, Pallito will be retiring from state government. “It just seems like a good time to retire and move on,” he said.
At the community college, Pallito will replace retiring Dean of Administration Barbara Martin. His responsibilities will include budgeting, information technology, human resources and facilities.
Community college President Joyce Judy said Pallito is a “great match” for the school, which has 12 locations in Vermont.
“I’m really looking forward to working with him,” Judy said. “I think he brings to us a tremendous background in terms of finance, in terms of leadership, in terms of management.”
