In their ongoing search to fill the county manager seat, vacant since August, county commissioners are doing their homework.

The sole item on the agenda at the county commission meeting Tuesday night was discussion about references and background checks on the three finalists for the position. The finalists are Thomas Bernardo of Chatham, Troy Clarkson of Falmouth and Russell Smith of Aquinnah.

County commissioners interviewed three finalists for the county manager position on Saturday morning.

Each candidate spent one hour fielding two rounds of questions on management style, experience with budgets and grants and the changing nature of Dukes County.

The Edgartown selectmen two weeks ago quietly gave a nod of approval to a plan which would convert an area of the inner harbor between the Reading Room and the Edgartown Yacht Club into a marina with up to 100 slips.

A provisional plan for the marina was presented to the selectmen by Edgartown resident Michael Berwind at a Friday morning meeting on Oct. 19, three days before the regular selectmen’s meeting. The Friday meeting was legally posted.

After a screening committee tasked with reviewing and narrowing applications for the new county manager position told county commissioners they would not proceed with applications received thus far — and asked the commissioners to readvertise the position — the commissioners last week took over the search themselves.

By yesterday, the search had narrowed to three finalists.

At a special town meeting on Monday Chilmark voters will face a slew of town spending requests ranging from money for repairs on the fire station, police station and Squibnocket beach parking lot to design work for a new building on Menemsha harbor.

The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Chilmark Community Center. Moderator Everett H. Poole will preside over the session.