School board will meet with top 2 superintendent choices/By Martha Knight

Port Allegany School Board president Dave Mensch said last week that the school board’s search committee interviewed three candidates for the superintendent position, last Tuesday night, and will present two of them to the full board shortly.

Outgoing superintendent Tony Flint has been asked to set up a meeting of the full board for the purpose of giving all board members a chance to meet and talk with the two candidates. That meeting would be closed, under the open meetings exception pertaining to certain kinds of personnel matters.

The board could not vote to employ either candidate at the closed meeting. That would be done at a public school board meeting. Mensch said it was unlikely that the school board meeting, scheduled for Monday, August 26, would be the one where a superintendent is hired.

The search committee has been seeking a replacement for Flint throughout the summer, after Flint announced his retirement resignation. The latest round of advertising drew 10 applicants. The committee narrowed the field to four, but one withdrew.