UPDATE: Pelham BOE Whittles List of Firms for Superintendent Search to Three

UPDATE, 6:15 p.m.:The Pelham school board has whittled its list of firms for the district’s superintendent search down to three.

Board of Education members met earlier this morning to cut the list of eight firms that sent proposals for the district’s superintendent search.

“It wasn’t a hard process,” said Robert Eicher, president of the school board. “There were a bunch of firms that have no experience in our area and so we eliminated them. We had reference problems with another, so we eliminated  them.”

Eicher declined to name the final three firms Friday.

Eicher said that he would still like to see the  board have a search firm in place by July 1. But he admitted that the decision might take a few days longer.

“We have two to three weeks to go in order to get these interviews done, check references and do the other things needed in order to negotiate,” Eicher said.

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Pelham school board officials are meeting this morning to whittle down the list of eight firms for the district’s superintendent search.

The board’s meeting is scheduled to take place at 7:15 a.m. in the superintendent’s conference room. The meeting will be in executive session and closed to the public.

The board is looking for a new superintendent because Dennis Lauro, the current superintendent, announced he was stepping down at the end of this year.

Firms that submitted bids to the school district are Hazzard, Young, Attea and Assoicates; School Leadership LLC; Southern Westchester BOCES; McPherson & Jacobson, LLC; and PROACT Search.

Robert Eicher, president of the school board, said the board would like to have a search firm in place by July 1.