Billings College District 2 is one step nearer to discovering its subsequent superintendent. With present Superintendent Greg Upham’s saying his retirement this fall, district administration reacted rapidly to start the seek for his successor.
Throughout their common board assembly Dec. 19, the SD2 board of trustees voted to pick out GR Recruiting as their official hiring agency to help within the course of of choosing their subsequent superintendent.
Based mostly out of Fountain Hills, Arizona, the state, regional and nationwide search agency focuses on hiring Okay-12 academic leaders and have beforehand performed searches in Billings and Missoula.
The district obtained 4 bids altogether that included Hazard, Younger, Attea and Associates, McPherson and Jacobsen and Ray and Associates. District Board Clerk Craig Van Good informed the board he and the district’s human assets and enterprise workplaces reviewed the bids and performed interviews with all 4 corporations which have been then graded on a cumulative scale.
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They finally advisable that the board approve GR Recruiting to carry out the search based mostly on attaining the very best general rating. GR Recruiting ranked third in value, however first in expertise, scope of providers offered, and contractual assure respectively.
Van Good added that that it was through the interview course of the place they set themselves other than the opposite bidding corporations.
“We thought they did an excellent job of partaking in that interview,” he stated. “They did an excellent job of asking us questions that have been related to a few of the points and different circumstances we’re going through on this district.”
A tentative timeline for the superintendent search connected to the bid projected a closing candidate to be narrowed down and supplied a contract by the center of April.
With the general pricing choices involved, Van Good would go on to element the district’s potential choices with base charges for his or her work starting from $18,000 to $24,500 and an all-in possibility that features extra bills starting from $28,100 to $37,600.
With GR Recruiting edging out its closest competitor by only some factors, Trustee Russell Corridor requested concerning the justification in spending upwards of $7,400 for a barely higher suitor. Van Good reiterated the spectacular interview from their representatives whereas including that their record of ensures have been extra favorable than different bidders.
Corridor recalled the method for choosing former Superintendent Keith Beeman in 2010 that resulted in a short-lived and controversial tenure and expressed a want for the board to not repeat that whereas having to pay for a 3rd occasion.
Van Good confirmed that this is able to not be the case with GR Recruiting’s present proposal. It particularly notes that if a state of affairs like Beeman’s removing have been to happen inside two years of employment, they might additionally conduct a brand new superintendent search.
“So, we’re saying that if we employed a superintendent and so they have been let go inside two years, then the search can be at no cost aside from bills,” Corridor reiterated.
Trustee John Von Langen then requested if any of the trustees have been concerned with or invited to any of the interviews. Van Good replied that they weren’t.
The board finally voted 6-1 to approve GR because the agency with Von Langen being the one one to vote in opposition to it.
Jana Pennington speaks throughout a College District 2 particular session.