Board to Accept Applications for Director of Schools

The DeKalb County Board of Education has begun the process of selecting a new Director of Schools.
During Thursday night’s regular monthly meeting, the board voted to post a notice on the school system’s website seeking applications for the position from May 15 through June 15.
(Click the first link below to view the posted notice. Click the second link below to view the actual application)
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http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/DekalbCountySD/DekalbCountySD/Divisions/…
According to Board Chairman W.J. (Dub) Evins, III the application is basically the same form as was used nine years ago except for a few changes.
“We had a workshop prior to this meeting and all (board members) agreed on the format. The best way to explain this is to say that we are going to start tomorrow (Friday, May 15) and at least start with posting it on our website and have a time line of May 15 to June 15 which would actually be 31 days. In the interim, we will have to do some things ourselves to structure the contract and some more detailed issues but before we do that at least we can get started with posting on the website for anyone interested in applying and details will be on that website. We looked at the application that we did previously nine years ago. We added some more details to that and anyone wanting to see that can get on our website. It’s pretty detailed,” said Evins.
In other business, the board voted to hire Chattanooga attorney Scott Bennett, who specializes in school law, to give advice as needed. “It won’t be a monthly retainer. It will just be a per hour retainer and if there is something of less consequence during the year we can hire someone locally. We’re not obligated in any way to use this gentleman but his name is Scott Bennett. He is with a law firm in Chattanooga who specializes in school law. He is legal counsel for Hamilton County, Coffee County and several other counties. We can talk with him through emails or over the phone for advice. There are two attorneys in the law firm who specialize in school law and their rate is $170 per hour. We still have attorney Randall Bennett, who is no relation (to Scott Bennett) of the Tennessee School Boards Association and we can still get his free advice and counsel but he (Randall Bennett) doesn’t do new contracts for a director so we would have to get someone to do that. Scott Bennett specializes in that,” said Board Chairman Evins.