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Board to keep applications confidential and limit reference checks to finalists
Summary
To protect applicants, the board instructed members to treat applications as confidential and agreed to call references only for finalists after second‑round interviews.
Board members emphasized confidentiality for applicants during the initial review. One board member cautioned that applicants may be seeking to leave their current districts and urged the board to consider applications extremely private until finalists are identified: "These applicants are very private... until you list them as a finalist, you should really consider it extremely confidential when you see the application."
The group agreed reference checks should be completed after finalists are named, with members calling references promptly after the relevant interview round. The board discussed dividing reference-calling responsibilities and said those checks would typically occur after the second‑round interviews and before final approval.
