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Board sets director‑search timeline: interviews to be recorded and released together; meet‑and‑greet and top‑five resume release approved
Summary
The board voted to record interviews and release them after all are completed, set HR deadlines for candidate score sheets (COB April 20) and scheduled interviews beginning April 29 with one hour per candidate; the board also approved a meet-and-greet format and agreed to release top‑five resumes with personal data scrubbed.
The Wilson County Schools board finalized multiple procedural choices for the district’s director search: interviews will be recorded and released together after all interviews are complete, candidate score sheets must be submitted to HR by close of business on April 20, and interviews were scheduled to begin April 29 at 09:00 with one hour allotted per candidate.
Board members debated whether interviews should be live‑streamed (some expressed concern that later candidates could gain an unfair advantage by watching prior interviews). To avoid that possibility the board approved a motion to record interviews and release them simultaneously after the full slate was complete. Chair moved: "I'll make a motion that we, turn our sheets into HR by COB on the 20th, and they are announced by HR on the 21st." The motion to require HR deadlines and public release passed unanimously.
The board also set the meet‑and‑greet logistics: each candidate will have a five‑minute address followed by a table where attendees can circulate and speak with candidates. Board members agreed HR would scrub personal identifying information from resumes before public release and that members should pre‑submit interview questions to HR for legal review.
HR committed to tabulating ballots as needed and to prepare candidate photos and the short credentials sheet for the public notice on April 21. The board closed the director‑search items with unanimous votes on scheduling, meet‑and‑greet format and resume release protocols.
