Lakota weighs superintendent choice in 8-hour meeting

Lakota school board members met for eight hours Thursday first interviewing and then discussing two finalists for the district superintendent’s job, but coming to no announced decision.

Board members convened a public meeting at 3:15 p.m. Thursday but then voted to enter into private executive session, which lasted more than eight hours.

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The board’s executive session discussions, which are allowed under Ohio public meeting law for personnel matters, also included working out contract details for the next superintendent.

Neither candidate — West Clermont Schools’ Superintendent Keith Kline nor Mentor Schools’ Superintendent Matt Miller — accepted an offer from the Journal-News to comment after their Thursday evening interviews at Lakota’s Central Office in Butler County’s Liberty Twp.

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Board members have scheduled an announcement at a 5 p.m. public meeting Friday to reveal their choice for the next superintendent.

Lakota Board of Education President Ben Dibble said “we will have a decision to announce then.”

Dibble and other board members, however, declined to comment further when their meeting ended at 11:05 p.m.

At the Friday meeting, the board could also vote on approving an employment contract for their new superintendent if the details have been worked out by that time.

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