East Millinocket area school officials are interviewing finalists and hope to have a replacement for resigning Superintendent Quenten Clark within a few weeks, they said Monday.
“The ideal thing to have would be a transition between now and March 31 when Quenten leaves,” Medway School Committee Chairman Greg Stanley said. “We don’t really want to see him go but he wants to.”
Clark announced in October that he would resign as top administrator for East Millinocket, Medway and Woodville schools effective March 31 to spend more time at home. The date of his resignation, he has said, is a compromise. He wanted to leave Jan. 1, and his $62,400 contract pays him until the end of the fiscal year, June 30.
Clark came to the school system in 2011. During his tenure, he has handled the renovation of Schenck High School of East Millinocket, several years of reduced education budgets caused by the region’s struggling economy, and sometimes tense though usually amicable relations between the three boards.
The three school boards are due to meet this week at Schenck High School to hold executive sessions on the superintendent search, according to their agenda. Tuesday night’s school board meeting was canceled by the storm.
Stanley and Woodville school board Chairwoman Mary Tompkins declined to say how many finalists for the position there are and would not identify them..