The Clyde-Green Springs School District is set to hire its new superintendent.
On Thursday evening, the Clyde-Green Springs Board of Education has scheduled a special meeting in which it plans to officially hire Dennis Haft as the district’s superintendent. Haft currently is the principal at Crestview Elementary School in the Brunswick City School District.
Haft received his bachelors’s degree in business administration and marketing from Cleveland State University. He then received his masters degree in elementary and middle school administration and principalship from John Carroll University.
Haft has been with Brunswick City Schools for nearly 17 years now, according to his LinkedIn profile.
The Brunswick City School District is located in Medina County and serves a community of approximately 35,000 residents. The district has more than 7,400 students in its 10 schools.
According to the agenda for Thursday evening’s meeting, Haft’s contract will begin on August 1 and will run through July 31, 2019.
Over the past months, the school board has been poring through the 17 applicants for the position, with the help of the North Point Educational Service Center, which the district hired to spearhead the search. The board interviewed eight of the applicants before deciding on the finalists for the position.
“The Clyde Board of Education is to be commended,” North Point ESC’s Douglas Crooks said. “They put a ton of time into reviewing the candidates, interviewing the candidates and they went to the areas where their finalists worked to see how they are in the area they work at. I don’t have a lot of boards that do that, so I give them a lot of credit for doing that.”
Crooks said the board also involved staff members in the interviewing process in order to receive input from the teachers.
“They did a wonderful job with the whole process,” Crooks said.
Haft will replace the district’s current superintendent, David Stubblebine, whose contract will expire on July 31. In December, Stubblebine announced his resignation to the school board during a special board meeting, which the board unanimously voted to accept.
The hiring of Haft will fill the final open position in the district’s administration.
Shortly after Stubblebine announced his resignation, the district’s treasurer, Joyce DuPont, announced her resignation to accept the treasurer’s position with the Norwalk City School District. Meghan Rohde has now replaced DuPont as the CGS treasurer.
The district also had a member of its school board, Zak Selvey, resign due to his accepting a position with the Sandusky Prosecutor’s Office. Selvey said his new position with the prosecutor’s office created a conflict of interest with his serving on the school board at the time of his resignation.
Earlier this year, the school board selected Dr. Trisha Prunty to replace Selvey on the board.
In addition to the hiring of Haft at Thursday night’s meeting, the board is scheduled to approve the graduates of the Clyde High School Class of 2016 and approve a three-year contract with the Clyde-Green Springs Education Association, which will run through July 31, 2019.
