GLASGOW — A screening committee on Monday recommended three men, two of whom are superintendents, for the post of Glasgow Independent Schools superintendent.

The three candidates recommended to fill the position that Sean Howard left when he took a job as superintendent of Ashland Independent Schools are Glasgow High School Principal Keith Hale, Nelson County Schools Superintendent Anthony Orr and Fulton County Schools Superintendent Aaron S. Collins.

When the time comes to choose a superintendent, the school board doesn’t have to base its decision on what the superintendent screening committee wants, according to Phil Eason of the Kentucky Association of School Administrators, which the board hired to help with the search.

“These are the three they’re going to give the due diligence first,” Eason said. “It doesn’t mean they have to hire one of these three.”

The screening committee, which was formed when the search for a new superintendent began, will eventually make a recommendation on who it thinks the board should hire, but the board doesn’t have to act based on the committee’s wishes, he said.

At the end of the meeting, the board went into closed session to discuss the candidates and criteria they will use to interview them.

Eason would not say what those criteria are, adding that publicizing that information could affect the interviews of the three candidates.

“They’re going to develop questions around them,” he said.

From here, the board hopes to gather information for an in-depth profile of each one. “The profile will look at their skills and talents and knowledge and those type of things, then we’ll set up an interview with them with the board,” Eason said.

The board hopes to hire a candidate by Aug. 19 and wants to start interviews this week, though it will take more time if need be, Eason said.

“We’re not going to be in a big rush to hire the wrong person,” he said.

The board also decided to keep the motor vehicle tax rate the same as its been for the past 27 years: 55.4 cents per $100 of assessed value.

The board also voted unanimously to approve a compensating rate for the property tax, which resulted in a decrease from 86.4 cents per $100 of assessed value to 85.7 cents per $100.

Board chair Amelia Kiser said she’s anticipating an increase in Barren County’s property tax rates soon and didn’t want the district also saddling its payers with larger tax bills.

“We felt that we would be still in a good financial position this year if we took the compensating rate because we’re in a place where we don’t have any big projects that we know of that we’re going to have to deal with this year,” she said. “We thought if we didn’t have to, it would be a good thing for us to do his year to try to give everybody a little break.”

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