List of applicants for CEO will be narrowed

YOUNGSTOWN

The list of nearly 140 applicants for Youngstown City Schools CEO will be narrowed down to six or seven by early next week, said John Richard, the Youngstown Academic Distress Commission chairman.

“We will finalize it over the next few days and make that decision from there,” he said during a Wednesday afternoon special meeting.

Brenda Kimble, Youngstown school board president, said she hopes the process is fair.

“I hope they pick someone who can actually turn the district around,” she said. “We don’t want the district to have paid $23,000 out of pocket to be manipulated again.”

The district paid $23,000 to Finding Leaders, a Sagamore, Ohio, search firm, to find candidates for the CEO position opening July 31, the day the contract expires for outgoing CEO Krish Mohip, who makes a current salary of $170,000.