The Leelanau County Board of Commissioners has narrowed down the pool of applicants for the new county administrator/chief financial officer (CFO) position and will interview candidates at 10 a.m. on May 30 and 9 a.m. on May 31.
According to documents provided to the board by former county Administrator Chet Janik, 39 candidates applied for the administrator/CFO position. The county hired Janik as a consultant to lead the search in March after his immediate successor, Deb Allen, announced that she would resign effective April 12.
The county commissioners reviewed the list of candidates in closed session Tuesday and chose eight to interview at the end of the month. They were Ahmed Abou-Ismail, Kipling Belcher, Michael Belsky, Tracy Byard, James Kiessel, Mark Justin, Anna Nelson, and Robert Reinshuttle.
