The Leelanau County Board of Commissioners interviewed seven people who applied to fill the most important non-elected position in county government, county administrator and chief financial officer (CFO) last week.
Of these seven, four were chosen to advance to a second round of interviews: Mark Justin, Kip Belcher, Michael Belsky, and Tracy Byard.
At the start of the first day of interviews, county consultant Chet Janik told the board that the goal of these sessions was to whittle the number of candidates down from seven to three. Ultimately, however, the board chose the four names listed above. An eighth candidate, Ahmed Abou-Ismail, was scheduled to be interviewed Thursday, but canceled the day before on May 29.
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