Executive director search narrows

The search for a new executive director for Lakewood Ranch Town Hall has been narrowed to eight.

Members of the Inter-District Authority Board on Tuesday were slated to receive packets containing information for eight top candidates, after the East County Observer went to press.

Colin Baenziger, whose firm was retained to conduct the search on behalf of the board, said all candidates in the running have both Florida and government experience.

“When you are applying for the top level position, the scrutiny is entirely different in the public sector,” Baenziger said. “The press, the public, the elected officials — it’s a very public process.”

Baenziger will meet with IDA members at 4 p.m., April 15, at Town Hall to whittle the candidate pool further.

“I think they’ve got a good group a candidates,” Baenziger said. “It’s a matter of who they want to talk to now."

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