NEWPORT — The Newport School Board is considering a former Sunapee superintendent of schools to serve the district as interim superintendent for a year while the board conducts a search to replace Cindy Gallagher, who resigned in March and will leave the district on June 30.
Brendan Minnihan will be available to speak to the public on Tuesday from 3:15 to 4 p.m. in the Lou Thompson room of the Sugar River Valley Technical Center.
Minnihan is currently a superintendent in Laconia, N.H., but he will leave that district on June 30. He submitted his resignation to the Laconia School Board in December, according to The Laconia Daily Sun.
“We are eager for Dr. Minnihan to learn about our community as he considers if Newport is a good fit for him,” Ann Spencer, a School Board member and chairwoman of the interim superintendent search committee, said in a news release.
Spencer said the interimsuperintendent’s contract will be for one year, during which time the board “will solicit members of several stakeholder groups to help us in the process: parents, teachers, students, community, staff, and administration.”
Besides Sunapee, where he served from 2008 to 2013, Minnihan also was a superintendent at Contoocook Valley Regional School District in Peterborough, N.H. The search for a permanent superintendent will begin in September, with the goal of having a new superintendent starting July 2020, Spencer said.