KCSD Cuts Superintendent Field to Four Finalists

BALD EAGLE TOWNSHIP – The Keystone Central School District next month will be interviewing a field of four finalists for the permanent post of district superintendent.

Board president Charlie Rosamilia today told therecord-online the school board, after a series of recent preliminary interviews, has reduced a field of six to four. Those four will spend one day each with the various school district constituencies. Rosamilia said those visitations will be Wednesday and Thursday, March 14 and 15, then Wednesday and Thursday, March 21 and 22.

The sessions will conclude each day with a public interview opportunity with each of the finalists at Central Mountain High School, he said.

Rosamilia confirmed that among the final four is the district’s substitute superintendent Al Lonoconus. He declined to name the other three finalists at this point.

Lonoconus was hired recently to serve as acting superintendent as Kelly Hastings, the district’s most recent lead administrator, had announced last summer she would be retiring as of mid-March of this year. She did not return to the district after the first of the new year. Rosamilia had said earlier Keystone Central hopes to have a permanent replacement on board by June or July.

The district has been grappling with a projected multi-million dollar deficit for the next school year. Lonoconus has been involved in that process since joining the district on a three-day-a-week schedule since earlier in February. He is expected to direct Keystone Central five days a week upon Hasting’s official separation from the district next month.