Good Morning.
As Board of Education President, I have some exciting news to share with you, we have selected a highly qualified individual to be the next Superintendent for Hammondsport and have agreed upon a tentative contract. The full board will be voting to approve that contract Wednesday night at our regular board meeting. The next Superintendent of the Hammondsport Central School District will be Dr. Brian Corey. I’ll take this opportunity to be the first to say welcome to Hammondsport and that we wish you a long tenure as Superintendent! Some of you may have met Brian as he comes to us from BOCES where he is currently the Director of the Central Business Office. Prior to BOCES in his 27 years of education experience he started out as a music teacher in Berne-Knox-Westerlo CSD, became an administrator there, transitioned to Jefferson CSD as Superintendent, transitioned to Superintendent at Red Creek CSD and left Red Creek for BOCES. Brian holds a Doctoral degree in Higher Education Leadership from Walden University and a master’s and bachelor’s degree from The College of Saint Rose. Brian and his family live in Painted Post. Brian is planning on being at Wednesday’s board meeting and the board is working, along with Kyle, on sessions to introduce him to staff, students and the Hammondsport community. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the stakeholders in the selection process for their thoughtful inputs throughout this process. As the board sought feedback, we were reminded of what makes Hammondsport a special place in that the tendered questions and concerns had significant overlap between administrators, teachers, staff and community members. The board used those inputs to filter through two rounds of interviews down selecting from a highly qualified pool of candidates. We were thrilled by the overall quality of the applicant pool, several of the applicants for the position had selectively chosen to apply because they wanted to come to Hammondsport and were not actively seeking Superintendent roles elsewhere. The board would like to thank all the candidates for their time and applications and also thank the BOCES District Superintendent, Stacy Saglibene, for her help and guidance throughout this search process.
Go Lakers!
Kevin Bennett