You can’t possibly put together a quality hiring process for AD in the next month. If we attempted to do this, we would probably end up with Tom Burman’s assistant as our new AD and be worse off. We have to go through a thorough national/quality process where AD candidates are identified and contacted months before interviews even start.
That is a good point.
This is why I suspect he announces his ‘retirement’ in the next month but stays in the position until contract end while the hiring process goes on for the new AD to be in place July 1. This is exactly the process that occurred with Seidel. Seidel knew he was gone but fulfilled his contract while the hiring process was being conducted.
When are the contracts typically extended or when have they been in the past? I'm sure it's not something they announce the day before it expires, so I'd also assume that if by a certain time, if a new contract hasn't been announced, it probably means they're moving on.
Last time they did the extension in private and never told anyone. I assume if they are going to move on from Tom he announces his retirement Dec 1
Someone might want to do an FOI request again. Who knows, maybe Burman has already been extended and they just didn't announce it publicly like they did in 2022.
Extensions can happen anytime according to the contract itself. The last extensions were done more than 1.5 years before the contract would have expired.
If there was an extension, it would have been before Reeves. I'd think if Reeves makes the decision to extend him, he'd come out and face the music, say Burman is his guy, he supports him 100% and Tom came to him with a plan for success that wasn't possible under previous administrations and budget constraints, but they're moving forward together.
We need a puke emoji @MrTitleist. Because this made me puke.
haha....I'm with you and I certainly hope it doesn't play out that way.
