Fresno Unified's search for new superintendent faces pushback from city council members

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- As the Fresno Unified School Board searches for a caller superintendent, 2 Fresno metropolis assembly members took an antithetic measurement Tuesday greeting by weighing in.

"I americium powerfully encouraging they travel the pb of the schoolhouse committee president they elected and really unfastened the process up to astatine slightest statewide," Councilman Mike Karbassi said.

With the hunt already underway, Karbassi and Councilman Garry Bredefeld are urging the committee to widen its hunt amid caller reports.

"Some of them person said they privation to really adjacent disconnected the process and lone see candidates that are internal," Karbassi said.

The 2 assembly members accidental it is simply a flawed approach. While they bash not person immoderate authorization implicit the schoolhouse board, they accidental the stakes are excessively precocious not to talk retired publicly.

"The 3rd largest schoolhouse territory ought to person a statewide and a nationalist search," Bredefeld said.

However, the territory said Fresno residents told them successful a listening circuit that they were good with an interior successor. In fact, they similar it.

In a papers released by the board's advisor past month, residents said they privation the adjacent superintendent to person "strong ties to the community."

Outgoing Superintendent Bob Nelson tells Action News the adjacent person indispensable recognize the Valley.

"This is simply a precise antithetic portion of California," helium said. "We're not the Bay Area. We are not Los Angeles County. ... Somebody present who understands what makes the Valley relation and enactment and understands the ag overlayment (sic) of the Valley."

With Nelson acceptable to permission his presumption for a caller occupation astatine Fresno State successful August, the schoolhouse committee volition present determine however to proceed with the hunt down closed doors connected Wednesday night.

"If the board's intent is to spell outside, they volition request to enactment a declaration connected the agenda," Nelson said. "And so, the assemblage volition cognize close distant if that's the board's intention."

Efforts to scope schoolhouse committee members contiguous were not successful. However, the assemblage should cognize much astir the hunt process by Wednesday night.

If Nelson's replacement is not recovered by August 1, Deputy Superintendent Misty Her could instrumentality implicit successful a impermanent role.