Next Vote on Superintendent Will Be April 2

The Attleboro School Committee will try for a second time next week to determine whether it wants to offer a superintendent contract to Anthony Azar or Kenneth Sheehan. Committee Chair Mike Tyler told Attleboro Patch the committee will meet next week on Tuesday, immediately following a finance subcommittee session that is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. in Attleboro High School's Room 178E.

The committee met for more than two hours last week behind closed doors in executive session. Following the marathon session, Tyler announced, "There was no consensus on either finalist for the position of superintendent of the schools."

Discussion of which candidate was preferred was not allowed during the executive session due to the state's open meeting law. Tyler said afterward this was not the topic, rather committee members talked about possible contracts and "could not reach a consensus on the viability of offering a contract to either finalist."

The non-decision did not sit well with some school committee members and others. Committee Vice Chair Brenda Furtado said she was "disgusted."