Las Vegas news briefs for July 9, 1999

Friday, July 9, 1999 | 11:10 a.m.

School Board hunts headhunter

The Clark County School Board will soon hire a headhunting firm to find a new superintendent to replace Brian Cram, who retires from the post in July 2000.

Eleven firms applied for the job. A board-appointed, seven-member committee overseeing the search process narrowed the list to four: Cascade Consulting of Bellevue, Wash.; Harold Webb Associates of Austin, Texas; and Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates and Heidrick & Struggles, both of San Francisco. The firms' fees range from $50,000 to $97,500.

The search panel will interview the four firms on July 19, beginning at 8 a.m. at the Community College of Southern Nevada's West Charleston Campus. School Board members will attend the interviews and then select a firm, either after the July 19 meeting or at the board's July 22 meeting.

Organization gets new president

One of the nation's largest nonprofit supporters of grass-roots development efforts has named a new president.

Michael Rubinger, 53, today becomes the third president of the Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC). LISC has 42 offices nationwide, including one in Las Vegas.

LISC and its affiliates have raised more than $3 billion over the past 20 years to support the work of resident-led community development corporations.

Rubinger replaces Paul S. Grogan, who left LISC in January to become a vice president at Harvard University.