Hello all. I hope you are enjoying the blossoming of spring and the final stretches of the 2017-2018 school year.

For those of you who don't know, I am the new Interim Executive Director here at FALA. I was selected by the Board to assume this role on March 28th, and started on campus April 4th. 

I will be serving part time in this role until the Board selects a new permanent Executive Director. This process is beginning in earnest right now, and it is our hope to have someone in place within the next few months.

I have served on the Board of Directors since late 2015, most recently in the capacity of Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee. As required by our by-laws, I am taking a leave of absence from the Board to assume this position, and intend to resume serving in that capacity once my tenure on staff is completed.

I am very excited (and slightly daunted) to assume this position. FALA has undergone many changes in recent years, and I believe that my experience in financial and administrative management plus my ongoing commitment and belief in this school will serve us all well as we move into the future.

We have a number of challenges ahead of us as we integrate 6th grade next year, stabilize our long term financial position, and ideally even begin to think of expansion of facilities. I know FALA to be a brilliant educational institution that can continue to shine as brightly as ever, and I am honored to have the opportunity to continue working towards this goal in a new capacity.

I look forward to getting to know as many of you as I can over the next while, and am available to meet and chat whenever an issue arises or if you’d simply like to come by and introduce yourself.

Eli