San Marcos CISD will take at least one more meeting to name an interim superintendent after discussion and interviews with three candidates did not yield a consensus. Trustees will meet Jan. 19 at 6 p.m. at the San Marcos CISD Central Office, 501 S. LBJ Drive, San Marcos. JG Consulting, the company handling the district’s search for Mark Eads’ permanent replacement, plans to begin recruiting candidates for the permanent job beginning at the Texas Association of School Administrators Mid-Winter Conference on Jan. 24. The firm will also host four formal meetings aimed at different stakeholder groups throughout the community. Each meeting will be open to the public. Dates for those meetings are still being determined. “We’re going into this thinking we’re going to attack this aggressively, have the candidate identified by June or July, so that way [the board] can make a decision,"said James Guerra, owner and principal consultant of JG Consulting. "You’ll have a transitionary time through the course of the summer, and then they can hit the ground running,” The two candidates under consideration are Greg Jung and Marc Walker. Jung is a former Dripping Springs ISD assistant superintendent. Walker formerly led Comal ISD as superintendent. Former San Marcos CISD Superintendent Sylvester Perez withdrew his name from consideration after the board of trustees interviewed candidates Jan. 4. “It is obvious to me that the current board needs to unite in order to attract and hire a quality permanent superintendent,” Perez wrote in an email to trustees. Perez said he decided to put his name in consideration for the interim job at the urging of some community members, district staff and citizens. “I believe that SMCISD is at a pivotal point in many areas, including leadership if it is going [to] reach its full potential,” he said. “It is also apparent that student performance is on the cusp of not meeting standards without full focus and support.” Arredondo said he hopes the community will be involved in upcoming public meetings and school board elections. Trustee Miguel Arredondo said he was disappointed in Perez’s decision to withdraw his name from consideration. The news comes as a potential leadership vacuum is opening within the district, he said. SMCISD Superintendent of Curriculum Greg Rodriguez left the district in August to take a job with Huntsville ISD. Superintendent of Human Resources Lolly Guerra, who has served the district for nearly 40 years, has also informed the board of her plans to resign from her position effective in March. Arredondo said he hopes the community will be involved in upcoming public meetings and school board elections. “I would encourage this community to get involved, because until this board grows up—and I’m speaking for myself included—the only ones that we’re hurting at the end of the day are the students in the classrooms,” Arredondo said.