Commissioner Walker provides EARH update

As the year draws to a close, here are some odds and ends of updates on District business.

In late November, the District held a Strategic-Planning session. Normally, such sessions try to lay out goals, and strategies to meet those goals, for a multi-year period, but this time the focus was more short-term—a year or two—because we will be welcoming a new CEO in mid-

2019, as Gary retires then. The planning was thus left flexible enough so that whoever the next CEO is will be able to put his or her impress on the longer-term plans.

Speaking of a next CEO, since the opening was posted not long a...