Danville Mayor Scott Eisenhauer is among three finalists being considered to become the next Rantoul village administrator. The Rantoul Village Board is meeting in a closed session tonight (August 28, 2018) and will be interviewing the finalists to succeed village administrator Rick Snider.
In addition to Eisenhauer, the others being considered for the job are David Nord, a private consultant who previously served twenty-five years as administrator and manager of Dixon, Illinois, and Jeffrey Eder, who is the current city administrator in East Peoria.
Eisenhauer has been Danville’s mayor for over fifteen years. He spent five years serving as an assistant director of Vermilion County Emergency Management prior to becoming mayor.
Mayor Eisenhauer in an earlier interview told VermilionCountyFirst.com News that he was going to explore other possible jobs in light of the vote on the ballot this November to change Danville’s form of government. The vote will decide whether Danville changes from its current mayor-aldermanic form of government to a city manager – aldermanic one. If the vote passes the mayor’s job in Danville would become part-time. Mayor Eisenhauer has not yet announced whether he will seek another term. Instead, he told our news department he will make that announcement later.
The Rantoul Village Board says a final decision on who will become the community’s next village administrator is not expected until early next month (September). The board plans to meet in another closed session then to deliberate the matter.
Snider will leave the post in Rantoul at the end of September. He assisted in organizing a national search process with candidates vetted by a committee of residents, business leaders, and local administrators. ”We’re very pleased with the quality of the candidate pool and the collected wealth of experience in public administration and community affairs,” said Snider. ”We started with twenty-eight submissions for the administrator position and have narrowed that down to the final three candidates.”
