Fair Board interviews manager candidate
By The News staff
The Kansas State Fair Board interviewed a State Fair General Manager candidate on Thursday, Board Chairman Harmon Bliss confirmed.
Bliss said a selection committee narrowed the eight applicants to two, both were interviewed. The committee then made a recommendation to the board.
Bliss wouldn’t say whether the individual was offered the job following the nearly 90-minute interview, and another meeting to vote on hiring was not immediately set. However, he said another meeting likely will be scheduled next week.
Bliss declined to identify the person, but said he was someone with “a significant amount of fair experience.”
Created: June 16, 2021 03:34 PM
Organizers are going forward with the Minnesota State Fair this summer even as the Ramsey County Sheriff s Office has yet to hammer out a security plan.
Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said the Minnesota State Fair Board voted last Friday to open the fair on time in August even though there is no contract in place just yet that lays out public safety for the entire 12-day run of the event. The State Fair Board says the fair is happening, and so now it is just a matter of figuring out what public safety will look like, Fletcher said. I am hopeful the Ramsey County Board will agree that we are the last option for law enforcement at the fair this year and we can get an agreement signed between the Board and State Fair management.