The Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board will need a new superintendent of corporate services because Mario Iatonna's retiring this fall.
After ten years, Iatonna says it's time to take it easy, spend more time with his grand-daughter and travel.
"When I first started, I thought it would be kind of an easy job and that vision certainly was shattered early on," he says. "It's been a lot of work. Education has certainly gone through very tumultuous times in the last ten years, and I've been at the middle of most of it."
The board has faced many challenges over the years including changes to provincial funding, falling enrolment and financial troubles. In 2012-13, the province appointed a supervisory until it could get it could get back on solid financial footing. Iatonna was a big part of that helping to build up the board's reserves which stand now at $13-million.
He predicts the job won't be any easier for whoever replaces him.
"I think the board is going to continue to face enrolment challenges. Ministry funding is certainly not going to increase. And, we're going to have to have constant, continual adjustment of programming."
Iatonna's last day on the job is October 7.
