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Today, I emailed the Hastings Public School (HPS) (@hpstigers) Board respectfully requesting that they choose not to contract with McPherson & Jacobson, LLC ("M&J"). M&J is a firm that purports to specialize in superintendent placement for K-12 school districts. Some important context: In 2025, M&J produced Christopher Prososki as the priority candidate for the position of HPS Superintendent. On April 20, 2026, Prososki's resignation was tendered as HPS Superintendent after he was suspended. M&J employs some of the most well-connected superintendents in Nebraska as "consultants," including Mike Lucas, who led the search for the HPS Superintendent in 2025. Mike Lucas collects nearly $350,000 a year in taxpayer salary and benefits through his position as superintendent of Westside Public Schools in Omaha. That is before calculating the private compensation he collects through the consulting fees he charges through M&J. In addition to Lucas, M&J’s executive director is Steve Joel, the former LPS Superintendent. Aiding Lucas as a consultant in the 2024-25 HPS search was Joel’s son, Derrick Joel, the current superintendent of Norris Public Schools. These superintendents were charging Hastings Public Schools consultant fees, which means you—the Hastings property taxpayer—were left holding the bag for a candidate that unquestionably failed at HPS. Prososki’s failure could not be more disappointing. Not only is the board compensating Prososki through June for work he will not be performing, but the search for a new superintendent will certainly come with additional costs. What is clear is this: McPherson & Jacobson, LLC is not worth the cost for HPS. The HPS School Board is full of competent and experienced professionals who can make a hire on their own. The employment of an outside search firm, a firm that seems only to protect the interests of an exclusive Nebraska superintendents' "good old boys' club" is not necessary. As we have seen, the candidate M&J just recently produced has failed Hastings students, teachers, and taxpayers. I do not take going public with this lightly. It is up to the people of Hastings to demand that the HPS School Board acts with the interests of both the taxpayer and the well-being of HPS in mind. Those interests require that McPherson & Jacobson are not involved in the HPS Superintendent hiring process going forward. Signed, Blake Aspen HHS Graduate, Class of 2018

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