Schools find slim pickings for business managers: Retirements leave districts scrambling for replacements.

Byline: Amy Hetzner

Dec. 7--With the upcoming retirement of their longtime business managers, three Waukesha County school districts are faced this year with finding replacements from an apparently shrinking pool of school finance professionals.

The Waukesha School District received six to eight applications to replace Robert Buchholtz, the district's executive director of business services who is retiring in January, Superintendent David Schmidt said.

A Waukesha School Board committee took the first step toward appointing district comptroller Erik Kass, who has about three years of experience working in school finance, to replace Buchholtz at a …