LAKE PLACID — Trustees appointed Kimball Daby as the village’s interim electric superintendent, effective March 31, at Monday night’s board meeting.

Daby, who currently is employed by the village as a first-class lineman with the electric department, succeeds Lake Placid’s longtime superintendent, Peter Kroha, who has led the village’s department for a nearly four-decade stretch of time that started before the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Village Clerk Ellen Clark said Daby’s job description will be interim electric utilities superintendent. She and Trustee Peter Holderied said Daby will serve in the position for an undetermined amount of time until applications are reviewed and a final person is chosen in the coming months.

Clark added that Daby is one of three current applicants to fill Kroha’s position permanently, though the village is accepting applications through Friday.

Trustee Jason Leon said a permanent superintendent will be chosen after a committee — consisting of Mayor Craig Randall, Holderied and Deputy Mayor Art Devlin — makes a recommendation to the full board from interviewees. Upon the approval of their recommendation, the permanent candidate will be approved provisionally until he or she passes a required civil service exam with a minimum score. Clark said the test will be administered after it is received from the county. She added that the village would like to have a permanent superintendent by autumn at the latest.

“I think we want to do it as quickly as possible,” she said.

Randall was not present at Monday’s meeting as he is in Austria with Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism CEO Jim McKenna and others conducting further research and communication to bring the Special Olympics World Winter Games here in 2021 and the World University Games here in 2023.

In Randall’s absence, Devlin led the meeting remotely via videoconferencing. Holderied, Leon and Trustee Scott Monroe were present in person. Village attorney Janet Bliss and Treasurer Paul Ellis were also absent.