District Hires Experienced Business Manager
The Portland School Committee has hired Herbert Hopkins as the district’s new business manager. Hopkins brings many years of experience managing school finances in Brunswick and Scarborough.
“We are fortunate to find someone with Herbert Hopkins’ breadth of experience to take on this critical job,” said Interim Superintendent Jeanne Whynot-Vickers. “He will play a key role in the planning and monitoring of the Portland Public Schools budget.”
Hopkins has served as the Scarborough school department’s director of business operations since 2000. He previously managed business operations at the Brunswick schools for six years. A U.S. Navy veteran, he also worked for 11 years at Central Maine Power, rising from an equipment attendant to a budget analyst-planner.
Hopkins holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from Husson College. He is the secretary-treasurer of the Maine Association of School Business Officials.
Hopkins will work part-time in the Portland Public Schools until mid-February, when he assumes the job full-time.
