It looks like New Haven Unified is close to naming a new chief business officer to manage the district’s $104.4 million budget — and the headaches that come with dealing with budget cuts. Its last CBO, Carol Gregorich, retired as of Monday, and the district interviewed candidates for her position last week.

New Haven’s spokesman confirmed this afternoon that the district has a person in mind to fill Gregorich’s shoes, but he wouldn’t divulge any more details. He said the district hopes to call a special meeting on Tuesday so that the board can appoint this person.

The district also is in the process of looking for a new director of operations. The last guy, Enrique Palacios, has taken a job with the Gilroy school district as the assistant superintendent of administrative services.

With the current state budget crisis, it may come as no shocker that there seems to be more CBOs leaving this year than usual, as one HR person at a local school district told me.