The McHenry County Mental Health Board will keep its pledge to wait until new members are seated and acclimated before proceeding with hiring a new executive director.

The board and its Search Committee rescheduled a meeting canceled because of last week’s snowstorm to tonight, a day before a McHenry County Board vote to appoint three newcomers and deny reappointment to Mental Health Board President Lee Ellis. But mental health officials will only discuss the next steps in the hiring process this evening, and will not interview finalists or make a decision.

County Board members last month expressed concern that the Mental Health Board would rush the process as it became clear that Ellis would most likely not be recommended for reappointment by the County Board Public Health and Human Services Committee, which is pursuing reform of the agency.