A leadership shuffle is going on at Fresno City College. Guy Lease, who’s pictured here, took over last week as interim president. His six-month contract pays him $14,500 a month. Lease succeeds Ned Doffoney, who got a job in Orange County as the chancellor of a community college district.

Lease, 63, comes from South Lake Tahoe, where he worked for 17 years as superintendent/president of the Lake Tahoe Community College District before retiring. Will he only be a caretaker here until a permanent president is selected? “Clearly, there is not enough time to come in and make major changes,” Lease said Tuesday. But he has goals.

He wants to examine City College’s new system of getting the views and opinions of faculty, staff and students in running the campus. In education circles, they call it “shared governance.” It might sound boring, but it was a problem for City College. Accreditors several years ago said the college needed to improve joint planning between bosses and employees on the campus. City College responded by making it a more formal process in hopes of getting more people involved, and Lease wants to see how it’s working.

As he starts his second week in Fresno, Lease is experiencing a Valley heat wave. (Maybe that should be heat tsunami, with temperatures scheduled to hit 109 this week. It’s quite a contrast from his home near cool Lake Tahoe.) Lease said he has joked about the stinky weather with Tom Crow, chancellor of the State Center Community College District, which runs City College. “Dr. Crow mentioned yesterday that my contract is irrevocable, and he said, ‘Remember, it’s a dry heat.’ ”