Saturday, April 08, 2000
Monroe board to be decided
5 from committee likely to serve
BY SUE KIESEWETTER
Enquirer Contributor
MONROE — The city's new school board likely will include most members of the executive committee that has been working to set up the new district.
An Ohio Board of Education subcommittee is recommending that Suzi Rubin, Carol Brotherton, John Birch, James Pierce and Tom Birdwell be appointed to the board.
The state board will vote Tuesday on the recommendation. The subcommittee reviewed applications from 16 Monroe residents who applied for the five board seats.
All five were recommended to the state board in February by the Butler County Board of Education following the county board's search for candidates. Mr. Birdwell, who was not an original member of the executive committee, began working with the committee after the county board recommended him for a Monroe board seat.
Verity Middle School teacher William R. “Rocky” Heflin was the only executive committee member not named in the recommendation. He is a past principal at Lemon-Monroe High School.
Executive committee members have been eager for the state to appoint a board for the district, which will begin operating July 1. Voters approved the Middletown-Monroe split overwhelmingly last November.
“It should make life a whole lot easier if they do make the appointments,” Mrs. Rubin said Friday. “If they don't make appointments Tuesday it will be a nightmare. Time is running out to get everything done we need to.”
In anticipation of the state board appointing a Monroe board, Butler County Educational Service Center (ESC) Superintendent Dan Hare has scheduled a Monroe board meeting for 7 p.m. Thursday in Monroe City Council chambers.
Depending on Tuesday's action at the state board meeting, Mrs. Rubin said Mr. Hare could be named interim superintendent that night, and ESC treasurer Don Morrisas interim treasurer.
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