ROSSFORD – Having asked all departments to take 10 percent cuts in spending, the Board of Education
decided it would follow suit.
So the board voted at its organizational meeting on Monday to cut its Board of Education service fund,
which helps pay for members’ expenses such as travel for school business, by 10 percent, reducing it to
$8,550 from $9,500.
The board also voted to set members’ pay at $112.50 a meeting, but members felt that would only apply to
newly elected or re-elected members after the next election.
That left uncertain what pay for this year would be.
On Tuesday morning Treasurer James Rossler agreed the board may have missed a step. "I guess we’ll
have to pass that resolution."
He said that the board’s "good intentions" probably confounded the procedure. Neither he nor
Superintendent Dan Creps knew the cuts would be proposed.
Board member Jackie Brown, who proposed the reductions, said it was only fair since everyone else in the
district was getting similar cuts. Still, she conceded, they didn’t add up to much. "Every little
bit helps right about now."
Rossler said that the reduction of the service fund shouldn’t cramp the board’s style. "This board
doesn’t travel much."
In other action, the board re-elected Ken Sutter as president and Jackie Huffman as vice president.
The board also established its regular meeting times. They generally meet the third Monday of the month.
The exceptions are when the board will meet a week later on Jan. 26 because of Martin Luther King Jr.
Day, and on Feb. 23 because of the President’s Day holiday, and a week earlier on Dec. 14 because of the
beginning of the Christmas holiday.  
All meetings will be at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria area of the Indian Hills school, which now serves as the
district’s central office.