CHAMPON BOARD OF EDUCATION

CHAMPON BOARD OF EDUCATION
Educators exchange the following ideas Monday about the future of Champion schools:
*Dr. John Robertson, director of instructional research at Kent State University Trumbull Campus, challenged board members to think about what they'd like to see in the future of education.
*Robertson wants to see that all students are educationally prepared for post secondary education.
* Board member Jack Mahan said he'd like to see wood shop and some similar training classes returned to the curriculum.
*Mahon noted that the increase in state graduation requirements is putting a crimp in the Trumbull Career Technical Center students' ability to learn the trades they went there to learn.
SPRINGFIELD TRUSTEES
Four bids for a new ambulance, ranging from $88,000 to $102,000, will be reviewed by township fire and emergency response personnel. The bids were opened at a township trustee meeting Wednesday.
In other action:
* Trustees will advertise for bids for paving Beaver-Springfield and Kibler roads.
*Police Officer Charles Butler resigned to take a position with the county sheriff's department. Butler had been with the department for more than a decade.
SEBRING COUNCIL
Municipal water and sewer customers will still see a 1-percent annual increase Sunday after two & quot;temporary moratorium & quot; measures failed to pass as emergencies during Monday's regular council meeting.
Council members voted 4-2, with Councilmen Bob Crewson and Michael Seidel voting no to the emergency measures, meaning two more votes at separate meetings will be required to enact them into law.
A rate study, which they expect to cost a total of $25,000, would examine rates, possible improvements to the system and individual function of the plants.
FARRELL COUNCIL
City council is seeking engineers interested in doing a feasibility study looking at the consolidation of sanitary sewer facilities in the Shenango Valley.
The Intergovernmental Study Committee looking at the possibility of consolidating five municipalities -- Farrell, Sharon, Hermitage, Wheatland and Sharpsville -- wants to include a look at consolidating the sanitary sewer facilities run by those communities.
HUBBARD BOARD OF EDUCATION
HUBBARD -- Patrick J. Clemente has resigned from the city board of education, citing health and family reasons. Superintendent Carl Morrell announced that the board will accept until April 6 applications to replace him for the remainder of this year. The board will interview applicants in executive session at 6 p.m. April 11 at the board office.
Those wishing to serve the final two years of Clemente's term must file petitions with the Trumbull County Board of Elections by Aug. 23 to run in the November election.
Clemente, 56, who was elected to the board in November 1999, said said he's had a heart attack and open-heart surgery and decided to resign from the board after consulting with his physician.
The board also:
* Accepted the retirements of four Roosevelt Elementary School faculty members effective July 1: Janet Schrum, third-grade teacher; Loretta Crenshaw, second-grade teacher, Lynn Gombos, speech therapist; and Mary Ann Paulitz, teacher of pupils with learning disabilities.
*Approved a $33,168 contract with Boak & amp; Sons of Austintown to replace the wind-damaged roof on the swimming pool, which is between the middle and high school buildings. Insurance is covering the cost. Morrell said the new roof should be in place within two weeks.