Youngstown schools set up financial advisory committee

YOUNGSTOWN — The city school board has completed the appointment of an independent financial advisory committee created to look at district spending.

The voluntary committee, comprised of three citizens and three school board members, is expected to have its first meeting before the end of the month.

The board voted to create the committee two years ago but never got around to naming the three community members until now.

The final appointment, Scott Roush of Canfield, a CPA and partner with the accounting firm of Hill, Barth & King LLC, was made this week.

Roush will join Greg Slemons, a CPA, investment banker and former school treasurer in Warren, Hubbard and Orange City, and Lena Hopkins, a retired city school teacher and assistant principal, as the community representatives.

Board members Michael Murphy, Jacqueline Taylor and Anthony Catale, chairmen of the business, finance and personnel committees, respectively, complete the body.

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