TCTC board member hoping for last-minute change from governor

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A longtime Trumbull Career and Technical Center Board of Trustees member is hoping Gov. John Kasich will line-item veto a part of the state budget bill approved by the Legislature Thursday that could change the composition of joint vocational school boards in Ohio.

Roger Samuelson, who is also a longtime Champion Board of Education member, said a provision that requires all joint vocational school board members to have experience as a top business official will reduce the amount of accountability compared to now.

According to summaries of the legislation, joint vocational school board members will need to have experience as a chief financial officer, chief executive officer, human resource manager, “other business or industry professional,” or career counseling professional before he or she can be appointed.

According to Samuelson, the board of trustees of the Trumbull Career and Technical Center consists of one school board member from each of the 15 school districts that send students to the school.

But the new law will lead to some members of the TCTC board being selected from outside that group. To Samuelson, that means less accountability to the public, because the TCTC board will contain board members never elected by any voter.

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