Youngstown school board members made about $4,000 less in 2016-17

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown Board of Education members made about $4,000 less in the 2016-17 fiscal year.

This is a result of attending about 10 fewer meetings.

During the 2016-17 fiscal year, the board acted in an advisory capacity to district CEO Krish Mohip.

Mohip was appointed CEO to run the school district by an academic distress commission June 29, 2016.

House Bill 70 allots him most managerial and operational power in the district normally residing with the board. His job is to turn around the district in academic emergency.

Before his arrival, in 2015-16 the board generated a total of $27,375 for about 38 meetings – at $125 per person per meeting – in salaries, while the district remained in academic emergency.

Despite their diminished power, board members met an average of 27 times generating a total salary of $23,250 in 2016-17. The $125 rate per person per meeting remained the same.

Despite a lower meeting count, several board members attended, on their own time, CEO Update Meetings, when Mohip announced district updates and improvements, such as all-day preschool, several new wrap-around services and the reconfiguration of the schools.