January 11, 2023
By Tom Tolen / information@whmi.com
For the third 12 months in a row, Roger Myers has been elected president of the Brighton Space Faculties Board of Training.
The board held its annual organizational assembly Monday evening with the election of officers for the 12 months, annual statutory duties and different enterprise have been additionally taken care of. Other than Myers, nevertheless, the checklist of officers appears to be like totally different this 12 months, reflecting a philosophical and political shift within the board’s make-up to the fitting. Two names – these of Myers and Invoice Trombley – have been put within the nomination for president of the council earlier than closing the nominations.
In the long run, Myers received, in a slender vote, 4-3. Myers instructed WHMI afterward, in his phrases, “It is an honor to be elected for the third 12 months in a row.” Myers says he’s, quote once more, “trying ahead to working with the opposite board members, together with the 2 latest members.” Myers says the board has a number of priorities over the following 12 months, together with “ending initiatives on the bond situation and getting out of the pandemic,” saying the district has performed very properly as its check scores have improved in the course of the COVID pandemic.
In voting for the opposite board places of work, Trombley was elected vice chairman, new member Jennifer Marks was elected secretary and John Conely was elected treasurer. Trombley is the longest serving board member at 10 years. He instructed WHMI after the assembly that whereas he’s keen to finish all points of the 2019 bond situation, in his phrases, “The very first thing is at all times the security of our kids.”
Marks, a Brighton Twp. resident who was elected in November, is married and has two kids, together with one in Brighton-area faculties and one other who graduated from Brighton Excessive final 12 months. He has each a bachelor’s and grasp’s diploma from the College of Michigan.
Conely, who at occasions within the latest previous has been controversial, instructed WHMI after the assembly that the district is, as he places it, “off to an excellent begin,” including, “The STEAM lab at Scranton (Center College) is nearly performed. And the institute’s occupational well being laboratory is nearly performed”.
STEAM is an acronym that stands for Science, Know-how, Engineering, Artwork and Arithmetic. Brighton Excessive’s new STEAM middle was devoted final Could. Conely additionally says he is glad the board added a second common assembly to its Monday evening session. The one months by which there is not going to be a second assembly (aside from particular conferences or workshops) are March, July and December.
The following Brighton Board of Training assembly might be on January twenty third on the Brighton Board of Training and Neighborhood Heart assembly room at 7pm.
Pictures (prime to backside): Roger Myers, re-elected chairman of Brighton council; Jennifer Marks, one in all two new members, who was elected secretary; Andy Storm, the opposite newly elected board member.