MANSFIELD, Ohio – Mansfield City Schools’ Board of Education held their first meeting of the year on Tuesday evening. President Renda Cline was re-elected as president and Dina Davis was re-elected as vice president.
Each nominee received three votes in favor, but Cliff Crose and Chris Elswick both voted no.
When asked why, Elswick replied, “I’ve had a lot of disagreements with what’s happened in the last year. I just feel like the leadership is not what I would want it to be. So I’m voting no because I don’t think they’ve done a good job leading the board.”
Elswick also mentioned there is no “bad blood” between them; he said he just did not agree with many decisions that were made in the last year.
“Just a difference in opinion. That’s why we have five board members,” he said.
Cline and Davis were voted on as president and vice president respectively of Mansfield’s Board of Education on January 7, 2014, also with a 3-2 vote; Elswick and Crose voted no.
Cline works as a physical therapist at OhioHealth MedCentral. She is a 1988 graduate from Mansfield Senior High. She has volunteered as President of Woodland Elementary PTO and as a Cub Scout den mother and Girl Scout Leader. She has two children, Brittany and Oliver, who are Mansfield graduates and a daughter in ninth grade at Mansfield Middle School.
Moving forward, the board voted and approved on meeting every third Tuesday of the month at 5 p.m. in the Raemelton Administration Building at 856 West Cook Road in Mansfield. For more information, visit their website.
