MANSFIELD — Shortly after being sworn in for her first elected term, Judy Forney was selected as Mansfield city school board president.
“I’m very honored to be in this role. It’s a big responsibility and a really important position in the district,” she said. “I just hope I can be a good lead and continue to move this district forward.”
Forney, a 1967 Malabar graduate, served as a board member at Lexington for six years.
“In Bucyrus and Lucas and Lexington I was the Treasurer – not a Board member. Two years in Bucyrus and two years at Lucas and nine years as Treasurer in Lexington,” she said.
She is currently the Treasurer at Mount Vernon where she has been since January 2012.
“I have learned a lot this year. I really do have a feel for the district and every day I think about the 3,000 kids who walk out the door and hop on a bus or walk to school and are greeted by caring, wonderful employees,” she said. “Their only purpose is to make sure they are there for life. That makes me very proud to do this.”
Following the vote, the board followed a list of items needing their approval or appointment.
Renda Cline, president for the past two years, was selected vice president.
Gary Feagin, Chris Elswick and Judy Forney were sworn in after being voted on to the school board on Nov. 2.
Feagin and Forney will begin their first elected term, though both served on the board. Feagin was appointed to the Mansfield City Schools Board of Education in June of 2016. Forney was appointed in February 2017.
The board also decided to have two monthly meetings instead of one.
Cline said the board met bi-monthly before the district went into fiscal emergency, but now that they are out, it may be a good business decision to reconvene the second meetings each month. Feagin agreed, suggesting it could turn the often four-hour meetings into one to two hour meetings.
“I like that,” he said laughing.
Meetings will take place on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 5:30 p.m. at Raemelton.
