School Board fills open seat, elects officers
By Tracy Ouellette
Editor
The East Troy School Board was finally able to agree about the open board seat and lack of officers at last night’s special meeting.
In a motion that surprised many in the audience, board member Dawn Buchholtz proposed the board go back to “about a year ago” with the officer positions – Ted Zess as president, Buchholtz as vice-president, Martha Bresler as treasurer and former board member Mike Zei be appointed the clerk.
The motion was later amended, after some discussion, to appoint Zei to the open board seat and board member Steve Lambrechts as the clerk.
The board voted 3-1, with Lambrechts voting no, to appoint Zei and elect the officers.
The meeting came about when board members found out late last week the pending referendum bond to build the new elementary school and make improvements at other district facilities has to be signed by the School Board president. The board has been operating as a four-member board without officers since last month because the board members couldn’t agree on whom to appoint to the open seat that was left when the term Brian Wexler was filling out expired on the third Tuesday in April.
After deadlocking on multiple motions to appoint someone to the open seat over the last two months and over the officer appointments, last night the board members were able to work out a compromise and get things in order so the referendum money the community voted to give the district in April could be spent on the new school and facility improvements.
For the full story, see the June 10 edition of the East Troy Times/News.
