CH-UH School Board Appoints 2 to the Library Board of Trustees
Abby Botnick and Richard Louis Ortmeyer will take their new roles in 2012
The Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library announced today its two new board members. Abby Botnick and Richard Louis Ortmeyer will begin their terms in January 2012. The CH-UH School Board interviewed ten candidates at its meeting Dec. 6 and selected Botnick and Ortmeyer that evening. Ohio law requires that the local school board be the tax authority for a community’s public library, so the school board chooses the library trustees. They are taking over for outgoing Board President Audrey Cole, who retires at the end of the year, and Jason Stein, who resigned in June to take over former Cleveland Heights City Councilman Mark Tumeo's role on council. Ortmeyer's term is five years, and Botnick's is seven. Ortmeyer, who has …
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