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LCIC Hires Matt Sapara As Permanent Executive Director

Toledo, Ohio – The Lucas County Improvement Corporation (LCIC)’s Board of Directors voted unanimously this afternoon to hire Matt Sapara as its permanent Executive Director.

The Board authorized its President, Joe Zerbey, to negotiate an employment contract, including salary, with Mr. Sapara, who is currently serving as the Interim Executive Director of the agency.

“Over the last year, Matt Sapara has shown this community how instrumental the LCIC can be for job creation and economic development,” said Mr. Zerbey. “Mr. Sapara is, first and foremost, a jobs professional and we’re confident in his leadership of this important organization.”

The governor has called for extending the school year by 20 days to 200, adding them at a rate of four days every other year during the next decade.

But many of the more than 250 people who wrote to the governor and lawmakers after details of his plan were released said it's a bad idea.

Several complained that the longer school year wouldn't justify the higher costs for teachers' salaries, busing and even air conditioning -- if there is air conditioning.

"I mean, you try sitting in an EXTREMELY hot school all day for an extra 20 days," fourth-grader Ashley Murphy of Lebanon wrote in an e-mail to Strickland.

Two Toledo Public School Board members went to DC, both went to lobby, but you wouldn’t know that if you read either article in the Blade, either the one from before the trip or after the trip.

Lisa Sobecki, is the appointed Board of Education member from TPS to the Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) that group was to lobby the Senate. Had Sobecki been the one who was Board President, do you think that her lobbying efforts also on the behalf of the Toledo Public School system would be ignored? Did the Blade even attempt to contact her or any of the other Board members for their thoughts? Wouldn’t logic dictate that you at least talk to the other person from this area to provide balanced reporting? What if they had a different impression? What if they had conversations with different people that presented valuable information?

In addition to the above questions, this is exactly one of the reasons I raised concerns in the previous post,