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Fire chief appeals firing By Kelly J. Kaczala Press News Editor kkaczala@presspublications.com
Mill Center unveiled Oregon City Schools held an unveiling of the first CNC Milling Center at Clay High School. The community was invited to a demonstration of the HAAS VF-1 Vertical Milling Center last week, which included some of the nearly dozen businesses that made the event possible. Pictured, Tony Spallino, instructor for Integrated Machining and Engineering, shows what the mill can produce. At right, student Damon Dominique holds a finished piece: a knee replacement made of cobalt chrome. (Press photos by Ken Grosjean)
Oregon to add bus stops for Clay There will be 17 more bus stops for Clay High School students next year. “Since reinstating bussing for the high school, we’ve gone from a very limited bus shuttle process to increasing some additional pickup points this year,” Dr. Mike Zalar, superintendent of the district, said at a board meeting on Tuesday. “This time next year, we’re proposing how we can enhance that even further for the students.” Dean Sandwisch, business affairs director in the district, said the board had asked him previously to put together a plan increasing bus availability for high school students. “In January 2012, high school busing was cut on a door to door basis,” said Sandwisch. “We had a very limited shuttle. We had 13 stops at that time. We did that for a semester. This school year, we added eight stops. So we’re at a total of 21 stops. What we have proposed next year is an additional 17 stops, for a total of 38 stops.” Sandwisch said up to three routes may be added. “We think we have a pretty good plan
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to spread throughout the district, mostly in our populated areas. We feel we got some really good coverage. Those routes will be added with Starr Elementary. We’ll be back with a two tier system because the state plan is working on funding more ridership now as opposed to more efficiency. So this allows us to do this as cost effectively as we can.” Buses transport daily about 2,025 students K through 12, and between 200 and 250 for the high school, according to Sandwisch. “The board challenged us with putting stops in that were a little bit more evenly
spaced out so students would have a little more accessibility to our high school busing and I think we’ve accomplished that with the new map,” Sandwisch told The Press after the meeting. “There’s still going to be a cost involved with this for the additional routes. There will be more hours and miles with our buses,” he said. Costs range between $80,000 to $100,000, he said. “There will be at least two additional buses with the possibility of three. We’re still looking at the routing and going through the routing software with [Transportation Director] Terry Huss,” he said. Other proposals in the district next year include changing the start of the school day, he said. “We got some nuances to work out, but I think the elementary schools next year are all going to be on the same start time. We got a little bit of variation with the intermediate junior highs. There will be a 15 minute difference between Clay High School and those two.” The changes will help streamline the bus routes.
The lawyer for former Jerusalem Township Fire Chief Harold Stanton, who was fired by township trustees at a meeting on Tuesday, filed an appeal on his client’s behalf in the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas on Wednesday. “We’ve asked for reinstatement, back pay and benefits,” said Kevin Greenfield, Stanton’s lawyer. Trustees had suspended Stanton on March 5 for allegedly permitting Jim Gray, who is not a member of the fire department, to actively participate on emergency calls. Trustees have, on several occasions, discussed the matter with Stanton. On Feb. 23, Gray again came to the scene of a house fire on Clubhouse Boulevard to lend a hand. As a result, Stanton was suspended. Stanton defended himself on March 12 at a public hearing, saying he did not know Gray was assisting firefighters on Feb. 23. After the hearing, trustees delayed a decision on whether or not to fire Stanton until the meeting on March 19, when they unanimously voted in favor of letting him go. Trustees have said that it is a liability issue and violates Ohio law. “If something should happen to anyone who is not a Jerusalem Township firefighter and who is acting as a firefighter, we have no insurance to cover them,” Trustee Joe Kiss told The Press Wednesday. “Anyone who gets hurt on the scene and who is not one of our people, who is insuring them? Not only do we not want citizens to get hurt, we don’t want any of our firefighters to get hurt as a result of non-firefighter personnel being on the scene. It’s clearly about liability situations.” Trustees said in a letter to Stanton on March 5 that his failure to follow instructions constitutes misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, and misconduct in the performance of his official duties as fire chief. Greenfield, just minutes after filing the appeal, reiterated Stanton’s claim that he did not know Gray was at the scene.
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