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WARREN -- The Warren Board of Education will have a special meeting 9 a.m. Saturday to interview six candidates seeking to fill the open board seat of Robert Faulkner, who stepped down in December.
Board of education President Patricia Limperos said the board has scheduled interviews in executive session for Alisha Alls, Jenna Daugherty, Lea Dotson, Todd Johnson, Jacqueline Shannon and Jaime Shuster.
Alls is a counselor and business owner with Greentree Counseling Center; Daugherty, an English as a second language teacher and tutor self employed and with VIPKid online education company; Dotson, an education policy analyst with Alliance for Climate Education; Johnson, pastor with Second Baptist Church, Warren; Shannon, certified cancer registrar with Cleveland Clinic; and Shuster, teacher, editor and research consultant with Hiram College, Kent State University and Cleveland State University.
Board members are paid $125 per meeting.
Limperos said the person, if selected Saturday, will be announced and sworn in at the board's organizational meeting 6 p.m. Tuesday at the school administration building, shown via Zoom on the school district website. Also at that meeting the board president and vice president will be named.
Limperos said the person selected will serve the remainder of Faulkner's term, which expires Dec. 31, 2021.
She said the newly appointed board member, if seeking to continue to serve beyond Faulkner's expired term, would have to run in the Nov. 2 general election.
Limperos said Faulkner was a very dedicated board member serving the community for nearly 30 years.
"We are glad to have six candidates interested in serving on the board. We all know that anyone who serves will have big shoes to fill with all that Mr. Faulkner did for the schools and the community," Limperos said.
Faulkner said at the December board meeting that his time on the board was a very challenging experience but overall quite wonderful and rewarding.
Faulkner won seven elections to the board since 1991 and has worked with eight superintendents.
While he no longer will be on the Warren board, Faulkner will continue his final year in 2021 as Warren schools' representative to the Trumbull Career and Technical Center board. He was appointed to that position.
Limperos said Faulkner served one day shy of 30 years and accomplished so much as a board member for the Warren schools.
"You have left an indelible mark on the Warren City Schools and our community as a champion of public education," she said to him during the December meeting.
Faulkner contributed to the schools' Learn to Swim Program and has been a proponent of the concept that all children from a mid-sized urban environment like Warren should have the opportunity and be taught in school to swim. Additionally, he has been a supporter of the creation of the district's robotics program.
The school board must name Faulkner's replacement within 30 days of his resignation, which was Dec. 8.