The will soon be in search of a new board member given today’s news that Curtis Grimes will be stepping down, reports the Falls News Press.
Grimes, a two-term member, said Thursday morning that “…it was time to go,” according to board president Dave Rump.
Grimes’s motivations to resign are unclear, but the move may have coincided with his son, Zachary, graduating from Wednesday night at
Grimes sent a letter of resignation Thursday morning to the Summit County Board of Elections. It stated, “I … hereby resign effective immediately from the Cuyahoga Falls City School District Board of Education.”
In following proper procedure, Joseph Masich, director of the board of elections, forwarded the letter to Falls schools Superintendent Dr. Todd Nichols.
According to cfalls.org, Grimes served as board president for two years and currently volunteers with the IMP, Cuyahoga Falls Athletic Boosters and the Cuyahoga Falls Alumni Foundation.
His wife Michelle, along with his sons Cory and Zach, are residents of Silver Lake.
If not, then where did the information come from? Bad reporting. Give a source or state it's personal opinion. Otherwise it's nothing more than tabloid journalism.
I hope Mr. Grimes resignation puts an end to his family’s control of our school district. I’ve yet to attend a football or basketball game where his family wasn’t running the show. The amount of nepotism that goes on with him is sickening. The board should appoint the most qualified applicant, not the person who received the highest votes. The person with the highest votes was endorsed by the Democratic party. You also had candidates that were endorsed by the Republican party, other school board members, and Don Robart! This certainly inflated their vote counts. Issue 2 also affected the school board election as people were more likely to vote for democratic (union-supported) candidates. So appointing the person who had the highest vote count isn’t the right course of action.
Who is this information attributed to? Was it in the resignation letter? Where did it come from? Essentially, if this makes Mr. Grimes look bad and he didn't say it himself, who should he sue for libel?