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Yahoo
9 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Libby Public Schools seek candidates for board trustee opening
Jun. 27—Libby Public Schools is seeking applications for those interested in filling a vacancy on the school board. The new appointee will fill the vacancy until the May 2026 election. Those interested in serving as a board trustee are asked to send a letter of interest to Libby Public Schools, Board of Trustees, 724 Louisiana Ave., Libby, MT 59923. For more information, call 293-8811, ext. 1005. The deadline to apply is 4 p.m. Thursday, July 3.
CBC
4 days ago
- Politics
- CBC
Second OCDSB trustee resigns, board begins appointment process
After five years on the Ottawa Carleton District School Board (OCDSB), Justine Bell is walking away from her seat. The OCDSB accepted the resignations of Bell and Nili Kaplan-Myrth at a meeting Monday night, voting to begin the process for filling their vacant seats. Bell, the Zone 10 trustee for the Somerset area, told her community Friday that she was resigning effective June 30. Bell said she was proud of the work the district has done but now wanted to put her family first, having recently adopted a daughter with her husband from his hometown in Mexico. "Balancing life as a woman, mother, wife, full-time professional, and trustee hasn't always been easy — especially as my husband and I were trying to grow our family," Bell wrote in her resignation letter. 'Toxicity' Bell also cited what she said was a toxic environment on the board as well as structural challenges, though she didn't offer specifics. Instead, Bell reminded her colleagues of who they're supposed to serve. "Remember that it's about the students." Bell said. "Remember that we have the power to make a real difference and not to focus on the petty issues that come up behind the scenes and to treat each other with respect." Zone 9 Trustee Kaplan-Myrth resigned on June 4, alleging the board was "entrenched in internal toxicity." Bell told CBC after the meeting that "Kaplan-Myrth went through some significant trauma on this board, both inside the boardroom and outside the boardroom." She said the toxicity stems from the "white supremacist structural realities" the board is dealing with. "Students that come from racialized and traditionally marginalized communities continue to struggle and continue to not succeed," Bell said, referencing statistics. "And we continue to do the same thing year after year after year." Bell pointed to the installation of Indigenous graduation coaches as an example of a concrete action that "touched the lives of students". She continued: "That's what we need to be focused on. And unfortunately, we're not getting the funding we need do that important work." Provincial underfunding is a significant challenge, Bell said. The board recently passed a budget with $18.1 million in budget cuts. However, Bell abstained from voting on that budget last week. She told CBC she couldn't vote on a budget that didn't consult community members. The OCDSB staff received the technical papers later than usual, around the end of May, and scrambled to prepare a budget for the board to vote on before the summer break at the end of June. It passed at a special board meeting on June 17th. The appointment process Last July, former Zone 2 trustee Alysha Aziz resigned for personal reasons. She was replaced by Julia Fortey, who was appointed at a special board meeting in October and still represents the Kanata area. Replacements for Bell and Kaplan-Myrth will be appointed by a similar process. Typically, the board will accept applications from any interested adult residing in Ottawa, even if they live outside the zone boundaries of the vacant seat. The applicants will then be vetted for eligibility. Eligible applicants will give a five minute presentation at a special board meeting on September 16. The board will then appoint the next trustee from the pool of applicants for each zone at the September 23 board meeting.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Cat café seeks trustee to support Ukrainian orphans
A soon-to-open Blandford cat café is seeking a trustee. The charitable project aims to provide a relaxing space where people can enjoy the company of cats, while also supporting a cause. All profits from the café will be donated to help Ukrainian orphans who have lost their parents in the ongoing conflict. The café, already supported by three trustees, requires one more to officially register as a charity. The funds raised will go directly towards providing the children with essential items such as household goods, clothing and footwear. A spokesperson for the café said: "At present, there are many children in urgent need of material support." The initiative hopes to attract compassionate individuals who are interested in making a tangible difference in the lives of these children. Those interested in becoming a trustee for the project can reach out to Julia Kobzarieva at flittingster@
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Will Penn State trustees remove Barry Fenchak from board? Special meeting scheduled
The Penn State board of trustees scheduled a special meeting for Monday to vote on removing one of its most outspoken board members. The board will meet virtually at 3 p.m. Monday, June 16 to consider a proposal recommending removing trustee Barry Fenchak from the board. A vote in favor of doing so would make Fenchak permanently ineligible to serve on the board again. Fenchak is an alumni-elected trustee whose three-year term expires June 30. He submitted materials and garnered enough signatures to appear on the trustee election ballot to run for a second term, but the board ruled he was unqualified and ineligible to appear on the ballot. He ran an unsuccessful write-in campaign. The board previously tried to permanently remove Fenchak from the board in the fall because of an incident that occurred after the board's July 2024 meeting. Fenchak loosely repeated a quote from the PG-rated movie 'A League of Their Own' in which Tom Hanks' character told a baseball umpire he looked like a 'penis with a little hat on' to a female staff member. A board subcommittee found it to be a code of conduct violation and unanimously recommended his removal. When the board tried to remove him, the issue went to court as part of a lawsuit Fenchak filed against the board. The judge blocked the board from removing him as trustee a day before the vote was scheduled, finding Fenchak had provided 'uncontradicted evidence of a broad pattern of retaliatory behavior' by the board. But the judge, Brian Marshall, lifted that preliminary injunction in May — paving way for his removal — after finding the basis for it had since become moot. He granted the injunction in the fall after Fenchak showed the board was trying to remove him in retaliation for his repeated requests for information, namely the university's approximately $4.57 billion endowment and a reportedly $1 billion athletic department contract with a ticketing and fan engagement agency. But in the seven months since, Fenchak was given 510 pages of information related to the endowment and a complete, unredacted copy of the contract with Elevate. He can no longer claim he is subject to removal from the board because of those specific requests, Marshall wrote in his ruling. Reporter Bret Pallotto contributed to this report.
Fox News
06-06-2025
- Business
- Fox News
Jimmy Buffett's $275M estate becomes center of heated inheritance dispute
The fight over Jimmy Buffett's estate has sparked a massive legal battle. His widow has filed a petition to have co-trustee Richard Mozenter, who manages the late musician's estate, removed for failing to act in her "best interests" with the marital trust that was "created for her benefit." Jane Buffett, who married the singer in 1977, made the legal filing in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, alleging that Mozenter, also a co-trustee of the marital trust set up for her, has been "openly hostile and adversarial" toward her and worked against her, according to the legal filing obtained by Fox News Digital. "Mr. Mozenter has failed to perform even the most basic tasks required of him in his role as co-trustee, including providing Mrs. Buffett with information concerning Trust assets and finances, which has left Mrs. Buffett in the dark with regard to the state of her own finances," the filing said. "Along the way, Mr. Mozenter has belittled, disrespected, and condescended to Mrs. Buffett in response to her reasonable requests for information she undoubtedly was entitled to receive. As a result, the majority of Mrs. Buffett's net worth is controlled by someone she does not trust, and to whom the Trust for her benefit must pay enormous fees—more than $1.7 million in 2024 to him and his firm—no matter how badly he treats her." Mozenter has filed his own petition in Florida to have her removed as co-trustee and representative of the estate, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Fox News Digital has reached out to Mozenter for comment. Jimmy Buffett died in 2023 following a battle with cancer, leaving a $275 million estate. Jane's filing claims that one month after the musician's death, she reached out to Mozenter to find out how much she would be expected to receive from the trust going forward. "Rather than help his recently-widowed client understand her finances, Mr. Mozenter spent the next 16 months stonewalling and making excuses for why he could not yet provide the requested information," the filing said. In February, Mozenter finally gave Jane an estimate that the marital trust would generate less than $2 million in net income annually, a rate of return of less than 1%, according to the filing. Mozenter "acknowledged that, over the prior 18 months, Margaritaville—a company of which the Trust owns roughly 20%—had paid distributions of approximately $14 million, but he decided against including any estimate of future distributions from Margaritaville in his analysis of the Marital Trust's future income." The filing stated that Mozenter told Jane that Margaritaville "continues to evaluate future business opportunities and how they deploy existing liquid assets." He told her, based on that analysis, that the trust would not cover her annual expenses, saying she could consider making "adjustments" or selling her own real estate to make up the difference, the filing claims. "If the Marital Trust truly earns such a low return consistent with the financials Mr. Mozenter presented, it will confirm that Mr. Mozenter is either not competent to administer the Trust or unwilling to act in Mrs. Buffett's best interests," Jane's filing claimed. Buffett landed on the Forbes billionaires list for the first time in 2023 for an empire that, along with his music, included his "Margaritaville" island escapism brand sparked by his hit 1977 song. As chair of Margarita Holdings LLC — in which Buffett held a 28% stake — he had resorts, restaurants, casinos, cruises and merchandise. Following their marriage in 1977, Buffett and Jane welcomed three children together, including Savannah, 46, Delaney, 33, and Cameron, who was born in 1994 and adopted by Buffett and Jane.
