Council slated to appoint 2021 president at Jan. 14 meeting

Perry Village Council will select its 2021 president when it gathers for its first meeting of the new year on Jan. 14.

An agenda for the meeting shows that the floor will be opened for nominations, before council votes to appoint its leader for the new year.

Jean Schonauer currently holds the position formally known as Perry Village Council president pro tempore.

Schonauer initially was appointed to the leadership post by her fellow panel members on Aug. 9, 2018.

She was elevated to that seat after James Gessic, council president pro tempore at the time, was selected on the same night to succeed Vicky Stevens as village mayor.

At the start of 2019, council then voted in favor of Schonauer leading council for a full one-year term.

In other scheduled action at the Jan. 14 meeting, legislators will vote on reappointing Councilman Phil Cassella as the village’s representative on the Perry Area Joint Recreation District Board.

The district serves Perry Village, Perry Township, North

Perry Village and Perry Schools. Appointed representatives from each of those entities serve on the district’s governing board.

Cassella is set to be reappointed to the rec board for one year.

Council also will consider legislation to re-appoint Troy Hager as village street commissioner and road supervisor for another year.

All of the village’s other administrators typically receive new one-year extensions of their employment every December.

But the appointment of a village road commissioner, according to the Ohio Revised Code, must be made in January.

Along with leading Perry Village’s Public Works Department, Hager serves as the community’s police chief, which is permitted under terms of the Ohio Revised Code.