{"id":21,"date":"2011-11-15T14:32:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T14:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsburgea.ohea.us\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:48:34","slug":"officers-and-reps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tea.ohea.us\/?page_id=21","title":{"rendered":"Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333399\">Executive Officers<\/span> &#8211; elected March 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>President<\/strong> &#8211;&nbsp;Jim Lipinski<br \/>\n<strong>Vice-President<\/strong> &#8211; Mary Bilinski<br \/>\n<strong>Secretary<\/strong> &#8211; Scott Peterson<br \/>\n<strong>Treasurer<\/strong> &#8211; Russ Chappell<br \/>\n<strong>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333399\">Executive Committee\/Building Reps<\/span> &#8211; elected September 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><u>Wilcox<\/u> \u2013Dave Ockuly, Caitlyn Bonhag, Aeneas Glover, &amp; Kristen Liguzinski<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><u>Bissell<\/u> \u2013 Allison Doyle, Emily Depew, &amp; Tiffany Markim<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><u>Dodge<\/u> \u2013Lisa Schmauch &amp; Rebecca Widener<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><u>RBC<\/u> \u2013 Gabrielle Copen, Shelly Anderson, Lexi Sabo &amp; Ian Horstman<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><u>THS<\/u> \u2013&nbsp;Cyndi Kurt, Kristie Lewis, Ryan Merriman, Jeff Tomko,&nbsp;Julie Humble, Chris Kuzas, &amp; Molly Manley<\/p>\n<p><em>Building Reps are members of the Executive Committee.&nbsp; They attend a monthly meeting with the other building reps and the officers.&nbsp; They serve as liaison between the Exec Committee and the members.&nbsp; They handle any routine association business that may occur in their building.&nbsp; Each building is entitled to one rep for every 10 members.&nbsp; The duties of the reps can be divided.&nbsp; Building Reps can also run as OEA or NEOEA reps. Any member who is an OEA or NEOA director is automatically a member of the executive committee.<br \/>\n<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #333399\">OEA Reps&nbsp;<\/span>&#8211; elected September 2025<br \/>\n<\/strong>Jim Lipinski, Lisa Schmauch, Kristie Lewis, Dave Ockuly, &amp; Mary Bilinski<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Leading the way for continuous improvement of education while advocating for members and the learners they serve&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>OEA Reps are responsible to attend four meetings a year. They attend the NEOEA meetings and in addition, two assemblies located in Columbus.&nbsp; We are entitled to five OEA delegates.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333399\">NEOEA Reps<\/span>&#8211; elected September 2025<br \/>\n<\/strong>Jim Lipinski, Lisa Schmauch, Kristie Lewis, Dave Ockuly, &amp; Mary Bilinski<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The voice of public education in Northeastern Ohio&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>NEOEA Reps are responsible to attend two meetings a year. At these meetings we determine our position on the issues that will be voted on at the OEA rep assemblies.&nbsp; We are entitled to three NEOEA delegates.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Representative Assemblies for 2025-26 will meet on November 8, 2025, at Eastlake<br \/>\nNorth High School and on April 18, 2026, at Olmsted Falls High School.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n<\/em><strong><span style=\"color: #333399\">NEA Delegates<\/span> &#8211; elected&nbsp; March 2026<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dave Ockuly &#8211; local delegate<\/p>\n<p>Kristie Lewis &#8211; NEA State At-large delegate for Ohio<\/p>\n<p><em>NEA delegates are responsible for attending the NEA RA held once a year. Locally we are entitled to two NEA delegates. Our members can also become delegates at the state level.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive Officers &#8211; elected March 2026 President &#8211;&nbsp;Jim Lipinski Vice-President &#8211; Mary Bilinski Secretary &#8211; Scott Peterson Treasurer &#8211; Russ Chappell &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Executive Committee\/Building Reps &#8211; elected September 2025 Wilcox \u2013Dave Ockuly, Caitlyn Bonhag, Aeneas Glover, &amp; Kristen Liguzinski Bissell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tea.ohea.us\/?page_id=21\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}