Flint school board elects president and officers in contested vote, new board members sworn in
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
Posted Jan 20, 2021
Trustee Carol McIntosh, left, and Trustee Vera Perry at the Flint Board of Education meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019 at Southwestern Academy in Flint. McIntosh and Perry were elected board president and vice president for the 2021 year Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. (Sara Faraj | MLive.com) Sara Faraj | MLive.com
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FLINT, MI Carol McIntosh has been elected by the Flint Community Schools Board of Education to serve as board president for the year.
It took three rounds of voting Jan. 13 before McIntosh received the required majority of four votes for the position.
FLINT, MI Former Gov. Rick Snyder and eight other former officials in state and city government were charged with various crimes in connection with the Flint water crisis, but the charges don’t seem to spell justice for some city residents.
Attorney General Dana Nessel with Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy on Thursday, Jan. 14 announced criminal charges against Snyder and his former senior advisor Richard Baird, former Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon, former Chief Medical Officer Dr. Eden Wells, two former Flint emergency financial managers, Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose, former Snyder Chief of Staff and Communications Director Jarrod Agen and Nancy Peeler, Director of the MDHHS Program for Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting.