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Council reappoints Denise Sigworth to GCSC board
What a difference four years can make.
When Denise Sigworth was initially appointed to the Greencastle Community School Corporation board in June 2012, it was a chaotic time in the school system.
The superintendent was on her way out. The chief financial officer was about to be fired. And multiple candidates had their eye on that Greencastle City Council appointment to the school board.
But the City Council ultimately selected Sigworth by a 5-0 vote, and Tuesday night it reappointed her by another unanimous margin.
Only this time her appointment comes amid a kinder, gentler atmosphere in which GCSC Superintendent Dawn Puckett has announced her retirement and Sigworth is the current board president.
This time, Sigworth was the lone applicant for the Greencastle City Council-appointed position on the five-member school board.
Her appointment runs through June 30, 2020.
A motion and a second to reappoint her was actually on the table at the May City Council meeting before it was suggested that with all the new members on the current Council, they should probably take some time to familiarize themselves with Sigworth's resume and letter of interest.
Tuesday night her reappointment was made official after a motion by Council President Adam Cohen, who eagerly noted, "we agreed last month that we were content with this."
After a second from Steve Fields, fellow councilors Stacie Langdon, Mark Hammer, Tyler Wade, Gary Lemon and Dave Murray made it unanimous.
Langdon commended Sigworth for her first four years on the school board.
"I know it's more than just going to meetings," she said in thanking Sigworth, a Greencastle High School graduate herself, for all the work that goes into serving on a school board.
Other GCSC board members include Bill Tobin, appointed to the school board earlier this month by the Greencastle Township Advisory Board; Dale Pierce, whose Madison Township appointment expires in June 2017; Lisa Lazar, whose City Council appointment expires in June 2018; and Mike White, the other Greencastle Township appointee, who serves through June 2019.