Members of the CCDD Board who were sworn in at the January 22 meeting are from left: Rex Parsons, President; Harry Snyder; Laurie Benintendi; Gregory Carson; Kim Pellington, Vice President; Emily Chesnut; Robert Grant, Secretary; Robert Proud, Clermont County Commissioner.
Robert Proud, Clermont County Commissioner, administered the Oath of Office at the January 22 meeting of the Clermont County Board of Developmental Disabilities.

The Board uses its January meeting to reorganize by accepting nominations for officers and to determine the date, time, and location of future meetings. Board members submitted officer candidate ballots prior to the meeting. Prior to the swearing-in ceremony, the following members were elected as officers: Rex Parsons, President; Kim Pellington, Vice President; and Robert Grant, Secretary. Serving the Board are members Laurie Benintendi, Gregory Carson, Emily Chesnut, and Harry Snyder.

After the swearing-in ceremony, Parsons made committee appointments. Benintendi, Parsons, and Snyder will serve on the Ethics Committee; Grant, Snyder, and Parsons – Finance Committee; Benintendi, Chesnut, and Carson – Early Childhood; Pellington, Parsons, and Chesnut – Adult Services; Pellington, Benintendi, and Grant – Residential. Chesnut will serve as the CCDD Advocacy Chair for the Ohio Association of County Boards.

It was approved that 2015 board meetings will be held on the fourth Thursday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at the Thomas A. Wildey Center in Owensville.

Exceptions to this will be announced as they arise.

For more information about upcoming Board meetings, contact ldavis@clermontdd.org.