Schools
Patton To Be Sworn In As Solon School Board Member Tonight
Kevin Patton will begin is term as a Solon School Board member during the meeting at 7 p.m. tonight.
will take his seat on the board tonight.
The school board will meet at 7 p.m. tonight. Patton will be sworn in -- as will returning board members Julie Glavin and Dorothy Seibert -- and the board will hold its organizational meeting, when the board will select a president and vice president.
Patton is , having served in local government for close to 24 years as mayor and councilman. He also served as the campaign manager for the school district's 2010 levy, which won at the polls by 66 percent. He has lived in the community for more than 50 years.
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"I want to say thank you to the Solon voters for their expression of confidence to move me over to the board," Patton said on election night. "I've had an interest in this for a long time and I was lucky enough to serve in the city's municipal government for a number of years."
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