It’s National School Board Appreciation Month and one Greene County School Board member reflects on his tenure on the board.

Steve Fisher first got elected to the board in 2017 to fill a vacancy via a special election after then board member Ashely Johnston resigned earlier that year. The term was to end in 2019. Then, Fisher won his re-election bid in 2019 and is currently serving his first four year term on the board. He talks about working with the different board members he’s been with over that time period.

“Well it’s always interesting, and sometimes challenging, and sometimes there’s a little bit of contention. But you learn to work out differences in a constructive way. And I think the board over the tenure that I’ve on has been successful in coming to conclusions and decisions that have been productive and good for the district.” 

Fisher feels that serving on the school board is a great opportunity to give back to the community as well as coming up with innovative ways to manage the school district and financially make things work for the district and the community.

“Now I’ve always said that I don’t represent the school, I represent the people of the district. They’re the owners of the school, they’re the bosses. I represent their view to the school. Now you’ve also got to oversee what’s going on in the school. Basically the only person that the school board oversees is the superintendent. So we make sure he’s doing his job, his or her job, and that they are holding people accountable underneath them.”   

Fisher is the board president for the current school year, along with vice president John McConnell, Michelle Fields, Bonnie Silbaugh and Cindi Daubendiek.