Paul Schapira has submitted his resignation after less than a year as an Oxford Township trustee.<\/p>\n
The board accepted Scha\u00adpira\u2019s resignation with a 6-0 vote dur\u00ading its Jan. 14 meeting.<\/p>\n
Schapira was appointed to the board during a special meet\u00ading on May 20, 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to increasing professional commitments, I am no longer able to dedicate the necessary time and energy required to fulfill my duties as a trustee,\u201d Schapira wrote in his resignation letter. \u201cI wish the organization and the remaining trustees continued suc\u00adcess in fulfilling its mission.\u201d<\/p>\n
The town\u00adship clerk is accepting resum\u00e9s from residents interested in being appointed to the seat.<\/p>\n
The deadline for submissions is noon on Thursday,\u00a0 Jan. 29.<\/p>\n
Interviews will be conducted during a special township board meeting on Feb. 4. The person appointed will serve until Nov. 20, 2026. The seat will be up for election for a two-year term on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n
The board also voted 6-0 to increase compensation for township trustees by $5 per meeting.<\/p>\n
Trustees will now be paid $170 for each regular or special board meet\u00ading they attend and will be paid $145 for each committee meeting and $300 for each committee meeting lasting more than four hours. The new pay rate went into effect on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Schapira has submitted his resignation after less than a year as an Oxford Township trustee. The board…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,74234],"class_list":["post-149860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oxford-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}