Familiar face leaving ASD board

One familiar face will soon be missing from the Armstrong School Board.

Director Dr. D. Wesley Minteer, a director on the board for 12 years, has decided he will not run for a fourth term.

Minteer said his decision came down to a matter of time - he has increased responsibilities as the president of the Armstrong Educational Trust and as medical director for the Mercy Primary Care System.

At the trust, Minteer said the group has shifted its focus to become an education broker. Minteer has been the president of the trust for the past three years.

'It's requiring a little bit more time than it used to,' he said.

The doctor just started as the medical director of the Mercy System this week, and he said the job will require him to do administrative work, to study the system and find inefficiencies.

'You have to make those systems as efficient as possible,' he said.