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The Northern Buckeye Education Council (NBEC) is a not-for-profit Council of Governments organized under Chapter 167 of the Ohio Revised Code. The purpose of the NBEC is to provide educational entities in greater northwestern Ohio access to a variety of cooperative administrative services thereby reducing the cost of obtaining these services. Currently the NBEC manages life, dental, health and vision insurance benefit programs; provides data processing services through its Northwest Ohio Computer Association (NWOCA) subsidiary; offers a Workers' Compensation Group Rating Program; assists in the preparation of financial reports; offers inservice training sessions to employees of its member districts; and provides fiscal agency services to other cooperative purchasing programs.

The NBEC is organized to:

Foster cooperation among educational entities.
Provide leadership in planning for the future needs of educational entities in our service area.
Provide cooperative services to member educational entities in order to achieve efficiencies of scale and reduce overall costs.

Presently, there are forty member educational entities in the NBEC, all of which are located in Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Lucas, Williams and Wood counties.

The NBEC offices are located in the Four County Career Center building outside Archbold. The Northwest Ohio Computer Association subsidiary has an auxiliary office located in Penta Career Center, Perrysburg.


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Contact Information:

Personnel Contacts
Northern Buckeye Education Council 22-900 State Route 34 Archbold, Ohio 43502	Phone: (419) 267-5565 Fax: (419) 267-5248

Administration:

John Mohler, Executive Director email: mohler@nwoca.org Phone: 419.267.5565 ext. 2500	Duane Baker, Director of Planning & Research email: baker@nwoca.org Phone: 419.267.5565 ext. 2519
Robin Pfund, Treasurer / Business Manager email:pfund@nwoca.org Phone: 419.267.5565 ext. 2509	Jill Jacoby, Assistant to the Executive Director email: jacoby@nwoca.org Phone: 419.267.5565 ext. 2523

Board of Directors - Fiscal Year 2007-2008:

Defiance County
- Jim Roach (Northeastern Local) - Director - Term: 06/30/10
- Tod Hug (Ayersville Local) - Director - Term: 06/30/09 Vice Chairperson
- David Bagley (Central Local) - Alternate - Term: 6/30/09
Fulton County
- Steve Switzer (Pettisville Local) - Director - Term: 06/30/10
- Ken Jones (Evergreen Local) - Director - Term: 06/30/09 - Recording Secretary
- Robin Rayfield (Pike Delta York) - Alternate - Term: 06/30/09
Henry County
- Susan Miko (Patrick Henry Local) - Director - Term: 06/30/10
- Jack Loudin (Liberty Center Local) - Director - Term: 06/30/09
- Tony Meinerding (Napoleon City) - Alternate - Term: 06/30/09
Lucas County
- John Granger (Anthony Wayne Local) - Director - Term: 06/30/10
- Catherine Heidelberg - Director - Term: 06/30/09
- Brad Rieger (Sylvania City) - Alternate - Term: 06/30/09
Williams County
- Ken Boyer (North Central Local) - Director - Term: 06/30/10
- Richard Gieringer (Edgerton Local) - Director - Term: 06/30/09 -
- Nate Johnson (Stryker Local) - Alternate - Term: 06/30/09
Wood County
- Jim Witt (Lake Local) - Director - Term: 06/30/10
- Doug Garman (Wood Co) - Director - Term: 06/30/09
- Fred Susor (Penta Career Center) - Alternate - Term: 06/30/09
NWOESC
- John Kaylor - Director - Term: N/A - Chairperson
- Darren Jenkins - Alternate - Term: N/A
Four County Career Center
- Dave Nicholls - Director - Term: N/A
- Jennifer Bonner - Alternate - Term: N/A
Ex-Officio:
- John Mohler - NBEC Executive Director - Term: N/A
- Robin Pfund - NBEC Treasurer - Term: N/A

Last Update: 10/01/2008

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