{"id":18274,"date":"2026-01-15T19:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=18274"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:04:35","slug":"commissioners-name-lisa-a-sobecki-as-president-of-the-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/commissioners-name-lisa-a-sobecki-as-president-of-the-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners Name Lisa A. Sobecki as President of the Board"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lisa Sobecki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Special to The Truth<\/em><\/p>\n

The Board of Lucas County Commissioners voted last week to name Commissioner Lisa A. Sobecki as President of the Board for 2026.<\/p>\n

The unanimous vote came at the Commissioners’ organizational meeting
\n“I want to thank my colleagues for their vote of confidence in me to lead this board for another year,” Commissioner Sobecki said. “We know 2026 is going to present us with challenges from several fronts. I am confident we can navigate the tough waters together and continue to deliver high-quality services to our residents and businesses in the most efficient and effective way possible.”<\/p>\n

Commissioner Sobecki was elected to the Board of Lucas County Commissioners in 2022 and was named President of the Board in 2025.<\/p>\n

Last year, she began hosting quarterly meetings with the elected leaders of other Lucas County offices to provide mid-year budget projection updates and work through issues facing the County as a whole.<\/p>\n

“Those quarterly meetings increased communication and collaboration and built trust and transparency, and I’m committed to continuing them in 2026,” Commissioner Sobecki said.<\/p>\n

New in 2026, Commissioner Sobecki will begin hosting quarterly meetings with the cities, townships, and villages within Lucas County to foster open dialogue and collaborative problem-solving countywide.<\/p>\n

“I believe we are stronger as a community when we work together, and that’s going to be even more important as we navigate what is going to be a tough year,” she said.<\/p>\n

Also during Tuesday’s organizational meeting, each commissioner was named as a representative on various boards and commissions for 2026. They include the following:<\/p>\n

Commissioner Lisa A. Sobecki:<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 County Commissioners Association of Ohio (CCAO) Alternate
\n* \u00a0 Community Corrections Planning Board (CPBB)
\n* \u00a0 District Advisory Council of the Lucas County Health District
\n* \u00a0 Downtown Toledo Improvement District (DTID)
\n* \u00a0 Family Services Planning Committee
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC)
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Data Processing Board
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Economic Development Corporation
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Emergency Planning Committee
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Family & Children First Council
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Land Reutilization Corporation (Land Bank)
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Plan Commission
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Solid Waste Management District
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Workforce Development Board
\n* \u00a0 MacArthur Foundation’s Safety + Justice Challenge
\n* \u00a0 National Association of Counties (NACo) Board of Directors Representative
\n* \u00a0 Toledo Zoological Society Board of Trustees
\nCommissioner Pete Gerken:<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Corrections Commission of Northwest Ohio (CCNO)
\n* \u00a0 County Commissioners Association of Ohio (CCAO)
\n* \u00a0 Downtown Toledo Improvement District (DTID)
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County 9-1-1 Regional Council of Governments Administrators Technical Advisors Committee
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Convention & Visitors’ Bureau
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Economic Development Corporation
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Land Reutilization Corporation (Land Bank)
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Plan Commission
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Solid Waste Management District
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Solid Waste Management District Policy Committee
\n* \u00a0 Pathway, Inc. Board
\n* \u00a0 Toledo Lucas County Homelessness Board
\nCommissioner Anita Lopez:<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Emergency Food & Shelter Program (EFSP) Local Board
\n* \u00a0 Healthy Lucas County Executive Committee
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County 9-1-1 Regional Council of Governments Administrators Technical Advisors Committee (alternate)
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Board of Revision (BOR)
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Common Pleas Drug Court Committee
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Economic Development Corporation
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Integrated Justice System
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Plan Commission
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Solid Waste Management District
\n* \u00a0 Lucas County Records Commission
\n* \u00a0 Toledo-Lucas County Sustainability Commission
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Special to The Truth The Board of Lucas County Commissioners voted last week to name Commissioner Lisa A. Sobecki as President of the Board for 2026. The unanimous vote came at the Commissioners’ organizational meeting “I want to thank my colleagues for their vote of confidence in me to lead this board for another year,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[330],"class_list":["post-18274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18275,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274\/revisions\/18275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18274"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=18274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}