{"id":2411,"date":"2026-06-23T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voinovichacademy.ohio.edu\/?page_id=2411"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:09:08","slug":"jeff-slack-roseville","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voinovichacademy.ohio.edu\/index.php\/jeff-slack-roseville\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Slack | Roseville"},"content":{"rendered":"

Village Administrator Jeff Slack: Seasoned leader looks to Roseville\u2019s legacy, MPP partnership<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Jeff<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>

October 1, 2025
\nBy Emily Stokes<\/p>\n

Starting in 2004 as the Roseville Village Administrator, Jeff Slack
\noversees day-to-day operations. An active community member, Slack\u00a0considers Roseville\u2019s future to be one of a vibrant and engaged\u00a0community.<\/p>\n

With a long history of public-service in his community, Slack joined the\u00a0Crooksville Police Department in 1982, became part of the Roseville\u00a0Police Department Auxiliary in 1983, and was Chief from 1985 to 2016.<\/p>\n

While the Village of Roseville welcomed settlers in 1804, the village was officially\u00a0established in 1840. The village currently has a population of around 1,750 residents. In the\u00a0mid-1980s Roseville saw a boom in population surrounding pottery manufacturing, Slack
\nsays.<\/p>\n

For this community settled along the \u201cClay Belt\u201d of Ohio, deposits of clay reserves helped\u00a0to make the production of stoneware and decorative art pottery a core opportunity for\u00a0residents of the area. Today, Roseville still has one active pottery company.<\/p>\n

One of Slack\u2019s greatest accomplishments during his tenure is the\u00a0creation of a 40-acre park. Just off state Route 93, the park offers\u00a0visitors multiple recreation opportunities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has primitive camping, it has got a nice two-acre lake and a shelter house,\u201d Slack says.<\/p>\n

The park was named \u201cJeff\u2019s Park\u201d by his beloved community in\u00a0 order to honor the esteemed community leader. \u201cIt was just strip mine land, the village had bought it to make a reservoir,\u201d Slack says.<\/p>\n

Along with pottery and various recreation activities Roseville is also home to artist Leslie\u00a0Cope. Cope moved to Roseville in 1929 to design tiles and work at the Nelson McCoy\u00a0Pottery Company. His work is housed in the permanent collections of multiple national\u00a0institutes and museums.<\/p>\n

Cope painted a mural at Roseville\u2019s municipal building in 1952, highlighting the industry of\u00a0the surrounding area, Slack says.<\/p>\n

As for the Mayor\u2019s Partnership for Progress, Slack says after joining around two years ago, it has been a great help to the Village of Roseville. \u00a0\u201cThis is probably one of the greatest organizations I have ever belonged to,\u201d Slack says. \u201cIf you do not know something, they will get it to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slack says for those not involved with the Mayors\u2019 Partnership; they should become members. \u201cThey do not know what they are missing out on,\u201d Slack says. \u201cI mean, it is amazing. There\u00a0are things that they know that we do not know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking to the future, Slack says he hopes the village can get more businesses back. After losing a school building and the pottery manufacturing companies, he hopes the village can focus on small businesses.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2411","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voinovichacademy.ohio.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voinovichacademy.ohio.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voinovichacademy.ohio.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voinovichacademy.ohio.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voinovichacademy.ohio.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voinovichacademy.ohio.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"https:\/\/voinovichacademy.ohio.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2411\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voinovichacademy.ohio.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}