Appointed by the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners to a four-year library board term in 2013, Wantz will preside during a series of capital construction projects in 2016, which will include completion of a major renovation of the Southport branch and site selection for a new branch in Perry Township that will open in 2019.
Wantz is on leave as special assistant to the president at the University of Indianapolis while he finishes his time as interim director of the Indianapolis Department of Public Safety.
Other officers are Dorothy R. Crenshaw, vice president; Lillian L. Charleston, secretary; and Becky Dixon, treasurer.