EMSB commissioners vote to cut chair Angela Mancini's salary to $10K

English Montreal School Board chair Angela Manciniis taking a significant salary cut after school board commissioners voted Monday that her pay be cut from $38,000 per yearto $10,000.

Eight voted for the salary cut, two voted against it and two abstained.

Mancini has not attended a school meeting since October. She saidshe has been on sick leaveand that she is back on a part-time basis.

The cut also follows the provincial government announcingtwo separateinvestigations into issues at theschool board.

Last week, Manciniacknowledged that therehave been some "issues" with governance, but did not give a direct answer when asked by reporters if she was the right person to lead the board.

Education Minister Jean-Franois Roberge said his ministry would undertake an "exhaustive" probe into "troubling and serious allegations" about irregularities in the awarding of contracts related to vocational training.

The allegations that prompted the probe date back to 2009.

Manciniherself was found guilty of four breaches of theEMSB'scode of ethics last year.