By Paula Scott

The Ada Schools held the 162nd annual reorganizational meeting of the Board of Education on Thursday, January 12 with all members present (agenda attached). Members of the board are Ron Fleming, Matt Gossman, Ted Griffith, Amy Mullins and Steve Ramey.

ELECTIONS
The board entered a 5-minute executive session to make an appointment. Upon their return, the board elected Matt Gossman as president and Amy Mullins as vice-president. The group also established the date, time and place of regular meetings for 6:00 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month beginning in February. This schedule may be adjusted as needed.

TREASURER’S REPORT
The Treasurer’s report recommended authorizations and designations A-F (pages 2-3 of attachment). Ted Griffin made a motion to approve items B-F. In discussion he said he would like all investments to be insured. His motion was not seconded. Ron Fleming made a motion to approve all items, which was passed 4-1, with Griffin voting no.

NEW BUSINESS
Items A-N summarized below were approved by unanimous vote:

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A. Establish $6,000 board service fund.

B. Make the superintendent the board funds purchasing agent.

C. Authorize superintendent to employ temporary personnel in emergency situations.

D. Approve Principal Dan Lee as Title IX coordinator.

E. Designate the Kenton Times as the newspaper of record.

F. Establish a fee of 10 cents for paper copies of meeting and other public documents.

G. Adopt existing bylaws and policies.

H. Officially recognize the academic, athletic and music boosters.

I. Authorize the superintendent to approve use of school buses on field trips outside the district.

J. Authorize the superintendent to approve staff attendance at at meetings and conferences outside the district.

K. Authorize the superintendent to hear appeals of suspension and expulsion.

L. Authorize the superintendent to accept resignations by employees when the board is not in session, subject to board ratification.

M. Approve Pepple and Waggoner Ltd. as the boards legal firm.

N. Approve Midwest Regional Educational Service Center as business advisory council

COMMITTEES
The board established the following committee assignments, which is a continuation of all assignments from the prior year.

A. Fleming and Ramey were appointed to the board policy committee.

B. Griffith was made legislative liaison to the Ohio School Boards Association.

C. Mullins was made student achievement liaison to the Ohio School Boards Association.

D. Fleming was made a member of the local tax abatement committee.

E. Gossman was made a member of the superintendent’s scholarship committee.

F. Ramey and Mullins were made members of the superintendent’s audit committee.

G. Gossman and Fleming were made members of the superintendent’s buildings and grounds committee.

H. Ramey and Griffith were made members of the superintendent’s extra-curricular committee.

NEXT MEETING
The date of the next regular board meeting was established at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 19 in the board room, 

At 6:20 p.m. the board entered an executive session to discuss employment matters with no action expected.