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Austintown board approves consent agenda, tax-levy certification, contracts and property-valuation complaint
Summary
The Austintown Local Schools board approved a multi-item consent agenda, tax-levy certification to the county auditor and several intergovernmental contracts at its March 18, 2025 regular meeting; the board also authorized filing a complaint challenging a commercial property valuation under state law.
The Austintown Local Schools Board of Education approved multiple consent items and resolutions at its March 18, 2025 meeting, including certification of tax amounts and rates to the county auditor, a resolution to file a commercial property valuation complaint under Ohio law, several intergovernmental agreements and the district's membership renewal with the Ohio High School Athletic Association.
The board adopted the treasurer's consent items A–C (Item 9) and the superintendent's consent items A–H (Item 10) by voice vote. The transcript records the standard motion and second and unanimous affirmative votes by board members Mrs. Smrek, Mr. Sherwood, Mr. Markham, Mrs. Mock and Mr. Porter for those consent actions.
On Item 11 the board approved a resolution "accepting the amounts and rates as determined by the budget commission and authorizing the necessary tax levies and certifying them to the county auditor," as recorded in the agenda. The motion carried on a roll call of unanimous yes votes. The board also approved (Item 12) a resolution to amend a program agreement as stated in the agenda.
Under Resolution 13 the board authorized the filing of an original complaint against the valuation of commercial real property owned by MDC Coastal 18 LLC pursuant to Ohio Revised Code section 5715.19 and approved the district's 2025–26 membership in the Ohio High School Athletic Association. Those measures were approved by unanimous vote.
The board also approved (Item 15) a contractual agreement with the Governing Board of the Educational Service Center of Eastern Ohio pursuant to Ohio Revised Code section 3313.845 and (Item 16) an agreement with the Mahoning Valley Regional Council of Governments pursuant to Ohio Revised Code section 167.08. The board set its public meeting date for April 17, 2025 (Item 17) and approved the listed agreements and resolutions by voice vote; the transcript shows each item moved, seconded and supported by unanimous yes votes from the five board members present.
Motions were made and seconded for the items recorded on the agenda; the transcript lists yes votes from Mrs. Smrek, Mr. Sherwood, Mr. Markham, Mrs. Mock and Mr. Porter on the recorded roll calls. Specific movers and seconders for each item are recorded in the meeting minutes as "moved" and "second" on the transcript but not attributed to named individuals for every item in the spoken record.
The approvals were taken by consent or roll-call as noted above; the transcript contains no recorded dissent, abstentions or amendments to the agenda items that were approved at this meeting.
