Monroe Local board reelects Tim Carpenter as president, approves 2025 appointments, budgets and standing authorizations

The Monroe Local School District Board of Education on Jan. 13 elected Tim Carpenter president and AJ Fulham vice president for the 2025 school year and approved a slate of organizational and consent items, including board appointments, district memberships, standing authorizations for the superintendent and treasurer, and routine consent agendas.

Board members nominated and voted on leadership in the organizational portion of the meeting. Tim Carpenter was nominated to remain president and was confirmed by roll-call vote. AJ Fulham was nominated and elected vice president. Missus Moore administered the voting procedure during the organizational items.

The board approved a package of organizational items by roll call, including: designation of meeting dates/times/locations for 2025; waiver of reading minutes under the Ohio Revised Code; renewal of memberships in the Ohio School Boards Association, the OSBA Legal Assistance Fund and the Ohio Education Policy Institute; establishment of a $20,000 board service fund (as stated in the meeting); approval of legal counsel appointments; and designation of the Journal-News as a newspaper of record. The board also…