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Nordonia Hills board elects McKinley president, Tidmore vice president; adopts calendar and committee appointments
Summary
At its organizational meeting Jan. 13, the Nordonia Hills City School District Board of Education elected Liz McKinley president and Jason Tidmore vice president for 2025, approved its regular meeting calendar with a July date change, adopted several consent and finance authorizations and appointed eight members to the FACT committee.
The Nordonia Hills City School District Board of Education elected Board Member Liz McKinley as board president and Board Member Jason Tidmore as vice president during its organizational meeting Monday, Jan. 13, 2025.
The actions came by roll-call votes taken during the meeting. The board also approved its 2025 schedule of regular meetings (generally 7 p.m. at Northfield Elementary School), with an agreed change to the July meeting date to July 28, 2025, and the ability to adjust dates as needed.
The moves establish the board’s leadership and operational calendar for 2025 and put in place procedural authorizations the superintendent and treasurer use during the year. Board members approved a package of consent items that included personnel and procedural delegations used routinely at the start of a fiscal year: authorizing the superintendent to accept resignations and act as purchasing agent/designee, naming hearing officers for suspensions and Title IX/ADA contacts, and confirming district legal firms for specialized matters.
The board approved multiple finance-related authorizations for district fiscal management. Actions recorded in the meeting included authorizing the treasurer to invest district funds (including through Ohio local government investment options such as STAR Ohio), to use electronic signatures on routine purchasing documents, to issue blanket purchase orders up to $10,000, and to amend estimated resources with the Summit County Fiscal Office as needed. The board also approved the district’s alternative tax budget for fiscal year 2026, the treasurer said, a required early step in next year’s budget cycle.
Members discussed the FACT (Finance, Accountability, Curriculum, and Technology) committee structure and voted to adopt an updated committee framework. The board then appointed eight community members to the FACT committee under the new structure: Katie Badger; Karen Byers; Samantha Solomon; Dawn Sidor; Stacy Suji; Lisa Clark; Bob Gillian; and Doug Masteller. The board president said that additional applicants who were not seated would be invited to attend committee meetings and that there will be time at the end of each FACT meeting for public questions.
The board also approved a House Bill 312 compliance officer review item and several routine governance items the superintendent summarized as standard start-of-year housekeeping.
Procedural votes throughout the meeting were taken by roll call and passed by affirmative majorities; several items passed unanimously on recorded roll-call votes.
The board said it will publish the approved meeting calendar and the FACT committee meeting times and will follow up with applicants who were not appointed. The treasurer and superintendent were directed to proceed with the operational authorities granted by the board and to prepare materials for the regular board meeting scheduled in February.
