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Oakwood Board completes 2025 organizational actions, adopts meeting calendar and authorizes legal counsel
Summary
At its Jan. 13 organizational meeting the Oakwood Board of Education completed annual organizational actions including elections, approval of the 2025 meeting calendar, designation of legal firms for counsel, recognition of the teachers' bargaining unit and membership in the Ohio School Boards Association.
At the start of its Jan. 13 meeting the Oakwood Board of Education held its annual organizational business, adopting officers, a meeting calendar and routine authorizations for 2025.
Laura Middleton, serving as acting chair because President John Wilson was absent, called the organizational meeting to order and led the board through roll call and a series of votes. The board held elections for president and vice president for 2025; the transcript records nominations and roll-call affirmation but does not identify the elected names in the public record excerpt provided (not specified in transcript). The board approved the 2025 board meeting calendar as presented.
The board authorized the superintendent and treasurer to retain legal counsel for 2025 and named the law firms listed in the meeting packet: Frost Brown Todd, Bricker & Graydon (Columbus, Ohio) and Ritzel and Andres (as provided in the packet). The board recognized the Oakwood Teachers Association as the bargaining unit for teachers in 2025 and voted to participate in the Ohio School Boards Association (OSBA) for 2025; it also adopted a resolution to join the OSBA legal assistance fund for calendar year 2025.
Additional organizational approvals included a list of persons and agencies to receive meeting notifications; designation of the treasurer or the treasurer's designee as the board's public records training designee for 2025; authorization for the treasurer to request tax advances from the county auditor and to advance/transfer funds between funds when necessary prior to board meetings; and authorization for the treasurer to invest excess funds in accordance with the Ohio Revised Code. The treasurer was also authorized to pay routine expenses within appropriations and to enter into commercial credit and purchasing card agreements.
The board appointed delegates to the OSBA annual conference: Nathan Ryder Garcia as delegate and Laura Middleton as alternate. All organizational motions listed in the packet were approved on recorded roll calls.
