Milford Exempted Village board elects leadership, approves calendar and routine authorizations

MILFORD, Ohio — The Milford Exempted Village Board of Education on Jan. 16 elected its officers for 2025, approved a revised 2025–26 academic calendar and adopted a package of routine administrative and fiscal authorizations during its annual organizational meeting at the district administrative office.

The board nominated and approved Emily Mason as president and Michael Wilson as vice president. The board also approved a revised 2025–26 academic calendar that keeps the same start and end dates but moves a September date from Sept. 26 to Sept. 12, shifts an October fall break by roughly two weeks, and changes spring dates in March to March 5–6.

Why it matters: These routine organizational actions set leadership and operational parameters for the district for the coming year — determining who signs district checks, how temporary hiring is handled, and the schedule that governs the school year and board meetings.

Most of the meeting consisted of standard annual resolutions that the board votes on at the start of each fiscal year. Key approvals included authorization for the treasurer to invest active and interim funds at the most productive interest rate; authority for the superintendent to employ temporary personnel as needed between board meetings; designation of the president, vice president and treasurer as official signers on board accounts (with one of the three required on each check and facsimile signatures permitted for the president and treasurer); and authorization for…