Oak Park board confirms officers, approves LOAs, accepts audit and green-lights student trips
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Summary
At its Jan. 12 organizational meeting the Oak Park Board of Education elected officers for 2026, approved two letters of agreement with the teachers’ association, accepted the district audit for year ended June 30, 2025, authorized bank/designated depositories and approved two out-of-state student field trips.
The Oak Park Board of Education on Jan. 12 elected its slate of officers for the 2026 term and approved a bundle of administrative items including two letters of agreement with the Oak Park Education Association, acceptance of the district audit for the year ended June 30, 2025, designation of bank depositories, and two out-of-state student field trips.
Nominations for board officers opened during the organizational portion of the meeting. Trustees confirmed Paige Madison to remain president and later confirmed Clark as vice president; trustees also completed secretary and treasurer elections and announced the newly confirmed officers.
In routine business, trustees approved a motion authorizing signature authority for checks drawn on district funds naming President Madison and Treasurer Tiffany Scott and authorizing the superintendent, director of finance or designee for specified transactions. The board also designated institutions and vendors as depositories for district funds, naming Comerica Bank, Huntington Bank/Huntington Capital Markets, Fifth Third Bank and pooled accounts/financial managers as read into the record.
The board authorized the administration to use specified outside legal counsel for 2026, naming firms as read at the meeting. Trustees moved the meeting into closed session under the Michigan Open Meetings Act to discuss two letters of agreement (LOAs) with the Oak Park Education Association; upon returning to open session the board adopted the LOA to modify the 2025–26 school calendar and the LOA regarding staff placement as presented by administration.
Trustees also voted to accept the audit report for the year ended June 30, 2025, as presented at the December 8 meeting, and approved two out-of-state student field trips: an eighth-grade trip to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio on June 2, 2026 (depart OPA 7:30 a.m., return approx. 9:30 p.m.; instructor and chaperones per district policy) and a sixth/seventh-grade overnight trip to Washington, D.C., May 13–16, 2026 (via WorldStrides, supervised by district staff).
The motions were presented, seconded and decided by roll-call votes during the meeting. Where the record names individual movers or seconds those names are recorded in the board minutes. The board set the next meeting for Jan. 26, 2026, at 6 p.m.