Madison Local board elects Amy Walker president, chooses Melissa Walker as vice president

At its reorganizational meeting, the Madison Local School District Board of Education in Richland County, Ohio, elected Amy Walker as board president and Melissa Walker as vice president and approved a slate of administrative committee liaisons for 2026.

The meeting opened with the pledge and the administration of the oath of office to newly elected and re-elected board members. The presiding official read the oath, asking members to affirm that they would “support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of Ohio, and ... faithfully and impartially discharge [their] duties as a member of the board of education of the Madison Local School District, Richland County, Ohio.”

Nominations for president yielded two named candidates. Speaker 2 nominated Amy Walker and Melissa Walker was also nominated. After nominations were closed, the board voted to elect Amy Walker as president. The transcript records the vote as 3–2: Amy Walker, Doug Moser and Adam Porter voted for Walker; Mary Cotterman and Melissa Walker voted against.

The board then held nominations for vice president. After motions and votes, the board announced that Melissa Walker would serve as vice president. The transcript declares Melissa Walker elected, but a clear, consistent roll-call tally for that vote is not recorded in the provided transcript.

Following the officer elections, the superintendent announced the board’s administrative committee liaison assignments for 2026. The district listed the following assignments in the transcript: Cotterman — board policy and finance; Doug Moser — legislative and athletic board of control; Adam Porter — student achievement and finance; Amy Walker — board policy and legislative; Melissa Walker — athletic board of control and student achievement.

The board voted to keep its regular meeting schedule at 6:00 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month and approved the board’s yearly procedures (Item 8). The meeting record also includes a motion under Item 9 (“to return”), which the board approved as reflected in the transcript.

The transcript contains a number of inconsistent name spellings and brief mis-transcriptions (for example a speaker momentarily referred to the newly elected president with the given name “Wendy,” which appears to be a transcription error); names and roles in this report use the consistent forms reflected elsewhere in the record. The board did not provide a meeting date in the provided transcript excerpt. The next regular meeting time was recorded as the third Wednesday at 6:00 p.m.