CCBOE holds organizational meeting

By John A. Lizotte

Inquirer Cor­re­spon­dent

The Colonel Craw­ford Board of Edu­ca­tion held their orga­ni­za­tional meet­ing on Mon­day, Jan. 9 at 7 p.m. to make elec­tions and give the oath of office to those elected for the 2012 year.

The first order of busi­ness was to give Mr. Tin­key, Mr. Huber, and Mr. Willacker the Oath of Office.

Mr. Ley was then nom­i­nated and elected for Colonel Craw­ford Board Pres­i­dent, Mr. Tin­key was nom­i­nated and elected as Vice Pres­i­dent of the Board of Education. Ley and Tin­key took their Oaths of Office before mov­ing on to more reg­u­lar and admin­is­tra­tive matters.

One change this year is that the board voted to hold their reg­u­lar board meet­ings on the fourth Mon­day of every month, at 7 p.m. in the William and Han­nah Media Cen­ter unless oth­er­wise nec­es­sary to change. This is a change from the third Mon­day of every month.

The board autho­rized the Trea­surer dur­ing 2012 to make pay­ment of all con­trac­tual oblig­a­tions, pay­rolls, util­i­ties, freight and expense bills, postage and auto expenses. All pay­ments are to be within the adopted appro­pri­a­tions. They also autho­rized the Trea­surer to invest funds, mod­ify appro­pri­a­tions and advance funds as needed dur­ing 2012.

Super­in­ten­dent Bruner was autho­rized as Pur­chas­ing Agent for 2012. All pur­chases are to be approved within the adopted appro­pri­a­tions and any expen­di­tures over $15,000 except food, pay­roll and util­i­ties must be approved by the board first. Super­in­ten­dent Bruner was also autho­rized, with­out fur­ther Board action, to apply on behalf of the dis­trict to par­tic­i­pate in any fed­eral or state project or pro­gram in which approval by the Board is required.

The super­in­ten­dent is also autho­rized to employ per­son­nel as needed in emer­gency sit­u­a­tions, but such employ­ment shall be pre­sented and approved by the Board at the next reg­u­lar meeting.

The board also autho­rized estab­lish­ment of a ser­vice fund in the amount of $7,500 to be a part of the gen­eral fund for 2012 in accor­dance with sec­tion 3315.15 of the Ohio Revised Code. Sec­tion 3315.15 of the ORC is a ser­vice fund set-aside.

Accord­ing to ORC 3315.15, “…these funds can only be used in pay­ing the expenses of mem­bers of such boards of edu­ca­tion and edu­ca­tional ser­vice cen­ter gov­ern­ing boards actu­ally incurred in the per­for­mance of their duties, or in pay­ing the expenses of members-to-be of such boards actu­ally incurred in train­ing and ori­en­ta­tion to the per­for­mance of their duties from the date of elec­tion or appoint­ment to the date of admin­is­tra­tion of the oath of office.”

The board then autho­rized the Trea­surer to com­pen­sate the board of edu­ca­tion mem­bers for up to twelve Board meet­ings per year and to attend board mem­ber train­ing sem­i­nars at 80 per­cent of the max­i­mum rate allow­able by law.

With the orga­ni­za­tional agenda com­pleted, the meet­ing was adjourned at 7:20 p.m.

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