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(Back row l-r) Dion Manley, Sue Horn
(Front row, l-r) Board Vice-President Daphne Moehring, Kara Coates, Board President Beryl Piccolantonio
The Gahanna-Jefferson Board of Education seeks to provide all students the maximum educational opportunities within the constraints of available facilities, financial resources, legal requirements and citizen involvement.
The board fulfills these responsibilities by functioning primarily as a legislative body to formulate and adopt policies and evaluating the results.
Location: Clark Hall, 380 Granville Street, Gahanna Time: 6:30 p.m. (unless otherwise specified)
REGULAR BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETINGS Third Thursday of each month NEW BOARD OF EDUCATION WORKSHOPS First Thursday of each month FINANCE AND FACILITIES MEETINGS Tuesday prior to each Regular Board of Education meeting
NEW COMMUNITY CONVERSATION OPPORTUNITY Bi-monthly informal gatherings held at different coffee shops in our community.
With the exception of executive sessions, meetings of the board are open to the public. During executive sessions, board members may discuss only three types of business as defined by the Ohio law: personnel matters, the sale or purchase of property, and legal matters. Since Ohio law states that all school board voting must be done in public, executive sessions are for discussion purposes only.
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The Board will evaluate how policies have been implemented and their general effectiveness. It will rely on the school staff, students, and community to provide evidence of the effect of the policies it has adopted. It will be the policy of the Board to review its policies and procedures on a continuing basis in order to keep them up-to-date.
Bylaws & Policies
The public chooses its board of education candidates by the petition method. They are elected at the November general election in odd-numbered years. The board meets during the first 15 days of January to elect a president and vice president to serve for the coming year.
The Superintendent of Schools/Chief Executive Officer is employed by the board to carry out policies and to administer the affairs of the District on a day-to-day basis. He is not a member of the board. The superintendent is responsible to the board while all other employees of the district, either directly or indirectly, are responsible to the superintendent or the treasurer.
The Treasurer/Chief Financial Officer is employed by the board to administer, in cooperation with the superintendent, the financial, legal and contractual business of the school district. He is not a member of the board. The treasurer also reports directly to the board.
* Effective September 2012