Ferrell Appointed to CAB School Board The Charles A. Beard School Board voted Tuesday night to appoint Greensboro Township resident Steve Ferrell to fill a vacant seat on the board. The 6-0 vote to appoint Ferrell came at the beginning of the boards regular monthly meeting. Board members had spent a little over a half hour interviewing Ferrell and a second candidate, Cory Dickerson, during a special meeting that immediately preceded the regular meeting. “We have to choose, so whats the boards pleasure,” Board President Wade Beatty asked the other five members. With no discussion of the merits of either candidate, Vice President Don Scheumann nominated Ferrell for the appointment. Board member Kevin Knott seconded the nomination, and Beatty and the boards other three members, Gerald Leonard, Tom Schaetzle, and Jon Swartz, joined Scheumann and Knott for the unanimous vote. The oath of office was given to Ferrell right away and he took his seat at the school boards table. After a board vote approving the agenda for that nights meeting, Beatty said that he had “missed one thing,” then proceeded to ask Ferrell if he had any conflicts of interest he wanted to declare. At that point, Ferrell revealed that Stephanie Madison, the school corporations treasurer, is his daughter. Ferrell will be required to fill out a conflict of interest form that will be kept on file at CABs central office. Neither state law nor local school board policy requires Ferrell to abstain from voting on issues affecting his daughters employment with CAB. However, he and other board members are always free to abstain from such votes where a conflict of interest exists, if they so choose. Ferrell, a KHS graduate, said during his interview last night that he has always been interested in CAB and its school board. He said the board has had “a lot of tough decisions to make,” but that he felt members had “done a lot of positive things.” Asked to identify the school districts greatest needs, Ferrell said attracting students and keeping them at CAB is “very important.” Responding to a question about where he hoped to see CAB five or six years down the road, Ferrell said hed like to see the district in better financial shape. “You always want to be better tomorrow than you are today, no matter what you do,” Ferrell said. He added, though, that when financial options are limited, “theres only so much a school board can do.”
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:42:04 +0000
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