Adams County Ohio Valley school board schedules special April 28 meeting
A special April 28 meeting could put staffing, contracts or budget issues before the Adams County board. Families can attend at 4 p.m. in the Ohio Valley Career and Technical Center conference room.
The Adams County Ohio Valley School District has called a special school board meeting for 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, at the Ohio Valley Career and Technical Center conference room, a move that signals business the board does not want to wait on until its next regular session.
Special meetings can be used for time-sensitive votes on policy, spending, personnel or other district matters, and Ohio law requires public bodies to give advance notice of when and where those meetings will happen and to name the specific topics to be discussed. For Adams County families, that matters because decisions made in a short-notice meeting can affect staffing, contracts, school calendars and student programs in West Union, Peebles, Manchester, Seaman and the surrounding communities.
The April 28 session comes after a regular April board meeting already scheduled for April 20 and a work session on April 13, making it a separate stop on an already busy board calendar. Business meetings for the district usually begin at 6 p.m. and are held at the Ohio Valley Career and Technical Center unless otherwise noted, but this special meeting is set two hours earlier than the district’s usual start time.
The board is led by President David Riley and Vice President Sally McDaniel. The other listed members are Trent Arey, Ben Hilderbrand and Paula McIntosh. The district is also in the middle of a superintendent search, with applications due April 20 and an expected start date on or before Aug. 1. That search puts added weight on any late-April board action, especially if the meeting is used to move personnel or administrative decisions forward.
Special meetings are not new for the district. The board’s 2025 minutes archive lists special meetings on May 1, June 2, June 9 and June 10, showing that ACOVSD has used unscheduled sessions before when district business could not wait. The April 28 meeting gives residents a chance to show up in person, listen to the discussion and watch for any action that could shape the district’s next steps.
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