School board to elect president at special meeting

HUNTINGTON -- The Cabell County School Board will meet at 7:30 tonight to elect a board president for the next two years.

State code indicates the board members shall elect a president from its own membership. Director of Communications Jedd Flowers said members can nominate each other, and the entire board votes. Members can express whether they have interest in holding the post.

The current president is Ted T. Barr. He and Suzanne Oxley last week began new terms on the board after being re-elected in May.

The board also will establish regular meeting dates and places, which is unlikely to shift from the first and third Tuesday of the month, Flowers said.

The final item on the special meeting agenda concerns the West Middle School property, where the newly named Huntington Middle School is housed until its new school is built. Superintendent William Smith recommends the board to consider a conveyance of the property to the Cabell County Community Service Organization Inc. for a Federal Housing and Urban Development project. Flowers said it would probably be senior apartments.

The meeting will be at the board office at 2850 5th Ave., Huntington.