The leadership of the Cassopolis Board of Education will remain the same for another year.

At its regular meeting Monday night at Squires Education Center, Scott Ward, Lisa Cutting, Sue Horstmann and George Calvert were re-elected to their positions of president, vice president, secretary and treasurer respectively.

Ward has been the board’s president since the 2013-14 school year and was the vice president in 2012-13. He joined the board in 2010.

The board, at its yearly reorganization meeting, set the time, date and place for its regular board meetings for the 2017-18 school year.

Meetings will now be at 6:30 p.m. They will remain at Squires Education Center.

The board also named Chemical Bank, Greater Niles Community Federal Credit Union and Fifth Third Bank for the district’s depositories.

Calvert, Ward and Horstmann were named as authorized check signers for payroll transfer, investments and emergency use.

Thrun Law Firm, P.C. in Lansing will remain the district’s legal council, although Calvert asked if it was possible to look at other firms to see if there was a more local option.

Melissa Garrett was hired as the district’s secondary level special education teacher.

Garrett comes to Cassopolis from the Grand Rapids Area. She taught a total of nine years for a pair of districts in that area, all of which was special education.

“I am looking forward to coming down here and working with the students,” she said. “I really enjoyed the interview process Dave (principal VanLue) put me through because he put students on the interview committee and it was really cool to have them asking me the questions and being a part of the interview. I got to know the school really well through that process.”

New superintendent Dr. Angela Piazza and newly hired Karen Blaha, Cassopolis’ curriculum coordinator and instructional coach, presented the board with an academic update.

In other action, the board:

• Approved membership in the Michigan High School Athletic Assocation

• Approved membership in the Michigan Association of School Board Legal Trust Fund

• Approved membership in the Michigan Association of School Boards

• Approved board members’ attendance in district-related conferences

• Approved continuing participation in Section 105 and 105 C — Schools of Choice

• Approved SET-SEG for property, liability and fleet insurance

• Appointed Cutting as the board’s representative to the Legislative Relations Network

• Approved Jesse Binns and Deb Deubner (alternate) as the district’s Berrien/Cass School Board Association representative.