Daniel Cash (Enterprise photo — Andy Flynn)

LAKE PLACID — Daniel Cash took the helm as president of the Lake Placid School Board of Education on Wednesday with the board of education’s unanimous support.

Board member Martha Pritchard Spear nominated Cash, who’s served as a member of the board since 2020, for the role of president during the board’s reorganizational meeting on Wednesday.

Daniel Marvin will keep his post as the board’s vice president after he was nominated by board member Joan Hallett-Valentine and given unanimous support from the rest of the board.

Incoming board members Colleen Skufca and Ron Briggs also took their oaths of office on Wednesday. Skufca and Briggs are filling seats left vacant by former board President Rick Preston and outgoing board member Bryan Liam Kennelly.

Cash replaces Preston, who was elected to the North Elba Town Council this past November. Cash said on Friday that he’s got a lot to learn about his role as president, adding that Preston offered to help him through the transition.

“I’ve got Rick on speed dial,” Cash said.

Cash thinks that the district’s schools and the board of education are headed in a good direction, and he wants to help maintain that trajectory and keep the district focused on putting students “first and foremost” — the top goal in the district’s strategic plan — and increasing communication between district staff and administration and district communities in Lake Placid and Wilmington.

“Those are the kind of intentional things we have to keep in the forefront of what we do,” he said. “I think that Rick did a good job in doing that as a president, and I hope to do at least half as good a job as he did.”

Cash is the senior graphic designer at the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism and a father of three students in the school district.

Though he’s originally from Georgia, Cash and his family moved to the area 10 years ago.

“It’s definitely home for us,” he said of Lake Placid. “And we’re doing what we can to make it better.”