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Coldwater council agrees to revisit policy on child-warning signs after parents and teachers speak
Summary
After public comments from parents and a teacher, the Coldwater City Council voted Aug. 25 to ask staff to return with formal recommendations to revisit the municipal policy on child-warning signs, a topic the council previously decided not to reopen on July 28, 2025.
Coldwater City Council members voted Aug. 25 to bring back for discussion a municipal policy on child-warning signs after two residents urged the council to reconsider allowing signs that alert motorists to children with disabilities.
Jane Nastali, a parent and representative of a group of teachers and parents, told the council the group had researched more recent studies than those previously cited by staff and asked the council to “consider revisiting the municipal services policy regarding child warning signs in the city of Coldwater.”
Katie Jewell, a neighbor and 18-year teacher who said she lives next door to the family that raised the request, told the council the signs function as “a quick IEP for any driver” and argued that “if they help even one time, the signs are very necessary.”
The issue first came…
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