Board approves routine business, personnel appointments, contracts and trips; roll calls recorded

The West Geauga Local School District Board conducted a series of routine motions and roll‑call votes during the meeting. The board approved the resolutions listed below by recorded roll call. This article lists each formal item and the outcome recorded on the meeting’s roll calls.

Key approved items (roll‑call outcomes as recorded in the meeting transcript):

- Resolution 80: Approve routine matters of the West Geauga Local Board of Education — approved (roll call: all recorded yes). - Resolution 81: Approve warrants for February — approved (roll call: all recorded yes). - Resolution 82: Accept donations from the West Geauga Educational Foundation — approved (roll call: all recorded yes). - Resolution 83: Accept increases/decreases in FY2025 appropriations — approved (roll call: all recorded yes). - Resolution 84: Approve student activity statements and budgets for 2025 — approved (roll call: all recorded yes). - Resolution 85: Accept amounts and rates as determined by the budget commission and certify levies to the county auditor — approved (roll call: all recorded yes). - Resolution 86: Approve administrative appointments for the 2025–26 school year (introductions of two administrators: Dr. Amy Davis and Megan Bellen) — approved (roll call: all recorded yes). - Resolution 87–94: Approvals of stipends, extended‑school‑year stipends, long‑term substitute assignments, classified staff appointments, contract changes and retirements — approved (roll calls recorded; retirements and appreciation acknowledged in discussion). - Resolution 95–96: Approve and authorize award of service contracts for 2024–25 (various vendors listed in the agenda) — approved (roll call: all recorded yes). - Resolution 97: Approve chaperone for middle school sixth‑grade trip to Camp Fitch — approved (roll call: all recorded yes). - Resolution 98: Second and final reading of new, revised and replacement policies listed in the agenda — approved (roll call: all recorded yes). - Resolution 99: First and final reading board policy 5223 (release time for religious instruction) — approved (roll call: all recorded yes). - Resolution 100: Adopt model special education policies and procedures with modifications — approved; one board member (Mrs. Coleman Walsh) recorded an abstention on the vote; others voted yes. - Resolution 101: Authorize master electric energy sales renewal agreement through Power for Schools (Ohio Schools Council) — approved (6–0 recorded yes; reduction reported at 6% for district energy costs). - Resolution 102: Approve Ohio Schools Council cooperative advertising and receiving bids (two new school buses, chassis and bodies) — approved (roll call: all recorded yes). - Resolution 103: Approve West Geauga High School Choir Noteworthy Tours proposal to New York City (March 2026 trip; estimated student cost $1,300–$1,500) — approved (roll call: all recorded yes). - Resolution 104: Declare it necessary to remove the bond issue from the May 2025 ballot — approved (see separate article on this vote). - Resolution 105: Deny a Step 4 grievance regarding Dorothy Miller on behalf of West Geauga Transportation Department drivers — approved with one abstention recorded by a board member who said she was not present for the February hearing.

A full bill/resolution text list and roll‑call record is maintained in the district board minutes. The meeting transcript recorded each roll call and the votes shown above; routine business and personnel items were approved as presented.