Twinsburg board approves tax budget, authorizes advances and signs multiple service agreements

The Twinsburg City School District Board on Jan. 15 approved its tax budget for fiscal year 2026, passed a resolution authorizing the county fiscal officer to advance local tax collections under Ohio law and approved multiple contracts and expenditures affecting the district’s general and special funds.

Treasury presentation: a district staff member who presented the tax-budget slides told the board the county’s valuation figure for fiscal 2026 is $350,436,410 and reviewed how inside millage and reduction factors affect what each levy yields. The presenter explained the tax budget must be filed with the county by Jan. 20 and that the county budget commission will use the submission to prepare estimated resources for the district’s fiscal year 2026.

Key fiscal actions approved by the board included: - Adoption of the tax budget and authorization for the superintendent to file the required documents with the Ohio Department of Education (vote 5–0). - A resolution authorizing advances of local taxes under Section 321.34 of the Ohio Revised Code to provide cash flow for the district’s operations (vote 5–0). - Acceptance of monthly financial reports and approval of expenditures reflected in those reports (vote 5–0).

Contracts and funding approvals voted at the meeting included: - A service agreement to place three students in education-alternative programs for the remainder of the 2024–25 school year; the tuition cost listed was $54,640 (general fund expenditure). - An agreement with Beach Brook to provide child-abuse-prevention programming at Wilcox Primary and Samuel Bissle Elementary as required by Ohio Senate Bill 288 at a cost of $13,675; the presenter said funding will come from VPIA/disadvantaged-pupil-impact funds. - A College Credit Plus memorandum of understanding with Penn State University for the 2025–26 school year (exhibit on file). - A legal-services contract with an outside law firm (contract document provided under separate cover) and a contract for on‑call appraisal services with Buckholz Cardwell commercial appraisals (general-fund expenditure). - Memberships and subscriptions including Ohio School Boards Association membership and related subscriptions totaling the amounts listed in the meeting packet.

The board also accepted an anonymous $10,000 donation to be split: $7,500 for a book-vending machine and books for Samuel Bissle Elementary and $2,500 to support the district’s VR/Google technology program, per the agenda exhibit. The board thanked the donor; the motion to approve the donation carried 5–0.

One contract vote carried a recorded abstention: the board approved a primary-service agreement with the Educational Service Center of Northeast Ohio effective for the 2025–26 and 2026–27 school years. The motion passed with one abstention (Missus Travis abstained and stated she works at the ESC; she said she will not provide support to the district related to the contract).

Procedural and legal references included a read-aloud of Section 321.34 of the Ohio Revised Code when the board approved the advance-of-local-taxes resolution and a statement that third-grade paper testing authority derives from Ohio Revised Code Section 3301.0711. The tax-budget presentation and documents were placed on file and will be submitted to the county budget commission.