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Board approves consent agenda, personnel and finance measures; transportation exception granted
Summary
At its Sept. 29 meeting the Middletown City School District Board approved the consent agenda (contracts and supplementals), a personnel B agenda item, a resolution to continue preparing a five-year financial forecast and a transportation-impracticality resolution; details and vote tallies are listed.
MIDDLETOWN, Sept. 29, 2025 — The Middletown City School District Board of Education approved a package of routine contracts and personnel items, adopted a finance resolution on multi-year forecasting, and approved a transportation impracticality resolution at its Monday meeting.
Votes at a glance
- Consent agenda — approved. The consent agenda included contracts and routine personnel items: a contract for speaker Jimmy Casas (staff professional development on Oct. 17), a 1-to-1 nursing-services contract with Living Faith Home Health Care for one student, two Butler County Educational Service Center contracts (one for five days of EL support at $3,750 and one two-day contract for district staff presentations), a Warren County ESC contract for out-of-district behavior services, and supplemental coaching contracts and a robotics supplemental for Janet Creech. Motion carried; recorded board votes included Missus Stewart — yes; Missus Sharp — yes; Doctor Erso — yes; Missus Ramsey Hunter — yes. The meeting record shows one absent member for the meeting.
- Personnel B agenda — approved. The motion carried with one recorded abstention. Doctor Urso recorded an abstention; other recorded votes were yes. Motion carries.
- Five-year forecast resolution — approved. The board adopted a resolution that the district will continue preparing a five-year financial forecast in addition to the four-year projection newly required by the Ohio Revised Code (section 5705.391a). Board members who voted yes included Steph Carousel, Missus Schubert and Missus Stewart; the resolution will be signed by board members as recorded in the meeting. Motion carries.
- Transportation impracticality resolution — approved. The board declared transportation impractical for a student who still qualifies for transportation but whose parent will provide private transportation. The district will reimburse the parent at the district rate cited in the meeting (70¢ per mile). Board members recorded as voting yes included Missus Stewart and others; the motion carried.
What the board approved (details)
- Butler County ESC EL support: a five-day contract to provide EL support to the district; amount cited in the meeting was $3,750. District staff noted the district’s English Learner population is growing (staff projected roughly 900 EL students by the start of school) and that some federal funding streams for EL services are in flux.
- Living Faith Home Health Care: a contract for 1-to-1 nursing services for a student who requires a nurse at school.
- Jimmy Casas contract: a speaker engagement for the district’s Oct. 17 professional development day focused on staff well-being and “bringing the best of you to work every day.”
- Janet Creech supplemental: a supplemental assignment to support robotics competition work at the high school; board comment noted Creech has built an arena in her classroom and will take students to competitions.
- Transportation impracticality: the board approved an exception where the parent transports a qualifying student and is reimbursed; meeting materials and discussion referenced the reimbursement rate as 70¢ per mile and noted a date typo in the draft resolution.
Finance and statute referenced
During discussion board members read language from the proposed finance resolution and referenced the Ohio Revised Code section that governs district financial forecasts. The resolution cites the current and amended language of section 5705.391a of the Ohio Revised Code and directs the district to continue preparing an additional five-year forecast for local planning even as the state’s statutory requirement moves to a four-year projection.
Next steps and recordkeeping
Board members carried motions and, where required, signed the finance resolution before leaving. District staff said further explanation of the forecast change would be provided at the Oct. 6 board meeting.
No new policy changes were adopted at the meeting; most items were routine contracts, personnel actions and clarifying finance language required by state changes.
