Canal Winchester board approves routine fund transfer, bus advertising and stop plan; tables private-tuition payment

Canal Winchester Local Board of Education members voted on a set of routine budget and transportation measures at their Aug. 11 meeting, approving a transfer to a new capital fund, authorizing advertising to purchase buses, adopting school bus stop locations for 2025–26, and accepting donations. The board voted to table a private-tuition contract and approved payment-in-lieu-of-transportation payments over the objections of one member.

The measures were procedural but affect district budgeting and transportation operations for the school year. The board approved moving previously-authorized dollars from the general fund to a newly established O70 fund and voted to publish notice seeking bids or quotations for up to six conventional school buses or up to nine passenger vans. The board also adopted the district’s designated bus stops for the 2025–26 school year and accepted two donations toward the mini pitch at Indian Trail. A privately billed tuition contract was tabled pending additional residency documentation; payment-in-lieu-of-transportation (PILOT) payments for eligible nonpublic…