Board approves minutes, personnel recommendations, donations and backs city fire-EMS levy; vote list and outcomes

The Bowling Green City School District Board of Education held its regular meeting Oct. 15 and approved a set of routine and substantive items, including minutes, the monthly financial report and five-year forecast, personnel actions, agreements, donations and a resolution supporting a City of Bowling Green income-tax levy to fund new fire-station capacity.

Key votes and outcomes (at a glance) - Minutes: The board approved the minutes of the previous meeting by roll call (motion moved and seconded; roll-call voting in favor). - Monthly financial report and five-year forecast: Approved by roll call after a presentation by district finance staff (see separate article). Motion passed; forecast will be revisited in February if legislative or valuation changes occur. - Personnel and volunteers: The board approved multiple personnel recommendations across certificated and support staff (supplemental contracts for 2025 nd'026, resignations accepted, new hires in food service, custodial and transportation, bus-driver trainee hires, substitute approvals, a $2,000 bus-driver sign-on bonus for a listed candidate, tutor-rate approvals and student-activity contracts). All listed individuals were reported as holding required background checks and pupil-activity permits where needed. - Agreements and student trips: The board approved a remedial-tutor services contract with St. Louis School, an auditory-services agreement with the Education Service Center of Lake Erie West, and student travel requests (high-school and middle-school band trip to the University of Michigan concert and middle-school team trips to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich.). Funding for the trips was reported as student-funded and through fundraisers. - Donations: The board accepted donations totaling $24,137 from multiple community donors to support district programs and a district calendar publication. - Resolution supporting City of Bowling Green income-tax levy: The board read and adopted a resolution urging voters to support the Nov. 4, 2025 city ballot issue to fund new fire stations and EMS resources closer to campus; the board voted in favor of the resolution by roll call.

Why it matters: The package of approvals keeps the district's operations funded, maintains personnel and extracurricular programming and signals a public partnership with the City of Bowling Green on emergency-services infrastructure that board leadership said would improve response times for the high-school campus.

Selected formal actions (structured) 1) Minutes approval - Motion: Approve minutes of prior meeting. - Outcome: Approved by roll call. - Provenance excerpt: board called the vote and members answered in the affirmative in sequence.

2) Personnel recommendations (certificated, support, substitutes, volunteers, student activities) - Motion: Approve the certificated supplemental contracts, accept listed resignations, approve listed hires and substitutes, approve volunteer list and student-activity contracts and supplemental stipends as presented. - Outcome: Approved by roll call. - Clarifying note: The board packet listed required background checks and Ohio pupil-activity permits for applicable positions.

3) Agreements and trips - Motion: Approve service agreements (remedial tutor services with St. Louis School; auditory services with ESC of Lake Erie West) and approve band and middle-school student trips as presented. - Outcome: Approved.

4) Donations acceptance - Motion: Accept donations totaling $24,137 from community donors as listed in the meeting packet. - Outcome: Approved.

5) Resolution in support of City of Bowling Green fire and EMS income-tax levy (Nov. 4, 2025) - Motion: Read and adopt resolution supporting the City of Bowling Green income-tax levy to fund new fire stations nearer the high-school/middle-school campus and to support the fire division's response capability. - Outcome: Adopted by roll call (motion carried).

Representative vote records and tallies (board roll calls were taken on each motion; where a roll call sequence was recorded it was unanimous in favor of the motions that were put to a vote at this meeting): minutes approval; monthly financial report and forecast approval; personnel recommendations; agreement approvals; acceptance of donations; resolution in support of the city levy.

No motions failed or were tabled at this meeting. Details of individual personnel names, contract line items and donor names were recorded in the meeting packet and accepted by the board.