Westerville board approves minutes, finances, personnel, donations and EF Tours agreement

The Westerville City Schools board voted on a slate of routine but consequential items during its Nov. 24 meeting.

Minutes and financials The board approved the minutes from the Oct. 27, 2025, meeting. During the roll-call vote one member abstained.

The board also approved the October 2025 financial report. Treasurer Miss Marshall reported general-fund year-to-date receipts of $95,500,000 and expenditures of $77,400,000, leaving an unencumbered general-fund balance of $124,900,000. For all funds the year-to-date receipts were $121,700,000, expenditures $105,800,000 and unencumbered balance $220,400,000.

Purchases and stale check Board members approved several "then and now" purchase orders (items budgeted but invoiced before a purchase order was opened), covering Westerville South theater vocal direction, food-service equipment upgrades, transportation fuel, a boosters-reimbursed lacrosse score table and special-education Medicaid-billing vendor changes. The board also approved reissuing a stale payroll check from 1999 after staff verified it had never been cashed.

Personnel and retirements Director Scott Reeves presented the personnel consent agenda (items 8.01–8.11). The slate included multiple resignations and leaves of absence, 11 contract-status adjustments, hires (six classified, one intervention specialist and a home-instruction tutor) and retirements: 16 licensed retirees with service ranging from 15 to 38 years. The board approved the personnel consent agenda by roll call.

Donations and appointment The board accepted donations totaling $73,092.50 for the current request, bringing fiscal year-to-date donations to $176,378.54, and thanked the community and anonymous donors. The board also approved the appointment of Tara Trigg to the Westerville Public Library Board of Trustees for the term beginning Jan. 1, 2026 and expiring Dec. 31, 2039; administration explained the district is the taxing jurisdiction that appoints library trustees under state law.

EF Tours agreement The board approved a district-specific EF Tours agreement after staff said legal counsel reviewed the contract to ensure protections for district staff who sometimes lead international student travel. Staff confirmed the agreement language is tailored to the district.

What’s next: Most approvals were routine, recurring business; the board recorded these items and will return to policy-first readings and continued monitoring of legislative developments at future meetings.