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Mt. Healthy resident questions cuts to high‑school transportation; district offers follow‑up meeting
Summary
A resident urged the Mt. Healthy City Board of Education to restore high‑school transportation for city students living beyond roughly one mile; board staff cited an extensive transportation study and offered a one‑on‑one meeting to review the decision and underlying numbers.
A Mt. Healthy resident pressed the school board on why transportation for high‑school students was cut for city residents living beyond what the speaker described as a one‑mile radius, saying it made school attendance harder for students who live farther from campus.
“My concern is the, transportation for the high school students,” Douglas Frasier said during the public‑comment portion of the Aug. 11 meeting. He asked whether the district had considered alternatives such as cutting athletic offerings first or charging participating families for extracurricular transportation rather than reducing school transportation.
Board staff responded that the reduction followed an extensive transportation study directed by the fiscal supervision commission and offered to review the analysis in a one‑on‑one meeting. The superintendent (unnamed in the transcript) said they would be “happy to set up a meeting” and to “share the numbers” and the information that was previously voted on by the board.
The board later approved the district’s annual bus routes and stops for the 2025–26 school year, with a motion that also authorized the superintendent to change routes if necessary. The motion passed by roll call.
The matter is expected to be discussed further in the follow‑up meeting the superintendent offered; the board did not reverse the routing decision on Aug. 11.
