Lebanon board approves routine financial, policy and personnel items

The Lebanon Board of Education moved through its Oct. 21 consent agenda, approving minutes, financial items, policy updates and a broad personnel package.

After routine procedural motions, the treasurer provided a monthly report noting the district had about 134 days of operating cash against a 120-day target and an anticipated ending balance equivalent to about 108 days. The treasurer said revenues year-to-date were roughly 35% (reflecting that half of property-tax receipts arrive later in the fiscal year) while expenditures were about 22% of budget.

The board approved motions by roll call to adopt amended appropriations, amended certificates of estimated resources, a fund transfer, a list of donations, a revised exempt pay-grade schedule, a revised substitute pay schedule, activity budgets, and a purchase over the $3,000 threshold that had already been budgeted. Trustees also approved technical edits to policies to reflect a title change (HR director to assistant superintendent) and to update compliance-officer references; the superintendent noted these were technical changes allowed under Ohio law and required only one reading.

The board approved five overnight out-of-state student trips and the winter-sports handbooks for the 2024–25 school year and approved a comprehensive personnel listing (retirements, resignations, pending hires and substitutes, status changes, stipends, volunteer coaches, and a resolution for employment of non-licensed coaches). Several retirements and midyear resignations were noted and the superintendent described how some replacements would overlap for transition.

All motions on the consent agenda passed by roll call. The meeting closed with brief board remarks and an adjournment motion that carried.