The Bellefontaine Board of Education met in regular session Monday night for the final time in 2025 and recognized outgoing board member Karen Wilson for her service.
Wilson, who did not win reelection in November, was appointed to the board in 2020 and reappointed in January 2022.
Her term expires December 31, 2025.
Superintendent Brad Hall discusses Wilson’s service to the district:
Wilson comments on her time serving Bellefontaine City Schools:
During the Committee of the Whole section of the meeting, Superintendent Hall discussed the recent Staff Survey results with the board.
Hall said that, while survey participation was under 30%, the results provided a good indication of how things were going in the district.
Many of the surveys indicated that the changes adopted by the board seem to be seeing positive results.
Hall said he hopes to make the survey a regular fixture.
Hall also presented a supplemental appropriation resolution to the board that would provide for current and other expenditures for the current fiscal year.
In Superintendent Hall’s report, he proposed several personnel appointments, including 51 substitute teachers for the second semester.
Hall said that the board is required to appoint qualified substitutes for each semester.
The appointments included the following:
- Professional Personnel – Home Instruction/Tutors
- Trista Denbow and Jayden Sims
- Service and Support Personnel – Resignations
- Haiden Manns, Educational Aide
- Service and Support Personnel – Appointments
- Trinity Floyd, Educational Aide, Effective 11/11/25
- Jayden Sims, Educational Aide, Effective 11/20/25
- Lisa G. Stewart, Food Service Worker, Effective 11/17/25
- Supplemental Contract Appointments
- Brooke Bahr, MS Basketball Sideline Cheer
- Brian Timpe, Musical Production Assistant
- Approval of Volunteer Coaches
- Dean Whetsel, HS Boys Basketball
The Board also adopted several board policy modifications, including changes to drug and alcohol testing for CDL license holders and for employees without CDL licenses.
Before adjourning, the board approved the appointment of Krista Adelsberger to the Ohio Hi-Point Board of Education.
Adelsberger will replace outgoing and longtime Hi-Point and BCS Board member Anne Reames, who recently announced her retirement.
Hall discusses the impact Reames has had on both boards:
The next meeting of the Bellefontaine Board of Education is scheduled for January 12, 2026, at 6:30 PM in the Sloan Distance Learning Center.
