Bowling Green Middle School and Performing Arts Center have been awarded the prestigious Gold Rating by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), the highest rating awarded by LEED to any school in Ohio. LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system that evaluates energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.

Bowling Green Middle School and Performing Arts Center earned LEED Gold Certification, making them the first LEED Gold Certified school in Ohio and the first LEED Gold Certified performing arts center in Ohio!

For more information on LEED, visit the U.S. Green Building Council.

The Bowling Green School District is always looking for ways to be more efficient and effective in our fiscal policies. While it may seem like a minor issue to some, receipt of non-sufficient fund (NSF) checks is a time consuming and costly issue. As with any business, the Bowling Green School District has an obligation to our clients, the community taxpayers, to be fiscally accountable. Processing NSF checks can take valuable time from the school district personnel and when they remain uncollectible, NSF checks cost you, the taxpayer. To manage this process, our District will begin using FARS (Federal Automated Recovery Systems) on September 4, 2009 to protect the interest of all in our school system community against the time consuming and costly recovery of non-sufficient funds checks.

FARS utilizes the federal and state laws allowing the electronic recovery process of NSF checks which results in a high rate of recovery at no cost to the school district. The cost becomes the responsibility of those who wrote non-sufficient fund checks with the electronic recovery of the face amount of the check and the electronic recovery of the state fee from the bad check writer’s bank account. Utilizing FARS is an effort by the school District to be fiscally accountable in a more efficient and cost effective manner.

Bowling Green School District will continue to gladly accept checks. When a check is used as payment, the check writer authorizes us either to use information from the check to make a one-time electronic fund transfer from the check writer’s account or to process the payment as a check transaction. The check writer authorizes us to collect a $30 fee through an electronic fund transfer from the check writer’s account if the payment is returned unpaid.

Bowling Green Middle School and Performing Arts Center have been awarded the prestigious Gold Rating by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), the highest rating awarded by LEED to any school in Ohio. LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system that evaluates energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.

Bowling Green Middle School and Performing Arts Center earned LEED Gold Certification, making them the first LEED Gold Certified school in Ohio and the first LEED Gold Certified performing arts center in Ohio!

For more information on LEED, visit the U.S. Green Building Council.

The Bowling Green School District is always looking for ways to be more efficient and effective in our fiscal policies. While it may seem like a minor issue to some, receipt of non-sufficient fund (NSF) checks is a time consuming and costly issue. As with any business, the Bowling Green School District has an obligation to our clients, the community taxpayers, to be fiscally accountable. Processing NSF checks can take valuable time from the school district personnel and when they remain uncollectible, NSF checks cost you, the taxpayer. To manage this process, our District will begin using FARS (Federal Automated Recovery Systems) on September 4, 2009 to protect the interest of all in our school system community against the time consuming and costly recovery of non-sufficient funds checks.

FARS utilizes the federal and state laws allowing the electronic recovery process of NSF checks which results in a high rate of recovery at no cost to the school district. The cost becomes the responsibility of those who wrote non-sufficient fund checks with the electronic recovery of the face amount of the check and the electronic recovery of the state fee from the bad check writer’s bank account. Utilizing FARS is an effort by the school District to be fiscally accountable in a more efficient and cost effective manner.

Bowling Green School District will continue to gladly accept checks. When a check is used as payment, the check writer authorizes us either to use information from the check to make a one-time electronic fund transfer from the check writer’s account or to process the payment as a check transaction. The check writer authorizes us to collect a $30 fee through an electronic fund transfer from the check writer’s account if the payment is returned unpaid.