State auditor: Buckeye Valley allowed public money to back bond levy

A public relations firm should not have used public money to promote a bond levy campaign for the Buckeye Valley Local School District last year and school officials should not have allowed it, the Ohio Auditor’s office has ruled. According to an audit released today by Auditor Dave Yost, the work included campaign polling, and a $15,000 “win bonus” agreement between architecture and public relations firms if voters approved the November levy. It failed, so the bonus was never