Commissioner Brian "Slim" Nash
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Brian “Slim” Nash was first elected to the Bowling Green City Commission in 2004. He has spent his entire career in public service. He has worked with LifeSkills, Inc., Warren County Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Council, Warren County Family Court One, and Warren County Juvenile Drug Court. Slim received his bachelors of arts from Western Kentucky University in 1993 studying the discipline of sociology and criminology.
Originally from Terre Haute, Indiana, Slim moved to Bowling Green in 1988 to attend 
Western Kentucky University where he was a four-year scholarship athlete for the WKU Men’s Swimming Team and received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. After his graduation in 1993, Slim immediately enrolled in Graduate School on the Hill. Since that time Slim has dedicated his professional and personal life to bettering the lives of children.
Slim was instrumental in the establishment of a community based court supervision program for youth who used, abused or were addicted to illicit substances. He worked hard to improve the local perception and attitudes towards community based substance abuse treatment. This program has proven successful and is far more cost effective than treating children in a secure facility.
Common Sense Is Not Always Common Action is a program and supplemental publication authored by Slim. This program provides parents and school personnel positive management techniques, such as appropriate expectations, fixed limits, redirection and natural and logical consequences. Slim contends that a positive adult-child bond is essential for our youth to be self-sufficient, exhibit self-control and act responsibly.
Slim is married to Staci Houchin Nash, who is employed by Warren County Schools. Staci is a kindergarten teacher at Alvaton Elementary. Slim and Staci have one son, Will (1994) and one daughter Presley (1998).
The Kiwanis Club of Bowling Green honored Slim as the 2004 Kiwanian of the Year. This award was given for his efforts in volunteering with various community events, including chairing the Kiwanis ThunderFest Community Fireworks Celebration.
At his urging, the 2005-2006 Commission funded and authorized the building of Bowling Green’s first Skate Park, a park designed to offer youth and adults a safe place to recreate while engaging in the sports of skateboarding, rollerblading and BMX bicycling. In another commitment to children, Slim serves on the board of directors and coaches in the South Warren Youth Basketball League. In addition, during the 2005-2006 term, Slim co-authored the pay and benefits package for the police and fire departments, sponsored legislation that reduced Bowling Green’s crime rate by 7%, brokered a public-private partnership with local developers which allowed for the creation of new roads, and supported legislation that reduced local property and occupational taxes.
Despite his election in 2004 and re-election in 2006 Slim prides himself as an “autonomous maverick” of the Bowling Green political machine who, like his many constituents, is more interested in results than he is in rhetoric. Slim strives to bring a new and fresh perspective to the issues that come before the City Commission.