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Consent agenda: The board approved the consent agenda (items 5.01–5.06), which included minutes from the March 24, 2025 regular meeting; claims and payroll subject to audit; a field trip request; grants and donations; and a homebound request. President Hathaway called for the motion; the motion carried by voice vote.

2026–27 school calendar: The board adopted the proposed 2026–27 school-year calendar as presented, amended to designate the Friday prior to Christmas break as the last student day before the vacation and to make the last student day the Friday prior to Memorial Day weekend. Motion by Ms. Schlatter, second by Ms. Jamieson; motion approved by voice vote. Board discussion cited survey results and neighboring-district comparisons.

2025–26 calendar adjustments: Based on a community survey about the one-week fall break, the board approved recommended changes for the 2025–26 calendar that reduce annual makeup days from three to one, designate Presidents Day as a holiday instead of a makeup day, and move one previously scheduled makeup day to April 17. The motion included the same amendment to have students in class on the Friday prior to Christmas vacation and to set the last student day on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend. Motion by Ms. Schlatter, second by Mr. Vogt; motion approved.

Personnel report (items 8.01–8.08): The board approved personnel actions as presented. Staff noted that all recommendations had completed criminal-history background checks. The personnel report included three retirements highlighted in the meeting: Carrie Charlton (classroom teacher; district service beginning 02/2015; approximately 10 years with NACS and 17 years elsewhere), Dawn Myers (transportation, 33 years with NACS), and Ellen Smith (occupational therapist, 27 years). The personnel recommendations included three certified and 11 classified positions to post and hire in response to enrollment and staffing needs.

Professional learning and trainings: The board approved the listed professional learning and training activities, including district staff attending EAB (Education Advisory Board) roundtables and a Carroll High School French teacher’s request to attend AP French training (options discussed included a session in France or St. Louis; staff noted a $60 difference between the locations and considered the France option educationally valuable).

Huntertown electrical project: The board approved a legal advertisement to begin the procurement process for an electrical-replacement project at Huntertown; staff noted the work likely will not start until 2026 because of long lead times for electrical equipment. Motion by Ms. Schlatter, second by Mr. Vogt; motion approved.

Other motions on the agenda (curriculum, construction updates and adjournment) were handled by voice vote with no recorded roll-call tallies in the transcript.

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The presenter said the analysis used a color-coded rating system (excellent to poor) and identified Maple Creek Middle School, Hickory Center, Huntertown Elementary and Perry Hill Elementary as among the sites needing the most significant work. Maple Creek’s worst areas (bus lot and parent drop-off) and Perry Hill’s failing substructure were called out as likely needing full reconstruction rather than surface overlays.

\"If you look at good and fair and poor, when we get into the yellows and oranges, you're talking about a complete rebuild down to the subsurface,\" the presenter said, explaining that overlays are appropriate for green/blue-rated areas but not for the orange/red zones. The presentation included a sample year-one package for Maple Creek that reached roughly $1,000,000 in reconstruction costs for the worst segments.

Staff summarized a consultant recommendation for a five-year program that would prioritize the worst substructures while budgeting for routine preventative maintenance on better-rated areas. The consultant’s five-year estimate presented to the board was roughly $1,100,000 per year—about $5,000,000 total—plus design and related fees. That compares to the district’s current combined allocation for asphalt and concrete repairs, which staff said is about $300,000 per year if those building-level pots are pooled.

Board members asked whether maintenance had previously been handled at the building level. Staff said most routine decisions had been delegated to each school’s head custodian or facility manager and that some facilities managers are newer and may take different approaches; centralizing or coordinating the work was a possible efficiency measure.

Staff also noted opportunities to coordinate pavement work with planned building additions or playground upgrades to avoid repeated disruption of a single campus. Board members raised practical points—such as adding curbing to reduce edge damage—and staff agreed to consider such features when scheduling reconstruction work.

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The update focused on four measures: Senate Bill 287 (partisan school-board elections), Senate Bill 1 (a broad property tax relief and revenue-sharing package that now includes charter-school revenue language from SB 518), House Bill 1001 (the state budget), and House Bill 1427 (fiscal and administrative provisions including language that could allow the district to proceed with an operating referendum).

The board was told that SB 287 \"is the one that would give potential board members the option to declare a party or to declare independent or, before they run for school board,\" Ms. Schlatter said, and that its author had withdrawn a concurrence motion and filed a dissent, moving the bill into a conference negotiation and meaning it did not currently have votes to pass as written.

Ms. Schlatter said Senate Bill 1—now more than 350 pages after amendments—focuses on homestead tax credits and property-tax replacement credits and would shift some replacement revenue away from local units other than school corporations. She said language creating property-tax revenue sharing with charter schools (from SB 518) was folded into SB 1 and drew pushback. SB 1 passed third reading in the House on a party-line 65–29 vote and is awaiting further action.

On local impact, the board was told that Northwest Allen County Schools collected just over $33,000,000 in property taxes in 2025. Under the SB 1 proposal as described at the meeting, that figure could fall by about $886,000 the following year compared with the district’s current projection — and by roughly $2,000,000 compared with what the district would have collected under prior law. Ms. Schlatter said that because NACS’s tax base is mostly residential, the district could take a larger hit than districts with larger commercial tax bases.

House Bill 1001, the budget bill, received attention because the House Appropriations Committee did not fully fund the governor’s universal school-choice proposal. District presenters said that, assuming flat student growth, the committee’s actions would produce roughly a 3.1% increase in the district’s state tuition support in the next fiscal year and about a 2.1% increase the year after.

Board members also discussed House Bill 1427. Ms. Schlatter credited state Senator Brown with offering amendment language that could let Northwest Allen County Schools move forward with an operating referendum if the district passes an authorizing resolution before June 30; at the time of the update the board did not yet know whether that amendment had been approved.

Board members asked clarifying questions about what the projected state tuition-support increases include; staff replied that the reported 3.1% and 2.1% increases would be new money and did not include curricular-material allocations, though those appear in other state tuition-support run projections.

The board said staff will continue to monitor all bills during the remainder of the session and report back at the next meeting with any changes.

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Board approves consent agenda, calendars, personnel moves and project ads in routine votes

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Indiana bills could cut Northwest Allen County Schools property revenue and reopen partisan school-board races, board told