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Northwest Allen officials warn state bills could cut operating revenue, imperil referendum and CTE plans
Summary
Superintendent and board members told the board that three pending state bills — including a proposal to limit levy growth and restrict referendums — could reduce the district's operations fund by roughly $4.5 million over three years and force changes to planned projects such as a career and technical education center.
Superintendent Dr. Binney told the Northwest Allen County Schools Board of School Trustees on March 10 that proposed state legislation would sharply constrain the district's ability to raise operating revenue and could block a planned operating referendum this fall.
Dr. Binney said she testified on Senate Bill 1 at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing and described how the bill, as drafted, would hold school operations budgets flat in year one, allow 1% growth in year two and 2% in year three. "If that's true, we're gonna go from nearly 8,400 students to 12,500 students," she said, citing district demographic projections tied to about 4,100 new homes already platted in the district.
The superintendent provided figures she said were in the board packet: the district's operations fund budget is about…
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