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Franklin City school leaders ask council for $650,000 as they disclose months-long unpaid vendor bills
Summary
Franklin City Public Schools asked the city council to reallocate $650,000 toward a $1.588 million package of capital projects and disclosed that vendor bills were not paid beginning May 9, a funding lapse staff say was caused by the treasurer withholding payments; council members promised further review but took no immediate appropriation.
At its July 14 meeting, the Franklin City Council heard a request from Franklin City Public Schools to reallocate $650,000 of school capital funds toward a roughly $1.588 million package that would pay for a cosmetology and barbering CTE lab, a teachers’ lounge restroom and an upgraded pre-K/K playground.
Dr. Carter introduced the package and said the district would cover some elements itself but needed council help for the prioritized items. Cheryl Midkiff, account executive with Energy Systems Group, described a two-phase unsolicited PPE (public-private education facilities) proposal to renovate classroom and lab space and to upgrade HVAC, plumbing and electrical systems. Midkiff said the proposal would be turnkey: “We would be turnkey providing all of the different . . . construction needs, the bidding, all of that as part of the process,” she told council.
School officials gave a line-item total of about $1.588…
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