Fear bill will reduce funds for teachers’ salaries
A bill that could make an impact on Harrison County schools is making its way through the Indiana legislature and does not have the support of any of the county’s three superintendents.
The bill, HB 1005, authored by Republican State Rep. Bob Behning, whose district includes portions of Hendricks and Marion counties, passed in the Indiana House of Representatives 61-36 and moved to the Indiana Senate on Feb. 16. It is being described as the “school choice matters” bill. If passed, it would allow that, after June 30, 2022, there would be an Indiana education scholarship account program.
The Harrison County election board met Friday afternoon to finalize all campaign finance reports from those who ran for elected positions in 2020. Much of the meeting was spent double-checking expenditures and that the campaign balances were correct.
While there were a few clerical misfiling errors that will need to be corrected by the candidates on only a couple of forms, the majority were filed correctly and without mistakes.
The board voted unanimously to elect Maryland Austin to serve as chair of the board for 2021, succeeding Susie Weigle, who will serve this year as vice chair.
Sherry Brown, the county’s Circuit Court Clerk who serves on the election board by virtue of her office, and the other two board members discussed a couple of issues they hope to look into during this year, one being the possibility of redistricting precincts in Harrison County.