The Tri-Township Consolidated School Corporation Board of Finance recently got an update on the school corporation’s fiscal indicators.
Superintendent Kelly Shepherd said Tri-Township had a slight surplus in 2018 and 2019, “Which is a positive, but we’d like to have a bit more surplus of funds, especially, when you back up a few more years, you still see we are trying to climb out of that deficit spending that was fairly significant in ’15 and ’17”, they also end up mentioning they will be hiring a money management coach to help them get their accounts back in order.
Shepherd said Tri-Township’s enrollment, which determines how much Education Fund money it gets from the state, continues to be on a slight decline. The Indiana Distressed Unit Appeal Board’s website shows that it decreased from 398 in the fall of 2015 to 337 in the fall of 2020.
Still, Shepherd said a few students are transferring in for the second semester, which has been a common occurrence in recent years. He said most of them have been at the fourth-grade level, which could require the class to move to a larger space. “The last couple have been from over from North Judson way, as a matter of fact, at the fourth-grade level,” he added. “Now, we’ve gotten other students from other [places]. We’ve gotten some students from South Central, really about those two places, to start this new semester.”
During the school board’s annual reorganization, Tim Guse was reelected president. Aaron Rust was elected vice president, and Chad Howell was elected secretary.
