On Monday night, the Indiana School Board hired consulting firm Strategy Solutions to help gather more information concerning the future of Horace Mann Elementary School.
During the 90-day “cooling off” period, Strategy Solutions will be a part of several board meetings and committee meetings, obtain community input, and even hold an open house. Consultant Rodney Green said that the open house will help the community be more familiar with the building.
According to the proposal from Strategy Solutions, that open house could come as soon as the end of March.
In other business, the board approved three change orders for the Eisenhower project for additional excavation, additional stormwater piping and to complete changes to a joist on the office addition. The board also approved revisions to the student handbook concerning how students can adorn their graduation gowns, and forbidding the addition of adornments to mortarboards other than the traditional tassel.