Mooresville board votes to advertise 2026 budget, bus replacement and capital projects plan

The Mooresville Consolidated School Corporation Board of School Trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to advertise the proposed 2026 budget, including a bus replacement plan and a capital projects plan. The vote came after Dr. Biggerstaff requested board approval to proceed with the advertisement and required filings.

The action matters because state law requires the district to submit its proposed budget documents to the Indiana Gateway site for Government Units and to post them on the district website, a step Dr. Biggerstaff said was necessary to begin the statutorily required public notice period.

Dr. Biggerstaff asked the board to approve advertising the 2026 proposed budget, the district bus replacement plan and the capital projects plan; no board members asked questions and no public comments were offered before the motion. Jennifer Reed, secretary of the board, moved to approve advertising the 2026 budget; Tim Cummins, vice president, seconded the motion. The motion carried 5-0.

The transcript records no additional details about amounts, timeline for the public comment period, or specific buses or capital projects included in the plans. Those details were not specified during the meeting.

Next steps indicated by the board action are procedural: advertise the proposed 2026 budget and post the documents to the Indiana Gateway site and the district website in accordance with the state requirement noted during the meeting. The board did not take any other formal action on budget line items at the Aug. 12 meeting.