In the next three years, Centerville-Abington Community Schools hopes to accomplish several facilities repairs, some of which residents might notice.

Those projects include repairing and resurfacing all parking lots ($450,000) and replacing Centerville-Abington Elementary’s roof ($200,000), Centerville Senior High School’s football press box ($195,000) and district maintenance vehicles ($120,000).

Additional capital project plan ideas with a $100,000 price tag each include repairing or replacing a kitchen freezer and other kitchen equipment, painting all outside building trim, and technology infrastructure. Replacing a minivan would be $40,000 and concrete work would be $15,000.

No one spoke during the Sept. 24 public hearing during the school board meeting that included the capital projects and school bus replacement plans.

CACS plans to replace two buses per year through 2030 for an estimated $154,000 for each large bus and $100,000 per small bus.

Budgets for the education, debt service, rainy day and operations funds, and tax rates were also discussed. The four budgets are estimated at a combined $26,287,431.

Budget-related documents can be viewed on Indiana Gateway’s website at budgetnotices.in.gov.

CACS plans to adopt the budgets for state review at its next meeting, which is 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, at the administration building, 115 W. South St., Centerville. The public is invited.

In other business

  • The board approved the school improvement plans that each building’s principal presented at the Sept. 10 meeting, reported in the Sept. 24 WWN. The vote was 4-0; Andy Wandersee was absent.
  • Board member Renee Westover is representing the board during bargaining negotiations with Centerville Education Association. Talks were to begin Monday, Sept. 29.
  • Assistant Superintendent Sean Stevenson said the 52nd Eastern Indiana Model Legislature met in Indianapolis that day. He expressed pride in the 29 students from Centerville and the 40 students from other schools who attended and thanked State Sen. Jeff Raatz for participating.
  • Administrators were to meet Thursday, Sept. 25, with a national magazine about the school corporation.
  • Board member Todd Dooley shared about preventing the spread of misinformation and controlling costs in areas such as transportation, insurance and building energy.
  • Donations to Centerville athletics and the wrestling program were approved: CBM Solutions ($2,000), Centerville Wrestling Club ($1,866.19), Christopher and Jennifer Rohe ($400), Jeffrey and Dana Uphaus ($314), Donald and Linda Day ($100), Anthony and Jill DeHoff ($100), and the Thomas Rohe Living Trust ($100).

Personnel

  • Departures: Jimmy Basler, high school volleyball coach; Anthony Smith, auditorium technician; Emily Hatch, Bulldog Connection Lab
  • Pending hires: Tara Killion, junior high secretary/treasurer; Julia Lambert, CJHS Bulldog Connection Lab; Cathryn Stark, interim varsity volleyball coach
  • Hires: Cailyn Bolser, interim varsity volleyball coach
  • Transfer: Norma Barth from administrative assistant to admin custodian
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A version of this article appeared in the October 1 2025 print edition of the Western Wayne News.

Millicent Martin Emery is a reporter and editor for the Western Wayne News.