Notice of Adoption of Annexation Resolution by School Corporations  

Notice is hereby given that on the 19th day of June, 1967, the Board of School Trustees of Pulaski County School Corporation, and the Board of School Trustees of Culver Community Schools Corporation passed substantially identical annexation resolutions pursuant to the power granted by the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, being Acts of 1963, Chapter 296 providing that that portion of the area within the geographical boundaries of Pulaski County School Corporation of Pulaski County, Indiana, that is known and recorded as Tippecanoe Township, Pulaski County, Indiana, should be and subject to the effective date of the annexation herein resolved, annexed and merged into Culver Community Schools Corporation and that from and after the effective date of the annexation such portion of the area within the geographical boundaries of Pulaski County School Corporation, known and recorded as Tippecanoe Township, Pulaski County, Indiana, would no longer be a part of Pulaski County School Corporation but would become a part of the Culver Community Schools Corporation.

The sections of the resolution complying with the provision of the state above referred to read as follows:

SECTION 2.

The area which will be lost to Pulaski County School Corporation and which will be annexed by Culver Community Schools Corporation is comprised of the entire territory of and has the same boundaries as the geographic and political territory known as Tippecanoe Township, Pulaski County, Indiana.

SECTION 3.

This annexation shall become effective on the 1st day of August, 1967, or on the 31st day following the second of the two (2) publications of notice required by said Act, whichever is later.

SECTION 4.

When this annexation becomes effective Pulaski County School Corporation shall have no further jurisdiction over the school children residing in the area annexed and that portion of the territory hereinabove described and heretofore embraced within the jurisdiction of Pulaski County School Corporation shall cease and said territory herein above described shall become a constituent part of Culver Community Schools Corporation as above described.

As a part of said annexation it is understood that the annexing corporation shall be responsible for all resident school children of said area being annexed.

That in addition thereto the Culver Community Schools Corporation has agreed that it will accept upon transfer, in the event the pupils so desire, those students who reside in Harrison Township and/or Franklin Township, Pulaski County, Indiana, and who will be in their eleventh or twelfth year of school and who have heretofore been attending the school at Monterey, Indiana, and that said annexing corporation will furnish transportation for such students from Harrison and Franklin Townships from the respective township lines to the high school the pupils will be attending.

That this will continue for a period of two (2) years and at the end of said two-year period Culver Community Schools Corporation will be under no obligation to accept transfers of students from Harrison Township and Franklin Township, Pulaski County, Indiana, and that all transfers will l then be dealt with on an individual basis.

For such two (2) years, Pulaski County School Corporation agrees that it will honor and pay transfers so requested by the students so residing in Harrison Township and/or Franklin Township, Pulaski County, Indiana, and who come within the category as above described and who request transfers to the Culver Community Schools Corporation.

SECTION 5.

Assets and Liabilities shall upon the effective date of this annexation be divided as follows:

1. The annexing corporation shall take title to all the school property located in Tippecanoe Township consisting of real estate, buildings, contents and buses shown on a schedule now on file in the Office of each School Superintendent. The consideration being the assumption by the acquiring corporation of the debts originating from the School Township of Tippecanoe, to-wit. the outstanding bonds, and the terms and conditions of this Resolution for the education of the children.

2. Public records indicating assessed valuation of all taxable property situated within the territory of the Pulaski County School Corporation reveal that 10.5 % of such property is located in Tippecanoe Township. The acquiring school corporation shall receive a sum equal to 10.5 % of 5/1 2 of all property taxes assessed in 1966 and payable in 1967 for the benefit of Pulaski County School Corporation. By compromise it has been agreed that the taxpayers of Tippecanoe Township have an interest in the present working balance of Pulaski County School Corporation in the sum of $7,000.00 which said sum shall be paid to the acquiring corporation by Pulaski County School Corporation. The acquiring school corporation shall receive the unexpended balance of taxes collected in 1967 and appropriated for the payment of the bonds and interest being assumed by the terms of the Resolution. At least 2/ 3 of the amount estimated to be due the acquiring corporation shall be paid to it on or before October 1, 1967, with final settlement as soon after the Pulaski County School Corporation receives its December draw as possible.

3. All state distribution of school funds to Pulaski County School Corporation, the formula for which has heretofore- been approved for 1967, shall be pro-rated as of the effective date of the annexation. This shall be done on a basis of 14.5 % of five twelfths of the state funds so received during the entire year 1967, it having been determined from public records of the A. D. A. (Average Daily Attendance) that this represents the proportionate share of the average dally attendance of those students being educated in the Monterev School. Since this proportion will change for the school year of 1967-68 an adjustment will be made for the last 5/1 2 of the year based upon the A. D. A. Formula for the ensuing school year as it applies to the relationship between the A. D. A. for Pulaski County School Corporation and the A. D. A. for the Monterey School, for pupils from Pulaski County, Indiana. Such adjustment to be made as soon as figures are available. Approximately 2/ 3 of the amount estimated to be due the acquiring corporation shall be paid it on or before October 1 , 1967, and the balance as near December 31 , 1967, as the figures are available.

4. The book rental arrangements of the Pulaski County School Corporation, while an extra-curricular school activity, will be handled pursuant to an agreement reduced to writing, a copy of which is on file in the office of the Superintendents of each of the two corporations as hereinafter set out.

5 Current operating expenses and/or indebtedness shall be pro-rated as of the effective date of the annexation by the annexing corporation assuming
(1) all expenses of the real and personal property coming to the annexing corporation, and

(2) all contractual obligations that would apply to the physical property coming to the annexing corporation and the education of the children attending schools of the annexing corporation.
Such annexing corporation agrees to grant transfers to those who request such transfers for the school year 1967-68 for the area included in Sections 30, 31 and that part of Sections 29 and 32 west of the blacktop road all in Township 31 North, Range 1 West, on an individual basis.

6. The annexing corporation shall assume all bonded indebtedness which originated from the former School Township of Tippecanoe and the Tippecanoe Civil Aid School Bonds, together with the accrued interest thereon and as part of the consideration shall receive the unexpended balance of taxes collected and appropriated for the payment of principal and interest as specified in Section 5 (2) herein.

7. The local 1967 taxes, payable in 1968, for the Tippecanoe Township area and the State Distribution of School Funds for 1968 for the Tippecanoe Township area shall be made to Culver Community Schools Corporation.

8. In consideration of the acquisition of property and assets by Culver Community Schools Corporation, said corporation shall be responsible for the proper education of the children of the area comprising Tippecanoe Township, Pulaski County, and the right and obligation to determine and develop the educational facilities for the area.

9. A schedule of assets, liabilities and supporting documents are on file and may be examined in the offices of the Superintendent of Culver Community Schools Corporation and in the office of the Superintendent of Pulaski County School Corporation in Culver and Winamac, respectively.

RESOLVED this 19th day of June, 1967.

The Statute provides that the right of remonstrance exists as set out in the statute and that a statement notifying interested parties of the right to remonstrate shall be set out in the notice. The procedure remonstrators must follow is set out in the statute above referred to.

The annexation shall take effect within thirty (30) days after the second publication of the notice or at the time provided in the resolution, whichever is later, unless within such period a remonstrance is filed as provided by the Statue

Dated this 19th day of June, 1967.

PULASKI COUNTY SCHOOL CORPORATION By Leo Siemens, President

CULVER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS CORPORATION By Walter Johnson, President