Public comment periods will be mandatory during Indiana school board meeting
Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed into law a new mandate that school boards provide the opportunity for oral, public comments at each public meeting, regardless if the meeting is being held in-person or virtually. The new law will take effect on July 1, 2022.
The original proposal would have mandated the public comment regulations for any local or state agency, but was eventually reduced to only school board meetings. The rationale for the legislation was the suspension of public comment at many school board meetings over the past couple of years in response to the declared health emergency.
Ivy Tech offers summer camps for area youth
Ivy Tech Center for Lifelong Learning summer camps are now available online. Browse Ivy Tech’s Summer 2022 Youth Catalog for offerings like Ivy Arts for Kids camp, where your child will explore 2D and 3D mediums with different projects each session. Also, College for Kids camps for ages 11-15, which feature a range of new and familiar topics, including plenty of Baking and Cooking camps. Other summer youth programs include Theater & Film camps with Bloomington Academy of Film & Theatre, Bloomington Playwrights Project, and Cardinal Stage, as well as STEM Achievers camp with Verizon Innovative Learning
The City of Bloomington hosts Trades District Technology Center Information Session
The City of Bloomington and the Bloomington Economic Development Corporation (BEDC) invite the public to an information-sharing event for the Trades District Technology Center, Thursday, March 31, 2022, from 1–2:30pm. Registration is not required for this in-person event, which will be held at The Mill, Event Hall, 642 North Madison Street.
The Tech Center will be located in Bloomington’s downtown Trades District and will work to:
- Advance South-Central Indiana tech employment growth and technology commercialization
- Contribute to a stronger brand for the region in technology, and
- Connect growing tech companies to national and international networks.
The Trades District Technology Center will serve tech companies that are beyond the startup phase by providing commercialization and other wraparound growth services and space. The Tech Center is currently in its design phase and received site plan approval from the Plan Commission during its March 14, 2022 meeting.
This Week in Hoosier History
1955 – Crispus Attucks High School, led by Coach Ray Crowe (pictured), defeated Gary Roosevelt to win the state basketball championship. It was the first all African American team in the nation to win a state title.
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