NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS: DISTRICT-WIDE EQUIPMENT AND FACILITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS BY THE HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN SCHOOLS, HAMILTON COUNTY, INDIANA, CONCERNING A POSSIBLE DISTRICT-WIDE EQUIPMENT AND FACILITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT The citizens of the Hamilton Southeastern Schools, Hamilton County, Indiana (the “School Corporation”), are hereby notified that the Board of School Trustees of the School Corporation (the “Board”) is considering all or any portion of (a) certain renovation, expansion, upgrade, improvement, site improvement and equipping projects, including, but not limited to, roofing restoration, repair and/or replacement, security upgrades, lighting upgrades, asphalt and concrete restoration, repair and/or replacement, and interior and exterior repairs, updates and/or restoration, at one or more of the existing buildings operated by the School Corporation, including, but not limited to, all or any of the existing Hamilton Southeastern High School, Fishers High School, Fall Creek Junior High School, Fishers Junior High School, Riverside Junior High School, Riverside Intermediate School, Sand Creek Intermediate School, Harrison Parkway Elementary School, New Britton Elementary School, Hoosier Road Elementary School, and Brooks School Elementary, Central Office, all or any of the other support buildings, all or any of the existing elementary schools, including, but not limited to, the existing Durbin Educational Center and all or any of the outdoor improvements or structures related to any of the foregoing buildings, all of which are used by the School Corporation in connection with its operations, (b) the acquisition and/or installation of certain equipment, including, but not limited to, solar arrays, playground equipment, musical instruments, curricular materials, laptops and tablets, furniture, food service equipment and other technology equipment, including, but not limited to, software, all of which will be used by the School Corporation in connection with its operations, (c) the acquisition of approximately 15 buses and one or more other vehicles over the next three years, all of which will be used by the School Corporation in connection with its operations, and (d) all of the projects related to all or any portion of any of the projects set forth in clauses (a) through and including (c) (collectively, the “2026-2027 District-Wide Equipment and Facility Improvement Project”). The estimated cost of the 2026-2027 District-Wide Equipment and Facility Improvement Project will be in excess of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000), all or a portion of which will be financed by issuing one or more series of general obligation bonds and/or entering into one or more leases or amendments to an existing lease or leases with one or more Indiana nonprofit school building corporations or other funds as they may become available.  Notice is hereby given by the undersigned that the Board will, on January 28, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. (local time) and again on February 11, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. (local time), in the Board Room of the School Corporation’s Central Office, located at 13485 Cumberland Road, Fishers, Indiana, conduct a public hearing (1) to explain the potential value of the 2026-2027 District-Wide Equipment and Facility Improvement Project to the School Corporation and the community, and (2) regarding a preliminary determination to issue one or more series of general obligation bonds and/or enter into a proposed lease or leases or amendment or amendments to an existing lease or leases between one or more Indiana nonprofit school building corporations, each as lessor, and the School Corporation, as lessee, to finance all or any portion of the costs of all or any portion of the 2026-2027 District-Wide Equipment and Facility Improvement Project.  The proposed lease or leases or amendment or amendments to an existing lease or leases will relate to all or any portion of facilities currently operated or to be operated by the School Corporation.  At each of the hearings the Board will also hear objections to, and support for, all or any portion of the 2026-2027 District-Wide Equipment and Facility Improvement Project from the general public.