# October 13, 2026 Committee Of The Whole Meeting


**Body:** Chambersburg Area School District - CASD
**Date:** October 12, 2026
**Jurisdiction:** SLED

**Tags:** Education, Construction & Infrastructure, Grants & Funding, Physical Infrastructure


The Chambersburg Area School District Committee of the Whole met on October 13, 2026. No procurement awards or spending votes were taken. The board heard that a roughly $100,000 Pennsylvania Department of Education grant, associated with HayTutor, could provide three trained intervention-support staff at Ben Chambers, Gilbert, and Lurgan at no cost to the district; the related consent item will proceed to a board vote in two weeks. The district also reported five meetings with Transfinder Corporation on attendance-boundary scenarios tied to school reconfiguration, including the Green Village project; no contract amount or new approval was discussed. Staff expect to present scenarios and a preferred option later, with an interactive boundary lookup tool planned for the district website.

A financial adviser requested that the board revise its 2026 general-obligation bond parameters resolution at the next meeting, increasing the maximum interest-rate limit for individual maturities from 5.5% to 6.5% to accommodate market changes. The planned bond-pricing schedule remains early November, with settlement in December; the adviser said borrowing costs were near or slightly above the prior estimate of approximately $300 million, with the built-in contingency effectively used. The meeting also included discussion of proposed high-school graduation requirements, Keystone remediation, and staffing needs—including cooperative education and additional teaching positions—but no staffing or budget action was approved. Administrators will bring future policy and budget requests forward.

**Source:** Chambersburg Area School District - CASD