Mike Wolanin | The Republic People gather for a forum by the IUPUC Office of Student Affairs with Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. school board candidates at the Columbus Learning Center in Columbus, Ind., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2022.
More than $16,200 have poured into the campaign coffers of nine candidates vying for the four seats on the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. School Board that are up for grabs in the Nov. 8 midterm election.
Most of the contributions come from local residents or the candidates themselves, though one candidate — Jason Major, who is seeking the BCSC School Board District 1 seat — reported accepting money from a political action committee, according to campaign finance disclosures.
Overall, the nine candidates collectively reported about $11,400 in expenditures, according to filings with the Bartholomew County Clerk’s Office that cover financial transactions from April 9 to Oct. 14.
District 1
The three candidates vying for the BCSC School Board District 1 seat reported a combined total of $5,746 in contributions, according to campaign finance disclosures.
Major reported $3,292 in contributions, more than his two opponents. The contributions included $1,472 in loans from Major and a $500 contribution from the Indiana Realtors Political Action Committee on Oct. 10.
The Indiana Realtors Political Action Committee is associated with the Indiana Association of Realtors, a non-profit that, among other things, seeks to “sustain a healthy real estate market in Indiana,” according to its most recent filings with the Internal Revenue Service.
David Vincent reported $1,714 in contributions and $1,262 in expenditures. Vincent’s contributions mainly came from local residents, and he reported spending money on printing expenses.
Anakarina Hurtado reported $740 in contributions and $1,429 in expenditures. Hurtado’s contributions were from local residents, and her expenses included costs related to her website, signs, sign holders and Facebook ads.
District 2
Roy West reported $1,230 in contributions and $657 in expenditures. West reported loaning his own campaign $1,000. His spending has included promotional products.
Rich Stenner reported $600 in contributions, including a $500 contribution from a local resident, and $24 in unitemized expenditures.
District 4
The race for the BCSC School Board District 4 seat between Dale Nowlin and Eric Grow has seen the largest influx in cash of any of the races, with the two candidates raising a combined total of around $7,495, campaign finance records show.
Nowlin reported $4,444 in contribution and $2,475 in expenditures. The contributions mainly came from local residents. Nowlin also reported spending campaign money on printing, T-shirts, advertising, yard signs and postage and post cards.
Grow, for his part, reported $3,051 in contributions — including an in-kind contribution from himself of $1,801 — and $3,051 in expenditures. Grow reported spending money on Facebook ads, design, website and printing.
District 6
Logan Schultz reported $679 in contributions, including a $530 in-kind contribution from himself for signs, and $530 in expenditures.
Kathy Dayhoff-Dwyer reported $506 in contributions — all from herself — and $506 in expenditures. Dayhoff-Dwyer reported spending campaign funds at Rural King and The Tony London Company but did not specify in her filings what she spent the money on.
Mark Douglas and Cheryl Miles-Vieth had not filed campaign finance reports as of Thursday, according to the Bartholomew County Clerk’s Office.
