(c) In the annual financial report the school corporation shall include the following:

1. (1) Actual receipts and expenditures by major accounts as compared to the budget advertised under IC 6-1.1-17-3 for the prior calendar year.
2. (2) The salary schedule for all certificated employees (as defined in IC 20-29-2-4 ) as of June 30, with the number of employees at each salary increment. However, the listing of salaries of individual teachers is not required.
3. (3) The extracurricular salary schedule as of June 30.
4. (4) The range of rates of pay for all noncertificated employees by specific classification.
5. (5) The number of employees who are full-time certificated, part-time certificated, full-time noncertificated, and part-time noncertificated.
6. (6) The lowest, highest, and average salary for the administrative staff and the number of administrators without a listing of the names of particular administrators.
7. (7) The number of students enrolled at each grade level and the total enrollment.
8. (8) The assessed valuation of the school corporation for the prior and current calendar year.
9. (9) The tax rate for each fund for the prior and current calendar year.
10. (10) In the general fund, capital projects fund, and transportation fund, a report of the total payment made to each vendor for the specific fund in excess of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) during the prior calendar year. However, a school corporation is not required to include more than two hundred
11. (200) vendors whose total payment to each vendor was in excess of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500). A school corporation shall list the vendors in descending order from the vendor with the highest total payment to the vendor with the lowest total payment above the minimum listed in this subdivision.
12. (11) A statement providing that the contracts, vouchers, and bills for all payments made by the school corporation are in its possession and open to public inspection.
13. (12) The total indebtedness as of the end of the prior calendar year showing the total amount of notes, bonds, certificates, claims due, total amount due from such corporation for public improvement assessments or intersections of streets, and any and all other evidences of indebtedness outstanding and unpaid at the close of the prior calendar year.

(e) The department of education shall do the following:

1. (1) Develop guidelines for the preparation and form of the financial report.
2. (2) Provide information to assist school corporations in the preparation of the financial report.

(h) As used in this subsection, "bonds" means any bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, whether payable from property taxes, other taxes, revenues, fees, or any other source. However, the term does not include notes, warrants, or other evidences of indebtedness that have a maturity of not more than five (5) years and that are made in anticipation of and to be paid from revenues of the school corporation. Notwithstanding any other law, a school corporation may not issue any bonds unless the school corporation has filed the annual financial report required under subsection (b) with the department of education. The requirements under this subsection for the issuance of bonds by a school corporation are in addition to any other requirements imposed under any other law. This subsection applies to the issuance of bonds authorized under any statute, regardless of whether that statute specifically references this subsection or the requirements under this subsection.

Formerly: Acts 1927, c.96, s.3; Acts 1929, c.200, s.1; Acts 1959, c.262, s.1. As amended by Acts 1981, P.L.45, SEC.2; P.L.36-1986, SEC.2; P.L.342-1989(ss), SEC.1; P.L.1-1991, SEC.30; P.L.19-1992, SEC.2; P.L.38-1993, SEC.2; P.L.1-1994, SEC.17; P.L.24-1994, SEC.1; P.L.340-1995, SEC.40; P.L.34-1996, SEC.1; P.L.98-2000, SEC.1; P.L.102-2001, SEC.1; P.L.1-2005, SEC.73; P.L.184-2015, SEC.4; P.L.244-2017, SEC.3.