When the Carmel and Fishers Chambers of Commerce merged and called itself One Zone, one of the big questions centered on how the organization would handle the mayoral State of the City addresses and the State of the School speech.  Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard will give his State of the City address soon and Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness normally gives his State of the City address early in the year.

But the Carmel and Hamilton Southeastern (HSE) School Superintendents decided to provide a joint tag-team version of the State of the Schools address.  On September 14th, HSE schools chief Allen Bourff & Carmel  Superintendent Nicholas Wahl gave a briefing on the state of their respective school systems.

There was no new ground broken in the presentation.  It was a reminder of how the city mayors and voters in each community have stepped forward to support the local school systems.

Superintendent Bourff was introduced by HSE student Rahil Thanawala, who experimented with Alzheimer’s disease therapies when his grandmother was afflicted with that awful condition.