DUNLAP, Ind. — Several art students and a guidance counselor were honored during Monday night’s Concord school board meeting.

Art students were recognized by board members with certificates and ribbons for their achievements at the Scholastic Art Awards.

Of those art winners, Concord had 35 pieces accepted for exhibit at the Warner Gallery at the South Bend Regional Museum of Art in the Century Center. The exhibit will continue through Saturday.

Students honored included:

• Concord Junior High School — honorable mention, Erika Contreras, Becca Fultz, Jordan Hylton, Ashley Johnson, Jamie Kineman, Abby Phelps and Alex Sith; silver key, Sarah Campbell, Dara Marquez (two pieces), Abby Phelps and Tiffany Sommers; gold key, Jim Zheng.

• Concord High School — gold key, Sarah Boone and Krista Mevis; silver key, Shea Hansen, Eric Potterbaum and Logan Quigley; honorable mention, Shea Hansen, Melanie Gingerich, Christian Gonzalez, Mindy Helm, Nicholas Johnson, Tijay Le, Amanda Lehman, Britney North, Heather Smith (two pieces) and Kurt Tahara; fine art portfolio, Heather Smith, Karen Berndt, Kelsey Cameron, Jason Clements, Scott Fetter and Kelsey Morley.

Superintendent George Dyer announced that on Friday Pat Coates was named the Barbara Walters Cole Distinguished Counselor of 2006-07 during the 47th annual Educational Conference in Indianapolis. Coates is a counselor at West Side Elementary School.

In other matters, board members:

• Were given four options on school calendars to consider. Superintendent George Dyer said the board will be asked to adopt a 2007-08 school calendar at the Feb. 20 meeting.

• Learned from Dyer that a committee working on weighted grades at the high school will report to the board Feb. 20.

• Had a second public hearing on year-round school. No one from the public spoke.

• Approved a resolution that said a 12-month school term is not a feasible alternative the planned construction project. Concord is undertaking a $65.5 million building and reconstruction project districtwide to accommodate growth. Grades will be realigned, taking the fifth and sixth grades out of the elementary school and placing them in their own building, which is currently the junior high school. A new junior high school will be built.

• Conducted a public hearing on a proposed lease for the construction project and sale of real estate, with no one from the public speaking. Board members then adopted a resolution executing the lease and sale of real estate.

• Had a hearing on and adopted a resolution for an additional appropriation needed in order for Concord to spend the $1.65 million generated through the sale of general obligation bonds. The money will be used to renovate all four elementary schools and to convert the existing junior high school to a fifth- and sixth-grade building.

• Adopted two resolutions expanding the Public Employees Retirement Fund to include technology staff and school nurses. The two groups of employees are currently covered under PERF, but under a different employee group. PERF officials wanted the two groups under their own category for clarification.

• Approved advertising for bus bids. The board will advertise to purchase one or more 84- and 72-passenger school buses and one 54-passenger school bus for special needs students. School officials intend to replace six buses altogether, plus add two buses to its fleet due to increasing student enrollment.

• Approved capital projects fund “emergency” expenditures. The 2006 capital projects fund has $150,000 appropriated for emergency contracted services and $50,000 for emergency equipment. Assistant Superintendent Larry Jackowiak said that $165,782 was used to purchase real estate (the Branch home) and that use of the emergency fund needed to be authorized.

• Learned that a traffic study conducted by county officials showed no improvements needed to be made for intersections near the site of the new junior high school. The intersections studied were C.R. 11 and C.R. 24, Minuteman Way and C.R. 24 and C.R. 13 and C.R. 24.

• Approved the hiring of Elizabeth Rodriquez as a fifth-grade and kindergarten paraprofessional at Ox Bow Elementary, Leann Hahaj as a food services kitchen assistant at East Side Elementary and Jacqueline Stockman as a bus driver.

• Approved the resignation of Angela Pontius as a special education paraprofessional at Ox Bow Elementary School and Teresa McLain as a kindergarten paraprofessional at East Side Elementary.

• Approved extra duty employment for Stacie Towne-Barnat as a high school junior varsity softball lay coach, Mark Kauffman as volunteer coach for the high school boys track team, Katie Juday as a volunteer coach for the high school boays track team and Todd Denton as a volunteer coach for the high school girls tennis team.