Valley School Board Adopts 2025 Budget
October 14, 2024 at 9:21 p.m.
MENTONE — Tippecanoe Valley School Board is planning for more than $29 million for the Tippecanoe Valley School Corporations’s 2025 budget.
At its regular meeting on Monday, the board approved the budget totaling $29,121,579. That breaks down to: $14,449,058 in the education fund; $4,333,000 in the debt service fund; and $10,339,521 in the operations fund.
In other business, the board:
• Heard a reminder from TVSC Superintendent Blaine Conley the public open house for the Tippecanoe Valley High School renovation project is 2 to 4 p.m. Oct. 27.
• Approved a contract with Barton-Coe-Vilamaa Architects and Engineers in Fort Wayne to design a proposed new administration building and daycare facility for the corporation.
• Approved selling a small tract of land near TVHS to the Indiana Department of Transportation as INDOT needs it for right-of-way to fix the bridge on Ind. 19 south of TVHS.
• Approved hiring Akron Elementary School instructional assistant Yadira Garcia-Vera; Mentone Elementary School instructional assistant Rebecca Duncan and Valley Early Learning Academy instructional assistant Courtney Pulsipher; Tippecanoe Valley Middle School sixth-grade boys basketball coach Cooper Walls, seventh-grade boys basketball coach Cougan White and food service worker Joan Redding; and TVHS part-time custodians Kevin Mar, Shirley Miller and Hugo Lopez.
• Accepted the resignation of TVSC maintenance worker Robert Shidler; Akron instructional assistant Kelsey Engle; Mentone fifth-grade girls basketball coach Amelia Serafino and fifth-grade boys basketball coach Nick Treber; TVMS instructional assistants Edward Daggett, Joy Daggett and Sarah Daggett; and TVHS attendance secretary Mary Lu Owens.
• Approved firing TVHS custodian Christian Grostefon.
• Accepted $421 from the Kosciusko County Community Foundation’s Bright Star Early Learning Fund for the Mentone preschool special education class.
• Accepted $500 from the Mentone High School Alumni Board for the TVHS Boomerang Backpacks program, which provides extra food to students in need.
• Accepted $250 from Pike Lumber Co. of Akron for the TVHS girls basketball program.
The board’s next regular meeting is 6 p.m. Nov. 18 at Mentone.
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MENTONE — Tippecanoe Valley School Board is planning for more than $29 million for the Tippecanoe Valley School Corporations’s 2025 budget.
At its regular meeting on Monday, the board approved the budget totaling $29,121,579. That breaks down to: $14,449,058 in the education fund; $4,333,000 in the debt service fund; and $10,339,521 in the operations fund.
In other business, the board:
• Heard a reminder from TVSC Superintendent Blaine Conley the public open house for the Tippecanoe Valley High School renovation project is 2 to 4 p.m. Oct. 27.
• Approved a contract with Barton-Coe-Vilamaa Architects and Engineers in Fort Wayne to design a proposed new administration building and daycare facility for the corporation.
• Approved selling a small tract of land near TVHS to the Indiana Department of Transportation as INDOT needs it for right-of-way to fix the bridge on Ind. 19 south of TVHS.
• Approved hiring Akron Elementary School instructional assistant Yadira Garcia-Vera; Mentone Elementary School instructional assistant Rebecca Duncan and Valley Early Learning Academy instructional assistant Courtney Pulsipher; Tippecanoe Valley Middle School sixth-grade boys basketball coach Cooper Walls, seventh-grade boys basketball coach Cougan White and food service worker Joan Redding; and TVHS part-time custodians Kevin Mar, Shirley Miller and Hugo Lopez.
• Accepted the resignation of TVSC maintenance worker Robert Shidler; Akron instructional assistant Kelsey Engle; Mentone fifth-grade girls basketball coach Amelia Serafino and fifth-grade boys basketball coach Nick Treber; TVMS instructional assistants Edward Daggett, Joy Daggett and Sarah Daggett; and TVHS attendance secretary Mary Lu Owens.
• Approved firing TVHS custodian Christian Grostefon.
• Accepted $421 from the Kosciusko County Community Foundation’s Bright Star Early Learning Fund for the Mentone preschool special education class.
• Accepted $500 from the Mentone High School Alumni Board for the TVHS Boomerang Backpacks program, which provides extra food to students in need.
• Accepted $250 from Pike Lumber Co. of Akron for the TVHS girls basketball program.
The board’s next regular meeting is 6 p.m. Nov. 18 at Mentone.