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MENTONE — Framework should be up at the new Tippecanoe Valley School Corp. administration and day care building next month, said TVSC Superintendent Blaine Conley.
Conley gave the construction update at the Tippecanoe Valley School Board’s meeting on Monday at Mentone Elementary School. The building is being constructed by the current one by Tippecanoe Valley High School.
“All the underground plumbing has been completed all the way up to the upper level,” he said. “The basement wall waterproofing is about 95% complete now. The backfill is about 80% complete.”
Conley said “steel is set down in the basement and the slab to the basement has been poured.
“We’re also waiting on the delivery for the floor trusses, but we received part of the lumber package today,” he said, adding that probably will be in place by the board’s August meeting.
In other business, the board:
• Approved meal prices for the 2025-26 year. Those are: breakfast, free for grades K-12 and $1.70 for adults; and lunch, $2.10 for grades K-5, $2.60 for grades 6-12 and $4.90 for adults.
• Approved the hiring of TVSC Director of Technology Jeff Phillips; Akron Elementary School special education instructional assistant Addasyn Wildermuth; and Tippecanoe Valley High School guidance counselor Jami Davis, special education teacher Dawn Howard, ELL instructional assistant Angelia Montes, special education instructional assistant Jazmin Smith, instructional assistant Alexis Koser and full-time night custodian Tabitha Holloway.
• Approved the hiring of the following extracurricular activity positions: seventh-grade volleyball coach Kennedi Brooks; sixth-grade volleyball coach Mary Beth Francis; and student council sponsors April Jones and Kacie Zolman.
• Accepted the resignations of the following personnel: TVSC bus drivers Darlene Guthrie and Mary Dunnuck; Tippecanoe Valley Middle School and TVHS English learner teacher Robert Weber; TVHS world history teacher and girls tennis coach Hunter Ackerman; Lawney Francis from TVMS cross-country; Akron custodian Carolyn Lester; and Mentone guidance counselor Caroline Day.
• Approved appointing Emily Schouten to the Fulton County Public Library Board.
• Accepted a $500 donation from Creighton Brothers for the Tippecanoe Valley FFA forestry team and a $2,000 Kosciusko County Community Foundation grant.
The board’s next meeting is 6 p.m. Aug. 18 at Mentone.
