Final millage funds approved in White Pigeon

The final pieces of a 2012 sinking-fund millage renewal are falling into place in White Pigeon.
Members of the school district’s board of education Wednesday approved what amounts to about $1.7 million worth of bids. Superintendent Jon Keyer said the action nearly exhausts $5 million from what was a five-year extension of a sinking-fund millage originally approved in 2007.
The latest round of improvements will focus primarily on the high school. Keyer said the impending work includes all new asphalt in the student and faculty parking areas, replacing the upstairs bleachers on both sides of the high school gymnasium, replacing the visitor’s bleachers at the school’s football field, gutting and reconstructing the school’s food lab and three science rooms, and replacing the underground piping to the vents in each high school classroom.
Also, a new playground at Central Elementary will be built.
The latest phase of work will begin June 13.