MILTON
Officials wanted to replace two 58-year-old boilers at Milton High School but couldnât fit the cost into the 2019 referendum.
But new boilers are now a part of the ongoing high school expansion project, which will mean better air for staff and students, thanks in part to federal COVID-19 relief funding for schools.
The school board on Monday approved using part of Miltonâs allotment from the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, known as ESSER III, for the work, not to exceed $560,000.
ESSER III would contribute $424,000 to the boiler project. The rest would come from contingency funding from the referendum, money the board approved last fall to replace circulating pumps.
LISD and UISD still waiting on COVID-19 funding
April 11, 2021
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Un alumno camina por el pasillo de una escuela en la secundaria del condado Wyandotte, en Kansas City, el 31 de marzo de 2021.Charlie Riedel /Associated Press
After a full year of interruptions and expenses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic impacting the local school districts, an additional stimulus package was slated to be provided to districts across Texas but has since been delayed at the state level.
According to the American Rescue Plan stimulus funding package, LISD and UISD are expecting to receive $115,268,000 and $126,222,000, respectively. These funds would have compounded the federal funding districts expected to receive last year that were instead used by the state throughout its budget to soften the impact of the pandemic and not on school districts.