Riverdale board plans details of operating referendum update
MUSCODA - District Administrator Jon Schmidt reported that the district received a $350.00 donation from Compeer Financial out of Viroqua that is to be donated to the food service program to help families that need assistance with paying for school lunch. Schmidt showed a promotional video that has been developed in conjunction with a Grant County project promoting the county for prospective residents. The video can be found on Grant County’s website http://www.co.grant.wi.gov/ underneath the education tab.
Schmidt went over the timeline of the referendum communication plan for renewing the current $600,000 operating referendum to $700,000 in the upcoming April referendum. Part of the referendum will be used to pay debt for a remodel/building project for the JH/HS building and a portion will be used for operating expenses. Included in the timeline are community mailings, virtual meetings, and
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The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) established two limited federal mandates to protect employees of employers with fewer than 500 employees who needed to be absent from work for reasons related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act mandated two weeks of paid sick leave under various circumstances, and the Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act mandated an additional 10 weeks of partially paid leave to care for children whose school or daycare arrangements were disrupted due to the pandemic. The federal government fully subsidized the payments required under these programs through tax credits or tax refunds. Both laws were set to expire December 31, 2020.
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
On December 27, 2020, President Donald Trump signed into law House Bill 133, an expansive spending bill that provides economic relief, extends unemployment insurance benefits, and expands the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act’s Paycheck Protection Program.
The bill
did not extend the mandatory paid leave provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act’s (FFCRA) Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (EPSLA) and Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (EFMLA), both of which will expire on December 31, 2020. However, the bill does provide employers the
option to continue providing FFCRA leave and receive a tax credit through March 31, 2021.
Stated more simply, employers may choose to continue providing paid leave to employees consistent with the FFCRA requirements and claim related tax credits until March 31, 2021, but employers are not required to do so.
Thursday, December 31, 2020
As the dust settles on the tumultuous journey of the final 2020 COVID-19 relief package, it is now clear that as employers with fewer than 500 employees move into 2021, they will no longer be
legally required to provide employees with leaves of absence under the two leave laws Congress passed last March as part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). Since April 1, both of these laws, the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (EPSLA) and the Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (EFMLEA) have provided employees with paid and job-protected leaves of absence for qualifying COVID-19-related reasons, while providing employers with the ability to receive tax credits against the costs of these benefits. Both were enacted with Dec. 31, 2020, sunset provisions. Although Congress could still conceivably do so in later legislation, it has not extended FFCRA’s leave entitlements into 2021. This does not, however, end the story for
A growing concern among school districts is the mental health of all of their collective students during the COVID-19 pandemic as a lot of kids have had to be in online learning since March.
The Lodi schools are currently in an enhanced online model, with a plan to switch to blended learnimg on Jan. 19. All students have been in an online model since March.
At the Lodi School Board meeting on Dec. 14, Director of Student Services, Tiffany Loken, gave a presentation on behalf of the Lodi Community Action Team (LCAT) in regards to the mental health of students during the pandemic.