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By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | @JaneneScully
April 11, 2021
| 10:00 p.m.
During a meeting Wednesday night, district trustees voted 4-1 to hire Omaha-based McPherson & Jacobson LLC to guide the search. Board president Jan Clevenger and members Tory Babcock, Jose Ibarra and Stephen Luke voted for the action, with trustee John Baeke in dissent.
Current Superintendent Scott Cory submitted his resignation March 22 after eight years on the job. He did not disclose what or where his new position is.
A committee of two board members recommended McPherson & Jacobson, which has a Sacramento office due its affiliation with the California School Boards Association a connection Clevenger called “a feather in their cap.”
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“We will conduct this weekly testing for all athletes and coaches as a prerequisite for participation in both practices and contests,” Cory said in the letter.
He informed the parents that after conversations with the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department, the high school “will proactively begin testing next week for coaches and athletes in anticipation of our county achieving the case rate of 14 or less by the week of March 1.
“Athletes and their parents will be receiving more information very soon about the details regarding testing later this week from SYHS Athletic Director Ashley Coelho. There are many logistical details to put in place in a very short period of time.”
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Separately, Marian Regional Medical Center receives doses as part of the Dignity Health system, and the CVS and Walgreens pharmacies receive doses directly from manufacturers to help vaccinate people who live in skilled-nursing and assisted-living communities.
In mid-February, the state will start using Blue Shield of California to oversee statewide vaccine distribution, rather than having each county manage its own process, Do-Reynoso said.
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Do-Reynoso said that 67 deaths have been reported in the past two weeks, and another five deaths were reported later on Tuesday.
The five residents were all older than age 70. Two of them lived in Lompoc, two lived in Santa Maria and one lived in the unincorporated North County, according to Public Health.