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Southwestern Central School Superintendent Maureen Donahue briefs the board on the specifics of the 2021-22 budget, which was approved Tuesday night.
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The Southwestern Central School Board approved its 2021-22 district budget during a meeting this week, in addition to discussing end-of-year plans.
Superintendent Maureen Donahue offered a presentation of the proposed budget, which includes a 4.9% increase in foundation aid in addition to increases from national funds intended to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
The budget includes $1,264,454 from the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act and $2,068,369 from the American Rescue Plan, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11.
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Southwestern Central School officials approved an agreement with the county to serve as a COVID-19 vaccination site if needed.
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The Southwestern Central School Board approved an agreement with Chautauqua County on Tuesday night to serve as a COVID-19 vaccination site if needed.
The contingent agreement with the county comes as educators begin to receive the coronavirus vaccination under the state’s 1b population that began receiving vaccinations earlier this week.
“We are in 1b and not all of 1a has gotten the first dose of the vaccine yet,” the district’s superintendent, Maureen Donahue, said during a board of education meeting. “When they disbursed the vaccine, they would have and open it up and you would have five hours to use those vials you had. If you had 40 appointments and only 35 people show up, you have five vials that are not getting used. Now they opened it up to 1b to utilize a lot of the vaccine.”