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May 6, 2021 | 8:09 PM
The Christian County School Board heard an update on what CCPS is doing to prepare for the implementation of House Bill 563, or the ‘school choice’ bill, at Thursday’s meeting, and approved a change to the District Facility Plan.
Director of Pupil Personnel Melanie Barrett explained what exactly the bill means for the district, saying that families will have the choice of sending their child to schools outside of the district or send their children to Christian County from outside of county. CCPS hasn’t had out of county contracts for many years now, but Barrett says she is confident that the district won’t have a big impact in student enrollment.
The graduation date was approved unanimously, while Bentzel said any changes would be brought back to the board for approval.
In other board action, the virtual learning academy plan was approved for the 2021-22 school year. VLA Principal Arnelle Wesley told board members they would only teach 4th through 12th-grade students beginning next school year.
Bentzel said, as an example, if Gov. Andy Beshear doesnât lift 50% capacity regulations by graduation, the district could look at splitting the two graduations up on separate days. He said splitting the days up could limit crossover traffic.
âWe havenât talked about it a lot,â Bentzel said. âBut we wanted to just make sure that we approved the date first and weâll come back to (the school board) in regards to the final presentation.
âWeâre in conversations right now to try to give our students an in-person graduation.â
COVID-19 cases in the county continue to drop. Thursday, Christian County dropped to the yellow zone for new cases, meaning between two and 10 new cases are reported each day per 100,000 residents.
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In a 4-3 vote, the Oro Valley Town Council denied a second effort to rezone the Kai-Capri area from commercial to residential, despite updated plans to limit housing density and community support for the project during their Tuesday, Feb. 2 meeting.Â
While four council members voted in favor of amending the General Plan for the Kai-Capri Special Area Policies to allow 144 casita rental properties on land bordering Kai Drive, near First Avenue and Tangerine Road, the amendment required two-fifths majority, or five votes, in favor to be approved.Â
Vice Mayor Melanie Barrett, along with council members Tim Bohen and Josh Nicolson, voted against the zoning change, as they did during the Jan. 6 council meeting when developers presented a larger residential plan for the intersection. During that meeting, council member Joyce Jones-Ivy also voted against the proposed rezoning. However, the density, the other was because of apartments and the last was looking at this as a commerci