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insurance plan didn’t cover for the treatment of their children after they were injured at school. She said the WIAA does offer concussion insurance to student athletes.
Edgar School Board president Bill Dittman noted the school district has its own liability insurance to cover itself if a student gets injured on school property.
In other news:
_ The Edgar School Board adopted the estimated amount of taxes assessed locally for education of $2,556,487 for the 2020-21 school year. The estimate tax rate is $10.72 per $1,000 of property owned in the school district.
_ Dr. Guden said right now she has budgeted for teachers to receive salary increases in the 2020-21 school year, so the Edgar School District can maintain its staff instead of losing them to larger school districts that pay better.
_ School board members voted to keep their salaries the same this school year as they were last year for their attendance at committee and regular board meetings.
_ Guden said school district administration would develop a concrete plan on returning students to school this fall based on how well things go during summer school during the next few weeks.
She wished the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction had provided guidelines for school districts based on their county’s current level of risk for coronavirus cases like the WIAA did.
Dr. Guden said Tom McCarty, Edgar middle and high school principal, receives e-mail at 2 p.m. each Wednesday from the Marathon County Health Department telling school districts the level of risk for coronavirus cases in the county. Last week, Marathon County was at a high risk for coronavirus cases based on the number of people testing positive.
Dittman reviewed the DPI’s guidelines for various plans school districts could follow on bringing students safely back to school this fall, such as some students attending school in person a few days and others on the other days each week.
“We are going to have students attend school five days a week because we don’t have as densely packed school buildings as some other school districts do,” he said.
Dr. Guden needs to speak to Mary Kay Adamski from Fischer Transportation in Fenwood to determine the busing schedule for school this fall. She said right now only 12 students would be allowed on each bus to keep them safe from getting the coronavirus. Dr. Guden said since families are allowed to remain together, possibly pods of students from each family could sit together on buses to allow more children to ride each bus.
_ Edgar School District will keep its student lunch prices the same this school year as they were last year, because Dr. Guden said the budget food service account contains a healthy amount of money.
_ School board members accepted the resignation of Mike Mroczenski as Edgar Middle School science teacher and they approved hiring Jamie Koehler as the middle school counselor/ assessment coordinator.
