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Comal Independent School District trustees considered budget reports and approved hiring additional staffers for the 2021-22 school year during their workshop session Thursday.
First, they approved one-time COVID-19 resource stipend of $300 for each full-time employee and $150 for all part-time employees at an approximate combined cost of $1,001,010.Â
David Andersen, district CFO, and Crystal Hermesch, executive director of school finance, reviewed 2020-21 financials and a presented a preliminary look at revenue and expenditures for the 2021-22 budget, which trustees are slated to approve June 24 to go into effect July 1.
Trustees approved $775,370 for the final major purchases of furniture, fixtures and equipment for the new Pieper High School, opening in August at 810 Kinder Parkway in San Antonio. They also approved $243,143 for a CISD warehouse box truck and band trailers at Canyon Lake and Davenport high schools.
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On Tuesday morning, Comal Independent School District trustees will meet to approve winter weather class waivers as the first students return to Specht Elementary School, flooded by burst water pipes a few weeks ago.
âThe whole front office was flooded along with several classrooms,â Steve Stanford, the districtâs communications director said  of the damage at the school, which will welcome back kindergartners and first-grade students. âWe were able to mitigate damages enough to bring some of those young kids back on Tuesday.â
Comal ISDâs School Operations group posted photographs from Specht Elementary School on Twitter over the weekend. Water lines in the ceiling burst as part of last weekâs winter storm.