HAMLER â The Patrick Henry Local Schools Board of Education Monday approved personnel matters.
The board approved a three-year contract with cafeteria supervisor Katie Yarnell. Brian Keith and Amie Whitman were approved as archery co-assistants for the 2020-21 school year.
The board also approved the updated substitute lists for teachers and education aides from the Northwest Ohio Educational Service Center and the Patrick Henry substitute list for 2020-21.
The board also approved:
â¢âThen and nowâ payments to Nichols Paper & Supply Co. for $930.51 and Ohio Bureau of Workersâ Compensation for $18,621.
â¢A revised student activity purpose and budget statement for volleyball for fiscal year 2021.
From TV commercials to a new mailing of masks to seniors, spending on a state public awareness campaign to persuade residents to play it safe in dealing with coronavirus now totals more than $24 million.
The state aging and health departments in recent days began a $13.5 million program to mail masks and COVID-19 precaution information to more than 2 million Ohioans age 65 and older.
Including a new spot last week featuring four frontline nurses tending to virus patients, the Ohio Department of Health has spent $8.3 million with federal aid to air an ongoing series of TV commercials counseling COVID caution.
State health officials, meanwhile, on Tuesday reported 7,678 additional infections and 130 more COVID-19 deaths the third-highest daily toll of the pandemic.
12/22/20
In November, the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation (BWC) agreed to issue
$5 billion in dividends to qualifying Ohio employers to ease the financial pressures created by COVID-19. This is the third dividend declared and paid in 2020, bringing the total pandemic easement to nearly $8 billion for both public and private employers.
These dividends were made possible in part due to BWC s strong investment strategy and returns achieved on premiums paid. However, savings have been further compounded by effective risk management programs at the workplace, resulting in a lower volume of claims. Collectively, the employer community, alongside Ohio TPAs and MCOs, has taken strides to protect the worker, improve workplace safety and take care of injured workers. When accidents do occur, great partnership efforts among this collective have proven to effectively manage claims, reduce frequency and severity, and control costs.
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Cleveland - Child care programs can be safe within the context of low community transmission of COVID-19, according to new research from Case Western Reserve University, based on data from child care programs throughout Ohio.
The study took place from Aug. 15 to Nov. 20, during a timeframe of relatively low community transmission of COVID-19. The team found COVID-19 infection rates at child care programs have been low as a result of:
clear and comprehensive state guidelines for mitigating transmission within child care settings;
streamlined reporting of cases to monitor trends;
resources to support adherence to state guidelines; and
high compliance with these guidelines by child care workers and families.