(Undated) With the year 2020 coming to a close, KMA News presents Project 2020, a series of reports looking back at the top local and regional news stories of the past year. Today s segment features part two of our review of the continuing coronavirus crisis.
As spring gave way to summer, the COVID-19 pandemic raged on across the nation and the world. Despite the mounting numbers of deaths and illnesses related to the virus, the drive to reopen society was well underway. In early June, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds lifted the 50% capacity limit on a number of businesses throughout the state. Businesses like restaurants, bars, movie theaters and others were allowed to reopen with 100% capacity. Reynolds additionally lifted restrictions on swimming pools, senior centers and adult day programs starting Friday. She said the openings were the next step in living with COVID-19.
(Clarinda) Certain Clarinda School District employees are eligible for early retirement incentives.
Recently, the Clarinda School Board approved a voluntary early retirement policy and packages for the 2020-21 school year. Clarinda School Superintendent Chris Bergman tells KMA News early retirement is a budgetary option considered by school officials each year. The purpose and the drive behind that, said Bergman, is to position the district in the best fiscal light moving forward, and serving kids. Typically, we look at our management fund, as well as other factors, and determine if this is a year that it would be beneficial for us to consider that. Through all of our analysis and projections out, we believe that it is.
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