Ketchikan Community Risk Level Raised to HIGH; Ketchikan High School Closed Through Friday, May 7th
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Ketchikan, Alaska - The Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center and Ketchikan School District have seen an increase in COVID-19 cases in the past couple of weeks, including an increase in community spread cases. There are 12 new cases reported in Ketchikan today, and 9 cases reported on Monday. Seven of those cases were determined to be close contacts to a known positive case, three were attributed to community spread, three were determined to be related to recent travel, and eight of the cases remain under investigation. In the past 10 days, there have been more than 10 positive cases attributed to staff or students of the Ketchikan High School.
KETCHIKAN (KDN) â With several community risk indicators on the rise and 12 new virus cases counted on Tuesday, the EOC changed the Community Risk Level from Level 2 (Moderate) to Level 3 (High).
More than 10 cases of COVID-19 have been connected to Ketchikan High School in the past 10 days, prompting a closure of Kayhi and the cancellation of activities through Monday.
The change in the Community Risk Level was announced in a Tuesday evening joint release from the EOC and the Ketchikan School District. We have seen an increase in COVID-19 cases in the past couple of weeks, including increase in community spread cases, the release read. There are 12 new cases reported in Ketchikan today, and nine cases reported on Monday.
The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly is set for a budget-centric meeting on Monday. Its only non-routine items are two motions to introduce for a future meeting the borough s budget and the Ketchikan School District s spending authority for the upcoming fiscal year.
Borough budget
The Assembly will get its first chance on Monday to discuss the proposed $55.8 million borough budget for the 2022 fiscal year, which begins on July 1.
The budget, which includes appropriations from all borough funds except for the Local Education Fund, rests on several assumptions about how the next fiscal year will play out, as a 17-page borough memo explains.
School board green-lights $80,000 payment for resigning Ketchikan superintendent, discusses replacement
Posted by Eric Stone | Apr 30, 2021
The Ketchikan School District seal on display at the superintendent’s office. (KRBD file photo by Leila Kheiry)
Ketchikan’s departing superintendent will receive more than $80,000 for resigning. Ketchikan’s school board ratified the lump sum payment equal to 130 days of pay and benefits at its regular meeting Wednesday. The board also approved a budget for next school year and discussed the search for an interim superintendent.
The stated purpose of an $80,624 payment to departing Ketchikan Superintendent Beth Lougee remains unanswered. School Board President Kim Hodne called the agreement to a vote quickly and without comment.
KETCHIKAN (KDN) â The Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center recorded two new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, one of which was found to be connected to a recent cluster of cases stemming from weekend events at Ketchikan High School, which prompted an extension of Kayhiâs in-person learning closure through the weekend.
âOne of the new cases remains under investigation and one of the cases is a close contact to a known positive case,â according to the joint media release from the EOC and the Ketchikan School District.
The release also stated that one of the cases was connected to Kayhi.
Kayhi was set to reopen for in-person learning on Thursday after being closed on Wednesday due to five cases linked to the school, but âthe complexity of the contact tracingâ for the cases led the building closure to be extended through Friday.