The members of the Board of Trustees announced Thursday that Dr. Jason Hodgson will be appointed as Superintendent of Taft Union High School District on May 17.
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The Natatorium will not be opening in 2021 and may not open for several years, if ever.
The community s pool, currently owned and operated by the West Side Recreation and Park District, needs about $350,000 in repairs just to get it opened again.
The facility, which is at least 80 years, is going to need future repairs and it is expensive for the district to operate, officials said.
District Administrator Les Clark III said the pool has been losing about $100,000 per year in operating costs beyond the necessary repairs.
It was closed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Clark said the repairs are stacking up and its been operating on a year-to-year basis.
The Kern Leaders Academy has announced its Class of 2020.
The class includes Sanjeev Advani, owner of Synergy Real Estate and Property Management and Bakersfield Maintenance and Construction; Josh Bryant, chief business official for the Taft Union High School District; Monica Jara Guerra, director of community initiatives for Grimmway Schools; Ucedrah Osby, founder and president of the Bakersfield of All Of Us Or None and Kern County Parks and Recreation Department Commissioner; Elizabeth Ramos, administrative assistant at the Kern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Angela Trevino, real estate agent and office manager for Century 21 Jordan Link & Co.; Ally Triolo, communications at the Kern County Department of Human Services.
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Updated Dec. 19 to elaborate on whether to test school staff for Covid-19 on their return to school after a 14-day quarantine.
School districts say they now have another reason to be skittish about planning to reopen schools in the spring: new statewide emergency temporary regulations on protecting workers from exposure to Covid-19.
School officials are complaining that the new rules, which went into effect Nov. 30 after adoption by Cal/OSHA earlier in the month, are creating confusion and could significantly raise school districts’ costs. This applies particularly to Covid testing expenses, which districts and county offices of education are responsible for.