Elk Lake to host school-based health clinic

BY PAT FARNELLI
Correspondent

The Elk Lake School Board approved an agreement with NEPA Community Health Care, leasing a clinic to provide health and medical care to the school and community.

Superintendent Ken Cuomo said that no renovations to school buildings will be required, and a memorandum of agreement for the school-based health care center was approved, with the addition of an indemnity clause.

A Xerox lease agreement, discussed at previous meetings, was also approved, which will reduce the monthly payments by $100.

A pool activities and courses fee schedule for the school aquatic center was also approved, and is available on Board Docs on the school website.

A sale of a school bus #10 by Doug Davis to Neil Davies was also approved.

An agreement with Frontier Communications for a wireless LAN network was approved, including a contract and E-rate rider. The funding percentage for the network was between 70 to 80 percent, Cuomo said.

Cuomo was asked about the current state of the budget, now that some of the state funding has been released.

“We got our initial payment ion January,” he said. “Some things came through a bit later. The Governor is going to divvy up additional funds in other ways, which are outside the budget that he didn’t sign.”

Cuomo said that he hopes the district will soon receive some baseline funding of a few thousand dollars. “We hear that the governor wants to take care of cyber charter schools,” he said. “He did not approve the fiscal code presented to him.”