Only eight days of school remain for students of the Christian County Public School System, but officials will still be working on behalf of their students during the summer months.
Speaking with WHOP News Tuesday, Superintendent Chris Bentzel says they have partnered with Wild Health, the University of Kentucky and the Department of Public Health to provide free doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to students over the age of 12 who want the shot, starting after the end of the school year. Bentzel says it would be with parental permission and they’ll have more information as plans get finalized, but they intend to have sites at both high schools.
Discussions are underway about the possibility on consolidating the high schools and Gateway Academy at some point in the future, and Superintendent Bentzel says nothing has been set in stone yet, and they intend to gather as much input from the public about it as they can.
He is committed to not increasing any taxes to pay for whatever construction may take place, whether that be one building or two, and he says it would be possible through a recent increase in state funding, fiscal responsibility and $50 million in bonding capacity.
Combining those things and low interest rates, Bentzel believes the district has roughly $87 million that could go towards a project, whatever the community decides that would be.
In a brief COVID update, CCPS has one active staff case and four in-person student cases—there are currently 28 close contact quarantines.