Government

A rundown on Wednesday’s Executive Council meeting.

On Tuesday night, the Manchester Board of School Committee (BOSC) Teaching and Learning Committee recommended giving New Hampshire Listens $19,950 in Title II funding to develop a Lau Plan, but only if a representative of New Hampshire Listens attends the full BOSC meeting on Monday.

Manchester School District administrators provided an update on iReady winter testing results

Whenever possible, please consider not driving on rainy nights when temperatures are greater than 40°F for the next few weeks. If you must drive, delay your travel time until at least two hours after sunset or adjust your route to larger streets and avoid smaller, wooded roads with higher concentrations of wetlands and vernal pools.

There are currently 27 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in New Hampshire. Since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 301,385 cases diagnosed.

First announced in February, the program was designed to help Manchester’s small business owners recover from the negative economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has announced that the State-managed COVID-19 testing sites will permanently close on Thursday, March 31, 2022. Additionally, 4 of the 7 mobile vaccination teams will demobilize on the same day.

How should the Manchester School District address situations where students from private schools and home schools seek to make use of school district resources? That was the question on Wednesday night as the Manchester Board of School Committee (BOSC) Policy Committee sought to recommend a policy on the topic.

New Hampshire Listens is a project of the University of New Hampshire Carsey School of Public Policy specializing in community outreach for civic organizations in New Hampshire, earning high praise from BOSC members in regard to their ability to obtain feedback from the state’s minority communities.

A decision on implementing a new STREAM program at the city’s public elementary schools has been postponed pending a vote by the Manchester Board of School Committee on Monday night.

In another sign that the COVID-19 pandemic is finally coming to a close, at Monday night’s Manchester Board of School Committee meeting, Manchester School District Interim Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Gillis announced that the Manchester School District is no longer in a “substantial” level of COVID-19 transmission.