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WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
Guadalupe County to support local schools by providing CARES ACT dollars By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) – Guadalupe County is doing its part to ease the financial strain of keeping students safe in area schools. The Guadalupe County Commissioners Court recently approved CARES ACT funds up to $200,000 for each school district in hopes of supplementing expenses associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Guadalupe County Judge Kyle Kutscher says the county received funds pursuant to the CARES Act for use in defraying costs associated with keeping safe. Kutscher says over the last several months, he realized that like all county operations, Guadalupe County schools also observed additional expenses especially in its efforts to reopen its school doors this August and September. “Looking at that and we are talking about a million dollars on the county side with what we’ve expended and any potential overages throughout the end of the year. We’ve got $875,000 that are sitting there and will have to be expended to have access to the $625,000 under the 25 percent. I know that’s a lot but if we’re talking about the major school districts, the SCUC ISD, Marion, Seguin
ISD and Navarro, you are talking about $200,000 per school district if you do it evenly and then having a portion to fund any private schools that have only asked for a couple of thousand dollars but may have the need for some additional funding but I go back to the need of the schools. You are talking about almost 25,000 students within the county, in the community that have had to really up the environment to try to protect kids, to try get kids back in school but also provide distance learning, keep families safe, provide meals throughout this time. I mean there are so many ongoing needs and expenses that go along with that. We had the ability as the county to say we are going to close the buildings and not let the public in during this time so we can still provide you service. The school districts – they said you have to take these kids back or at least that’s what a lot of the community wanted and it’s like, okay now you have to change the environment to make all these things safe for the kids,” said Kutscher. The private/charter schools that will also be eligible for the funding include St. James Catholic School, Southwest Prepatory, Lifegate Christian School and Seguin Christian Academy. See CARESACT, page 2