On a 9-0 vote moments ago, the Joplin City Council approved payment for $331,000 to the Joplin R-8 School District to pay for counselors and case workers to work with students and staff members who are still suffering from the effects of the May 22, 2011, tornado.
The money comes from a Community Development Block Grant First Tornado Response Fund and will pay for eight-and-a-half employees, the council was told.
The positions are needed, the council was told, to deal with approximately 1,000 people who continue to have problems after the tornado. The district has footed the bill for the first three months of the school year.
How did the district do that? Didn't they have these people the last couple of years? That's a lot of money. It would be interesting to hear the rest of this story.
ReplyDeleteThese positions are being paid for by grants. I assume these grants are expiring and this is why the Joplin school district is looking to the City of Joplin for assistance.
ReplyDeleteWhat grants, specifically? We always hear that but no one says what the names of the grants are or where they came from. The same "grants" that the TLCs are paid with, is what we're guessing.
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