Tamaqua Area School Board’s auxiliary committee approved the first reading of the district’s policy regarding Naloxone, an overdose reversal drug.

Superintendent Ray Kinder explained that the only change in the policy would be where the drug is kept, adding it to the nurse’s rooms in the elementary schools. The overdose drug is already kept in the middle and high schools, he said.

“It’s only as a precautionary measure,” Kinder said. “Should something come into the schools, we have something available.”

The reversal drug would be accessible to the people who have training in administering it, he said.

Other business

In other business, the board and/or its committees:

• Heard from a mother, Marie Schock. She read a letter from her daughter, Madison, a freshman volleyball player, expressing dissatisfaction with a coach’s communication with players which is affecting their performance. Kinder said the board would discuss the matter in executive session.

• Approved the Tamaqua Area Student Government Association’s request for the winter formal at Capriotti’s in McAdoo on Nov. 25 from 4 to 10 p.m.

• Approved a request of Nate Halenar, high school social studies teacher, to take AP social studies students to New York City April 12 from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

• Approved a request from band director Mark Beltz to take the Raiders Marching Band to Washington, D.C., April 27. The trip is funded through student fundraising and band boosters.

• Approved a one-year agreement with ReDCo Group-Behavioral Health Services of Pottsville for 2024-25 school year.

• Approved a list of bills totaling $1,056,856, and interim, $570,645.

• Approved 2023-24 tuition rates of $16,361, elementary; and $11,134, secondary.

• Approved Act 32 delegates for 2025 as Connie Ligenza, primary; Larry Wittig, alternate, and John Hurst, second alternate.

• Approved tax collectors for 2025 as Portnoff Law Associates, real estate; and Berkheimer, per capita and assessed occupation.

• Approved the 2023-24 Special Education Services Agreement with the Schuylkill Intermediate Unit No. 29 to provide special education services at the tentative amount of $251,036.

• Discussed setting the board’s reorganization meeting as Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. Reorganization is always held the first week of December.