By Megan Wehring
DRIPPING SPRINGS — Dripping Springs ISD (DSISD) employees will be compensated for the emergency district closure that occurred in early February.
Upon administration’s recommendation, the DSISD Board of Trustees adopted a resolution to pay staff during the Feb. 3-4 district-wide emergency closure that was enacted by superintendent Holly Morris-Kuentz because of severe weather conditions.
“This is a resolution that we are bringing much like we did in February of last year,” said Tiffany Duncan, executive director of human resource services, “when we had similar closures that requested to continue to pay the staff who otherwise would have not worked those hours due to that inclement weather.”
This does not negatively impact the operating 2021-2022 operating budget, Duncan explained, as the payment of all contract work days for each employee is already an expense accounted for in the current year’s budget.
“It’s a blessing that we are able to do this,” said Shannon O’Connor, Board secretary.
