Trumansburg Central School District

October 27, 2021 Dear Community, Please see below for an official statement from Tompkins County Public Health Director, Frank Kruppa. “Tompkins County Health Department is no longer requiring the siblings of symptomatic children to be automatically excluded. If they can be checked and found to have no symptoms, they can remain in school pending a test result from the sibling”. If the symptomatic sibling tests positive for COVID-19 then the siblings would be excluded based on contact tracing rules both school based and in the home. “Our effort is to avoid unnecessary exclusions from school and with the onset of cold and flu season we want to ensure that a case is confirmed by test result before excluding siblings”. Kind Regards, Kimberly Bell Superintendent of Schools

REMINDER: No School for PreK - 12 on Monday, November 1st

10/21/21 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you that I am writing to provide you with another COVID-19 update. The DOH has notified us that one of our elementary school students has tested positive for COVID-19. The last date of attendance was Friday, October 15, 2021. Our school nurse is working in cooperation with the Department of Health on contact tracing. The Department of Health will notify all persons on the contact tracing list. Our sincerest well wishes for a quick and complete recovery to the individual impacted. Regards, Kimberly Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools 100 Whig Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886 P: 607-387-7551, ext. 4421 | F: 607-387-2880 kbell@tburg.k12.ny.us

October 19, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you that I am writing to provide you with another COVID-19 update. The DOH has notified us that one of our high school students has tested positive for COVID-19. The last date of attendance was Friday, October 15, 2021. Our school nurse is working in cooperation with the Department of Health on contact tracing. The Department of Health will notify all persons on the contact tracing list. Our sincerest well wishes for a quick and complete recovery to the individual impacted. Regards, Kimberly Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools 100 Whig Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886 P: 607-387-7551, ext. 4421 | F: 607-387-2880 kbell@tburg.k12.ny.us

October 13, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you that I am writing to provide you with a COVID-19 update. The DOH has notified us that one of our middle school students has tested positive for COVID-19. The last date of attendance was Friday, October 8, 2021. Our school nurse is working in cooperation with the Department of Health on contact tracing. The Department of Health will notify all persons on the contact tracing list. Our sincerest well wishes for a quick and complete recovery to the individual impacted. Regards, Kimberly Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools 100 Whig Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886 P: 607-387-7551, ext. 4421 | F: 607-387-2880 kbell@tburg.k12.ny.us

Announcing Homecoming the week of October 12 - 15. Please watch for more details coming soon from Charles O. Dickerson High School! Go Blue Raiders!!

September 27, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you that I am writing to provide yet another COVID-19 update. We have two new adult COVID-19 cases, with the last day of attendance being Friday, 9/24/21. We also have two additional student cases in our middle school. It is important to note that the student cases have been traced to contact outside of school. Our school nurses are working extra time and in cooperation with the Department of Health for contact tracing. The Department of Health will notify any person on the contact tracing list. Our sincerest well wishes for a quick and complete recovery to the individuals impacted. Best, Kimberly Bell

September 24, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you that I am writing to provide you with another COVID-19 update. The DOH has notified us that one of our middle school students has tested positive for COVID-19. The last date of attendance was Wednesday, September 22, 2021. Our school nurse is working in cooperation with the Department of Health on contact tracing. The Department of Health will notify all persons on the contact tracing list. Our sincerest well wishes for a quick and complete recovery to the individual impacted. Regards, Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools

September 23, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you that we have been notified by the DOH that one of our MS students has tested positive for COVID-19. There are no additional contacts to report for exposure for this particular case. As a point of clarity, of the two cases reported yesterday, only one attends our MS, the other child attends an alternate program. Thank you for working with us to keep you and your family safe. As always, our thoughts are with those directly impacted. Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to your building principal. Respectfully, Kimberly Bell Superintendent TCSD

September 22, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, Our safe return to in-person instruction requires that we are vigilant in creating a health and safety culture. We continue to use multiple mitigation strategies to eliminate the spread of COVID-19 however, with the increase in the number of cases locally it is inevitable that we experience more exposures at school. With that said, we have notified by the DOH that two of our MS students have tested positive for COVID-19. The two cases (1 of the 2 students attends an alternate program and does not report to our campus) are unrelated. We are working closely with the contact tracing staff of Tompkins County Department of Health to notify all parties of exposure and the next steps of the protocol to keep our community safe. Thank you for working with us to keep you and your family safe. As always, our thoughts are with those directly impacted. Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to your school principal. Respectfully, Kimberly Bell Superintendent TCSD

Does your child ride a bus? On Monday, Sept 20th please have your child(ren) prepared to accommodate pick up time being 10 to 20 minutes earlier than the time you were originally given for this school year. Drivers should be able to inform students & parents of their new pick up time next week.

COVID-19 UPDATE 9/17/21 The positive adult COVID-19 case from 9/16 resulted in quarantine of (3) three students and (4) four staff members.

September 16, 2021 Dear Community, I am reaching out this evening to inform you of two situations impacting our school campus. I learned after business hours today that we have one confirmed adult case of COVID-19. The individual is assigned to the elementary school and was last on campus Tuesday, September 14, 2021. Our team has been working this evening to provide a contact tracing list to the Department of Health. The Department of Health will directly reach out to those individuals that need to quarantine. I will keep you informed of the exact numbers once I receive that information. Please continue to practice mitigation measures to keep you and our school community safe. Secondly, after business hours today, it was anonymously reported that a suspicious backpack was located/abandoned on our campus. We immediately worked with law enforcement and successfully found and investigated the incident. There is no known threat at this time. Kindly, Kimberly Bell Superintendent of Schools

TCDOH Level of Community Transmission is HIGH therefore, effective September 1st, all outdoor student-athletes and coaches will be required to wear a mask any time they are unable to maintain a social distance of 6 feet or more. Outdoor spectators will also be required to wear a mask if unable to socially distance.

Board of Education Approved Calendar Change: First Day for All Students Pre-K-12 9/13/21 First Day for All Staff 9/8/21

Title Grants Parent Engagement Meeting Discuss our Title Grants: including funding, plans for expenditures, and programs that are implemented When: Monday, September 13, 12:00 noon Questions can be directed to Angie Gemignani at agemignani@tburg.k12.ny.us Virtual Meeting: login meet.google.com/jcf-tasw-xxi Or join via phone ‪US)‪+1 513-461-6964 PIN: ‪699 580 772#

Dear Trumansburg Community, I am writing to you this afternoon with excitement as we prepare to welcome students and staff back for the upcoming 2021-2022 school year. TCSD is committed to the health and safety of all our community members and as such it is necessary to provide you with guidance protocols. Please review this information and recognize it is subject to change based on local infection data. https://drive.google.com/file/d/14VIERClJWP5kSZ6OZIGWftV2Krc9PtVj/view?usp=sharing Continue to check our website for information and updates. Enjoy your remaining days of summer. Kind regards, Kimberly Bell

Free Kids’ Produce Market – Trumansburg Harvest Special this week, August 12, 2021(final week of summer market) **** LIVE MUSIC with Lucy Vera from 4:00pm-5:00pm **** *** FREE School Supplies. Supply lists available and teachers on-site to answer questions *** ** Book read aloud on grass/blankets** * Nutrition-based games provided by Cornell Cooperative Extension Nutrition Educator * A reminder that Trumansburg Harvest, a free kids’ produce market will be held at Trumansburg Fairgrounds on Thursday, August 12 from 3:00pm-6:00pm. This is our final week of the summer market and it's chock-full of activities! We will have live music from 4:00pm-5:00pm, with Lucy Vera playing guitar and singing. Additionally, there will be a FREE school supply store where you can find a supply list and many necessary supplies for the upcoming school year. A teacher will be there to answer any questions you may have. Furthermore, we will have a book read-aloud on the grass and nutrition-based games for youth provided by Cornell Cooperative Extension Nutrition Team. We hope you can join in on the fun, and, of course, bring home some free produce! A bit about the Trumansburg Harvest Kids' Produce Market Trumansburg Harvest is a free weekly produce market for all families with kids (youth 18 and under). Youth will be able to go through the small market and select any produce they would like for free. The first few hundred families will receive a free reusable bag with the Trumansburg Harvest logo. Recipes for meals which use the weekly produce will be provided. Type of produce will change weekly/seasonally. Food demos/sampling and entertainment will be on site some of the evenings. We would like to thank all collaborating organizations for the support: Food Bank of the Southern Tier, Cornell Cooperative Extension Rural Youth Services, Trumansburg Central School District, Ulysses Philomathic Library, Trumansburg Fairgrounds, Tompkins Cortland Community College, and the Park Foundation. Should you have any questions please contact Ethan Cramton at egc24@cornell.edu

Due to on-going construction in the high school and specifically the auditorium, the Parents’ and Coaches’ Fall Sports meeting is shifting to 100% virtual on Wednesday, August 11 at 6:00 pm. Please use this link to join us at 6:00 pm via google meet: Fall Sports Parents-Coaches Meeting Wednesday, August 11 · 6:00 – 7:00pm Google Meet joining info Video call link: https://meet.google.com/cbm-acfr-ezb Or dial: ‪(US) +1 669-238-0074 PIN: ‪300 200 077# More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/cbm-acfr-ezb?pin=7317482432963

Hello Trumansburg Community, I hope this communication finds you well and enjoying the days of summer. Please see the website for partial guidance regarding re-opening. In the coming week we will provide a complete re-opening plan for your planning purposes (on the District website). TCSD’s Partial Re-Opening Guidance as of August are subject to change based on CDC, local and state DOH guidance. Respectfully, Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools