This page contains information regarding the plans for reopening schools for the 2020-2021 school year.

Vaccinations
Please reference this letter from County Executive George Latimer for more regarding the COVID-19 Vaccine.  On Monday, January 11, 2021 teachers and education workers became eligible for the COVID-19 Vaccine as members of phase 1b.  As more information is released, we will continue to provide updates.

COVID-19 Testing
Blind Brook UFSD is not equipped to conduct testing in the event of a large-scale outbreak. We have a standing relationship with the Westchester County Department of Health and in the event that testing is required, we will defer to the Westchester County DOH for any required or relevant information. This information will be disseminated through our communications platform.

Testing is readily available in our community. Students, staff or visitors requiring COVID-19 testing should contact their health provider, a local urgent care, federally qualified health center or visit the NYSDOH website to locate a nearby testing facility
https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/find-test-site-near-you.

Contact Tracing
The Blind Brook School District will notify the state and local health department immediately upon being informed of any positive COVID-19 diagnostic test result by an individual within school facilities or on school grounds, including students, faculty, staff, and visitors of BBUFSD.

To assist the local health department with tracing the transmission of COVID-19, BBUFSD has developed and maintained a plan to trace all contacts of exposed individuals in accordance with protocols, training, and tools provided through the New York State Contact Tracing Program.

Districts may assist with contact tracing by:

• Keeping accurate attendance records of students and staff members
• Ensuring student schedules are up to date
• Keeping a visitor log that includes date and time address and phone number, and where in the school they visited
• Assisting the local health departments in tracing all contacts of the individual in accordance with the protocol, training, and tools provided through the NYS Contact Tracing Program
• Informing the local health department of a staff member testing positive regardless of county of residence.
• For all contact tracing, the DOH will require the name, address, and phone number as well as the name and phone number of the guardian of a student.

If/when COVID-19 cases are discovered, in consultation with the local health department BBUFSD will do the following:

• Close or quarantine locations of potential exposure for 24 hours, if possible
• Clean and disinfect locations as necessary
• Provide DOH with information as required

Confidentiality must be maintained as required by federal and state laws and
regulations. Staff should not try to determine who is to be excluded without guidance
and direction from the local health department.