Nether Providence Township Commissioners Micah Knapp (3rd Ward) and Kaitlin McKenzie (4th Ward) hosted neighbors who shared opinions on and asked questions about two potential avenues of development of the property at 310 Wallingford Avenue in South Media.
The Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board approved several contracts and agreements, significantly a contract with Dell Financial Services which will fund the leasing of notebook computers for the coming school year. These will be deployed in Strath Haven High School in the next phase of the district’s Chromebook initiative, which began in fall 2018 with the distribution of Dell Chromebooks to all 9th graders.
The Swarthmore Borough Human Relations Commission stands to grow by two to four members, and to gain additional functions, if Borough Council votes next Monday to approve changes proposed in a new ordinance. At the April 1 work session, council’s General Government Committee chair Sarah Graden described the proposed changes to borough statutes which would be effected by ordinance #1086, and set the context for action.
Board Approves Revised 2019-20 School Calendar
At its bimonthly meeting on Monday, the Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board approved a proposed calendar for the 2019-20 school year. The calendar incorporated some revisions made by the WSSD administration in response to concerns raised at the preliminary presentation at the board’s February 22 meeting.
As reported in last week’s Swarthmorean, the Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board meeting last Monday, February 11, was punctuated by an attempt by a resident named “Peter” to read into the record a victim’s impact statement by a WSSD female student who he says was raped by a male student. The latter is now involved in WSSD extracurricular activities, according to Peter. Neither Peter nor the school board divulged the names of the parties, and Peter was prevented from reading the impact statement into the record at the 2/11 meeting.