Coordinated Health will continue to provide athletic trainer and physician services for Parkland students for the next two years.

The annual cost for trainers at the high school and middle schools is $80,000.

At the March 15 meeting, the board renewed an agreement with Coordinated Health extending from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2018.

The district began using Coordinated Health in July 2013 after switching from OAA.

Trainers are certified and serve as intermediaries between coaches and doctors when athletes are injured.

They are on the scene from the start of sports in August until the last event of the year around Memorial Day.

Trainers tape the ankles of football players and check the skin of wrestlers.

They monitor for heat-related issues and are qualified to use an AED if sudden cardiac arrest occurs.

Trainers also play a large role in concussion management.

In other business, the board approved a three-year lease for two modular classrooms at Fogelsville Elementary School at a total cost of $121,268 and at Jaindl Elementary for $130,045.

Superintendent Richard Sniscak said the higher cost at Jaindl is related to decking and walkway matters.

He reported the modulars will be obtained from Williams Scots man, the company which manufactures, leases or sells the product.

“We’re going to lease them because we’re not going to keep them,” Sniscak said.

The modulars consist of a single unit containing two classrooms.

They are needed to create additional space for full-day kindergarten starting in September.

The kindergarten rooms will be in the main building while the modulars will be used for upper level students or for work with specialists.

The board approved an agreement with Strunk-Albert Engineering to provide electrical engineering services for the modular classrooms at a cost of $3,400.

In another matter, the board approved purchase of a 22-foot box truck at a cost of $39,900.

The meeting ended with comments from Sniscak regarding the lack of a state budget and the hardships the situation has created for school districts.

“People in Harrisburg don’t have the will to do the right thing,” Sniscak said.