MUSD to discuss Anti-opioid overdose medications for school nurses

The Morongo Unified School District Board of Trustees will be holding their regular meeting tonight (November 15th) at 6pm at Joshua Tree Elementary.

For tonight’s MUSD Board meeting agenda, action items include: a request to designate December 13th, 2022 as its annual reorganization meeting, a request to approve annual renewal of nutritional services with California USDA Foods Cooperative, a request to authorize advertisement of Kitchen Modernization bid at 29 Palms Junior High, and a request to approve the same project’s architectural and designing services.

Items for review include: bylaw update to change district requirements to hold annual organizational meeting, and policy to provide naloxone hydrochloride or other opioid antagonists to school nurses and other trained personnel to administer to persons suffering from opioid overdose.

Gabriel Hart

Gabriel Hart is an author and journalist from Morongo Valley, CA. He was a finalist for the 2024 Golden Mic Awards for his continuous reporting on the Morongo Valley Community Services District. His punk-noir novel On High at Red Tide is out now from Pig Roast Publishing, and he's the editor-in-chief/publisher of Beyond the Last Estate, a print-only magazine featuring "creative reporting on contemporary literature."