 Pike County School Board Administrative Staff held a special meeting Tuesday to approve a district-wide vaccination supplement for full-time employees. The vaccine supplement is a program that the state government set up for school systems. They will reimburse us up to $100 for those employees that have been vaccinated. They ask us to match the $100 for a total of $200. We're going a little bit above that. We're going to be doing $250 total per employee and we'll get reimbursed $100 of that from the state. Here at Pikeville Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Institute, we have assembled a comprehensive team of cardiac specialists bringing expertise from all regions of the nation and the world. We have coupled that with cutting-edge technology, providing them the best equipment and operating rooms available. The result is comprehensive cardiac care for the people of our region that is second to none. The Heart and Vascular Institute at Pikeville Medical Center. With $250 going towards teachers and full-time staff, Pike County Superintendent Reid Atkins says he hopes the supplement will act as an incentive for those employees to get vaccinated. Well, basically, any employee that's already been vaccinated will qualify and those that have not been will have up to December 1st to get vaccinated. Atkins continues to add that substitutes who have worked 50 or more days and have been rehired should qualify as well. If they're vaccinated by December 1st, then at that time, we will do the payout and they'll actually receive their money December 14th. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Cordrell.