Two weeks after passing a back-to-school plan with voluntary but recommended masking, and two days before the beginning of the school year, the Seneca Valley School Board will convene a special meeting Monday to discuss masking.

In an alert on its website, the district informed parents and community members of the meeting, which will be conducted 7 p.m. Monday in the Intermediate High School auditorium, and which is being convened in “consideration of Butler County recently moving to the 'high' level of community transmission, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

The CDC's “high” designation is the highest level of community transmission. Under that definition, the county must have either 100 or more cases per 100,000 residents, a positivity rate of at least 10%, or both, within the last 10 days.

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