Boys and Girls Clubs of Mason Valley Receives $465,000 For Childcare

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Mason Valley (BGCMV) received $465,000 from the CARES Act to provide childcare services in Silver Springs and Dayton.

The Lyon County Board of County Commissioners approved the agreement on Thursday.

BGCMV provides services to the kids of Yerington/Mason Valley, Silver Springs/Stagecoach, Dayton and Hawthorne. The approved funding is to offset the costs associated for all day operations during the school year.

Nick Beaton, BGCMV Director of Communications and Resource Development, tells us this isn't money that they'd need from the county pre-pandemic but because of the hybrid model the Lyon County School District (LCSD) chose, the money is necessary.

Lyon County provides no formal after school programming. The BGCMV took those operations in 2009.

Beaton adds BGCMV isn't allowed to operate on school grounds but the sites in Silver Springs and Dayton don't have the technology that will be needed to benefit students during the upcoming school year. 

LCSD has adopted a plan where students from third grade up will be in school for one week and home the next week. Many of those students will be at one of the BGCMV sites on their week off. 

Beaton says they will have kids sit 6 feet apart, all staff will wear masks and there will be no group activities.

Usually BGCMV receives 25% their annual operations money from the popular rural music festival, Night In The Country but it's canceled this year.

Beaton says, "We are grateful to the county for their help and support in getting ready for the upcoming school year."