Every so often, someone in the audience at a Pleasant Valley School Board meeting comments on the amount of money given to the school district from St. Luke’s University Health Network.

The comments vary, but the number is always the same - $12 million.

Superintendent James Konrad took a moment at the meeting on Thursday to set the record straight. It isn’t $12 million; it’s $1.2 million over 10 years.

“So there’s been some comments over the past couple of months,” Konrad said. Actually, the comments began long before he came to the school district and have been brought up again since.

“I just want to clarify that the breakdown of money that the school district has seen from the St. Luke’s contract is a 10-year contract that is a $1.2-million dollar contract,” he said.

The school district signed a sports medicine and sponsorship agreement with St. Luke’s in 2020. The contract runs from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2030. Prior to this agreement, the school district had an agreement with Lehigh Valley Health Network to provide sports medicine services and other health services to the school district.

Konrad showed a slide that broke down how much the school district has received each year since the contract was signed and how much they would receive in the future. The breakdown is as follows:

• 2020-2021: $238,000

• 2021-2022: $117,500

• 2022-2023: $117,500

• 2023-2024: $100,500

• 2024-2025: $107,500

• 2025-2026: $142,500

• 2026-2027: $92,500

• 2027-2028: $102,500

• 2028-2029: $117,500

• 2029-2030: $92,500

The grand total is $1,228,500.

Konrad also showed a breakdown of the specific sponsorships that the money is applied to each year. The contract spells out the sponsorships and scholarships that the money is applied to each year.

For the 2020-2021 school year, the $238,000 in sponsorships included:

• New Partner Sponsorship: $50,000

• Sports Facility Sponsorship: $25,000

• Sports Medicine Vehicle Sponsorship: $8,000

• Marching Band Sponsorship: $50,000 - the band purchased new uniforms with this money.

• Sports.com/Streaming Broadcasting Equipment: $12,500

• Safety in Sports Sponsorship - purchase of six automatic external defibrillators

• Annual Sponsorships: $18,750; $18,750; $18,750; $18,750

• Sports Rehabilitation Sponsorship: $2,500

• Academic grants: $5,000

• Scoreboard installation: $5,000

• Game Day Ambulance Allowance per district invoice: $5,000.