The Palmerton Area School District approved several bids Tuesday evening for a heating and ventilation project, which is part of the Junior and Senior High School Campus Improvement Project.

CMG of Easton was awarded the general construction contract for the renovations. The bid was $612,000.Midline Mechanical LLC in Ephrata was awarded the HVAC construction contract after submitting a bid of $6,960,000.Ace Electric won the electrical construction contract bid in the amount of $1,044,653.Superintendent Scot Engler said that all of the bids that met the submission requirements were considered for the project.The board also approved various application and submission fee payments required by Barry Isett and Associates Inc. for the campus improvement project. These fees include:• $2,860 and $550 to Lower Towamensing Township.• $3,201.30 to Carbon County Planning Commission.• $3,000 to the Borough of Palmerton.In other business, the school board approved the nomination of school board member Clarence Myers to be placed on the 2016 ballot for the Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit Board of Directors.The board also approved accepting the second readings and approval of three policies. The policies are policy 113.1 Behavior Support, policy 304.1 Nepotism and policy 823 Administering Naloxone.School board member Darlene Yeakel objected to voting on the last two policies and asked to table them for another month. She thought that they weren't easily found on the district's website for public approval and may not be in the correct code."We are supposed to have these out for the public to review," Yeakel said. "They really need to look at it."Engler explained that the policy involving nepotism includes guidelines that were suggested by the state. The guidelines only explain further the policy already held by the district.As far as the use of naloxone, nurses and administration in the district have been trained to use the medication. It would only be administered to a student to reverse the side effects of opioid drugs, he said.Emergency personnel have used naloxone to save the lives of patients who have overdosed on an opioid drug."It falls under the good Samaritan law," Engler said.Yeakel said she would not vote to approve the policies regarding nepotism and naloxone.School board member Susan Debski spoke up in support of Yeakel and said that if this is a coding issue, then maybe it needs to be looked into and changed. No one else spoke up.The board voted and approved all three policies, with Yeakel and Debski voting no.