Superintendent: Schools are Ready For Monday Start [With Video]

Updated Sun. 1:59 p.m.

The Meriden Public Schools will be open for a regular day on Monday. Students have been out of school for a week, since Storm Alfred knocked out power to about 90 percent of the city.

All the public schools have power, Superintendent Mark Benigni confirmed Sunday.

The schools' facilities director, along with a plumber and electrician have been going through each school Sunday to make sure that there are no outage-related problems, Benigni said. The public schools have put Carbon Monoxide detectors outside the boiler rooms in each school in case there are any issues with furnaces. 

The school week will be shortened as school is closed on Tuesday for Election Day and Friday for Veteran's Day.

“It will be a disrupted week, but we’re back in session on Monday and we’re excited to get our students back into school,” Benigni said.

The 2011-2012 school year is now . Prior to the storm and week-long outages, the last day of school was scheduled to be June 14.

Going forward, only one more snow day can be tacked to the end of Meriden's school year. The second snow day will start taking days from April vacation, according to Superintendent Mark Benigni.

"Our second snow day will have us attending school on April 20th," Benigni said in an e-mail to school staff that he forwarded to media on Wednesday, Nov. 1. "Additional snow days will be deducted from the April vacation starting Friday and working backward."