BUCYRUS — The Bucyrus City Schools Board of Education met briefly for a special meeting on Thursday night.
To begin the meeting, board member John Kime spoke on the graduation rate at Bucyrus.
“We haven’t graduated over 90% of students in a class in over a decade. When I learned that, it left a bad taste in my mouth and was real sobering,” Kime said. “I won’t be the first person to place blame anywhere because I’d rather be focused on finding a solution to this problem.”
This came after Superintendent Matt Chrispin sent out graduation rates to board members. The board asked Chrispin to bring in individuals within the school system so that this problem can begin to be discussed and hopefully fixed as soon as possible.
“I know we are fully capable, and we have everyone that we need to make this happen, so let’s start finding solutions,” Kime said.
At the last board meeting on August 20, the vote to approve the purchase of Cold Plasma Ionizers at the Bucyrus Secondary School and Bucyrus Elementary School was tabled to allow treasurer Ryan Cook to investigate the ionizers more.
The ionizers would be paid for completely out of the CRF (Coronavirus Relief Fund) provided by the state. The ionizers would be placed in the HVAC system and would breakdown germs, viruses, bacteria, and other harmful gases in the air. On average, the units last 7-10 years. The board approved the purchase of these units with the money provided by the CRF.
The district’s restart plan will remain as initially approved with Crawford County still being in the state’s virus yellow level.
Bucyrus is looking to work with WMFD to stream its sporting events due to stadium capacity only allowed to be at 15%. At the football stadium, there are connectivity issues, so the district is looking at getting a “point-to-point” network to be able to get Wi-Fi to reach the stadium for WMFD to stream games. Until then, the discussion was held to potentially stream the first football game live on the school’s Facebook page.