NEW WASHINGTON — It was announced during the Buckeye Central Buckeye Central Board of Education meeting Thursday that Local Schools have changed its student drug and alcohol policy and guidelines for the next school year.
The changes are that if a student fails a random drug test, then on their first offense they will lose their school driving privileges for 20 days, they will be drug tested every time there is a drug test, and they face suspension.
If a student is a captain of their athletic team, they will lose that captain status for the duration of the suspension or longer if the coach wishes.
If the student athlete fails a drug test three times, then they will lose school driving privileges for the year and will not be able to participate in their activities for a year.
School administrators decided to increase the random drug tests to six times in a school year instead of five so that there are two different tests each season.
The board has also announced there will be a property-tax relief to go along with the school doing the building project of adding more classrooms and a bus garage.
The original bond issue on the K-12 building has been eliminated, and the annual amount of $544,319 collected from taxpayers will be funded through revenue received from the Rover Pipeline.
Taxpayers should see an approximate 14-percent reduction starting with the first half payment in January 2020.
Questions should be directed to Buckeye Central treasurer Nancy Ackerman at 419-492-1033 or nackerman@bcbucks.org.
The next regularly scheduled meeting is July 11 at 7 p.m.