The surge in COVID-19 cases has prompted the Eastern Pulaski Community School Corporation to stop renting out some of its facilities.
Superintendent Dara Chezem says school officials have decided to limit the activities taking place on school grounds to school-sponsored events for middle school and older. “I reached out to some of the community organizations that sometimes rent our facilities or use our facilities for AAU or other such events and said that through December, we were not allowing that to occur, but we would be reevaluating that in December to see how our community numbers were and that we would let them know at that time what we were going to do for the first of the year,” Chezem explains.
Now, with the governor’s new executive order limiting attendance at school sporting events, Chezem says the school is working with the Pulaski County Health Department to determine what 25-percent capacity is for indoor winter sports. That’s the limit for counties in the orange level of community spread, which is where Pulaski County currently is. Counties coded red will have to restrict K-through-12 athletic events to participants and parents only.
