Shining the spotlight on investing in facility upgrades at Big Foot Union High School, the Big Foot Board of Education on June 19 approved two big-ticket expenditures, including lighting upgrades
Listen • 1:19 CMS interim operations director Shawn Turner shows the school board one of the ionization devices that will be installed.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board Wednesday approved spending $870,910 on a system designed to improve air quality at 39 schools that lack the outside airflow that could reduce COVID-19 risk.
Those schools have been a point of contention since CMS began bringing staff and students back. Most schools can bring in outside air to reduce the risk that virus-bearing droplets will linger. But the district says at least some classrooms or buildings on the 39 campuses lack that capability.
The 8-0 vote approved a contract for Chiller Services to install needlepoint bipolar ionization systems.