Family would donate money to improve McDonald track and football field

Staff report

McDONALD

The Timothy Cherotti family is proposing to make $40,000 in drainage repairs to the high school track and football field, McDonald graduate Tim Cherotti told the school board Monday.

The Cherotti family has made several donations to the district over recent years.

Cherotti told the board he plans to have drainage redone on the inner fence around the football field. More drainage will be installed on the track and the football field to alleviate wet spots.

Other plans are to re-level the football field and replant all the grass on the field with seed.

Cost figures for the work already have been obtained by Athletic Director Dan Williams.

No action is required by the board on the plans, schools treasurer Bill Johnson said, just a motion to accept the donation when it is made.

Johnson said the board embraced the plans.

The district’s plan for a “Blizzard Bag Day” was approved by the Ohio Department of Education to allow students and teachers to have Monday off school.

Due to inclement weather, the district had one day over its allowed bad weather days, and the blizzard bag day will allow students to have their four-day Easter break, Good Friday to Monday.

The blizzard bag will be a home assignment from each of a student’s classes which must be turned in in two weeks.