The school district said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inspected three Newburgh-area school sites on the afternoon of the district meeting and cleared them as requiring “no special cleaning,” while other affected buildings await further guidance. Mrs. Tish Wagner, a district official, told the school board that the EPA had already visited Yankee Town Elementary, Sharon and Newburgh and found no need for special cleaning, and that the district would still “do a quick scrub on the playground equipment” before allowing students back in those areas. "This afternoon, we were able to send a second communication to the families of those seven Newburgh schools, letting them know that EPA was gonna be on-site this afternoon and tomorrow," Wagner said. The district’s message thanked multiple partner agencies for their response: Ward County Emergency Management Agency, Ohio Township Fire Department, the local health department and the EPA. Wagner said the district’s facilities staff had shut down HVAC systems and coordinated messaging to families. "Brian Flowers and his team on Saturday very swiftly and quickly got all of our HVAC systems shut off once we had the notification to do so," she said. The district said the EPA will inspect the remaining four affected sites and either release them or provide specific cleaning guidelines; the board was told principals will be given permission to reopen cleared spaces to students after the short playground cleaning. No board votes were taken; the update was delivered as an informational report during the meeting.