District staff said they will replace aging audio equipment at the high school football stadium and update the gym audio system, and they described a separate plan to fence the Othello High School campus to support a closed-campus model for student safety.

Administrators told the board vendors evaluated stadium speakers and the mixing board, noting some equipment is about 30 years old. Staff said planned work includes audio processing and a new wireless microphone system for the football stadium, repositioning some speakers to audience level, and upgrades that will allow announcements to be heard in both the main and auxiliary gym simultaneously.

"So that project is moving forward. We've got the funds to do it, and so we're gonna have dramatic improvements out there, ready for football season, we hope," the superintendent said.

On campus fencing, staff described a site walkthrough identifying a single continuous stretch of fence—between the current art building, the old tech building and the bus garage along Juniper Street—that would enclose the high school. Staff said the fence would allow the campus to be closed at the start of school and reopened at the end of the day; gates would be left open before and after school and secured during the day with staff-controlled gates similar to existing fire-lane gates.

Board members asked how student flow, bus pick-up and walk routes would be affected. Staff said school leaders are planning specific arrival and dismissal flows and will coordinate bus pickup locations; further operational details were being worked out by campus administrators.

Staff said the fencing and the audio upgrades are intended to improve safety and the school experience during events and daily operations. The district estimated the audio work would be completed in time for the football season and the fencing project could be done by the start of the school year, pending contractor scheduling and logistics.