The Atlantic Community School District’s Board of Education held a work session Wednesday evening. Superintendent Steve Barber told KJAN News Transportation Director Mark Weiss updated the Board on the status of the district’s fleet and drivers.

The Board also discussed the district’s Fiscal Year 2020 Financial situation, and how COVID has affected some of those numbers.

Steve Barber also spoke of the outpouring of support for injured Trojan Football Player Steele McLaren, who is in a Nebraska hospital fighting to recover from severe head trauma resulting from an accident last Sunday.

Steele’s dad Dustin McLaren said on the Praying for Steele #32Strong Facebook page, that the 17-year old will not come off the drugs keeping him sedated and paralyzed as hoped, on Friday. The doctor stressed to Steele’s parents that the young man’s brain injury was so severe, they should be prepared for a long road to recovery, ahead.