Outside organizations looking to utilize Highland School District buildings for their activities may do so again.

The district has not allowed outside groups to use its facilities for months due to the ongoing pandemic, but Superintendent Ken Crawford says the school has decided it is safe enough to reverse that policy, “We feel with the (positivity) rates in the counties, and we always look at Washington and Johnson counties because they’re so close, the rates are below 10 percent for each county and we’re looking at the governor when she opens up everything and takes away all of the restrictions except the masks, (although) we still enforce the mask mandate. It puts us in a spot where, we’re at the end of our winter sports season, that we can have a few more people inside our building, so we wanted to give it a shot.”

Crawford says outside groups using school facilities are required to wear masks and clean thoroughly after their events are concluded.