Carol Blymyer, center, who serves as nurse for Elida Local Schools, received the Elida Employee Excellence Award at Tuesday night’s meeting. Superintendent Don Diglia, left, and board President Dennis Fricke were on hand to present the award.

“I think every school in America, when something like that happens, says ‘I wish we could’ve done more.’ We have to make improvements,” Miller said. “We’re moving forward with the ALICE program, which stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate. We have a crisis response team put together through all the buildings, there’s 23 of us. We’ve put buckets in all of the rooms with emergency supplies, anything we could think of that they would possibly need if they were locked in here during an emergency. Don has some great ideas and we’ve been talking with glass people, door people and fence people, trying to figure out how we can make our school buildings safer.”