The Tamaqua Area School Board held its school board meeting on Monday night.

Two people submitted letters to the board about ticket distribution to scholastic sporting events.

A parent of a senior wrote in her letter, “It would be nice for senior parents to attend home and away games” in regard to winter sports.

“Right now, throughout the league and pretty much District 11, there’s a limitation on the number of people you can have in an indoor facility,” Superintendent Ray Kinder said. “Last year, for volleyball, it was 25 people. There were a lot of parents that were not able to see games during the first half of the year. I’m sure it’s very difficult for those parents and student-athletes who want their parents to come see them.”

The guidelines are mandates from the state Department of Health.

“The guidelines changed, but now it’s a percentage. Depending on size of your facility, but it counts everyone who is in operation of the game (coaches, trainers, players, referees) and you have to have enough room for players on the bench to spread out and have room.”

Kinder noted the Tamaqua gym seats around 950 people.

“Which means you can have about 95 people in the gym,” he added. “When you have to put distance between people as well, it becomes tighter.”

Kinder said Tamaqua does not receive any tickets for away games and that each student has two tickets to give away to get into the home games now.

“The larger facility you have, the more fans you can have in. Right now, maybe one or two schools around are allowing visiting fans. The overwhelming 90-something percent at this point are not allowing visiting fans in.”

The other letter referenced seventh- and eighth-grade basketball, which is played in a smaller gymnasium.

“We are looking at trying to figure out what we can fit in there after a couple of games,” Kinder said. “If we can add people in there, we will. … We’re taking that into consideration. It’s our plan to hopefully let some of the parents into those games.”