Mill river unified union is a small, rural public school district in rutland county, vermont

Our district faces distinct challenges with both location and funding. Local school funding has been challenging our communities for years and there is not much in our budget for safety infrastructure updates. Our rural location leaves US with long response times for first responders. Two of our schools have at least a twenty-minute response time for emergency support. Needs assessment: mruusd needs infrastructure updates in the following areas: updates to external doors and hardware. Many of our external doors are rusted or partially broken, leaving students at increased risk. In addition, many of our external door locks only have plates. We would like to replace these with external locks so staff could access the building if there were an outdoor emergency updates to or addition of surveillance cameras. Only two of our five schools have working surveillance cameras and the two schools with cameras have very outdated equipment that frequently falters. We would like financial assistance for the purchase and installation of new cameras. The purchase and installation of intercom systems: two of our schools do not have working intercom systems at this time because the existing systems are so outdated they no longer function. We would like financial support in purchasing two new intercom systems