The school district just recently completed a school safety audit with a private safety consultant and our local regional office of education

The audit found significant areas for improvement in order to better protect our students and staff throughout our district. The cost to fully equip the four schools within our school district with the needed safety and security items to better protect our students and staff is beyond what the school district can afford in its operating budget. In order to better protect our students and staff, we are looking to add a school resource officer to our high school, install safety film on the first floor of our four buildings, install upgraded panic button devices throughout our buildings, purchase repeaters for campus security radioes, purchase cell phone boosters, increase campus safety monitors, and purchase various other hardware and software items to ensure school safety. These items combined cost nearly $500,000 and far exceed what we can afford within our districts' budget. We need this federal assistance to purchase these additional items and these will help ensure our schools become safer places to teach and learn.