On Monday night, the Indiana School Board approved an agreement with a security company to add three armed guards to the district.
The board authorized the district administration to work with Bramlet Enterprises LLC to add three full-time armed security guards at an estimated cost of $165,000. While the exact plans were not made public, acting superintendent Rob Heinrich called the armed guards one layer of a multi-tiered security plan.
While the vote was unanimous to approve the motion, board member Tom Harley said that funding student safety needs to come from outside of the district.
In other business, the board also approved the top security enhancements as presented by the district’s safety consultant, and empowers the administration to take action to implement them. The board also authorized the administration to participate in the PAYS survey by having students in next year’s 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th grades take the prevention-focused survey.
