District staff presented the districtwide safety plan and summarized updates during the Board of Education meeting, saying the changes were the product of last year’s work by the districtwide safety team. "I highlighted all the changes for this coming year," the staff member said, noting "probably about 12, 15 changes," primarily staff updates and revisions to organizational and response charts. The staff member said an appendix lists staff trained in CPR and AED and noted bleeding-control kits and tourniquets are placed in every AED cabinet.

The presenter said the State Education Department (SED) required a wording change for one emergency term. "We used to refer to a term lockout ... It’s now mandated to be referred to as secure lockout," the district staff member said, and the district has updated classroom cards, pre-recorded principal messages and the scrolling message board to say "secure lockout." The staff member said the district provided summaries to staff and printed the new cards for classrooms and offices.

A major appendix change will be a districtwide revision of reunification procedures for incidents requiring extended sheltering or where buses cannot operate. "We are in the process of doing a very, heavy revision on our reunification procedures ... This will be this school year coming," the presenter said, and added the district plans controlled drills that will include filling out reunification cards and tracking returned students. The presenter said Millbrook High School recently ran a large drill and the district wants to run several controlled drills with select students to test the full reunification process.

Board members asked about technology solutions to speed reunification. One board member suggested anonymized QR codes for students: "If you just have, like, a way to anonymize every student with their own, like, ID number slash QR code, it's really you could know who every student is really quickly," the board member said. District staff said cellular connectivity in parts of the district remains a constraint and that Verizon has proposed two towers but provided no timeline; the staff added the district is working with Northern Westchester for interim steps. The staff also said the district ran an active-shooter functional exercise at the high school in February, involving police and multiple scenarios, and that officials want to add more "curveballs" to future drills to tax response teams.

No formal board vote on the safety plan is recorded in the meeting transcript. The presenter said the plan had been posted and public comment was solicited by email but that the district received little public feedback. "Very rarely. I think I've gotten maybe 2 questions in 6 years," the staff member said when asked how often the public comments on the plan.

Board members also urged broader hazard planning beyond violent incidents, asking that future iterations show how the district would respond to hazardous-materials incidents and train with responsible fire districts and other local partners. Staff responded that schools run tabletop drills that have included hazmat and train-derailment scenarios and that the district could expand that coverage.

The discussion closed with staff noting remaining work on reunification and an intention to place the revised materials into practice with drills during the coming school year.