Board okays private security contract; trustees note state safety allotment falls short of total cost

The Seguin ISD board voted 6–0 to approve a contract with Strategic Training and Consulting LLC to provide security services for the 2025–26 school year.

Doctor Correa presented the contract and said the district will continue to staff each campus with a security officer and provide three officers at the high school. Contracted security and police-officer services were billed at a $50 hourly rate in the materials presented; the district previously spent about $950,660 on private security and police officers during the last fiscal year. Correa noted the portion paid to the specific contracted company last year was roughly $396,354.50, with the remainder paid to police officers who provided campus coverage.

Several trustees asked for a clearer annual figure for the contract. Correa and finance staff clarified a round figure of roughly $400,000 for the contracted provider and noted the total security-related cost for the district (including contracted officers and police details) is roughly $950,000.

Board members also discussed the state school safety allotment. One trustee observed the legislature’s safety allotment does not fully cover the district’s security expenditures; conference materials indicated the district would receive about $606,000 from state allotments in 2025–26 but that last year’s total expenditures were close to $950,000. Trustees asked staff to follow up with more detailed funding breakdowns for future budget discussions.

Why it matters: The contract secures campus security staffing for the school year; trustees flagged a funding gap between state safety allocations and district security costs that will require local budget decisions or legislative advocacy.