Pearland ISD renews SRO interlocal and approves three armed-guard vendors to provide full‑day campus coverage

The Pearland ISD Board of Trustees on June 24 approved a three‑year interlocal agreement with the City of Pearland to continue the district's School Resource Officer (SRO) program and separately authorized administration to work with three top-ranked armed-guard vendors identified through a competitive RFP.

District staff said the SRO interlocal maintains roughly 11 SROs and one sergeant (the contract reverts to 1 sergeant after a prior temporary second sergeant used to manage an off‑duty rotation). The district reported continuing an 83% / 17% cost split for SRO program costs (the district pays 83 percent), including equipment and training. Staff displayed projected contract costs that start near $1,480,000 and grow to about $1,600,000 in later years of the three‑year cycle; staff told the board the total district cost for 2024–25 including the extra sergeant and off‑duty rotation was about $1.78 million and that adopting both the interlocal and district‑contracted, full‑day armed…