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Board approves revised SRO contract with county, adds county as additional insurer and affirms salary obligations
Summary
The board approved a revised contract with Burke County that confirms the district will insure SROs as additional insureds and continue paying SRO salaries and overtime per the updated agreement, after county requests to clarify indemnity and salary payment language.
The Burke County Board of Education approved a revised contract with Burke County clarifying liability and payment terms for school resource officers (SROs).
A district attorney or legal advisor explained that the county requested changes after the board previously approved a contract. The changes included county language asking the district to indemnify the county “for anything, any liability incurred as a result of something the SROs do while they're in the performance of their functions.” The attorney said the district “already insured them” and that the district would “just simply add accounting, as an additional insurer. So that covers that.”
The county also asked that the district agree to pay SRO salaries 100% of the time rather than deduct when officers are pulled away for county duties. The attorney said that, in practice, the district has been paying 100% of the SRO salaries and that the county’s request was consistent with that practice.
The board moved, seconded and voted to set (approve) the new contract as presented; the meeting record states “Motion carries.” A board member asked whether members had seen the contract; the attorney answered questions and the board then authorized the chair to sign the agreement.
What’s next: The signed contract will be forwarded to the county as the updated SRO agreement; district staff will add the county as an additional insured on the policy as described in the meeting.
Note: The transcript records the attorney’s explanation and the board’s recorded vote; the agreement text was not read verbatim in the public record during this excerpt.
