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District shows board new command center funded by school‑safety grant; initial staffing planned for school hours
Summary
Greeley School District No. 6 staff led a tour of a newly completed safety command center at the Jan. 13 work session, described its video and coordination capabilities, said interviews are scheduled to hire two staffers, and noted the project was funded by a school safety disbursement grant.
GREELEY, Colo. — Greeley School District No. 6 officials on Jan. 13 toured board members through a newly completed safety command center that staff said will centralize video, communications and emergency coordination for the district.
"Our project is complete. We're actually doing interviews for the for 2 positions to man the command center," Wade Corliss, chief of safety and security, told the board during the work session. Corliss said the facility was funded primarily through the school safety disbursement grant and that interviews to fill two command‑center positions were scheduled for the next day.
Corliss described the center as an effort to consolidate video and incident information from across the district to improve situational awareness during larger incidents, to provide a place for the leadership team to assemble and to speed decision‑making during emergencies. He said the district will initially staff the center during school hours, with overlapping schedules considered to extend coverage for after‑hours events, and that the long‑term goal is to explore a 24/7 operation mirroring larger districts.
Brad Lukey, identified in the briefing as the director of safety and security, led technical work on the project, Corliss said. Board members who toured the facility praised staff and the grant‑funding effort in a short debrief after the tour.
"The technology is just... I'm blown away by it," board member Miss Sullivan said during the debrief. Sullivan and others said the district’s ability to lock down a school quickly and to aggregate video feeds represented a significant security improvement.
Why it matters: District staff said the command center centralizes resources for managing incidents, improves communication among administrators and first responders, and can support extended events such as large athletic contests or weather‑related incidents.
Next steps: The district will proceed with hiring the two command‑center staff, provide training, and return to the board with updates on hours of operation and any plans to expand coverage. No formal board action or vote was taken during the presentation.
