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Alders move to bring Securly classroom monitoring and other school contracts to the floor; finance committee recommends several education agreements
Summary
The Board of Alders moved to discharge an education committee item for a multiyear Securly agreement and heard finance-committee reports recommending approval for several school-related contracts, including a United Way tutoring extension and a bus camera monitoring program.
The New Haven Board of Alders asked to discharge an education committee item so it could consider immediately a proposed multiyear agreement between the Board of Education and Securly for classroom monitoring tools, the board heard. The item was identified in the meeting as Adeline 20250475 and a motion to discharge the item from the education committee was presented for consideration.
IT officer Michael Sineon told the education committee that the Securly agreement "will allow teachers to use Securly to monitor students' activities including school work progress on laptops" and that it "allows IT to block unsafe websites." Sineon presented the contract during the Sept. 24 education committee hearing, according to the record cited at the Alders' meeting.
At the same meeting the finance committee reported favorably on a cluster of education-related contracts and one-year extensions. The committee recommended that the board authorize: a multiyear agreement with EFS LINQ LLC to provide cafeteria management application services from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2028; a one-year extension with United Way of Greater New Haven to coordinate a citywide literacy and math tutoring initiative (Sept. 1, 2025, to Dec. 31, 2026); a multiyear agreement with Bus Patrol America LLC for installation, operation and maintenance of school-bus digital video violation detection systems (including a 60-month equipment lease and service agreement); and an agreement with a new vendor for city and Board of Education print-management services.
The finance committee's report noted these recommendations followed committee hearings (Sept. 8 for several items and Sept. 24 for others). The committee also reminded New Haven Public Schools representatives about the importance of timely contract submissions.
The meeting record shows the board moved to discharge the Securly item for immediate consideration; the transcript does not include a final recorded vote on the discharge or the Securly contract in the portion provided. Similarly, the finance committee recommended several items for approval, but the transcript segment does not record final roll-call outcomes for every contract mentioned. The Bus Patrol item was described as intended to identify vehicles that pass stopped school buses so owners can receive a civil citation "according to the terms of the ordinance passed by this body earlier this year," the committee's presentation said.
