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Board identifies school-safety projects and advances career-technical high school for bond consideration
Summary
Board members discussed fences, secured visitor entry, shade structures, playground surfacing, resource officers and security cameras as part of school-safety improvements and agreed to include a Career & Technical (CT) high school on the forthcoming bond package while scheduling community outreach.
Washington County School District board members used the Feb. 26 work session to expand a safety-focused list of capital priorities and to direct staff to include a Career & Technical (CT) high school on the district's upcoming bond proposal.
District operations staff summarized a package of options that would address immediate safety concerns at elementary and secondary campuses: perimeter fencing intended primarily to keep students on campus, secured office entry points ("buzz-in" visitor control), replacement of wood playground surfacing with rubberized surfacing, and coordinated installation of shade structures at playgrounds so work is not duplicated. Staff estimated that the combined scope of fencing and door/security work across remaining campuses could be "less than a million dollars" as a planning-level figure, and said a phased approach would be used.
Springdale Elementary drew specific attention: staff reported the school currently lacks a distinct reception area and visitors must ring a doorbell to enter directly into classroom space. Board members suggested a small front…
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