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Committee creates $10M school safety grant pot, narrows language to avoid burdensome studies
Summary
The committee included a $10 million school safety and security grant program in its facilities appropriations bill and amended the bill to require the commission to choose "a cost‑effective method" and to set maximum budgets per remedy.
The Select Committee included a $10 million appropriation in LSO0086 for school safety and security improvements and debated how to distribute limited funds across district requests.
Background: The State Construction Department solicited district priority lists after the committee asked for a clearer method of distribution. Forty‑one districts responded. The department’s aggregation of those district submissions estimated $38.36 million would be needed to fund first‑ and second‑priority security items statewide; the department provided a menu of eligible work (door locks and access control, mass notification, vestibules, bollards, surveillance and related items) and an initial cost estimate for vestibules and bollards.
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