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Kenosha School District staff outline security upgrades and funding options after failed referendum
Summary
District staff presented a bundle of low-cost and longer-term school safety recommendations—including locking classroom doors, visitor-management expansion (Raptor), metal-detecting wands, a $22,000/year Safer Schools Together contract, and possible controlled-entrance projects funded by loan or referendum.
District staff outlined a package of immediate and future school-safety steps the Kenosha School District could pursue after a previous capital referendum failed, emphasizing low-cost measures to implement quickly and larger projects that would require new funding.
In a special meeting to preview the July 22 agenda, an unidentified district staff member said the safety committee met three times and focused on "cost-free or very low-cost recommendations" that could be implemented now while officials consider larger capital projects. "One of the things that might be important for you to know is that there's no revisions to the program at all," Michelle Santelli, a regional coordinator for high schools, said of the Head Start supplemental grant; Santelli also described how high-school phone procedures are informing middle-school practice.
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