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Board approves emergency-preparedness manual and accepts safety-drill evaluations after public safety concerns
Summary
The Fond du Lac School District board approved the district emergency-preparedness manual and accepted written safety-drill evaluations, following a public comment raising fire-safety concerns for students in a classroom lacking a window; the approvals were unanimous.
The Fond du Lac School District Board of Education voted unanimously to approve an updated emergency-preparedness manual and to accept written safety-drill evaluations from each school, the board said at its regular meeting.
The vote on the manual fulfilled a statutory requirement tied to 2017 Wisconsin Act 143; administration described the update as largely organizational and said the district’s crisis team, which meets monthly with fire and police partners and the school resource officers, refines procedures and coordinates drills. “Our crisis team meets once per month as members of administration, fire, police, the SROs,” said Mr. Blaszkowski, who described the manual’s role in documenting those processes.
The approvals followed public comment from Sarah Mullins, who told the board she had met with a fire-division official and said the department had been unaware that children were assigned to a room without a window. Mullins described removal techniques firefighters said they would use in an emergency — carrying or dragging — and said the practice raised safety and liability concerns. Mullins told the board she planned a meeting the next morning that would include the district’s Director of People Services and the fire chief.
Administration explained that each building keeps drill logs and that state and local forms are filed with the Department of Justice as part of the statutory process. Board members and staff identified some missing entries in recent drill logs and asked administration to follow up and report back. The board accepted the written evaluations and carried the manual approval and the drill-evaluation acceptance by roll call votes of 6-0.
No formal change beyond the manual’s organizational edits was described at the meeting. The board also noted that unannounced walk-throughs by the fire department occur at every school and that the district will coordinate any clarifications and missing documentation with principals and staff.
