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Committee hears details on SRO contracts, radio upgrades and safety staffing
Summary
The committee reviewed Safe Schools expenditures: quarterly SRO payments to local agencies, purchases to support emergency communications and a crisis-response coordinator hire; staff emphasized ongoing monitoring of rising SRO contract costs.
The committee's Safe Schools presentation outlined how referendum funds support daily law-enforcement presence on campuses, safety technology and communications upgrades. Dennis McFadden, representing the Safe Schools department, said the largest share of recent spending supported the school resource officer program and listed quarter payments to partners: $17,957 to the Bellevue Police Department, $42,183 to the Ocala Police Department and $768,750…
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