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Commissioners authorize start of negotiations on School Resource Officer MOA after public asks for delay
Summary
After public comment urging the county to postpone the School Resource Officer memorandum with Grants School District, the commission voted 5-0 to begin negotiations on the MOA to establish an SRO.
The Cibola County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously April 27 to begin negotiations on a memorandum of agreement to place a School Resource Officer (SRO) with the Grants School District, despite a public request to table the item.
During public comment, Joan Kowalski urged the commission to delay action on the SRO memorandum so the county could "obtain more information on incidents within the schools, get input from parents and teachers, and have the MOU rewritten to have officers only respond to major incidents," according to the meeting record. After discussion on the consent agenda, Commissioner Ralph Lucero moved to start the first steps of negotiations on the SRO MOA; Commissioner Robert Windhorst seconded and the motion passed 5-0.
The motion authorized staff to begin negotiations but did not finalize or approve any contract terms. The record does not specify the negotiated scope, timeline, or whether the SRO would be county- or school-supervised; those details remain to be developed in negotiations.
The commission took no vote to adopt a final agreement at the meeting; the action recorded is authorization to begin negotiations.
