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Volunteer zone leaders describe neighborhood safety work and ask board for support
Summary
Volunteer 'zone leaders' told the board they organized parent and community response after a post-school fight, helped secure student safety for two months, and asked trustees for resources to expand the volunteer program across more campuses.
Ronnie Mitchell and fellow volunteer zone leaders told the Crowley ISD Board that a community response after an incident near Summer Creek Middle School helped prevent further disturbances and that the grassroots effort should be expanded with district support.
"As a result of that, the next day, we had about 15 people show up... the students were able to get home safely," Mitchell said, describing late-afternoon outreach the volunteers coordinated. Zone leaders said the group currently covers four middle-school zones and that their work ranges from presence outside campuses to in-school support when needed.
Kashay Polk and Talitha Davis said zone leaders serve wherever needed across the district, help bridge communication with families and provide hands-on support when schools are short-staffed, and that they would like the board’s assistance to recruit volunteers and secure resources.
Trustees praised the effort and asked staff to help with shirts, outreach and logistics; board members recommended making the work a recurring community event (for example, a movie-night meet-up) to boost parent engagement.
Why it matters: Community volunteers supplement campus safety and family engagement, and scaling volunteer capacity requires coordination and resources so principals and families know where and how volunteers will support campuses.
Next steps: Zone leaders asked for board backing and additional resources; district staff said they had communicated zone leader information to campuses and that shirts were being arranged.
