District says PA system and staff badges should be ready within weeks after contractor delays

District technology staff gave a technical update on a year‑long safety project that bundles PA, emergency‑management and staff‑badge functionality funded by a college grant.

Jason (speaker 5), who the superintendent had asked to brief the board, said wiring and speaker hardware are largely installed and the core software "is essentially complete," but testing and some rewiring remain because vendors were provided incorrect wiring schematics. He said firmwares for the badges delayed distribution; once those upgrades finished the vendor boxed the badges and the district will perform acceptance testing.

"Within the next couple of weeks, we should see the badges," Jason said. He added that administrator training begins this Friday and that the district will test every badge before deployment. He described an app option for administrators so alarm events appear on their phones and said the system's location accuracy is about 10 feet in tests he performed.

Derek (speaker 13) supplemented that an upcoming meeting with the architectural team will finalize drawings for the middle‑school SREF project and that a server/MDF room identified in the CIP work contains critical systems that need better physical security.

Jason cautioned against a firm public date because of prior miscommunications between contractors and the district's deliberate approach to testing. He said April is an optimistic target but declined to guarantee it.

What's next: the technology team will complete a final round of wiring corrections, finish testing, assign badges and deliver training to administrators prior to broader rollout.