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Committee outlines rightsized event coverage, schedule changes and a new armed‑guard contract at W.R. Rogers
Summary
The committee endorsed plans to 'rightsize' event coverage—targeting 4–6 deputies for big high‑school events, 8 safety monitors and options for schools to pay for extra coverage—announced a proposal to move some security staff from 245 to 260 days to cut overtime, and reported approval of an armed‑guard contract and a metal detector installation at W.R. Rogers.
The Safety and Security Committee on March 17 heard detailed plans to change how the district staffs events, alter security staff schedules to reduce overtime and implement a new armed‑guard contract at W.R. Rogers.
Safety staff described a rightsizing strategy for athletic and large events to reduce costs while maintaining baseline coverage: “we're gonna maintain a coverage of 4 to 6 deputies depending on the game,” the staff member said, with more deputies for rival games and fewer for out‑of‑town contests. The plan calls for about eight safety monitors to augment deputies and suggests that if a school wants coverage beyond the district baseline, that extra cost should come from the principal’s athletic or discretionary funds.
The committee also discussed changes to staff schedules to reduce overtime. Staff said security personnel currently on 245‑day schedules are proposed to shift to 260‑day schedules so that days such as spring break would be paid at straight time rather than overtime, and that the change should reduce the district’s overtime obligations.
Budget work will include an analysis of expensive entry‑point screening at larger campuses (one example cited was a campus with 82 doors and 11 screening points) to see where screening could be scaled back.
Staff reported that the district obtained approval and is implementing a contract with a newly awarded company to provide an armed guard at W.R. Rogers and to install a metal detector at that school. “We did get approval for the armed guard at W.R. Rogers… and putting the metal detector there,” a staff member said.
Why it matters: the staffing and schedule changes aim to contain rising security costs but raise questions about how coverage differences across schools will be handled and how principals will be expected to fund extras above the baseline.
What’s next: staff plans to bring budget language forward and to work with principals over the summer on scaling coverage, as well as to report specific contract implementation steps for W.R. Rogers to the committee.
