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Spencer board warns of budget gap if county redirects school SRO funding
Summary
Town officials said Rowan County's push to expand school resource officer coverage in all elementary schools could leave Spencer with a funding gap for its SRO at North Rowan Elementary, triggering difficult staffing and budget trade-offs.
Town of Spencer officials told the town board on Tuesday that a county-level push to place school resource officers in all elementary schools could shift funding away from the town's current SRO positions and create immediate budget pressures.
An agency official representing the town's public safety team said the town currently budgets a school-contributed revenue line of about $250,000 to cover three SRO positions, and that the school system's intention is to return funding to a countywide model once Knox Middle School reopens. "We have our current in our current year budget, we have a revenue line from the schools of about $250,000 to cover those 3 SRO…
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