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Trustees hear recommendation to adopt Centegix panic‑alert badges, cite strobes and cellular backup as key advantages
Summary
District staff recommended Centegix’s crisis alert wearable badges for York School District 1, citing battery backup, cellular operation and classroom strobes as reasons to prefer it over a Wi‑Fi‑dependent vendor; trustees pressed staff on integration, app access and budget implications and did not take a procurement vote at this meeting.
District staff recommended Centegix’s crisis‑alert wearable badge platform as the preferred school‑safety system during a York School District 1 work session, saying the product’s cellular operation, battery backup and strobes in every classroom make it more resilient than the alternative the district reviewed, Raptor Technologies.
Assistant Superintendent for Finance and Operations Miss Hagner introduced the item and asked Dean, who led the vendor review, to summarize months of testing and vendor outreach. Dean said the team narrowed four vendors to two finalists and recommended Centegix. "We go through some slides here," Dean said, adding that after reviewing prior work he "found ourselves in the same place" as…
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