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Board approves revised SRO contract with 10-day replacement clause, flags $5,000 budget gap
Summary
The board approved a revised School Resource Officer contract that shortens the replacement window from 30 to 10 days; Superintendent Kim said the city agreed to send a replacement or stop charging if none is available. The contract runs about $120,000 — $5,000 over the district budget estimate.
The Silver Falls SD 4J board voted to accept a revised contract for the district's School Resource Officer program after Superintendent Kim said she had negotiated two edits with the city.
Kim said she had reduced the replacement timeline so that "if the SRO was out more than 10 days, that the city would send us a replacement." She told the board the district's contract figure is $120,000, roughly $5,000 more than the amount the district budgeted and below the city's internal estimate of about $134,000.
Board members asked whether the city objected to reducing the replacement period from 30 to 10 days; Kim said she had not heard any objection and that city counsel had reviewed the language. The board then moved and seconded the contract acceptance; the motion passed on a voice vote, with the transcript recording "Aye" responses but not a roll-call tally.
Why it matters: the edit shortens the time the district may be without a designated SRO before the city is expected to provide a replacement, and the approved figure leaves the district about $5,000 over its current budget estimate. The board discussed the trade-off and accepted the city's reduced price relative to the city's internal cost estimate.
What happens next: Kim said the city will vote on the final contract this week; the district approved the contract contingent on that process.
