Board approves three-year Navigate360 contract for emergency planning and panic-button integration

Director Burton gave an overview of the Navigate360 emergency alert and management software, which will centralize safety plans, maps, procedures and communication for school sites and district offices, and provide concealed panic buttons and reunification support. "They provide support with mapping out and maintaining those digital formats for our campuses... They also provide panic buttons that can be concealed on desks or other places," Burton said.

Trustees asked detailed operational questions: Trustee Smith asked whether the system includes a parent education component and how analytics and monitoring would be handled; Burton said the system integrates with paging and communication devices but that parent education would be a district responsibility and that additional contracts may address technology fallback scenarios. Trustees also discussed camera placement and whether city coordination would be required for cameras covering parking lots. Burton said a district safety working group had seen a contractor demo and recommended the system. The contract covers a one-time implementation fee and annual subscription for a three-year period (implementation reported to run from July 2026 to June 2029); the board approved the contract.