Afternoon and thank you for uh being available today so that we might continue our work uh in addressing uh student wellness and safety activities uh we have um the agenda before you I will a quorum has been determined so um I I would ask that you would consider adding a Bank you ma'am uh to uh item number two well actually no under no new business uh I'd like for you to add a uh B about a uh a conversation regarding future meetings so with that in mind the agenda is before you as amended can I get a motion for approval so moved second second properly moved to second all favor please signify by saying aye are there any nays you have an option no the motion carries we are the doctor preparing uh to receive a report from the modern facilities and resources uh work group and so uh I have not seen Dino yet but he's uh he's just walked in he's just walked in Sergeant Wilford are you available to make this presentation uh there's Dino he's joining us because uh that meeting was on a two hour delay and I got three little ones so I was only on it for about 20 minutes okay um have a lot more to say than I will okay apologize we didn't late you're not you're good you're good a lot of the uh discussion the first half was what had been going on prior to this committee being uh established into the years of school safety oh let's see here how you brought it up uh one of their concerns was the uh I Gen Tech platform that they use for the camera system tying everything together um their understanding is that the county I guess paid for everything uh for the current facilities I'm not sure how many facilities they have in the plans for the future but there are one concern they had was the uh LEA funds would have to be utilized in that construction during that construction for all those that would have to be used for instead of the county funds being used their desires and concerns noted were staffing to support their mission um part of that dealt with uh additional SAs under the safety and security and while a desire for more SROs was noted they also understood the fact that law enforcement is having a recruitment issue across the nation and they understand while they might be able to get something in the future it's gonna probably take a while uh one of the desires big desires was a a full-time IT technician assigned to facilities and safety specific items um that being said issues related to access control any camera issues that come up and tech support um people forget passwords and things like that I imagine is what they're they're discussing there the IT took check would also be assigned a track and handle any firmware and software licensing is in play and um so that they know when it's coming ready to come up for renewal or new stuff is uh provided by the manufacturers and software firms that they uh updated stuff would be coming to the county on a more timely fashion and that we would also recommend that the individual repairs and replaces sorry uh planning and budgeting for that is issues also as technology changes that individual will be more in tune with what's going on out there in in that field you could make recommendations so they could plan it for budget budgeting purposes um and they both indicated a dedicated budget both the operating and capital budgets um I can attest that when I reviewed the we reviewed the last five six years of budgets uh there was only one line item for capital in the capital improvements uh budget for school safety um this say it would they would have dedicated funding instead of trying to move funding around from different programs so they can find extra stuff and they could also assist with their budgeting needs for the future um and their planning needs for the future this would also on another note assist with trying to account for funds both LEA funds um state funds federal funds that come in and um public private partnerships that may come to play down in the future

And they could also assist with their budgeting needs for the future and their planning needs for the future.

This would also want another note, assist with trying to account for funds, both LEA funds, state funds, federal funds that come in, and public-private partnerships that may come to play down in the future.

Yeah, you know, I hate to use the word, but transparency is a thing that a lot of people would like to, you know, be able to see where their funds are going to.

So that was just the gist of the conversation we had with them.

Okay.

Any uh questions?

I have a question.

Yes.

Who was it that you were meeting with?

That's what I was just gonna ask.

Uh Larry Titus and I Shishita Wall.

I don't want to mess up remaining.

Yeah, Shashita.

Yes.

Were they proposing that the full-time IT tech be an employee of IT or student services?

They were well, actually, under I guess safety or facilities.

Someone they would have access to right away, it would handle all that realm of security safety.

Okay.

I imagine they share IT whenever they can, whoever else, you know, in the whole system.

We have an entire IT department.

Yeah.

So all the techs are there.

Yeah.

So I wasn't sure if that person would remain there at the direction of IT or just become integrated.

That would be a local.

I normally just have a big mouth.

They just let look somebody assigned basically for that realm full-time.

So when things crop up, I guess they have to come up more recently.

Yeah.

They would have somebody they can call right away to get it all done instead of being independent queue of things.

You mentioned that they thought that this tech could also be uh responsible for tracking and handling firmware and software licensing.

Did that come up because it has been a an issue in the past, or they were just brainstorming about some of them.

Some of the duties for this person that way.

The Gen Tech system, I know I think they used the Raptor system here in the county.

I don't know if they're still staying with that and move away, but whatever the systems they're using, specifically for school safety, um, and we're fine this when we're doing the study now for the automatic weapons detection systems in the state.

The software, firmware, you know, hardware, five maybe years.

Right.

Shelf life, and the new stuff comes out.

Software is even faster than that sometimes.

Yeah.

So I guess it's it's something like you know, oh, I gotta worry about this thing now, you know, versus someone who can really keep track of things.

I think it would be good too, also to have somebody that's that's the world they live in, the IT world, so we can utilize they have a lot of this raptor system can do a lot, yeah, but we're not utilizing it, or maybe we're just kind of in the learning portion of it of what all it can do before the and part of another thing was um the Wi-Fi boosters at some of the schools that have cell phone service are looking into that so that we can use some of the systems that we have more effectively.

Um so we're utilizing all the tools within those systems.

Um that was that was part of the conversation.

Um I know they've had a few vendors out for metal detecting, uh, well, maybe not metal detecting, but webbing detecting.

Um that way it's not catching every metal thing that you have on, but I know the boards had a few vendors over, so that's something they're looking into.

Uh I know another concern that they had was um just the with the budgeting is to have a budget that would cover um when they need to replace the can't replace cameras and have someone to run the system and have you know uh there's all the costs, the initial cost goes into operating um budget, but then that doesn't carry on to keep the cameras up and running for repairs, um, you know, the vapor detectors when they need to have somebody come out, uh they need somebody to monitor all that stuff.

So not only do they have the operating budget covers all that stuff, but that they were suggesting a secondary um security budget that would kind of encompass a lot of those uh unforeseen costs that come with a lot of this uh type of equipment, software updates, um, you know, where they hold the data storage and stuff like that.

So one of the big things we're finding across state from our office, we're doing a weapons detection system study right now, two-year study.

First phase is done, the report just got sent up.

um security budget that would kind of encompass a lot of those uh unforeseen costs that come with a lot of this uh type of equipment software updates um you know where they hold the data storage and stuff like that so big things we're finding across state moral office we're doing a weapons detection system study right now two year study first phase is done the report just got sent up I gotta see if we can get it out by here but that's a big the hidden cost of training and staffing because it takes for a web six it takes an average of three people a lane so if you have two lanes that six dedicated people the question then is who's allowed to do searches you know it's a school related issue it's not law enforcement it's the school administrators so is there a projection on when that might be the second coming to fruition second phase of the study is starting after the first of the year that's where we're gonna meet our office of meeting with technology folks from across the nation um who are who are vending these products um we've got a special dispensation to be able to meet with them to learn how these products work on the back end and our IT our chief IT person is is the experience that part of it we just had done the first part of it I told Laird Mr.

Titus as soon as I get that report out to him I will and get to everybody else.

Okay thank you.

And I know that the Calvert is probably on that first stage of just bringing vendors in to see how they work they demonstrate it how much everything's gonna cost.

So I'd say we're we've had one I I've been invited to go with one vendor and I got an invite to go move with another vendor later on in January.

So I know it's something they really want it's definitely a deterrent and then also it's gonna catch things if they are coming in but if people are coming to an event and they know there's a weapons detection they're probably not gonna bring a weapon in.

Hopefully not if they do it's gonna mostly be caught we're gonna have law enforcement right there along with school officials to stop this kind of stuff.

So um it's just you know I would say we're in phase one just knowing that the vendors are coming and seeing what the costs are and then coming up with the money to pay for it.

Is Calvert near the top of that list out of being proactive or there's a need driving it.