FISD Board Approves Installation of Electronic Security System for All Campuses

03-07-2013

Denise Bell
Post Managing Editor

On Monday evening the Forney ISD Board of Trustees met for their monthly meeting to consider a packed agenda that included the passage of a new camera monitoring system for all FISD school campuses.

FISD Asst. Superintendent of Operations, Brian Zemlicka, presented the action item and started by explaining, “To continue our efforts as a district to provide the safest learning environment possible for our students, our employees and our parents we have a proposal for installation of electronic retrofit hardware on all the front doors of all of our campuses.”

Elaborating he said, “In simple terms what our proposal says it that we would have buzzer type hardware for each campus where you are only allowed in by a secretary or somebody in the office after they have visual contract of the front door, and then they can push a buzzer to unlock the door to let that person in. It’s just another way for us to try and keep everyone in our district safe. Our proposal is from Convergent Technologies and Charlie Jackson is here as our Technologies Director and he can explain the ends and outs of this equipment.”

Several Board Trustees asked questions about the equipment, its installation and then majority of the discussion centered around how the system operates, and on how the students and staff will need to be retrained in order to optimize the new security measures.

The cost to supply the system as additional safety for the campuses of the Forney ISD will be $66,276.06.

Funds for the new security system have been made available from unused bond monies left over from a recent sewer project, and the legal bid law requirement has been met as the FISD awarded the vendor along with multiple purchasing cooperatives.

The Forney ISD unanimously approved this expenditure and reportedly these new safety measures will be in place within the next sixty days.