The Greenwich Representative Town Meeting Monday night approved $1.4 million to improve security at Greenwich public schools. The vote was 183 to 5 with one abstention, Greenwich Time reported.
As part of the security upgrades following the Newtown shootings, Greenwich will replace all locks on classroom doors so they can be secured from both the inside and outside. Now, classroom doors can be locked only from the outside, the report said.
In addition, the district plans to add additional security cameras, upgrade intercom systems, reinforce windows with laminated security glass, and put shades on classroom doors and windows that can lowered in an emergency, the newspaper said.
The district is weighing the addition of a second full-time school resource police officer to complement one assigned to Greenwich High School, Greenwich Time said.
The officer, whose salary and benefits would cost $80,000 to $100,000, would give police a presence in the three middle schools, Schools Superintendent William McKersie told the newspaper.
