Patrick County Schools Superintendent Jason Wood announced during the School Board’s meeting on Thursday, December 12 that the division received the School Security Equipment grant.
“This is a 75-25 percent grant, so we are receiving 75 percent of the grant total. We’ll receive $77,000 or more than that towards security equipment,” Wood said.
The grant funds will be used to purchase window films to limit visibility in the schools, additional surveillance cameras at the Patrick County High School (PCHS), and weapons/metal detectors.
“We’ve went through several vendors, and we saw several presentations. The OPENGATE system is the one that we have chosen,” he said.
Wood said this grant will be combined with the over $1250,000 School Safety & Security Grant the division received in June 2024 to get the OPENGATE weapons/metal detectors for PCHS.
“With that combination of those two dollars, we’ll have to purchase two additional OPENGATE systems out of local dollars to have enough to every entrance secured at the high school. So really good news that we were able to combine two grants to get most of that paid for with grant dollars,” he said.
In other matters, the board:
*Approved the consent agenda.
*Approved the proposed 2025 school board meeting calendar.
*Approved the proposed 2025-2026 school calendar as presented.
*Approved surplus items as presented.
*Approved revised policies as presented.
*Approved personnel as amended.
