1. 9C SPECIAL CATEGORIES GRANTS AND AIDS - SCHOOL SAFETY/EMERGENCY

Chapter 2007-72, Laws of Florida
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9C SPECIAL CATEGORIES
GRANTS AND AIDS - SCHOOL SAFETY/EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS
FROM EDUCATIONAL ENHANCEMENT TRUST FUND
 
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
$3,000,000
 
Funds in Specific Appropriation 9C for School Safety/Emergency Preparedness shall be
allocated based upon a district’s full-time equivalent student count and must be used toward the
purchase of a school safety/emergency mass notification service that must be fully implemented
to provide service in the 2007-2008 school year. The system will serve to enhance the safety of
school children, parents and staff in emergency situations, such as an impending hurricane/severe
weather incident, fire, bomb threat, homeland security incident, missing child alerts, or other
critical school safety events. The system shall provide for multi-lingual communication in
English and Spanish and may include other languages and have the ability to notify parents and
staff through email, landline phones, cell phones, TTY/TDD receiving devices, and through
other communication devices considered necessary by the district. Any district with a current
contract for a school safety/emergency mass notification service which does not meet these
requirements may utilize these funds for the 2007-2008 school year. Districts are encouraged to
consider systems or applications capable of simultaneous delivery of an emergency message
across all means and devices of communication.
 
Funds disbursed to participating districts shall be applied toward the purchase of a qualifying
service. District participation in this pilot is voluntary. Districts shall decide to participate by
November 1, 2007. The Department of Education shall reallocate any funds remaining on a
prorata basis to participating districts by December 31, 2007.
 
Districts that do not currently have a qualifying school safety/emergency mass notification
service may purchase the system by contracting with a qualified service provider in accordance
with the district’s purchasing rules, by utilizing the terms of a contract from another district, or
by utilizing the state contract negotiated by the Department of Education pursuant to the pilot
project initiated in the 2006-2007 fiscal year from Specific Appropriation 116 in Chapter 2006-
25, Laws of Florida.
 

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