Florida Department of Education

School Safety/Emergency Preparedness -- Emergency Notification Service

District/Lab School Intent to Apply

 

The due date to notify the Department of Education of Intent-to-Apply is July 20, 2007.

 

District Name:

  

 

Person Completing this Form:

  

 

Title:

 

Telephone Number:

  

 

E-mail Address:

  

 

The 2007 Legislature has appropriated $3 million

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for school districts to apply toward the

purchase of an emergency notification service. Please check

one

box below to indicate the

District’s intent to apply for these grant funds

(double-click on the desired box and select

“checked”)

:

 

The District/Lab School

intends

to apply for the Emergency Notification Service grant

funds.

 

The District/Lab School

does not intend

to apply for the Emergency Notification Service

grant funds.

 

_____________________________________________________ _____________________

Signature of Agency Head Date

 

Please return this form to Julie Collins in the Office of Safe Schools:

 

 

Julie.Collins@fldoe.org or via facsimile 850-245-9978 (SunCom 205-9978)

 

Questions? Contact Julie.Collins@fldoe.org or call 850-245-0676 (SunCom 205-0676)

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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

plemented to

ty of school children, parents and staff in emergency

d alerts, or other

other languages

TTY/TDD receiving devices, and through other

for a school safety/emergency mass notification

to consider

ross 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.