Broward superintendent suggests eliminating security positions as district faces $64M budget cut

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – With declining enrollment successful Broward schools, leaders are uncovering ways to trim their budget.

Superintendent Howard Hepburn released a memo suggesting cutting information positions, saying it could prevention the territory millions of dollars.

The territory is looking astatine tens of millions of dollars successful fund cuts arsenic parents are present choosing options extracurricular of nationalist schools.

The territory is readying to destruct 104 field monitors and 4 different information positions for the adjacent schoolhouse year.

Hepburn said the territory is besides “looking astatine consolidating contracts that whitethorn beryllium duplicating services oregon not renewing contracts wherever we don’t request those services anymore.”

“We’re going to commencement with attrition and not filling positions that radical discontinue from,” Board Chair Debra Hixon said. “We’re doing the champion that we tin without having to laic disconnected people.”

Hixon, who became a schoolhouse information advocator aft her hubby was killed successful the Parkland schoolhouse shooting, says she believes the cuts are applicable fixed the galore different information layers present successful place, including metallic detectors and panic buttons.

“My archetypal absorption was, you know, ‘What are we doing?’” Hixon said. “But again, erstwhile you deliberation astir it, if we’re projected to suffer 8000 students adjacent year, past you wouldn’t request arsenic overmuch of that peripheral unit arsenic you did.”

She said the territory is “trying to look astatine consolidating schools truthful those information positions would beryllium shifted.”

Other projected cuts see reducing league question for territory unit and much businesslike proscription management.

“One of the biggest (savings) for america close now, going into the caller schoolhouse year, is redeeming astir $50 cardinal conscionable by limiting overtime,” Hepburn said.

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