Commission is stalling: School Resource Officer

Watching the Mt. Lebanon School Board meeting from Monday, the school board's hands are tied concerning the SRO for the high school. They are waiting for the commission to discuss and vote on a partnership with the district, and would like to have this officer in place in time for the beginning of school.

Based on the recently posted Commission Discussion Session agenda for Monday, June 25, 2018, that discussion is not going to occur any time soon.

At the 01:12:38 timestamp from the June 18, 2018 school board meeting, the school board was voting on the resolution:

School Resource Officer: RESOLVED, that the Board directs the Superintendent to conduct discussions with the Municipality in an effort to arrange for a full time School Resource Officer to be available to the District for the 2018-2019 school year.

when the school board directors expressed their frustration that this may not be in place in 30 or 60 days since this has to be approved by the commissioners. The school solicitor also pointed out that the municipality will also need time for the new hire.

So why is this so far down the list for topics of future discussions?

Tentative list of follow-up items for future meeting(s):   

1. Parking Beverly Road area 

2. Litter (June /July) 

3. Mt. Lebanon Emergency Operations Plan (July) 

4. Garbage contract/recycling market changes (July/Aug) 

5. Mt Lebanon Community Foundation 

6. Crosswalk policy and request for traffic study policy (July/Aug) 

7. School Resource Officer 

8. RAD funding 

9. Overnight parking

If the commissioners play their cards right, they could be voting on a school resource officer at the same meeting where they will be announcing that lethal weapons will be discharged on public and undisclosed private properties in Mt. Lebanon.

The municipal manager's administrative report was just sent out with not one word mentioned about school resource officers.