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This request is for the Board to approve HCPSS’ award under the FY25 School Safety Grant Program (SSGP) award in the amount of $513,665.00.\u003Cbr>The grant program and activities will occur during the period of July 1, 2024, through Dec. 31, 2025.\u003Cbr>Attachments identified as follows:\u003Cbr>Attachment A – FY25 SSGP Grant Award Notification, from Maryland Center for School Safety (MCSS) Attachment B – FY25 SSGP Application Narrative, Proposed Budget, Project Request Form, and Cost Estimates Attachment C – FY25 SSGP Grant Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) |\n| RECOMMENDATION/FUTURE DIRECTION: Approve HCPSS’s acceptance of $513,665.00 for the FY25 School Safety Grant Program (SSGP) award. |\n\nSUBMITTED BY: APPROVAL/CONCURRENCE:  \nBrian Hull William J. Barnes  \nChief Financial Officer Superintendent  \nPierre van Greunen  \nOfficer of Safety, Environment and Risk Management  \nKaralee Turner-Little, Ph.D. Deputy Superintendent  \nAnnette T. Bartlett  \nGrants Administration Manager  \nDivision of Finance, Office of Safety & Risk Management  \n\n| FY25 School Safety Grant Program (SSGP) |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Grant Award Quick Facts | HCPSS Key Staff |  |  |\n| Total Award Amount:\u003Cbr>$513,665.00\u003Cbr>Grant Period: July 1, 2024-Dec. 31, 2025\u003Cbr>Grantor Organization: Maryland Center for School Safety (MCSS)\u003Cbr>[https://schoolsafety.maryland.gov](https://schoolsafety.maryland.gov) | Division of Finance\u003Cbr>• Brian Hull, Chief Financial Officer\u003Cbr>• Pierre van Greunen, Officer of Safety, Environment, and Risk Management\u003Cbr>Division of Schools\u003Cbr>• Jen Robinson, Chief Schools Officer\u003Cbr>• Deborah Toppins, Director of Safety & Security Division of Operations\u003Cbr>• Cornell Brown, Chief Operations Officer\u003Cbr>• Herb Savje, Executive Director, Building Maintenance and Facility Operations\u003Cbr>• Tony Bonomo, Manager, Building Maintenance |  |  |\n|  |  |  | HCPSS’ Purpose |\n| SSGP is a non-competitive, State-funded capital improvement grant program designed for local school systems located within Maryland.\u003Cbr>The grant funds are intended to address school security improvements, including but not limited to secure and lockable classroom doors, areas of safe refuge in classrooms, surveillance, security vestibules, and other structural school security-related improvements that have direct impact on the school facility, students, and school administrators. |  |  | HCPSS used existing school safety and risk assessment data, coupled with MCSS’s list of allowable uses of SSGP funds, to identify short-term capital improvements to school buildings directly related to school safety and security.\u003Cbr>HCPSS identified critical upgrades needed to security communications infrastructures. HCPSS also identified the need to update and maintain its visitor management system infrastructure, which allows gatekeeping of visitor access to schools. |\n| Connections to HCPSS’ Strategic Initiatives |  |  |  |\n| HCPSS Educational Equity Framework – The School Safety Grant Program promotes belonging, by ensuring that each person’s physical, social, and emotional needs are met, and that each student can feel safe and supported in the learning environment. |  |  |  |\n| Objectives and Desired Outcomes |  | Measures of Impact |  |\n| By completing short-term improvement projects to a school’s security communications infrastructure, school leaders and security personnel will have an increased ability to quickly communicate with emergency services, with other staff, and with the entire school population, in times of emergency.\u003Cbr","cbCaifjG8JCGLsgw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifjG8JCGLsgw","pdf",2530901,34,"English","# Overview\n## Recommendation/Future Direction\n# Grant Award Quick Facts\n## Total Award Amount and Grant Period\n## Grantor Organization\n# HCPSS Purpose\n# Connections to HCPSS’ Strategic Initiatives\n# Objectives and Desired Outcomes\n## Measures of Impact\n# HCPSS Planned Uses of Grant Funds\n## Project 1 and Project 2","[{\"question\":\"What Board action is requested for the FY25 School Safety Grant Program?\",\"answer\":\"The Board is asked to approve HCPSS’s acceptance of the $513,665.00 FY25 SSGP award.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the total grant amount and grant period?\",\"answer\":\"The total award amount is $513,665.00, with a grant period from July 1, 2024 through Dec. 31, 2025.\"},{\"question\":\"What types of safety and security improvements will the SSGP funds support?\",\"answer\":\"Funds are intended for school security improvements such as secure/lockable classroom doors, safe refuge areas, surveillance, security vestibules, and related structural safety upgrades.\"}]","FY25 School Safety Grant Program Award - Board of Education of Howard County Meeting Agenda Item - Action | PDF",1789158471]