HOPE – One year ago, Flat Rock-Hawcreek School superintendent Shawn Price said “we are planning to pay for 100% of the days that we have Deputy Jessica Pendleton as our school resource officer (SRO) in 2021.”
On Monday, Price kept that promise.
In a memorandum of understanding approved Monday by the Bartholomew County commissioners, the school corporation agreed to pay Pendleton for 210 work days to provide security and related services at Hauser Jr.-Sr. High School and Hope Elementary.
That covers not only all 190 days of the Flat Rock-Hawcreek school year, but an additional 20 days for such events as extracurricular activities and parent-teacher conferences, Bartholomew County Chief Deputy Sheriff Maj. Chris Lane said.
In addition, the Hope schools are following the lead of the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. by providing up to 130 gallons of gasoline per month to their SRO, Lane said.
“My best estimate is that it will probably be around $90,000 that the school corporation will be contributing back to the county,” Lane said.
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