SECURITY COMMUNICATIONS DUTIES

• Protect the students and employees of USD 259.

• Protect 564 million dollars of school district assets - buildings, equipment, and contents.

• Monitor alarm systems for all schools and USD 259 property, 24 hours a day.

• Check each building into day/night mode.

• Test each building alarm system at least twice a day, via the phone lines.

• Keep a report of building occupancy after hours and over the weekends.

• Dispatch security officers and keep a record of their activity.

• Record security incidents - alarms, thefts, assaults, threats, etc.

• Assist school based security officers and building administrators.

• Coordinate emergency efforts with 911.

• Check all Kansas-One Call dig permits for any USD 259 buried lines.

• Monitor the weather.

• Report severe weather conditions to school district officials.

• We have notification procedures to handle any type of crisis.  We make sure the people who need to know stay informed.  This includes the school district - wide crisis team.

• We handle phone calls from inside the school district and from the public.  We have the only phone line in the school district which will be answered 24 hrs. a day, everyday of the year.  We take phone calls for emergencies as well as for school district information and directory assistance.

• We serve as the information desk for the School Service Center.