August 13, 2010 CT. school security supervisor gets pink slip www.privateofficer.com
The job of custodial/security supervisor held by Plummer Carroll for the past six years has been eliminated and one high school security officer considered a probationary employee has been terminated, bringing the total number of security staff for the high school and middle schools to 13, said Director of Human Resources Robert Stacy.
“Of course we had huge concerns but we’re at a point in time when we’re trying to eliminate what positions would be farthest away from the classroom,” Stacy said.
Instead, school officials are picking up some of the slack by placing the security staff under the direction of the principals of all five schools and Assistant Superintendent Ron Jakubowski.
The high school also has New Britain police staff assigned to the school on a regular basis.
The district was forced to cut the positions after a bruising budget year. The district was able to save some teaching positions through retirements, resignations and reassignments but also had to cut support staff, including several paraprofessionals and school nurses, a computer repair specialist and the two security staff positions.
The school security staff had 15 positions, including the custodial/security foreman who oversaw scheduling and training, Stacy said. The security staff includes a school security monitor, who is responsible for continuously viewing the security cameras that are in place in the high school and several of the other schools. Each of the four middle schools has one security officer while the rest work at the high school.
Carroll did not act as a campus security officer unless staff was having a problem and needed help. “His primary role was to supervise and train staff,” Stacy said.
The custodial supervisory duties will be farmed out to the director of facilities. There was also a custodial foreman already on staff who will also work at the direction of the principals, Stacy said.
The lay-offs in the security staff are unfortunate, Stacy said, but a reality in a tight budget year where the district is looking to trim as much as possible without cutting any other teachers or increasing class sizes.
“Right now every one of our middle and elementary schools have one secretary and some of those schools have 900 kids,” Stacy said. “That’s the bare bones of where you make your cuts.
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