CITY, COUNTY, AND SCHOOL BOARD OFFICIALS MEET

  

After an over two hour long executive session, the Brenham City Council, the Washington County Commissioners, and the Brenham School Board came back in open session and unanimously passed a resolution requesting the State of Texas provide adequate funding for House Bill Three.  Additionally, School Board Secretary, Jared Krenek, added that the school district needs to work with the city and county for a blended program of the current SRO program and the state approved Marshall program.  That was passed by the School Board unanimously.

House Bill Three states that every campus must have a state approved armed guard in response to the school shooting in 2022 in Uvalde, Texas.  Brenham ISD decided to expand their SRO program to meet the requirements of House Bill Three, only to have too few officers sign up. 

At the joint meeting at noon Monday, at the Citizens State Bank meeting room, two people spoke before the meeting.  John Deans spoke in favor of the Guardian program, saying that it has a 100 percent success rate.  The Guardian plan differs from the Marshall plan in that trains the average citizen to defend themselves and the student population against an active shooter.  The Marshall plan is primarily designed to give school officials fire arms training and comes with qualified immunity for its participants.  Katie Burch next spoke and asked the boards to take some kind of action besides asking the state legislature for money.