Joey Onasorge, the district administrator for Safety and Risk Management for Cartwright Elementary District (4282), told the district meeting transcript that the district maintains an emergency operations plan and that each school develops its own campus plan based on that district plan.
"Here at Cartwright, school safety is our number 1 priority," Onasorge said. He said schools conduct regular drills and practices, including monthly fire evacuation drills, lockdown drills and shelter-in-place drills.
Onasorge described what the district means by shelter in place and by lockdown. "Shelter in place basically means that the school campus would be, they would be in their classrooms with regular instruction continuing," he said, adding that shelter-in-place could be activated for weather-related threats or a hazardous-materials incident. "With the lockdowns, basically lockdown, means that there's an active threat, potentially on a campus, and then the schools would go into lockdown. Classrooms, would go into lockdown," he said.
He said middle schools in the district have a student resource officer, and those officers are provided by the Phoenix Police Department. "And the other campuses, the K-six, the K campuses, they have a student, safety officer, and those are also through the, Phoenix Police Department as well. And they have similar roles, but just not the overall roles that an SRO would have," Onasorge said.
Onasorge also urged parents to follow traffic and pedestrian safety measures around campuses, asking them to obey speed limits and use crosswalks when walking children to school.
No formal actions or votes on safety policy were recorded in the provided transcript excerpt. The remarks in the transcript focus on the district's existing plans, routine drills and the assignment of student resource and safety officers through the Phoenix Police Department.