SABATTUS – School Union 44 parent-teacher group has raised $10,000 toward placing video cameras in the halls of Sabattus Central School, where there have been four bomb threats this school year.
The Student Council has donated another $500, but the fund is still $5,000 short.
Board of Selectmen Chairman Gino Camardese this week asked the board to contribute to the cause.
“No young student should have to be worrying about bomb threats or keeping their jacket on the back of their seat in case another evacuation occurs,” he said. “Something has to be done.”
But the board, although in favor of the cameras, felt the remaining amount should come from the school contingency fund. The school board has not acted on the matter. Bomb threats have been penned on bathroom walls of the elementary school, which led to monitoring of the individual bathrooms.
The threats stopped with the monitoring, but it was expensive, costing the school union $60 a day to hire monitors. The cameras were proposed by Superintendent Paul Malinski, who hopes to replace the monitors with cameras in the next budget cycle.
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