TRINITY — An intruder audit has spurred the Trinity ISD Board of Trustees to construct a fence around the ag instruction building.
Superintendent Dr. John Kaufman said that the trustees were informed at the Oct. 28 meeting that ESC Region 6 had performed an intruder detection audit that returned four findings, all centered around the garage doors at Ag building.
Kaufman said the doors were rolled up for ventilation as the students were welding, which was deemed unsecure.
The district had three options — keep the doors closed, assign someone to monitor the doors or erect a security fence, which Kaufman said will be done. It will be an 8-foot-enclosing fence around the ag building and is expected to cost $58,000.
The rest of the report was great, Kaufman said, and the correction plan has been submitted and approved by the Texas Education Association.
He also said TEA will perform its own security inspection on Dec. 4.
In a separate matter, the trustees discussed adding new programs to the curriculum and started preparations to add a cosmetology program and an auto mechanic program.
Kaufman said a recent survey of seventh to 12th-grade students was extremely favorable, with almost 61 percent of respondents saying they would participate in each of the programs
The next meeting of the Board of Trustees will be Nov. 18.
