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Chairperson 2008-2009:  Mary Thompson

	About the Committee
	Safety Committee Recommendations
	Review of Implementation of Safety report from Administration

PTA Council’s Safety Committee serves as a forum for the exchange of concerns affecting the safety of children in our public schools. Members of this committee include the designated District Safety chairperson, each SPF public school’s PTA Safety chairperson (or his/her delegate), and a representative from the Scotch Plains and Fanwood police departments. Committee members share information with respect to PTA-sponsored and police-supported safety activities taking place within our schools. The Committee also meets once or twice a year to review current safety concerns, including traffic concerns. The Committee chair reports to the PTA Council.

 One recent initiative conducted by an ad hoc committee of members of the Safety Committee and PTA presidents was a district-wide safety survey of parents, school staff, and high school students. Individual summaries of the survey results from each of the elementary and middle schools and an accompanying overview of those results were prepared and delivered to our district superintendent in April 2002.

 The following month, the ad hoc committee submitted a set of school safety recommendations specific to the district’s elementary and middle schools and the high school. These recommendations were drawn from input received from approximately 600 elementary school parents, 100 middle school parents, more than 100 high school parents, and more than 925 high school students.  The recommendations covered such areas as student conduct/behavioral expectations; student supervision at arrival time, during lunch/recess, and at dismissal time; bus conduct; student support services; building security; traffic; and emergency procedures.

 In June 2003, the committee submitted a review of the progress the district has made in the area of safety in our schools. This review included a list of safety/security improvements recommended by the committee for implementation during the 2003-2004 school year. 

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