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Steamboat Springs High School resource officer Josh Carrell, center, visits with his freshman anchor class students, from left, Carlos Hernandez, Ali Pougiales, Alex Alfone and Lizzie Fulton on Wednesday.
District, city split cost
Groups agree to continue shared funding for resource officer position Jack Weinstein
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For the second time, the Steamboat Springs School District and the Steamboat Springs Police Department will split the cost of funding a school resource officer position at the high school. The Steamboat Springs School Board recently signed off on Officer Josh Carrell’s contract, which includes salary
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and benefits. Superintendent Shalee Cunningham and Public Safety Directory J.D. Hays said the contract is the same as last year’s, with the school district paying $32,964 to cover its half of Carrell’s salary. The district also will split the cost of his benefits but will not pay more than the equivalent of half of what it costs to provide benefits to a full-time district employee. After more than a decade of footing the bill for the resource officer, the city asked the school
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district to share costs beginning in January — the second semester of the 2008-09 school year — during a difficult budget year, Hays said. Hays said when he called Cunningham this year to discuss continuing to share the resource officer costs, she responded by saying “absolutely.” “We’re honored to have him,” Cunningham said. “He works for the whole district, not just the high school.” Hays said when the district
first agreed to split the costs for Carrell’s services, it said it would re-evaluate on an annual basis whether to continue doing so in future years. He said if the district’s financial situation wouldn’t allow it to cover half the costs of the position, the school resource officer program wouldn’t go away. “If they were to have a big problem, it would be my recommendation the city would See Officer, page 13
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