MONTICELLO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT SAFETY PLAN

There have been some concerns about the district’s safety plan and disaster preparedness planning guide.

There are some concerns shared with us from the community stating that we do not have these plans or that they are not practiced or reviewed in a timely manner. Each building has a safety committee who reviews their safety plans and the same plans are submitted to the district and are compiled along with the disaster preparedness plans to create our Disaster Preparedness Planning Guide.

The Guide is quite extensive and covers many topics. The first section of the Guide presents the reader with an introduction, emergency personnel flowcharts, and phone directories. The guide is then broken down into sections which cover a myriad of topics.

Section 1 details the district's response to fires and explosions. The section advises administrators concerning responding to false alarms, resetting alarms, explosions, and fires.

Section 2 relates to medical emergencies. It covers the district policies and procedures concerning epidemics, epileptic convulsions, food poisoning, head lice, heart attack, respiratory arrest, school bus accident, shock, and toxic exposure.

Section 3 deals with environmental problems. In this section direction is given concerning floods and thunderstorms, snow and ice, severe storms that are countywide, tornadoes, hazardous waste spills, water contamination, radiological incidents, air pollution, earthquakes, and drought.

Section 4 concerns civil disturbances. Guidance and procedures for bomb threats, vandalism, student demonstrations, hostages, intruders, and kidnapping are discussed and presented.

Section 5 covers any systems failure within the district. For example if the electrical system fails there is a process and procedure to be followed. The same holds true for energy loss or reduction, loss of transportation fleet, heating systems, structural failures, loss of buildings, water failure, gas leak, sewage system, roof failure, or an in-house toxic materials spill.

We want to assure the general public that there are contingency plans for all of the above mentioned situations and that these plans are reviewed yearly with the proper authorities, our administrators and the school’s safety teams.

After each school’s safety team and administrators review their plan they submit the plan to the Acting Superintendent and he reviews them. The plans are then submitted to our safety consultant at Sullivan BOCES and local police and emergency personnel. This year we have requested tabletop drills and a comprehensive review of our plans by the state police.

Please contact Superintendent of Schools Dr. Patrick Michel at 794-7700, if you have any questions concerning our plans and how we will be reviewing them.

Please note that Dr. Michel cannot share with you when we will be holding drills or our complete response plans due to security and safety considerations.

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