By Megan Wehring
DRIPPING SPRINGS – Dripping Springs ISD is aiming to add an additional school resource officer (SRO).
On Monday, Aug. 29, the Dripping Springs ISD board of trustees will consider the approval of an SRO memo of understanding (with the Hays County Sheriff’s Office for an additional officer – the district has had three SROs total since 2019.
One more SRO will enable the two assigned to Dripping Springs Middle School and Sycamore Springs Middle School to provide law enforcement services to the elementary schools in the district.
“This is a temporary MOU adding an additional officer,” said Superintendent Holly Morris-Kuentz at the agenda review meeting on Aug. 22. “We will have an updated MOU from there where we are making changes to our assignments and alignment. So, working with the sheriff’s office to use our fourth SRO to be able to cover our other campuses.”
The MOU is a split-funded position.
“The county is picking up part of the cost to help us with that through one of their grants,” Morris-Kuentz added. “It’s a little bit different from our other ones but they will loop it in when we do the next MOU that covers all of them.”
The DSISD Board of Trustees will meet again on Monday, Aug. 29 at 6 p.m. in the Central Office Board Room located at 510 W. Mercer St.
