City, CISD looking into school resource officer position

The Cameron City Council took a step towards an agreement with Cameron ISD to provide a resource officer for the district during its meeting Aug. 6.

The council voted to move forward with looking into a possible interlocal agreement with CISD for the officer.

CISD Superintendent Allan Sapp and Police Chief Lonnie Gosch have been talking about the possibility of the officer over the past few weeks as the school district has been working on the topic of school safety after last spring’s school shooting in Santa Fe.

The CISD school board directed Sapp to look into a school resource officer at its meeting in July. 

Sapp was on hand along with Gosch to explain how the position would work between the city and school district.

Sapp said the resource officer’s salary and benefits would be paid for by the school district, with the city providing a car. The officer would still be a Cameron Police Officer, they would just work on CISD campuses.

Council directed City Manager Rhett Parker to look into the proposed agreement and come back to them with what he thought would work best.

In other action the council also: approved a request from Holy Ground Baptist Church for road closures on Oct. 26 for 5th Quarter; approved the blast zone for fireworks in downtown at Steaktober Fest in October; re-appointed Jim Camp, Connie Anderle, Mike Zajicek and Gary Fuchs to the Cameron Economic Development Corporation; approved the Cameron Tourism Board budget; and held a budget workshop. No action was taken on the 2018-19 proposed tax rate.