The Monmouth-Roseville Board of Education and Monmouth City Council have both approved a formal intergovernmental agreement, assigning a Monmouth Police Department Officer as a School Resource Officer, states City Administrator Lew Steinbrecher:
“The City and school have been discussing this for a few months, and the school has an interest in paying for a police officer to be assigned as a School Resource Officer to be in the school system, working with the students and providing that appearance and enhance the safety for both the teachers and the students. Under the agreement, the school district has agreed to pay 75 percent of the total annual compensation of the police officer. That would include salary, health insurance, retirement benefits, those types of things, but not overtime. Most of the overtime the officer would be assigned either to patrol or investigations, so that would be a normal police department operation outside of the school assignment.”
The Monmouth Police Officer assigned as the School Resource Officer will begin with the Monmouth-Roseville School District this August.
