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The Kenosha Unified School Board has approved a funding mechanism to repay itself the planning costs for new building entrance security improvements at seven district sites. The board passed a reimbursement resolution during a meeting Dec. 10 in anticipation of moving head with that work. The resolution would authorize the district to repay itself the costs it spends now to get started on the engineering and other expenses for those projects once funded by a public referendum. Kenosha Unified voters will be asked to approve a non-recurring operational referendum next February. The ballot question will ask voters to exceed the state-imposed revenue limit by $23 million per year for five years for non-recurring purposes. If passed on Feb. 18, the funding would allow the district to increase interventionists, expand course offerings, provide equitable prep time, increase educational support professional pay, upgrade security cameras, increase security educational professionals and create more secured entrances at district buildings. It follows a school security incident in which a 13-year-old Mahone Middle School student attempted to enter Roosevelt Elementary School with what were initially believed to be real weapons, later found to be airsoft guns, on Nov. 7.In early December, police arrested a 16-year-old Indian Trail High School student after he allegedly brought a gun to the school. The November incident spurred a review of district security policies, training and identified both immediate and proposed security upgrades, including new cameras and secure entrances at a number of attendance centers. According to KUSD Chief Financial Officer Tarik Hamdan, the district is eligible for tax-exempt bonds, but “there are IRS rules that — if you’re going to pay yourself back for things you’re spending before you actually borrow the debt — you have to have a resolution on the books saying you are intending to do that.” “You’re consciously saying, ‘We realize and acknowledge that there’s going to be some expenditures that the board will pay for before (the board) receives the proceeds of this borrowing, but we are intentionally and consciously saying we will pay ourselves back once we do the borrowing,’” Hamdan said. Hamdan said the resolution is important in this particular instance because “we have a tight timeline” for the school safety projects. “We’re going to knock out seven projects within a year. The design work has to start. We can’t wait until after the February referendum question and the borrowing process that goes after that to even start design work,” he said. Hamdan said the costs incurred between January and March would be limited to design work, not construction, and anticipate it will cost about $200,000, though the exact cost was not known at the time of the School Board’s last meeting. “This resolution would allow us to pay ourselves back should the referendum pass. Should the board actually go out and borrow those funds, we’d be able to pay ourselves back,” he said. KUSD announced it will also employ new part-time school entrance monitors at the seven schools currently without controlled entrances. The individuals will be stationed at main entrances to escort visitors screened by office staff to their destinations. The school district has announced it is adding security personnel at the entrances of the seven schools which do not have the controlled entrances, including Bose, Curtis Strange, Forest Park, Jeffery, Harvey, Lance and Whittier. 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