SAYREVILLE – New campus monitors have been hired in the Sayreville School District to help provide additional security and safety for students.
During a recent meeting, the Board of Education approved the hiring of Timothy Brennan and Arthur Mancusi as part-time campus monitors in the district. Members of the board also approved Patricio Hernandez, Gene Fitzgerald and Carl Pasterini to serve in the same capacity during a later meeting.
According to district administrators, the hiring of the security monitors will help fill a vacancy in the position, which was created by the resignation of part-time campus monitor Maribel Fonte and approved by the board concurrently with the new hirings. District administrators stated that with the new security personnel, the position currently has no vacancies.
All five of the monitors are classified as non-certificated personnel and will serve the district during the 2018-19 school year, through June 30. They will each receive a salary of $21.95 per hour for 2018-19 and their time in the district is not to exceed 29.5 hours, according to district administrators.
Campus security monitors were implemented into the Sayreville School District during the 2017-18 school year. Along with a security system to scan a form of identification for non-faculty members of the district as another enhanced security procedure, board members stated that the primary purpose of the monitors is to prevent unauthorized individuals from entering the district’s buildings.
According to board members, the security monitors are identified by wearing yellow shirts with a badge in the front and “security” written on the back, and black pants. The majority of security monitors hired are retired law enforcement personnel.
Each of the district’s eight school facilities have at least one campus security monitor.