Moore County will serve as a conduit for a $1 million federal grant that the state will use to develop a Web-based program to help police, fire and rescue personnel better respond to emergencies at public schools.
The Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon to adopt an agreement with N.C. Emergency Management to develop the Safer School Risk Management Project, which will be statewide.
School systems in each of the state’s 100 counties will be asked to provide schematic diagrams of the buildings on all of its campuses, which will be loaded onto a secure, Web-based, GIS-enabled program that will be developed using grant funds from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to Mike Spraybery, director of N.C. Emergency Management.
The data will be continually updated as existing school buildings are expanded and new ones are constructed, he said.
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