{"id":10536,"date":"2014-01-27T12:51:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T17:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=10536"},"modified":"2014-01-29T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T01:12:12","slug":"implementation-of-school-safety-grant-expedited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=10536","title":{"rendered":"Implementation of school safety grant expedited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Funding was announced last week; officer begins new position this week<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0By Kathleen Brady Shea<\/span><\/strong>, <em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Managing Editor, The Times<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10537\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"IMG_1225\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1225-300x266.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1225-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1225-1024x909.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1225-900x799.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Kennett Square and school officials are wasting no time in taking advantage of a state grant announced last week.<\/p>\n<p>The borough\u2019s Police Department and Kennett Consolidated School District were among the winners of funding for a school resource officer. \u201cThis grant in the amount of $56,048 will allow us to place a full-time police officer in the school to work together on public safety issues,\u201d said Kennett Square Mayor Matt Fetick.<\/p>\n<p>Fetick said that members of Borough Council and the school board had supported the joint grant application. In addition, State Sen. Dominic Pileggi and State Rep. Chris Ross wrote letters of recommendation, Fetick said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Kennett Square Police Chief Edward Zunino said that this week Officer Sarah London would begin working in the position, which will rotate between the high school and the kindergarten center. London is already well known to many area students since she volunteers at the Garage and with programs such as Study Buddies and After the Bell. She has also been a counselor for the past three years at Camp Cadet, a youth summer program run by the Pennsylvania State Police.<\/p>\n<p>In recommending the arrangement, school and borough officials said that having a trusted officer in the schools would not only improve safety but would also likely prevent problems. \u201cWe look forward to working together on this new joint venture of a school resource officer,\u201d said Fetick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding was announced last week; officer begins new position this week \u00a0By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Kennett Square and school officials are wasting no time in taking advantage of a state grant announced last week. The borough\u2019s Police Department and Kennett Consolidated School District were among the winners of funding for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2417,3418,2585,2370,2906],"class_list":["post-10536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-kennett-square-mayor-matt-fetick","tag-kennett-square-police-chief-edward-zunino","tag-officer-sarah-london","tag-state-rep-chris-ross","tag-state-sen-dominic-pileggi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}