Police describe new SRO agreements as staffing model shifts; city to accept reimbursements from schools

The Department of Police Operations presented two one-year school resource officer agreements. Staff said item 7 would authorize acceptance and expenditure of $139,458.32 (half of salaries/benefits for officers assigned to Toledo Public Schools for the nine‑month 26/27 school year) and item 8 would authorize $93,657.16 for Washington Local. Police presenters explained changes in staffing: "This is 0.5 of what we had this year. We went from 6 officers at TPS down to 3 due to TPS having their own law enforcement officers," the presenter said, describing a shared model that pairs city officers with TPS resources.

Council members asked whether the agreements are time sensitive and how future levy outcomes could affect staffing; police said reimbursement timeliness and the current school year’s schedule make the items time sensitive and that further staffing changes would depend on levy results. Both items were recommended SEP procedurally.