LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — The Las Vegas City Council has approved additional funding to add crossing guards ahead of the upcoming school year.
During Wednesday’s council meeting, a previous agenda item regarding crossing guards was reintroduced to discuss funding for hiring additional crossing guards to 16 middle schools and three high schools within the city’s jurisdiction.
The city already budgets $2.87 million annually on 287 crossing guards at 72 elementary schools. The addition of middle schools and high schools would add $415,000 a year to that budget.
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The council has approved the funding for this school year, but future funding will still need to be allocated to cover additional costs.
Hired crossing guards will begin working at middle schools located in the “most hazardous traffic corridors” and fill the rest of the schools from there. The city emphasized that this process will take some time and will not be in place for the start of the school year.
This news comes after the city conducted a pilot program to explore the effectiveness of crossing guards at Cimarron-Memorial High School and Gibson Middle School. The city says the pilot showed better compliance with traffic laws for vehicles and pedestrians when guards were present.
The pilot program will continue at the high school level, with guards stationed at Cimarron-Memorial, Arbor View, and Palo Verde, due to a higher number of traffic incidents in those areas.
The city will continue to routinely maintain signs and pavement markings in school zones during the summer months and throughout the school year.
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