- December 4, 2025
The Flagler County School Board will have an option on July 22 when it votes to renew its interlocal agreement with the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office to provide the district with school resource deputies and crossing guards.
The board can renew with the current staffing of 11 deputies, a commander and a sergeant or it can add a floater deputy on a trial basis. The district is responsible for any overtime pay to deputies resulting from sick leave, vacation or staffing school events. The floater would help alleviate overtime costs to the district.
District Safety Specialist David Bossardet and FCSO Chief of Staff Mark Strobridge presented the board with the two options at its agenda workshop on Tuesday, July 8.
The total cost of the contract with a floater would be $1,609,403 or $1,521,642 without a floater. Both contract options include nine crossing guards.
The floater would be another full-time SRD position filling in for SRDs who are out for one reason or another and staffing extracurricular activities including sporting events. The district would still have to cover any remaining overtime pay as needed.
The district paid $78,000 in overtime costs last year, Bossardet said.
The purpose of the floater is not to provide extra safety but to see on a trial basis if it will alleviate costs, Superintendent LaShakia Moore said.
Strobridge said they are sure they will be able to fill the floater’s schedule.
School Board member Derek Barrs, who was once a school resource officer himself, said, “Being an SRO, I know the value they bring to the table, but we also have to look at the dollars and cents.”
