school safety

["Mike Curley" <curley@CYPHER.TURBONET.COM>]

For those of you who have questions about the safety of our schools, and 
particularly about the incident last year when a bomb scare at the high school 
could not be investigated because the local P.D. does not have a bomb squad, it 
was announced at last night's school board meeting that the district was 
participating with the cities of Moscow and Pullman, the Pullman school 
district, U of I and WSU in the funding for purchase and maintenance of an 
explosive-detecting dog.  The total cost was announced at around $20K to be 
shared equally by the named entities.  The dog must be transported to Texas for 
training and will be housed in Pullman.  The superintendant mentioned that the 
dog can supposedly sniff out a pack of matches in a backpack in a locker.  It 
is unfortunate that we have to even think about such things, let alone plan for 
them, but this seemed an example of good cooperative planning for our community 
at several levels.  Chief Weaver, if you are listening could you give us any 
more details about when the dog will be in place and what the response time to 
Moscow is projected to be?

Mike Curley