Defibrillators

$8,500, Town of New Windsor for a backup generator.

$10,000, Town of Stony Point for programs.

$4,500, Town of Stony Point for an accident-investigation system.

$10,000, Town of Woodbury for senior center improvements.

$5,000, Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson for a commercial freezer door.

$2,500, Village of South Blooming Grove for start-up expenses.

$2,500, Village of Walden for programs.

$2,500, Village of Woodbury for start-up expenses.

$2,500, Rockland County Sheriff’s Dept.

for sex offender-tracking software.

$5,000, Ramapo-Catskill Library System for a summer reading program.

$5,000, Sarah Wells Girl Scout Council for programs.

$3,000, Orange County Veterans Cemetery for equipment.

$5,000, Orange County Firefighters Museum for programs.

$121,000 total.

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$7,500, Village of Spring Valley for training classes.

$2,000, Orangetown Fire Company No.

1 to remodel the interior room.

$8,000, Lower Hudson Valley Challenger Center for software and programs.

$10,000, Community Outreach Center of Monsey for a community patrol.

$7,500, Village of Spring Valley for the Jitney bus service.

$5,000, Community Action Program of Rockland for women’s programs.

$4,000, Community Action Network for a Drug-Free Life and Environment for counseling programs.

$15,000, Hait...

“You can take a $40 million high school, shave a million bucks off the cost, make a more beautiful building and make it safer from earthquake, tornado, terrorism, bullying, violence, sexual assault, and raise your test scores while you’re doing it,” he says.

Most parents fear the student with the guns hidden in his clothes, but this isn't a student’s biggest threat.

“Number one was a fire situation with a fourth grade Catholic school student who killed 95 people using fire, which shows us there are the means besides guns and knives, and fire should be a priority.” Campus safety, whether K-12 or at the university level, goes way beyond locked doors and text messaging in the event of a shooting.

It means how officials respond in the more likely natural disaster, a hazardous material event or a medical emergency.

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