LAKE CITY, SC (WBTW) – The Florence School District Three School Board discussed school safety, and a consolidation bill organized by the state on Thursday.

Donald Navorska worked for Florence School District Three for 10 years.

He told the school board that he wants to see more safety precautions taken in the schools.

“We don’t want any strangers coming in to do what they did in Columbine,” he said. “If they can’t go to school and be safe, we’re just not doing our job.”

He said he wants to see more cameras in the schools, and that certain parts of the schools lack security.

“I want a monitored camera system,” said Navorska. “So if somebody walks through the front door of the schools, that shouldn’t be walking through the front door of the school, that somebody’s going to recognize that.”

Superintendent, Laura Hickson, addressed ideas staff came up with at the district-wide safety workshop that happened last week.

“We had some great ideas, some of the ideas are things of course that would require budget,” she said.

Some of the ideas that were listed included classroom door locks, keys cards for both entrances and exits, and bullet proof huts in classrooms.

Hickson suggested providing officers with lunch so there would be a bigger police presence in the schools.

“Safety is not cheap,” Navorska said. “We don’t need to be leaving ourselves wide open for that kind of stuff, we need to take reasonable precautions.”

The concerned citizen said he worries for what can happen inside schools that aren’t properly secured.

“Quite honestly, I think I’d be blind and dumb if I didn’t have some concern that it could go on here,” he said. “It can hit here at any time that the evil eye lifts itself and looks at us.”

He said he wants everyone who works in the schools to remember how important safety for the students is.

“We’ve got a lot of kids here,” he said. “That’s a lot of responsibility, and it’s a big job to keep it [the school] all safe, and secure.”

The Superintendent also gave a brief update on a joint resolution for a study committee to look into the consolidation of school districts in the state.

“Districts with less than 2500 students, they’re pushing that these districts consolidate,” she said.

However, Hickson said Florence School District Three has more than 2,500 students.

The committee would study the feasibility and cost effectiveness of consolidating school districts within individual counties of the state.

“They are asking districts to continue to work together, and consolidate services, and we are doing that with some of our neighboring districts,” Hickson said.

The Superintendent did not go into detail on which services are being consolidated between the districts.

Hickson declined comment with News13 after the meeting.

The Superintendent said the results of the study done by the committee would be ready by Jan. 31 2019.

“Once they come back with the findings, then I guess, the legislatures will look at it and make some decisions from there,” Hickson said.