The Martinsville City Public Schools (MCPS) board named Yvonne Givens as chair and Michael Williamson as vice chair after three new members were appointed.
Council unanimously voted to appoint three new members to the five-member Board at a work session last week. The new members are Cody Williams, Heather Blankenbaker and Nekia Blackwell.
Martinsville City Schools will become the first school division in the state to have a gunshot detection system in all of its buildings.
T.J. Slaughter, director of school safety and emergency management, applied for a state grant through the Virginia Department of Education in the summer of 2018 and, in November of last year he told the school board he had received more than $80,000 from the state and a local match totaling $100,691.
Martinsville Schools were included in $6 million School Security Equipment Grants announced by Gov. Ralph Northam for 102 school divisions.
But there wasnât enough money to do the entire job.