The school security plan Hillsborough County School Board members rejected a month ago may still have some life.
At least part of it may receive another look.
In January, board members shot down a $4-million plan to put an armed guard at every school, provide crisis management training and control access to school campuses.
At a school board meeting Tuesday, board members will discuss a security plan. The new plan will only be a fraction of what was proposed last month.
Some of the security measures to be talked about include chain-link fencing, steel bars and surveillance cameras.
"About 90 percent of our schools probably have all the controlled access that they need," Hillsborough County Schools spokesman Steve Hagerty said. "There's another 10 percent that we're still working on and we need to spend some money to upgrade those."
A Hillsborough County board member decided to reconsider the security upgrade after an incident in Polk County in which a principal was attacked on campus.
The about-face with board members will allow them to reconsider parts of Superintendent MaryEllen Elia's plan. The upgrades would vary from school to school. Last month, board members did approve the superintendent's proposal to hire a security expert.
"What this is, is physically providing controlled access at the schools," Hagerty said. "When you go to a school, some schools are more open than others, but with some gates, some fencing."
The new changes would cost about $1 million. If approved, security would be beefed up at more than two dozen schools in the district.