LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — With less than a week until the start of a new school year, Las Vegas leaders push forward with a proposal to increase safety at schools in the valley.

Las Vegas City Council unanimously approved the expansion of the city’s School Crossing Guard Program.

“The city really continues to implement our Vision Zero Action Plan, which is aimed on eliminating deaths and serious injuries caused by traffic accidents and a real big pillar of that is our School Crossing Guard program,” Las Vegas director of public works Joey Paskey said.

For those unfamiliar, this program has stationed hundreds of crossing guards across 72 elementary schools in Las Vegas.

This expansion would bring new crossing guards to the 16 middle schools in the city as well as three high schools.

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