The legislation that banned guns on school property for people other than police officers and sheriffs unless authorized by a school district was not the Safe Act but the Federal Legislation titled “Gun Free School Zones Act” which was passed in 1990.
New York State Insurance Reciprocal which insures the Saratoga Springs School District did not recommend against rearming the school monitors. They consider whether the monitors should or should not be armed a decision that should be made by the school board.