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2019 Agreement between the School Board of Alachua County, Florida and the City of Gainesville for the School Resource Officer Program (B)
This is a request for City Commission approval of the City of Gainesville 2019 Agreement with the School Board of Alachua County for the School Resource Officer Program. This agreement mandates (20) School Resource Officers to staff the schools inside the incorporated city limits of Gainesville.
Explanation
The Gainesville Police Department (GPD) and the School Board of Alachua County (SBAC) desire to continue to work in partnership to provide School Resource Officers (SRO) to city-wide schools in Gainesville. This crime prevention initiative shares the cost of staffing and training between the School Board and the City Gainesville Police Department.
The City Gainesville Police Department shall assign police officers/facilitators as School Resource Officers to cover each of the following schools as listed below:
The following Schools shall have two (2) SROs assigned per school:
Gainesville High School, 1900 NW 13th Street, Gainesville
A. Quinn Jones Center, 1108 NW 7th Avenue, Gainesville
The following Schools shall have one (1) SRO assigned per school:
Westwood Middle School, 3215 NW 15th Avenue, Gainesville
Howard Bishop Middle School, 1901 NE 9 1h Street, Gainesville
Lincoln Middle School, 1001 SE 10th Avenue, Gainesville
Sidney Lather Center, 312 NW 16 01 Avenue, Gainesville
Loften High School, 3000 E. University Avenue, Gainesville
Glen Springs Elementary School, 2826 NW 31st Avenue, Gainesville
Littlewood Elementary School, 812 NW 30 Street, Gainesville
J.J. Finley Elementary School, 1912 NW 5th Avenue, Gainesville
Metcalf Elementary School, 1905 NE 12th Street, Gainesville
Rawlings Elementary School, 3500 NE 15th Street, Gainesville
Norton Elementary School, 2200 NW 45th Avenue, Gainesville
Stephen Foster Elementary School, 3800 NW 6th Street, Gainesville
Terwilliger Elementary School, 301 NW 62" Street, Gainesville
Talbot Elementary School, 5701 NW 43id Street, Gainesville
Williams Elementary School, 1245 SE 7th Avenue, Gainesville
Duval Early Learning Center, 2106 NE 8th Avenue, Gainesville
The School Board of Alachua County, Florida authorized the Superintendent to negotiate an agreement with the different law enforcement agencies and will approve this contract at the next scheduled School Board meeting.
Fiscal Note
This program is funded jointly through an inter-governmental agreement with the School Board of Alachua County, Florida. SBAC agrees to pay $1,200,000.00 as its share toward the School Resource Officer Program from August 1, 2019 to July 31, 2020. Funds provided by the SBAC during the term of this Agreement for the cost of the School Resource Officers shall be paid to the City in twelve (12) equal monthly payments beginning August 31, 2019. Monthly payments shall be 1/12 of the agreed-upon total share, provided that all twenty (20) positions are staffed by August 31, 2019. If any of the twenty (20) SRO positions are not staffed or become vacant for more than thirty calendar days following August 2019, monthly payments shall be reduced in an amount equal to the non-staffed portion of the twenty (20) total positions (1/20 of the total allowable monthly payment or $3,146.25 per non-staffed position per month).
Under this 2019 contract, SBAC will pay $1,200,000.00 per year to the City toward the cost of twenty (20) SROs, an increase from the prior contract under which SBAC paid approximately $984,049.
Recommendation
The City Commission: 1) approve the agreement in the amount of $1,200,000.00 between the City of Gainesville and the School Board of Alachua County, Florida for the School Resource Officer Program; and 2) authorize the City Manager to sign the inter-local agreement with the Alachua County School; and 3) authorize the City Manager to execute any other necessary documents subject to approval by the City Attorney as to form and legality.