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City Council Regular Meeting

Meeting Date:

12/06/2022

BACKGROUND

This is the 7th Amendment to the School Resource Officer Agreement from 2011 between the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District and the City of Schertz. This agreement outlines the duties and responsibilities of each party in regard to providing police officers on school campuses.

The school district agrees to pay the city for salary, training, vehicles, and equipment for officers that are assigned to provide security on campuses. This amount covers all the costs on an annual basis. When school is out, the city can use the officers to supplement patrol and other initiatives until school is back in session. These summer months are still covered by the school district reimbursement amount even thought their time isn't wholly committed to the schools.

The current officers count provided by the city and reimbursed by the school district is 4 with the school district reimbursing $91,879 per officer.

During the budget preparation the school district reached out to the city and asked to increase the officer count and adjust the per officer reimbursement to match increase in costs to wages and equipment for the officers. Staff was aware of the recommendation and included the new officers and reimbursement amount in the FY 2022-23 Adopted Budget.

This amendment will increase the officer count by 2 and the reimbursement to $98,770 each. The total officer count provided by the city would then be 6 and the total annual reimbursement would increase to $592,620.

The School Superintendent was authorized to sign the amendment and did so on October 3, 2022. The agreement is now going before council for final approval.

GOAL

To approve the 7th agreement to the School Resources Officer Program Agreement and provide an additional 2 officers for school safety.

COMMUNITY BENEFIT

Increased security for local school districts.

SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDED ACTION

Staff recommends council approve the resolution authorizing the City Manager to sign the proposed amendment to the agreement.

FISCAL IMPACT

This amendment will not put any fiscal strain on the city as the agreement has the school district provide the funding for the officers. Due to the reimbursement payment schedule the city would be responsible for $30,000 of the vehicle costs in the first year but will be fully reimbursed in the next 3 years.

These amounts were included in the existing budget so no amendments are needed for this amendment.

RECOMMENDATION

Staff recommends approval of resolution 22-R-131

Attachments
Resolution 22-R-131
Exhibit A -Amendment 7
Original Agreement