Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a new agreement between the Long Beach Police Department and the Long Beach Unified School District to staff School Resource Officers for an amount not to exceed $920,799, with an estimated net cost to the City’s General Fund of $230,200.  (Citywide)
Report from police recommendation to execute a new agreement between the Long Beach Police Department and the Long Beach Unified School District to staff school resource officers for an amount not to exceed $920,799. Can we get a short staff report on this? I think this is important. Commander Lopez. Mayor Garcia. Members of council. Since 1999, the police department has worked with the Long Beach Unified School District to staff the School Resource Officer Program at five high schools. This agreement will cover the current school year 1516 at the cost of $690,599 to the school district and the cost of $230,200 to the general fund. Thank you very much. There's a motion and a second Israeli public comment on this. Councilman Price. I just out of curiosity, do we keep any stats on the types of arrests and or investigations the resource officers might get involved in at the high school campuses? Councilwoman Price Not to my knowledge. We don't track it statistically. Anecdotally, I think it's generally pretty minor offenses, disagreements between students, sometimes drug possessions, sometimes possession of weapons such as a knife. Kind of a typical things that we see. I was just curious if if and if we don't have the data, maybe there's some potential. I'm just curious of how many drug related arrests we have in the city, at the high schools or drug related activity? And how much of that involves prescription drugs, marijuana or other more illicit substances like meth or heroin? I'm just curious as to whether or not we as I think, by the way, this is a great partnership we have with Long Beach Unified. But I'm just curious as to whether or not we receive data that helps us kind of identify trends in our and our students and our younger population in terms of drug use, addiction sales, that kind of thing. We can definitely provide that information to you. Great. Thank you. Councilwoman Gonzalez. Thank you for the report. Commander Lopez Which schools will the resource officers be deployed to? Councilwoman Gonzalez The schools are Cabrillo Poly, Jordan, Milliken and Wilson. Okay, great. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you. And you probably see no public comment on this. Please cast your votes. Councilman Richardson. Motion carries. Thank you. Next item, please. Report from Public Works Financial Management. Recommendation to award a contract to our Amex group for the Terminal Avenue Greenbelt Restoration. For a total contract amount. Not to exceed $260,757. District three and four. Thank you. I have a motion. Can I get a second? There's a motion and a second. Is there any public comment on the item? Seeing Nazis cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you. Item number 22.