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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWaterloo Community School District-5/12/2014CITY OF WATERLOO Council Communication City Council Meeting: May 12, 2014 Prepared: May 6, 2014 Signature: Daniel Trelka # of Attachments: SUBJECT: School Resource Officers' Agreement from the Waterloo Community School District Submitted by: Daniel J. Trelka, Director of Safety Services Recommended City Council Action: Request City Council to pass a resolution accepting the School Resource Officer's Agreement and formally authorize Mayor Clark to sign the contract. Summary Statement: This agreement is a cooperative agreement between the Waterloo Community School District and the City of Waterloo. The School Resource Officer Program provides for the assignment of six (6) police officers within the district. Primary assignment is at the middle schools, high schools and one alternative school with each of the Resource Officers providing additional services at the elementary level. This agreement is for one (1) year. Expenditure Required: Source of Funds: Policy Issues: None Alternative: N/A Background Information: SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS' AGREEMENT This Agreement is entered into this 4s- day of July, 2014 by and between the Waterloo Community School District, whose address for purposes of this Agreement is 1516 Washington Street, Waterloo, Iowa, 50702 (hereinafter "School") and the City of Waterloo by and through its Police Department, whose address for purposes of this Agreement is 715 Mulberry Street, Waterloo, Iowa, 50703 (hereinafter "Police"). RECITALS WHEREAS, School desires to provide positive role models for its students by having present uniformed Police School Resource Officers (SRO) to three (3) middle, two (2) high schools and one (1) at the District's alternative school; and WHEREAS, School and Police endeavor to provide a cooperative effort in making accessible and responsive SRO to the schools, students, staff, and teachers; and WHEREAS, Police desire to participate in this cooperative effort; and WHEREAS, SRO can and will provide students with a positive alternative to substance abuse and/or gang activity through the introduction and presentation of the substance abuse and violence awareness program. WHEREAS, the presence of SRO in School will allow the prevention and detection of delinquency among the students through the cooperative education and preventive measures of School and Police, with the efficacy of a productive learning atmosphere free of crime, violence, and substance abuse. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are acknowledged, the parties agree as follows. A. DEFINITION OF TERMS. 1. Parent: A natural or adoptive mother or father, but does not include a mother or father whose parental rights have been terminated. 2. Guardian: A person who is not a parent of a child, but who has been appointed by the court or juvenile court having jurisdiction over the child, to make important decisions which have a permanent effect on the life and development of that child, and to provide for the general welfare of the child. 3. Custodian: A step-parent or a relative within the fourth degree of consanguinity to a minor child who has assumed responsibility for that child, a person who has accepted a release of custody, or a person appointed by a court or juvenile court having jurisdiction over a child. 4. Child: A person under 18 years of age. 5. Taking into Custody: An act, which would be governed by the laws of arrest under the criminal code if the subject committing the act were an adult. The taking into custody of a child is subject to all constitutional and statutory protections, which are afforded an adult upon arrest. 6. Delinquent Act: a. The violation of any state law or local ordinance that would constitute a public offense if committed by an adult except any offense which by law is exempt from the jurisdiction of the Juvenile code. b. The violation of a federal law or a law of another state whose violation constitutes a criminal offense if the case involving that act has been referred to Juvenile Court. B. DURATION 1. The term of this Agreement shall be for one (1) year. 2. Payments. The costs of this Agreement may, at the written request of either party, be reviewed every year in order to reach a mutually acceptable agreement. 3. In the event School fails to receive funding for any year, School may exercise its option to terminate this Agreement by giving at least sixty (60) days written notice of that intent to the contact person in this Agreement. C. ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES 1. The Waterloo Police Department agrees to: a. Assign six (6) uniformed police officers to the Waterloo Police/Waterloo Community Schools/Police School Resource Officer Unit. A Supervisor appointed by the Director of Safety Services will directly supervise this unit. b. Provide a police vehicle, uniforms, and related equipment and necessary training for all assigned School Resource Officers. c. Pay overtime costs of School Resource Officers required to attend after -hour school functions at the school to which they are assigned, other than scheduled events such as: football, basketball, wrestling, baseball, dances, etc. The Waterloo Community School District agrees to: a. Provide Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) each fiscal year, which shall begin on July 1, and end on June 30th of the following year. School shall make two (2) payments totaling Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) to Police, the first payment due on November 1, and the second payment due on April 1 of the year subsequent to November 1. b. Provide the School Resource Officer accessible office space, and basic office furnishings including a telephone, desk top and any other necessary school materials. c. Provide all drug awareness instructional and hand out materials at each of the three middle schools. Provide appropriate curriculum instructional materials to be used in the Waterloo Community Schools. d. Arrange for and pay part-time off-duty police officers that are requested for after -hour school activities (football, baseball, basketball, wrestling, dances, etc.) at the current rate for pay as set by the Waterloo Police Protective Association. Effective July 1, 2006, that rate is: ® $70.00 minimum for the first two hours ® $140.00 minimum for the first four hours ® $35.00 additional for each additional hour after four hours e. For major events defined as Homecoming dance, Prom dance, and Winter Formal, the SRO assigned to the school holding the event will be directed to work said event, unless other arrangements are made through the SRO supervisor. For these specific events, the SRO and any additional off- duty officers will be compensated at the officer's time -and -a - half rate of pay. The Waterloo Community Schools will be billed directly for these events by the Waterloo Police Department. 3. The Waterloo Community School District and the Police Department agree that the School Resource Officers shall be selected from volunteer police applicants through a formal interview process. The formal interview panel shall include school staff, police personnel, and community persons. 4. The contact person for School shall be Cora Turner, Executive Director of Student and At -Risk Services, 1516 Washington Street, Waterloo, IA 50702, (319) 433-1801. The contact person for Police shall be the SRO Supervisor, 715 Mulberry Street, Waterloo, IA 50703, (319) 291-4333. 5. The School Resource Officer's area of concern has to do with public law and its application. The School Resource Officers are not responsible for enforcement of school policies. The School Resource Officer is to act as a member of the school's team and report infractions of school policy to appropriate school personnel. ATTEST: Suzy Schakes, City Clerk STATE OF IOWA ) BLACK HAWK COUNTY ) ss. CITY OF WATERLOO, IOWA POLICE D PARTMENT rnest G. Clark, Mayor On this day of , 2014, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the State of Iowa, personally appeared Emest G. Clark and Suzy Schares, to me personally known, and who, being by me duly sworn, did say that they are the Mayor and City Clerk, respectively, of the City of Waterloo, Iowa; that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is the corporate seal of the corporation, and that the instrument was signed and sealed on behalf of the corporation by authority of its City Council as contained in the Resolution adopted by the City Council, unde5 Council Acton No. .b/'t 36 of the City Council on the 12-1day of I I , 2014, and that Ernest G. Clark and Suzy Schares acknowledge '• the execution of the instrument to be their voluntary act and deed and the voluntary act and deed of the corporation, by it voluntarily executed. 0 ary Public in nd for the State of Iowa DeAnne Kobliska COMMISSION NO. 763995 MY COMMISSION EXPIRES WATERLOO COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT By: Mike Young School Board "resident STATE OF IOWA BLACK HAWK COUNTY ss. This instrument was acknowledged before me on this z.1 day of , 2014, by Mike Young, as School Board President, for the Waterloo Community School District. G. G)Ax• otary Public in and for the State 0. Iowa s PAMELA O. ARNDORFER Comm1sslon Number 766854 • . My CommnZOO