ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
MEETING DATE: December 17, 2025 AGENDA CATEGORY: Consent - Agreements TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Greg Terry, Chief of Police
DATE: November 17, 2025
SUBJECT: Agreement with Bakersfield City School District (compensation to the city not to exceed $118,000) to provide School Resource Officer and a termination date of July 31, 2026. (Ward 2)
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends approval of the agreement.
BACKGROUND:
In February 2018, the Bakersfield Police Department (BPD) and the Bakersfield City School District (BCSD), as recommended by the City Council’s Safe Neighborhoods Committee, implemented a pilot project to engage two full -time school resource officers (SRO) dedicated to BCSD schools. The goal of this partnership was to reduce chronic absenteeism, chronic truancy violence, drug and alcohol use, gang involvement, bullying, and harassment in the comm unity to help in ensuring BCSD schools are safe learning environments with positive school culture.
On August 3, 2021, BPD entered into Agreement No. 2021-175 with BCSD to provide up to four full-time SRO program services.
On January 25, 2023, BPD entered into Agreement No. 2023-022 with BCSD to continue the SRO program services with a term date of July 30, 2023, and a not to exceed amount of $240,000.
On August 9, 2023, BPD entered into Agreement No. 2023-181 with BCSD to provide SRO program services with a term date of July 31, 2025, and a not to exceed amount of $240,000.
Due to the success of the program both parties would like to continue the SRO program for the Fiscal Year 2025-26 and the 2025-26 school year.
BCSD will only be billed for the weeks the district schools are in session, plus one additional week immediately prior to the first week of the school year and one additional week immediately following the last week of the school year. BCSD may also be billed for the weeks summer school is in session if SROs are requested. Any additional services, including overtime, will be charged to BCSD at actual costs to the City in addition to the baseline figure quoted above if such additional services are mutually agree d upon in writing by both City and BCSD prior to services being rendered.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The contract with the School District will pay the rates that cover for the SR Officers; thus it’s a cost neutral agreement meaning the cost incurred by the Department will be covered by the School District during the School Year of 2025-26.
COUNCIL GOAL:
Safety and Resilience
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Signed Agreement
2. SRO Duties – Exhibit A