ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
MEETING DATE: January 7, 2026 AGENDA CATEGORY: Consent - Agreements TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Greg Terry, Chief of Police
DATE: December 16, 2025
SUBJECT: Agreement with Fruitvale School District (compensation to City not to exceed $153,000) to provide School Resource Officers. (Ward 4)
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 t o 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 community to help in ensuring BCSD schools are safe learning environments with positive school culture.
SROs are available to respond to emergency calls for service for the BPD but will otherwise report to the superintendent or designee when working as an SRO on school related business.
Fruitvale School District (FSD) has expressed interest in the SRO program for the 2025-26 school year.
The district will pay at the following rate:
School year for 2025-26 a rate of $7,160 per officer per two (2) weeks of service with a not to exceed compensation amount of $153,000.
FSD 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. FSD 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 FSD at actual costs to the City in addition to the baseline figure qu oted above if such additional services are mutually agreed upon in writing by both City and FSD prior to services being rendered.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Action to approve this agreement recovers cost of the department to provide for the SRO and will be General Fund neutral.
COUNCIL GOAL:
Safety and Resilience
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Agreement
2. Exhibit A