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AGREEMENT NO. ___________
AGREEMENT FOR SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER SERVICES
(CITY OF BAKERSFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT & ROSEDALE UNION SCHOOL
DISTRICT)
THIS AGREEMENT FOR SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER SERVICES (“Agreement”) is made and entered into this day of _______________, by and between the CITY OF BAKERSFIELD, a municipal corporation, (" City") and the ROSEDALE UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT, the NORRIS SCHOOL DISTRICT, and the FRUITVALE SCHOOL DISTRICT (hereinafter collectively knowns as "District"), all public school districts and subdivisions of the State of California. Bakersfield Police Department (“BPD”) is within the City, and unless otherwise specified, BPD and City will be used interchangeably in this Agreement. City and District may be individually referred to as “Party” and collectively as “Parties.”
WITNESSETH:
(a) Whereas, research indicates that chronic absenteeism and chronic truancy are strong predictors of lack of school success, dropping out of school, gang involvement, substance abuse, and criminal activity.
(b) Whereas, the BPD and District desire to work together to reduce chronic absenteeism, chronic truancy, violence, drug and alcohol use, gang involvement, bullying, and harassment in the community to help in ensuring District schools are safe learning environments with positive school culture.
(c) Whereas, the BPD and District value community-based mentoring and the role law enforcement can play, as community mentors, in improving school attendance and student achievement and reducing school removals and discipline.
(d) Whereas, the City, BPD and the District s upport the principles of “school community policing” as an approach to safe schools and foster community integration and safety with highly trained law enforcement officers working within the school community to collaboratively develop solutions to address the underlying conditions that affect school and community safety.
(e) Whereas, the Rosedale Union School District, the Norris School District and the Fruitvale School District formed a consortium and have agreed to jointly enter into this Agreement.
It is understood by the consortium that the Rosedale Unified School District will be the primary District responsible for providing compensation to BPD for their services and for modifying any terms of this Agreement.
(e) Whereas, the BPD is willing and able to provide School Resource Officers (“SROs”) to District under the terms and conditions hereafter set forth.
NOW THEREFORE, District and City hereby agree as follows:
1. Purpose. The purpose of this Agreement is for the City to provide SROs to the District to assign to school sites for the primary purposes of addressing chronic absenteeism and truancy, and secondarily to support a positive school climate and safety for a target area within the District and City.
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2. Term. The term of this Agreement shall commence on August 1, 2026, and continue through July 31, 2027, and may be renewable for two additional one-year periods upon mutually agreeable terms by the Parties.
3. Services. The City will assign SROs on an “ON-CALL” basis, upon request by District and as available and at the discretion of BPD, to the Target Area, as further defined in Section 5 of this Agreement, for the Term of this Agreement. The SROs will be assigned to work with District and site administration, parents, students, the surrounding community, and other appropriate outside agencies as needed, to primarily address chronic absenteeism and truancy, as well as support a positive school climate and school safety (“Services”). City may assign in its sole discretion, additional “Community Relations Specialists” or SROs to the Target Area, if requested and available. All SROs shall remain available to respond to emergency calls for service for the BPD but will otherwise report to the school superintendent or designee when working as an assigned SRO on school-related business. The roles and responsibilities of the school resource officers are defined more specifically in Exhibit “A”, attached hereto and incorporated herein.
4. Performance of Services . The BPD and District agree to participate in meetings, as needed, to discuss strategies, timetables, implementation of Services, and any other issues deemed relevant to the performance of Services, including, but not limited to, District training on topics involving student Code of Conduct, student discipline options and procedures, and working and communicating effectively with special needs students and their families.
5. Target Area. The Target Area includes the schools and student residences within the District that are also within the jurisdiction of the Bakersfield Police Department.
6. Control of BPD's Personnel . The BPD will have sole authority for assignment, hours worked, control, and supervision for S R O s assigned to the Target Area. SROs are employees of the City and are not employees of the District and are therefore SROSs are not entitled to benefits of any kind or nature from the District. Likewise, all District personnel remain at all times employees of District and are not employees of City or BPD and are therefore not entitled to benefits of any kind or nature from the City. No part of this Agreement shall be deemed a restriction on the power of the
BPD to keep the peace and to utilize sworn officers, or any other employees or equipment at such times and places and in such manner as the BPD, in the exercise of i t s judgment and discretion, may deem necessary for the carrying out the duties of i t s o f f i c e . Notwithstanding the foregoing, while an assigned SRO is working on District property, he or she must report to and collaborate with the Superintendent or designee. BPD personnel assigned as SROs must agree to participate in training provided by the District on student discipline, school removals and search and seizure in the school setting.
7. Compensation. District shall reimburse City for the costs of a School Resource Officer assigned under this Agreement at the following rate:
o School year 26/27: a rate of $8,132 per officer, per two (2) weeks of service.
Total compensation paid by District under this Agreement shall not exceed an annual amount of ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS ($166,000). The SRO rate may be adjusted annually based on the current compensation rate of the officers. If rates increase the City will provide an updated cost and upon approval of both parties the compensation will be changed to reflect the new rates. District shall only be invoiced for the weeks when SRO Services are requested and SROs are assigned accordingly.
8. Selection and Substitute of Officers . The District shall be included in the selection of officers assigned to work as SROs in the Target Area. The BPD will provide the requested SROs Docusign Envelope ID: 86832C37-759A-885C-80D2-7CD79EFFC4B5 Rosedale School District – SRO Officer Services 09/2025 Page 3 of 5
as available. In the event that the requested SRO is unavailable, BPD will provide a substitute SRO, if and as available. District may request that an officer be reassigned out of District; provided, however, that BPD cannot guarantee that other SROs will be available to act as a replacement on a long term basis.
9. Billing and Payment. The City will bill the District for costs in accordance with paragraph 7, titled “Compensation”, on a quarterly basis which shall be payable by District to City within thirty (30) days of receipt.
10. Mutual Hold Harmless . City shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless District, its agents, officers and employees, for any liability fo r injury to or death of any person or damage to or loss of any property caused by a negligent or wrongful act or omission occurring in the performance of this Agreement by City its school resource officers, agents or employees and District shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless City, its agents, officers and employees for any liability for injury or death of any person or Damage to or loss of any property caused by a
negligent or wrongful act or omission occurring in the performance of this Agreement by District, it officers, agents, or employees.
11. Insurance. City and District represent they are self-insured and will, throughout the term of this Agreement, maintain their insurance programs. City and District warrant that, always during the term of this Agreement, both shall have and maintain workers’ compensation insurance in compliance with the Labor Code of the State of California.
12. Assignment. Neither Party shall assign or transfer any right or duty in this Agreement.
13. Termination. Either Party may terminate this Agreement on thirty (30) days written notice to the other specifying the termination date. District shall pay City sums due hereunder through the date of termination.
14. Notices. All notices required or provided for in this Agreement shall be provided to the Parties at the following addresses, by personal delivery or deposit in the U.S. Mail, postage prepaid, registered, or certified mail, addressed as specified below. Notices delivered personally shall be deemed received upon receipt; mailed or expressed notices shall be deemed received five (5) days after deposit. A Party may change the address to which notice is to be given by giving notice as provided above.
To City: Bakersfield Police Department
1601 Truxtun Avenue
Bakersfield, CA 93301
To District: Rosedale Union School District
2553 Old Farm Road
Bakersfield CA, 93312
Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent or render ineffective delivery of notices required or permitted under this Agreement by personal service.
15. Sole Agreement. This document contains the entire agreement of the Parties relating to the Services, rights, obligations, and covenants contained herein and assumed by the Parties, respectively. No inducements, representations or promises have been made, other than those recited in this Agreement. No oral promise, modification, change or inducement shall be effective or given any force or effect.
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16. Authority to Bind. It is understood that neither Party in the performance of any and all duties under this Agreement, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, has any authority to bind the other to any agreements or undertakings.
17. Modifications of Agreement. This Agreement may be modified in writing only, signed by the Parties in interest at the time of the modification.
18. Nonwaiver. No covenant or condition of this Agreement can be waived except by the written consent of both Parties. Forbearance or indulgence by either Party in any regard whatsoever shall not constitute a waiver of the covenant or condition.
19. Choice of Law/Venue . The Parties hereto agree that the provisions of this Agreement will be construed pursuant to the laws of the State of California. This Agreement has been entered into and is to be performed in the City of Bakersfield. Accordingly, the Parties agree that the venue of any action relating to this Agreement shall be in the County of Kern.
20. Confidentiality. Neither Party shall, without the written consent of the other, communicate confidential information, designated in writing, or identified in this Agreement as such, to any third party and shall protect such information from inadvertent disclosure to any third party in the same manner that they protect their own confidential information, unless such disclosure is required in response to a validly issued subpoena or other process of law. Upon completion of this Agreement, the provisions of this paragraph shall continue to survive.
21. Severability. Should any part, term, portion or provision of this Agreement be decided finally to be in conflict with any law of the United States or the State of California, or otherwise be unenforceable or ineffectual, the validity of the remaining parts, terms, portions, or provisions shall be deemed severable and shall not be affected thereby, provided such remaining portions or provisions can be construed in substance to constitute the agreement which the Parties intended to enter into in the first instance.
22. Compliance with Law . The Parties shall observe and comply with all applicable City, county, state and federal laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations now in effect or hereafter enacted, each of which are hereby made a part hereof and incorporated herein by reference.
23. Captions and Interpretation. Paragraph headings in this Agreement are used solely for convenience and shall be wholly disregarded in the construction of this Agreement. No provision of this Agreement shall be interpreted for or against a Party because that Party or its legal representative drafted such provision, and this Agreement shall be construed as if jointly prepared by the Parties.
24. Time of Essence . Time is hereby expressly declared to be of the essence of this Agreement and of each and every provision hereof, and each such provision is hereby made and declared to be a material, necessary and essential part of this Agreement.
25. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed simultaneously in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
26. Nondiscrimination. Neither Party, nor any officer, agent, employee, servant or subcontractor of either Party shall harass, intimi date, bully, or discriminate in the treatment or employment of any individual or groups of individuals based on actual or perceived characteristics of race or ethnicity, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, ethnic group identifications, age, Docusign Envelope ID: 86832C37-759A-885C-80D2-7CD79EFFC4B5 Rosedale School District – SRO Officer Services 09/2025 Page 5 of 5
religion, marital or parental status, physical or m ental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information or any other characteristic identified in Education Code Section 200 or 220, California Penal Code Section 422.55, or Government Code Section 11135, either directly, indirectly or through contractual or other arrangements.
27. Signature Authority. Each Party has full power and authority to enter and perform this Agreement, and the person signing this Agreement on behalf of each Party has been properly authorized and empowered to enter into this Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Party to this Agreement has signed this Agreement upon the date indicated, and agrees, for itself, its employees, officers, partners, and successors, to be fully bound by all terms and conditions of this Agreement.
" C i t y " “ D i s t r i c t ”
CITY OF BAKERSFIELD RO SEDALE UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT
By: ______________________________ By: ________________________________
K A R E N G O H S U E L E M O N
Mayor District Superintendent
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:
BAKERSFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT
By: _______________________________
BRENT STRATTON
Chief of Police
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
VIRGINIA GENNARO
City Attorney
By: _______________________________
ASHLEY ZAMBRANO
Deputy City Attorney II
Insurance: ____________
COUNTERSIGNED:
By: _______________________________
RANDY MCKEEGAN
Finance Director
Attachments: Exhibit A
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