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RESOLUTION NO. RES-22-0121
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF LONG BEACH AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH
COMMUNITY PARTNERS WITHOUT ADVERTISING FOR
BIDS TO DEVELOP AND PILOT THE EARLY CHILDHOOD
EDUCATION ENROLLMENT HUB PROGRAM IN AN
AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $600,000 FOR A PERIOD OF
EIGHTEEN MONTHS
WHEREAS, on March 16, 2021, the Long Beach City Council approved the Long Beach Recovery Act (LB Recovery Act), a COVID-19 recovery program to support City programs in three main categories - Economic Recovery, Healthy and Safe Community, and Securing Our City's Future; and
WHEREAS, as part of the Heathy and Safe Community category of the LB Recovery Act, the City's Department of Health and Human Services seeks a consultant to create and implement the Early Childhood Education Enrollment Hub Program ("ECE Hub"), a digital early childhood enrollment hub for community members and early childhood education providers to streamline enrollment for early childhood education programs into a single online platform; and
WHEREAS, in addition to creating the technology component of the ECE Hub, the City's consultant will be responsible for coordination efforts among the City's early childhood education providers including the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD), marketing efforts to promote the ECE Hub, as well as the distribution of early childhood education tuition assistance for those in need; and
WHEREAS, as a local nonprofit whose mission is to ensure all students have access to educational pathways, the Mayor's Fund for Education is the only nonprofit 1 LEM:kjm A21-05518 6-3-22 01397811.DOCX
1 provider that can effectively coordinate the development of the EGE Hub based on the 2 Mayor's Fund for Education's existing relationships and position of trust with the bulk of 3 childcare providers in the community, knowledge of available early childhood education 4 funding streams, understanding of the data components for the EGE Hub platform and the 5 school identifiers, working partnership with LBUSD, and potential to fulfill the City's long- 6 term goal of providing an in-person and phone resource for early childhood education 7 enrollment services; and
8 WHEREAS, the Mayor's Fund for Education, an unincorporated nonprofit, 9 will be working with Community Partners, a registered 501 (c)3 nonprofit as the fiscal agent 10 of the Mayor's Fund for Education, to provide the structure, finance and accounting 11 services, and administrative support to ensure the success of the EGE Hub creation; and WHEREAS, as a result, no useful purpose would be served by advertising for bids and to do so would constitute an idle and useless act and an unnecessary 14 · expenditure of public funds;
follows:
17 18 herein.
19 NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Long Beach resolves as Section 1. The above recitals are true and correct and are incorporated Section 2. The City Manager is hereby authorized to enter into a contract 20 with Community Partners as fiscal agent for the Mayor's Fund for Education to develop 21 and pilot the EGE Hub Program in an amount not to exceed Six Hundred Thousand Dollars 22 ($600,000) for a period of eighteen (18) months.
23 Section 3. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption 24 by the City Council, and the City Clerk shall certify the vote adopting this resolution. 25 II
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I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was adopted by the City Council of the City of Long Beach at its meeting of July 19 , 2022 by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmembers:
Noes: Councilmembers:
Absent: Councilmembers:
Recusal(s): Councilmembers:
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Zendejas, Allen, Price, Supernaw, Mungo,
Saro, Uranga, Austin, Richardson.
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