SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER AGREEMENT
BY AND BETWEEN
MARYSVILLE JOINT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
AND
YUBA COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION
AND
CITY OF MARYSVILLE
FISCAL YEAR 2026-27
RECITALS
THIS SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER AGREEMENT is dated as of July 1, 2026 the "Agreement") by and between the Marysville Joint Unified School District, a publi school district of the State of California, hereafter referred to as "MJUSD," Yuba Count as "Parties"), and is entered into in light of the facts set forth in the following recitals who agrees as follows:
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A. City has established a municipal police department as an instrumentality of the City (the "Department"), and the Department is recognized by the State of California as a municipal law enforcement agency.
MJUSD is a public school district in the County of Yuba, State of California, and has administrative offices located at 1919 B Street, Marysville, CA 95901.
C. YCOE is a public school county office of education in the County of Yuba, State of California, and has administrative offices located at 935 14'h St., Marysville, CA 95901.
D. MJUSD and YCOE desire to obtain special law enforcement services from the City, acting by and through the Department, to provide an additional level of law enforcement services for the benefit of the public school students of MJUSD and YCOE as described in this Agreement on the public school campuses of located in the city of Marysville with the Police Officer working out of a central location on the campus of Marysville High School, 1 and the City acting by and through the Department desires to provide such services on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
E. MJUSD, YCOE, and the City may enter into arrangements for the City to provide an additional level of law enforcement services to public agencies such as MJUSD and YCOE as set forth in this Agreement.
The Department possess the special experience, knowledge and expertise necessary for the performance of the "special service" law enforcement services required by this Agreement; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Education Code Section 32261, it is the intent of the State legislature to encourage California public schools to develop comprehensive safety plans that are the result of a systematic planning process that includes strategies aimed at the prevention of incidents involving crime and violence on school campuses and that address the safety concerns of local law enforcement and other interests in the prevention of crime on public school campuses and/or which otherwise involve public school students; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Education Code Section 32261, it is the intent of the State legislature to encourage school districts and law enforcement agencies to develop and implement interagency strategies, service training programs and activities that will improve school attendance and reduce the rates of school crime including vandalism, drug and alcohol abuse, gang membership and gang violence; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Education Code Section 32262, the State legislature has established School/Law Enforcement Partnership comprising the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Attorney General which has as its duties the development and administration of program policies, procedures and activities in the furtherance of campuses which are safe, secure and peaceful; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Penal Code Section 832.3, it is the intent of the Legislature to ensure the safety of pupils, staff, and members of the public on or near California public schools by providing peace officers with training that will enable them to deal with the increasing diverse and challenging law enforcement duties including public school campuses and students.
TERMS OF AGREEMENT
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises and understandings herein, the Parties agree as follows:
1. Scope of Service. The scope of the public safety and law enforcement services (collectively, the "Program") to be provided by the City, acting by and through the Department to MJUSD and YCOE, shall be those duties described in the Scope of Services document attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and incorporated by this reference.
2. Term. This Agreement shall commence on July 1, 2026, and shall continue through June 30, 2027, unless the Program and this Agreement is sooner terminated, as set forth in paragraph 6 of this Agreement.
Payment. MJUSD and YCOE shall pay the City, for the police services as set forth in the Scope of Services provided by School Resource Officers during the term of 2 this Agreement, the sum of One Hundred Twenty Thousand Dollars and 00 Cents ($120,000) with MJUSD being responsible for 70% of this amount, or $84,000, and YCOE being responsible for 30% of this amount, or $36,000. Such sum shall be payable by both MJUSD and YCOE to the City in four (4) equal installments with the first such installment due as of July 1, 2026, and the following equal installment payable due as of October 1, 2026, January 1, 2027 and April 1, 2027, respectively. Such police services as shall be provided by the City acting by and through the Department to MJUSD and YCOE under the Program shall include one (1) sworn peace officer of the Department assigned by the Department, in consultation with MJUSD and YCOE, for all MJUSD and YCOE campuses located within the city of Marysville and is to work out of a central location on the campus of Marysville High School for the term this Agreement as more particularly set forth in the Scope of Services. The Department shall submit quarterly invoices for the payment of such cost for the police services to MJUSD to the attention of the Superintendent, Marysville Joint Unified School District, 1919 B Street, Marysville, CA 95901. The Department shall submit quarterly invoices for the payment of such cost for the police services to YCOE to the attention of the Superintendent, Yuba County Office of Education, 935 14'h St., Marysville, CA 95901. Payment shall be made to the Department by MJUSD and YCOE no later than 30 days from receipt of the invoice.
4. Independent Contractor. The relationship between the Parties under this Agreement shall be one of an independent contractor. No School Resource Officer rendering services under this Agreement shall be an employee of MUSD or YCOE for federal or state tax purposes, or any other purpose. The Department shall be responsible for tax withholding as required by applicable law for the School Resource Officer. MJUSD and/or YCOE shall have no responsibility for payment of any tax liability arising out of the compensation for services performed by any School Resource Officer under this Agreement.
The School Resource Officer who is assigned by the Department to provide services under this Agreement shall not be deemed to be an employee or agent of MJUSD or YCOE and shall not be deemed qualified or eligible to participate in any MJUSD or YCOE pension plan, retirement, health and welfare program, or any similar program or, benefit, as a result of this Agreement. The School Resource Officer shall report directly to the Marysville Chief of Police or designee through the Marysville Police Department established "chain of command". The Department shall maintain direct supervisory control over the School Resource Officer; provided however, that MJUSD and YCOE shall have the right to approve the individual School Resource Officer assigned to it by the Department, and MJUSD and YCOE shall have the right to require that any assigned School Resource Officer be replaced upon the request of MJUSD and YCOE in the collective and reasonable discretion of both MJUSD and YCOE.
MJUSD and YCOE assume no liability for worker's compensation for the assigned School Resource Officer. The Department shall be responsible for carrying its own workers' compensation insurance and health and welfare insurance for the School Resource Officer assigned under this Agreement. It shall be the sole responsibility of the Department to account for all of the above, and the Department agrees to hold MJUSD and YCOE harmless from any liability for these taxes or employment costs.
At all times during the term of this Agreement, the School Resource Officer shall be a sworn police officer employee of the City subject to the supervision, control and direction of the City and subject to the personnel rules and procedures of the City.
5. Indemnification.
3 a. The City shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless MJUSD and YCOE, its officers, agents, and employees trom any and all loss, including attorney's fees, sustained by MJUSD or YCOE by virtue of any damage(s) to any person(s), firm or corporation that may be injured by or to any property that may be damaged by the sole fault or sole active negligence of the City or any School Resource Officer, officer, agent or employee.
b. MJSUD and YCOE shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless the City, its officers, agents, and employees from any and all loss, including attorney's fees sustained by the City by virtue of any damage(s) to any person(s), firm, or corporation who may be injured by or to any property that may be damaged by the sole fault or sole active negligence of MJUSD and/or YCOE, its officers, agents or employees of MJUSD or YCOE under the Program.
C. The indemnification provisions contained in this Agreement include any violation of applicable law, ordinance regulation or rule, including where the claim, loss, damage charge or expense was caused by deliberate, willful, or criminal acts of any party to this Agreement, or any of their agents, officers or employees or their performance under the terms of this Agreement.
d. It is the intent of the Parties that where negligence is determined to have been shared, principles of comparative negligence will be followed and each party shall bear the proportionate cost of any loss, damage, expense and liability attributable to that party's negligence. e. Each party shall establish and implement procedures to notify the other party of any claims or legal actions with respect to any of the matters described in this indemnification section.
Termination. This Agreement may be terminated by any Party at any time prior to the end of the Term, with or without cause for the sole convenience of the Party who may elect to terminate this Agreement, upon delivery of a written Notice of Intent to Terminate to the other Party. Such notice shall be served by personal delivery or by first-class mail, registered or certified; postage prepared, and shall be deemed received upon personal delivery or five (5) days after the mailing date whichever is sooner. The date of termination shall be the date that is ninety (90) calendar days after the date on which the Notice of Intent to Terminate is received or deemed received by the other two Parties, as the case may be. In the event of termination, MJUSD and YCOE will compensate the City for all services rendered to the effective date of such termination.
The Marysville Chief of Police is designated as authorized to accept such notice for the Department and the City, the MJUSD Superintendent is designated to accept such notice for MJUSD, and the YCOE Superintendent is designated to accept such notice for YCOE.
7. Assignment. This Agreement is for personnel services to be performed by the City acting by and through the Department. Neither this Agreement nor any duties or obligations to be performed by the Department under this Agreement shall be assigned without the prior written consent of both MJUSD and YCOE. In the event of an assignment by the City to which both MJUSD and YCOE have consented, the assignee or its legal representative shall agree in writing with MJUSD and YCOE to assume, perform and be bound by all covenants, obligations and agreements contained in this Agreement.
8. Notices. Any notice, requests, demands or other communications required or permitted to be given under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given on the date of service if served personally on the party to whom notice is to be given or on the fifth day of mailing to the party to whom the notice is to be given, by first-class mail registered or certified, postage prepaid, or on the day after dispatching by Federal Express or another overnight delivery service, and properly addressed as follows:
MJUSD: Marysville Joint Unified School District
1919 B Street
Marysville, CA 9590°
Attn: Superintendent
YCOE: Yuba County Office of Education
935 14th Street
Marysville, CA, 95901
Attn: Superintendent
Department: Marysville Police Department
316 6th Street
Marysville, CA 95901
Attn: Chief of Police
9. Entire Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire agreement between the Parties and supersedes all prior understandings between them with respect to the Program which is the subject matter of this Agreement. There are no other promises, terms, conditions or obligations, oral or written, between the Parties relating to the subject matter of this Agreement that are not fully expressed in this Agreement. This Agreement may not be modified, changed, supplemented or terminated, nor may any obligation under this Agreement be waived, except by written instrument signed by the Parties.
10. Binding on Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Parties and their successors.
11. Severability. Should any term or provision of the Agreement be determined to be illegal or in conflict with any law of the State of California, the validity of the remaining portions or provisions shall not be affected thereby. Each term or provision of this Agreement shall be valid and enforced as written to the fullest extent permitted by law.
12. California Law. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws and decisions of the State of California.
Ratification of Boards of Education. This Agreement is not enforceable and is invalid unless and until it is approved and/or ratified by the governing boards of th Marysville Joint Unified School District and Yuba County Office of Education, a evidenced by motions of said boards duly passed, and adopted in compliance with the provisions of Education Code Section 17604.
5 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, City, MJUSD, and YCOE have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
CITY:
City of Marysville
By: Jim Schaad
City Manager
By:_
Vance Nabeta
Chief of Police
MJUSD:
Marysville Joint Unified School District
By:
Jennifer Passaglia
Chief Business Official
YCOE:
Yuba County Office of Education
By: -
Rob Gregor
Superintendent
Exhibit A
Scope of Services
FISCAL YEAR 2026-27
This Scope of Services is part of an agreement entitled "School Resources Officer Agreement (the "Agreement")" by and between MJUSD, YCOE, and the City for the Fiscal Year of 2026-27. Unless the context of the usage of a particular term may otherwise require, all defined terms used in this Exhibit "A," denoted by an initial capital letter in each such word, shall have the same meaning as set forth in the Agreement.
PURPOSE
A prosperous future for the citizens of Marysville depends, in large measure, upon the MJUSD and YCOE's ability to properly educate its children. Effective schooling requires a safe and orderly environment in which learning can occur. Consequently, the City acting by and through the Department, in collaboration with MJUSD and YCOE, conducts the Program in order to provide school administrators and staff with law enforcement resources and expertise they need to maintain safety, order, and discipline in the school environment. The Program is intended to ensure, to the greatest extent reasonably feasible, that no student's right to receive an education is abridged by violence or disruption in the school or classroom setting.
The Program by the City acting by and through the Department involves the assignment of a School Resource Officer to all campuses within the city of Marysville and is to work out of a central location on the campus of Marysville High School. In accordance with staffing ability and the demonstrated needs of the schools, the Department will assign a full-time School Resource Officer for the services designated in this Agreement.
With daily interaction among the administration of each school, MJUSD, YCOE, the School Resource Officer, and the Department, the Parties acknowledge and agree to mutually consult with each other and establish, maintain, and update specific guidelines and procedures to be followed by the School Resource Officers and individual school administrators in the implementation of the Program. The Exhibit clarifies the role of the School Resource Officers and the school administrators, the scope of their authority, and the responsibilities of MJUSD, YCOE, and the Department in this collaboration. The success of the School Resource Officer program relies on effective communication between the School Resource Officer, the principals, and other key staff members in each organization.
POLICE SERVICES
The City acting by and through the Department hereby agrees to provide MJUSD and YCOE with the special police services as follows: a fully uniformed police officer employee of the City shall be assigned by the Department to work as School Resource 7 Officer for all campuses within the city of Marysville and is to work out of a central location on the campus of Marysville High School. Such sworn police officer/School Resource Officer ("SRO") assigned by the Department to the school sites of MJUSD and YCOE shall be physically present at those sites at least 50% of each 40-hour work week, except when subpoenaed for court, attending official police training or business assigned by the Department or when such SRO is taking routine vacation and special time off as an employee of the City, or on days when public school students are not scheduled for regular attendance at such school site, school holidays and other periods of time when MJUSD and YCOE may designate. The School Resource Officer (SRO) may perform police officer services as directed by the Department at times outside the time periods set forth for duty as an SRO under this Agreement when deemed necessary by the Department.
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