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File ID: 2023-01411 11/14/2023 Consent Item 12.
Northern California College Promise Coalition Memorandum of Understanding File ID: 2023-01411
Location: Citywide
Recommendation: Pass a Motion authorizing the City Manager or City Manager’s designee to execute a Memorandum of Understanding with the Northern California College Promise Coalition (NCCPC), acting by and through the West Contra Costa Public Education Fund, regarding membership on the NCCPC’s steering committee to identify opportunities to improve the college success of young people in Sacramento.
Contact: Nicole Cuellar, Senior Policy Advisor, (916) 808-8828, [email protected], Office of Mayor Darrell Steinberg; Aubree Taylor, Development Project Manager, [email protected], (916) 808-7191,
City Manager’s Office of Innovation and Economic Development.
Presenter: None.
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Memorandum of Understanding
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: The NCCPC, a fiscally-sponsored project of the West Contra Costa Public Education Fund, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation, is a regional effort to bring together leaders, practitioners and resources and share leadership over the shape of college success efforts in the region. NCCPC represents over 45 members, and over 150,000 students in 12 counties.
NCCPC gathers leaders, practitioners, and resources invested in supporting college success through policy advocacy, workforce development, and promoting best practices within education and youth services. NCCPC works to make systemic change by advocating for and/or directly implementing solutions centering first-generation, low-income, and BIPOC students.
The attached Memorandum of Understanding allows the City to become a member of the NCCPC’s steering committee. Joining this coalition will allow the City to connect with regional leaders and
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identify best practices for improving the college success of young people in Sacramento.
As a steering committee member, the City will receive:
· Shared leadership over the shape of college success efforts in the region · Autonomy to co-design the policy goals for the collaborative, and be recognized in all documentation for any successes
· Leadership over all collaboration activities across Promise programs, including best practices events
· Access to all negotiated benefits at participating colleges (i.e. tutoring, financial aid help, advising, etc.), which directly benefit students and staff · Access to all negotiated career development (i.e. events, activities at campuses, work based learning, advising, etc.), which directly benefit students and staff.
Policy Considerations: In 2017, Mayor Steinberg announced the launch of Thousand Strong, a comprehensive work skills training, career coaching, and paid internship initiative for students served by schools in the City of Sacramento. Ensuring the region has a thriving workforce is central to the City’s economic growth and is a priority for Sacramento’s leadership. Career pathways that allow for early access to work experiences, such as internships, ensure that youth are gaining the technical and soft skills they need to be college and career ready. Despite barriers related to the pandemic throughout 2020 and 2021, the program continues to evolve and is now working with its seventh cohort of students.
The City is continuing its efforts to increase the number of paid work experience and work-based learning opportunities available to 16- and 17-year-olds through the Thousand Strong program.
Joining the NCCPC aligns with the mission of Thousand Strong by supporting college success through policy advocacy, workforce development, and promoting best practices within education and youth services.
Furthermore, joining the NCCPC aligns with the City’s Youth Development Plan which seeks to ensure that the City better meets the needs of its youth through strategic investment of resources and the implementation of an infrastructure that aligns the City’s programs under a unified vision, framework, and set of goals. This recommendation is also consistent with the City of Sacramento’s Inclusive Economic Development strategy by joining a community of practice that advances strategies to improve outcomes for low-income and underrepresented youth.
Economic Impacts: None.
Environmental Considerations: This report does not concern a project requiring review under the California Environmental Quality Act, consistent with CEQA Guidelines sections 15060(c)(3) and 15378(b)(5), because it relates to administrative activity of the City that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment, and CEQA Guidelines section 15061(b)(3), because it
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can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment.
Sustainability: Not Applicable.
Commission/Committee Action: None.
Rationale for Recommendation: Joining this coalition will allow the City to connect with regional leaders and identify best practices for improving the college success of young people in Sacramento.
This community of practice will position the City to better meet the needs of youth by advancing college success through policy advocacy, workforce development, and promoting best practices within education and youth services.
Financial Considerations: There is a cost of $10,000 to join the NCCPC. Sufficient funding is available in the Thousand Strong Multiple Year Operating Project (I01000300) in the Measure U Fund (Fund 2401).
Local Business Enterprise (LBE): Not Applicable.