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HomeMy WebLinkAboutContract 29281 STATE OF TEXAS CITY SECRETARY 1 I COUNTIES OF TARRANT § CONTRACT NO. AND DENTON WHEREAS, the City Council of Fort Worth and the Fort Worth Independent School District Board of Trustees have determined that the security and well-being of students at middle and elementary schools during after-school hours of 3:00 to 6:00 PM are of prime importance; and WHEREAS, the City Council of Fort Worth and the Fort Worth hndependent School District Board of Trustees by consensus agree that the activities of elementary and middle school children during these critical hours are of paramount importance to both government entities; and WHEREAS, the Fort Worth Independent School District proposes to continue an After-School Program in conjunction with the City of Fort Worth; NOW, THEREFORE, KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS: That for and in consideration of the mutual covenants, promises and agreements contained herein, the City of Fort Worth, hereinafter referred to as "City," acting by and through Joe Paniagua, its duly authorized Assistant City Manager, and the Fort Worth Independent School District, hereinafter referred to as "District," acting by and through Dr. Thomas Tocco, its duly authorized Superintendent, do hereby covenant and agree as follows: 1. City and District together covenant and agree to fully cooperate in the operation of this project and both parties agree that: A. A Coordinating Board shall continue to oversee the implementation and operation of the After-School Program. Said Coordinating Board shall meet at least quarterly and consist of the following persons: • Community Services Manager, City of Fort Worth Neighborhood and Youth Outreach Office • Executive Director, Crime Prevention Resource Center • Director, Tarrant County Juvenile Services • Assistant City Manager, City of Fort Worth • Deputy Superintendent, Fort Worth Independent School District • Chief of Police, City of Fort Worth • Director of Student Affairs, Fort Worth Independent School District • Director of Parks and Community Services, City of Fort W • Director of Athletics, Fort Worth Independent School Distr' tv The Coordinating Board shall have the following responsibilities; 1. Approve program-wide scope, goals and objectives 2. Appro\c site selection process 3. Select sites based on selection criteria 4. Evaluate reported results from campus programs 5. Evaluate funding needs 6. Recommend future direction and standards B. The District shall be responsible for day-to-day administration of the After-School Program and will at a minimum employ a Director and two Program Coordinators. C. The District shall establish a site-based advisory committee at each middle and elementary school which operates an after-school program. This committee may be a new body, a group continued from a previous year of after-school operations or the site-based management team provided it includes the principal and representatives of the community, faculty, and student body. D. The District shall continue to work with an independent entity to conduct an in-depth longitudinal evaluation of the After-School Program. This evaluation process shall continue for three (3) additional consecutive years, with an in-depth written evaluation provided following the conclusion ofthe fourth year. During intervening years the evaluator shall provide an overview and feedback on existing programs and recommendations for improvement. E. The City Council of Fort Worth and the Fort Worth Independent School District Board of Trustees shall meet annually to review the After-School Program. F. The District shall, with the concurrence of the Coordinating Board, reinvest any unspent funds from the prior year into the After-School Program. The District shall provide documentation of this action within 90 days of the start of this contract. 2. The mission of the After-School Program shall be: "To enable needs-based alter-school programs in a safe environment that result in educational, physic�d, and social development for elementary and middle-school aged children.". -2- 3/11103 x-1.0 Goals of the After-School Program shall include, at a minimum: • To provide homework assistance, tutorial, and relevant educational programs • To improve the awareness of the importance of learning • To reduce the level of truancy • To address the students physical needs • To provide activities that promote social development • To reduce juvenile arrests • To reduce juvenile victims of crimes during the target hours Operational Imperatives are: • To establish program goals and objectives that are measurable and result in desired outcomes through a scientific evaluation process • To ensure that program participants achieve improvement in core program outcomes through an accountable system of measurement • To ensure that existing programs are not duplicated, or if appropriate, are expanded or complimented through an inventory and evaluation of existing programs. 3. It is understood that during SY 2003 — 2004 the City of Fort Worth shall provide $1,100,000 dollars for the support of the After-School Program to the District. It is also understood that the District shall also provide at a minimum $1,100,000 for this project. The City and District may, acting through the Coordinating Board, establish a sliding fee- scale for participation in the program so long as no child at a participating school gets turned away and volunteer time by a parent, guardian, or designee can be counted toward the fee. It is agreed that any fees collected shall be expended towards the After-School Program primarily at the site where the fees are collected. The City of Fort Worth will make four equal payments of$275,000 each on October 15, 2003; January 15, 2004; April 15, 2004; and July 15, 2004, following receipt of an invoice from the District. 4. The term of this agreement is for a period beginning on October 1, 2003, and ending on September 30, 2004, and shall cover the entire SY 2003-2004. This contract may be renewed by both parties on an annual basis through the approval of an addendum setting a new term of the agreement and any other changes agreeable to both parties. -3- 8/11103 v1.0 5. It is expressly understood and agreed by and between the parties hereto that this agreement is wholly conditioned upon the actual receipt by City of funds from the Fort Worth Crin1C Control and Prevention District and that If SIICh lUnds front the Fort "Worth Crime Control and Prevention District are not timely forthcoming, in whole or in part, City may, at its sole discretion, terminate this contract and agreement. 6. This agreement may be terminated by either party hereto, in whole or in part, at any time and for any reason, upon written notice to the other party. Such written notice shall specify to what extent the work under the contract is being terminated and the effective date of termination. 7. District shall operate hereunder as an independent District and not as an officer, agent, servant or employee of City. District shall be solely responsible for the acts and omissions of its officers, members, agents, servants, and employees. Neither City nor District shall be responsible under the Doctrine of Respondeat Superior for the acts and omissions of its officers, members, agents, servants, employees, or officers of the other. S. City and District each covenant to the other that neither such party nor any of its officers, members, agents, employees, program participants, or subcontractors, while engaged in performing this contract shall in connection with the employment, advancement, or discharge of employees, or in connection with the terms, conditions or privileges of their employment, discriminate against persons because of their age, except on the basis of a bona fide occupational qualification, retirement plan, or statutory requirement. 9. City and District, in the execution, performance or attempted performance of this contract and agreement, will not discriminate against any person or persons because of sex, race, religion, color or national origin, nor will District permit its agents, employees, Subcontractors or program participants to engage in such discrimination. -4- 8/1 1/03 0.0 10. City and District covenant and agree that in the event either party fails to comply with, or breaches, any of the terns and provisions of this agreement, each party shall provide written notice to the other as soon as reasonably possible after the non-breaching party becomes aware of the failure to comply or breach of contract. In the event that the breaching party fails to cure or correct such breaches within a reasonable time following the receipt of notice, such reasonable time not to exceed 30 days, the non-breaching party shall have the right to declare this agreement immediately terminated, and neither party shall have further responsibility or liability hereunder. 11. The provisions of this agreement are severable and if for any reason a clause, sentence, paragraph or other part of this agreement shall be determined to be invalid by a court or federal or state agency, board or commission having jurisdiction over the subject matter thereof, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions which can be given effect Without the invalid provision. 12. The failure of City or District to insist upon the performance of any term or provision of this agreement or to exercise any right herein conferred shall not be construed as a waiver or relinquishment to any extent of City's or District's right to assert or rely upon any such term or right on any future occasion. 13. Should any action, whether real or asserted, at law or in equity, arise out of the execution, perfonnance, attempted perfornance or non-performance of this contract and agreement, venue for said action shall lie in Tarrant County, Texas. 14. This written instrument constitutes the entire agreement by the parties hereto concerning the work and services to be performed hereunder, and any prior or contemporaneous, oral or written agreement which purports to vary from the tenns hereof shall be void. -5- 8/11/03\,>.o IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this agreement in multiples in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, this 044 day of ��} A.D. 2003. Attest: CITY F F T O H City Uecretary Joe Pa iaty Assistant pager Approved for Form and Legality: Assist t City Attorney WISD Attorney Date: 71Z4(o3 Date: �� ox og ATTEST: FORT WORTH INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT By: Dr. omas If o co Superintendent Contra jt Authorization /v 1 �3 01:9� Date OWN Ciff -6- 8/11/03 v1.0 STATE OF TEXAS § COUNTIES OF TARRANT § AND DENTON BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, a Notary Public in and for the State of Texas, on this day personally appeared Dr. Thomas Tocco,known to me to be the same person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that the same was for the purposes and consideration therein expressed, as the act and deed of the Fort Worth Independent School District, and in the capacity therein stated as its duly authorized officer or representative. tz GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE this day of , 2003. o�PPV P 6 GAYLE L.WILLIAMS Notary Public 177L u STATE OF TEXAS t ' ublic in and for My Comm.Exp.08/07/2004 O � the State of Texas STATE OF TEXAS COUNTIES OF TARRANT AND DENTON BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, a Notary Public in and for the State of Texas, on this day personally appeared Joe Paniagua, known to me to be the same person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that the same was the act of the City of Fort Worth and that she executed the same as the act of said City of Fort Worth for the purposes and consideration therein expressed and in the capacity therein stated. GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE this day of /UL�7vt-G�� ✓ , 2003. '''SPRY PUe• ROSELLA B ARNES NOTARY P Notary Public in and for State of TeBasC the State of Texas ':FoF `Comm. Exp.03-31-2005 City of Fort Worth, Texas 4VA.Nor And C ommunica il ounc �tion � DATE REFERENCE NUMBER LOG NAME PAGE 9/23/03 C-19767 35AFTERSCHOOL 1 of 2 SUBJECT APPROVAL OF AN AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM AGREEMENT WITH THE FORT WORTH INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended that the City Council authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with the Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD) to operate the Fort Worth After-School Program at selected schools as a juvenile crime prevention measure. DISCUSSION: Beginning in FY2000-2001, a multi-disciplinary task force recommended funding for a program called Fort Worth After-School at selected elementary and middle schools in the FWISD. On August 8, 2000 (M&C C-18183), the City Council approved a $1.1 million commitment for the Fort Worth After-School Program, with equal matching funds provided by the FWISD. The City Council extended this agreement for two additional years on October 2, 2001 (M&C C-18770), and September 24, 2002 (M&C C-19263). For the fourth year of the crime prevention project, funding remains at $1.1 million and is included in the FY2003-2004 Fort Worth Crime Control and Prevention District budget. The FWISD will again provide matching funds in the amount of $1.1 million and will continue to administer this project. The Fort Worth After-School Program is overseen by a coordinating board consisting of the following: • Community Services Manager, City of Fort Worth Neighborhood and Youth Outreach Office • Executive Director, Crime Prevention Resource Center • Director, Tarrant County Juvenile Services • Assistant City Manager, City of Fort Worth • Deputy Superintendent, Fort Worth Independent School Districf • Chief of Police, City of Fort Worth • Director of Student Affairs, Fort Worth Independent School District • Director of Parks and Community Services, City of Fort Worth • Director of Athletics, Fort Worth Independent School District The only significant change in the contract is the staffing level supported by FWISD. The orginal agreement included one director, four program coordinators, and one full-time grant writer. These positions were to be paid by FWISD with funds above and beyond their $1.1 million match. Due to financial constraints, they have been operating with a director and two program coordinators. This contract renewal formalizes this commitment of staff. Dr. Peter Witt, of Texas A&M University, has led a team to evaluate the program for the first three years. Overall, the program has received high marks. This annual evaluation will continue during the fourth year of the program and will be funded by FWISD. City of Fort Worth, Texas ImAyor And Council communication DATE REFERENCE NUMBER LOG NAME PAGE 9/23/03 C-19767 I 35AFTERSCHOOL 2 of 2 SUBJECT APPROVAL OF AN AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM AGREEMENT WITH THE FORT WORTH INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FISCAL INFORMATION/CERTIFICATION: The Finance Director certifies that funds will be available in the FY2003-2004 operating budget, as appropriated, of the Crime Control and Prevention District Fund. JP:k Submitted for City Manager's FUND I ACCOUNT CENTER AMOUNT CITY SECRETARY Office by: (to) Joe Paniagua 6140 Originating Department Head: Ralph Mendoza 48386 (from) APPROVED 09/23/03 GR79 539120 0359601 $1,100,000.00 Additional Information Contact: Susan Alanis 48262