ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and Corporation Counsel with a Request to Approve Amendment No. 2 to the INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT Between the CITY OF PEORIA and PEORIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS for the City to Provide a Total of Three (3) Peoria Police Officers to Certain Specific District High Schools.
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BACKGROUND:
On August 12, 2014, the City Council approved the Intergovernmental Agreement between the City of Peoria and the Peoria Public Schools for the Peoria Police Department to provide policing services at Peoria Public Schools high schools starting in the spring semester of the 2013-2014 school year and lasting through the last day of the 2017-2018 school year. That agreement that was entered on August 14, 2014 (File No. 14-330).
In August of 2015, the City and School District entered into Amendment No. 1 which reduced the number of Peoria Police Officers to three officers instead of the original five officers (File 15-278). The amendment also included a provision that the Agreement terminated at the conclusion of the 2015-2016 school year if the City does not receive COPS Grant for four additional officer positions. All other terms of the Agreement remained in effect.
The City did receive funding and the police agreement has been in place through the 2017-2018 school year. The School District is still pursuing the feasibility and legal authority to have their resource officers carry firearms. As they pursue this, the School District would like to extend the agreement for an additional year through the end of the 2018-2019 school year and memorialize their desire for three (3) officers in the Peoria Public Schools high schools.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: Per the terms of the original Agreement, District 150 will pay the City $47.01 per hour per officer for each hour worked.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS: Neighborhoods are concerned about the pre and post school activities of students traveling to Peoria Public Schools. The presenc...
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