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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute an agreement and any subsequent amendments with Long Beach City College to provide instructional services to City employees with funds generated to be directed for Police and Fire Department training budgets. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
For many years, the City of Long Beach (City) and Long Beach City College (LBCC) have shared the state's Full-Time Equivalent Student (FTES) funding for training at the Long Beach Police and Fire Academies. These sites serve as extension campuses of LBCC. The current agreement expires on July 31, 2010.
The agreement provides for instructional services and college units for the Police Department, Fire Department, and other City employees (such as Harbor Department security officers). The employees receive training at either the Long Beach Police Academy or Fire Academy for courses that are required by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), the Police Department, the Fire Department, or the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards. Students register with LBCC to receive college credits for the courses taught by Police or Fire Department instructors.
Through the FTES program, the State of California reimburses LBCC a specific amount per student per instructional hour. Under the new agreement, the Police and Fire Department will again receive fifty percent of the FTES payments net of LBCC administrative costs. The term of this agreement shall be three years, with the option to renew for two additional one-year terms. The agreement may be terminated within thirty (30) days written notice by either party.
This matter was reviewed by Deputy City Attorney Gary Anderson and Budget and Performance Management Bureau Manager David Wodynski on January 29, 2010.
TIMING CONSIDERATIONS
City Council action on this matter is requested on February 16, 2010 to continue receiving FTES funding for training provided at the Long Beach Police and Fire Departments.
FISCAL IMPACT
Long Beach City College will pay into the City's General Fund (GP) fifty percent of the FTES funds it receives, net of administrative costs. Over the past five years, an average of $506,000 was generated for the City annually; however, as a result of periodic changes in training curriculum, it is difficult to accurately project the amount of future revenue the program will generate annually.
SUGGESTED ACTION
Approve recommendation.
Respectfully Submitted,
BILLY B. QUACH
CHIEF OF POLICE
JEFFERY L. REEB
ACTING FIRE CHIEF
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PATRICK H. WEST |
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