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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute First Amendment to Agreement No. 28472 between the Long Beach Unified School District of Los Angeles County and the City of Long Beach, for the Regional Occupational Program, to extend the term five years through August 31, 2011. (Districts 7,8)
DISCUSSION
The Long Beach Unified School District's (LBUSD) Regional Occupational Program (ROP) provides high school students vocational instruction in horticulture and landscaping. Because the City possesses a wide variety of facilities where these skills may be practiced, the ROP has been allowed access to City facilities since the late 1970s for the purpose of providing instruction. Agreement No. 28472 (Agreement) between the City and LBUSD enables the operation of the ROP at City facilities.
The current three-year term of the Agreement expires August 31, 2006. In accordance with the Agreement provisions, LBUSD has the option to request a renewal to extend the term three years. However, LBUSD would like a five-year extension to synchronize the timing of the City's Agreement with LBUSD's contract for the ROP, an option to which staff is amenable. City Council authorization for a five-year renewal is now requested, with the following major terms and conditions: .
Permission Granted: The faculty and students from the ROP will be granted access to City facilities for the purpose of providing and receiving vocational instruction in landscape and horticulture skills. The access granted will be at times and locations mutually agreed upon by the City and the LBUSD ROP. Specific projects occurring on City property will be permitted with the approval of the
Director of Parks, Recreation and Marine or his designee, and while the City may supply materials and equipment for projects, if requested, it is not obligated to do so.
Supervision: The LBUSD ROP will be required to provide qualified staff for the purpose of instructing and supervising its students. Additionall...
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