For City Council Meeting [July 13, 2021]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Marcus Fuller, City Manager
FROM: Sean Grayson, Fire Chief
Title
Request City Council 1) Approve an Inter-Agency Instructional Services Agreement with the San Bernardino Community College District for Training and Instructional Services for a period of Three Years through June 30, 2024 and 2) Authorize the City Manager to Execute the Agreement.
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BACKGROUND
The Rialto Fire Department entered into an agreement for inter-agency instructional services with The Rancho Santiago Community College District (RSCCD) on August 10, 2015. The program has provided structured educational opportunities for fire department personnel utilizing a combination of community college instructional activities and fire department instructor led activities. The program has provided payment to the City from the RSCCD at an hourly rate for specified programs generating revenue to the City to offset the cost of fire department budgeted training. At the time that the City entered into the agreement with RSCCD there was no similar program in the local area. The San Bernardino Community College District through Crafton Hills College (CHC) now offers a comparable program and the fire department should transfer to this program for efficiency and continuity of regional community college services.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION
On May 25, 2021 the City Council approved a bridge agreement with the RSCCD through August 10, 2021 to allow for the City to continue to receive reimbursement through that program while allowing for the transition to the CHC program. The CHC program is an equivalent to the RSCCD State Distance Education Program and will reimburse the City at a rate of $3.50 per instructional hour for qualifying courses. This reimbursement is for courses that are identified in Attachment 1 to the standard inter-agency instructional services agreement. These courses are taught by Rialto Fire personnel that...
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