Title
Joint resolution approving an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) for part-time contractual police services by and among the Beach Park School District #3, Lake County and the Lake County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) in the amount of $50,862.59.
Staff Summary
• Beach Park School District #3, and the LCSO piloted a part-time police/school resource officer program in 2016 to provide police services in the form of a police/school resource officer (SRO) at the Beach Park Middle School.
• The main objectives in having an SRO are to develop a positive relationship between law enforcement and the students, effectively deal with juvenile offenses/issues and to protect students and the school from violations of the law.
• The term of this agreement is for one year, beginning August 1, 2022, and ending July 31, 2023.
• The contract includes one part-time SRO for 17 hours per week while school is in session.
• Beach Park School District #3 will reimburse 100 percent of the cost for the SRO position for the hours worked. The SRO will be assigned other duties while not serving as the SRO. State’s Attorney’s Office has reviewed this contract.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Beach Park School District #3, has determined that it would be in the best interest of the Beach Park Middle School #3, to renew a Contractual Services Agreement with the Lake County Sheriff’s Office for the part-time Police Services/School Resource Officer (SRO) Program; and
WHEREAS, Beach Park School District #3, agrees to reimburse 100 percent of the cost of the Police Services/SRO Program for the hours worked during the duration of this agreement; and
WHEREAS, said Agreement formalizes the arrangement regarding the deployment of a Police Services/SRO at the Beach Park Middle School from August 2022 - July 2023.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the Lake County Sheriff’s Office is entering into a Police Services/SRO Agreement with the Beach Park School District, #3, for operating a Police Services/SRO Program.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on August 9, 2022.