Stretching Community Dollars - Introduction

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"StretchingCommunity Dollars:Cities, Counties and SchoolDistricts Building for the Future''

Brought to you by theCities, Counties and Schools Partnership

A joint effort of the League ofCalifornia Cities, California State Association ofCountiesand California School Boards Association

Copyright May 2000, CCS Partnership

Cities, Counties and Schools Partnership1100 K Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, California 95814(916)323-6011 Office; (916)371 -5070 Faxwww ccspartnership.org


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Table of ContentsChapter IIntroduction

Benefits of CooperationWorkbook PurposeWorkbook Content

Chapter II

Case StudiesLivermore, CaliforniaClaremont, CaliforniaRoseville/Placer County, CaliforniaStockton!Lodi, California

Chapter III

Page No.1

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Model Cooperative Process 36Step 1: Get Started Within Your Organization 38Step 2: Get Started With Your Partners 46Step 3: Decide What To Do 69Step 4: Implement 93

Chapter IVResources

Biographical InformationMaster Joint-Use AgreementExercise Sheets

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ISretching Community Dollars:Cities, Counties, and School DistrictsBuilding for the futureWorkbook- Case Studies and model Cooperatiue Process

ByMike McKeeverKimberly lboshi SloopMcKeever/Morris,a division of

Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas, Inc.

With assistance fromKen TestaSchool Site AdministratorClovis Unified School District

andDon BenninghovenLynn DeLappLiisa Lawsonstaff of the CCS Partnership

April, 2000

This workbook has been developed for the CCS Partnership, anonprofit organization formed by the League of California Cities(League), California State Association of Counties(CSAC) andCalifornia School Boards Association (CSBA). The mission ofthe CCS Partnership is "to develop and sustain an organizationto foster local and state collaborative efforts that strengthencommunities and improve the lives of children and families."

The workbook has been funded by agrant from the Irvi.,e Foundation.


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CHAPTER!INTRODUCTION


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I Chapter 1, 1ntroductionChapter I IntroductionBenefits ofCooperation

"Wheneverschools and localgovernment orcommunity groupscan join forces toconsolidate a service,provide a betterprogram for lessmoney, or cost-sharein some resource,whether facilities orprograms, it makes agreat opportunity todemonstrate costefficiency to privatebusiness andtaxpayers."(Kathy Millison,Clovis City Manager)

Local governments around California are making impressive strides tocooperate with each other to increase the effectiveness and efficiency ofdelivering government services. While each governmental entity in thestate provides unique services to it s constituents, the long range anddaily operations of governments with similar geographic boundariesintersect in many ways, including:

The facilities that are used; The programs that are delivered; The land use plans they make; The administrative procedures that they use.

Local governments throughout the State of California are proving tothemselves and their communities the benefits of cooperation. Paramount Unified School District and the City of Paramount

built Progress Park School for $8 million, saving $12 millionbecause the site was developed as a joint-use facility. The City of Sonora redeveloped a vacated utility center for use

as a City public works yard, high school parking lo t andcommunity college high-tech educational facility. Fresno and Clovis Unified School Districts renovated anindustrial factory to create the Center for Advanced Research

and Technology using Qualified Zone Academy Bonds. TheDistricts will save $11 million over the next 12 years in interestpayments by using the bonds. The City of Tracy, San Joaquin County and the Tracy SchoolDistrict are working together to develop a 170-acre educationalfacility that will include K-12, community college and a four-yearuniversity, and a 50-acre business park on a former prison site. The City of Oceanside, along with the Oceanside Unif ied SchoolDistrict, sponsor the SHINE (Students Honoring Interaction ina Non-Violent Environment) program, an after school programfor middle school age youth. Benefits have been a reduction injuvenile crime, improvements in academic grades and increase

in school attendance

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WorkbookPurpose

Chapter 1, Introduction

Livermore, Livermore Valley Unified School District and theLivermoreArea Recreation and Park District have issued a jointbond to construct a new City library, renovate an existing library,construct a Community Center and repair and maintain existingschool facilities. The bond replaces an existing school districtand will, because of new growth in the area, have the effect ofreducing the tax rate.

The City of Claremont and the Claremont Unified School District,along with multiple other partners have implemented numerousyouth-oriented programs which have resulted in an increase inafter school activity participation, decrease in teenage drinking,decrease in truancy, and decrease in youth related crimes

Sometimes the driving motive is a funding shortage, sometimes it is acompelling community problem, other times it is just public servantswho are accustomed to cooperative endeavors because that is the cultureof heir enti re organization. The beneficiariesare the citizens. The qualityof services is rising, the cost of services is declining, and citizen trust inand support for their governments is solidified

The purpose of this workbook is to help local governments throughoutCalifornia identify and realize the full range ofbenefi ts from cooperation.I t sounds so simple, and in some ways it is. The main lesson from thisentire book can be captured in one idea:

good relationships between key policy makers and staffofthe intersecting localgovernments are the key to successfulpartnerships.

But mining the full potential of cooperative initiatives is a challenge.Within the context of everyone's busy worlds, a large number f p e ~ p l e ,all doing their best to fulfill the unique mission of their organization,must: get to know each other; find their common interests; identifyopportunities; conduct technical analysis to figure ou t what will workand what won't; work with attorneys on local and state legal issues; andinvolve citizens throughout the process to make sure the communityunderstands and supports whatever tangible result all this cooperationwill ultimately create

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WorkbookPurpose, cont.

WorkbookContent

Chapte r 1, Introduction

This workbook is intended to help provide: Inspiration - through documenting the benefits of

cooperative activities; Hope -through examples of those who have tried and

succeeded; Knowledge -through lessons learned by practitioners

about what methods work well and not so well; and Resources to help you start and stay the course - through

methods, exercises, materials and people who can helpyou succeed.

V hapter II - Case StudiesWe feature four teams of local government partners who havedistinguished themselves by the comprehensive and innovative natureof their cooperative activities. In each case they have achieved numeroussuccesses and cooperation has become integral to their organizationalways oflife. For each case study you will learn:

what they did, how they did it , key lessons learned along the way, and who to contact for more information.

Vhapter Ill - model Cooperatiue ProcessWe have listened to those who are succeeding in California, reviewedthe literature in this field, and developed a simple four step process tohelp you identify and execute cooperative projects. Each of the stepsincludes:

a rationale, specific tasks, t ips for success, examples from California local governments, and work sheets

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WorkbookContent, cont.Chapter 1,1ntroduction

The process is structured to be used by those who want to: pursue a specific cooperative activity; comprehensively explore opportunities for cooperation

and systematically prioritize cooperative opportunities; and review their current cooperative activities and identifyways to refine and enhance them.

Vhapter U - ResourcesWe have provided an example of a master joint agreement and extraexercise forms for duplication

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