City Council members will vote tonight on an agreement between the city and Jamestown Public Schools to provide school resource officers at city schools.

A short work session will be held at 7 p.m. in the third floor conference room in City Hall followed by the work session at 7:30 p.m. in the council’s chambers on the second floor of City Hall. The meeting will also be livestreamed at www.jamestownny.gov.

The school resource officer contract is a renewal for the 2024-25 school year and runs through Aug. 31, 2025. The school district will reimburse the city $111,500 per school resource officer for 200 days from Sept. 1 through June 30, 2025. The district will make 10 monthly payments, with overtime accrued by the school resource officers when the school requests them for extracurricular activities like dances or football games billed separately at the resource officer’s overtime rate. The school district can also request resource officers during summer school sessions at a cost of $545.70 a day as long as summer school is no longer than 30 days.

Other items on the council agenda for tonight’s meeting have been discussed by council committees earlier this month.

Several items on the agenda affect the city Police Department. Council members signaled agreement in last Monday’s work session that the department’s indoor training range needs to be renovated at a cost of $385,000. The city plans to use American Rescue Plan Act funding previously allocated to hire three police officers that would have formed a gun violence unit.

Council members are expected to approve a $5,200 grant from Rand Precision Machining Company to purchase simunition conversion kits and equipment cases, both for the Jamestown Police Department SWAT team. A state Division of Criminal Justice Services grant is being used to purchase drone equipment at a cost of $36,098.99.

A three-year contract between the city and Collaborative Children’s Solutions is also on the agenda for formal approval, though council members expressed no reservations when the contract was discussed during last week’s work session.

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Mayor Kim Ecklund told council members the contract saves the city money compared to hiring an employee to plan events. The contract calls for Collaborative Children’s Solutions to continue providing seven events: includes the anticipated Christmas Parade on Dec. 7 and will continue to bring back events such as “Turn the River Green,” the Memorial Day Parade, Christmas in July, Gus Macker 3-on-3 basketball tournament, Labor Day celebrations and the Winter Festival.

The city is also using contingency funding to purchase a new file server and 11 computers at a total cost of $40,000. Brent Sheldon, R-Ward 1 and Finance Committee chairman, said it is the first use of contingency funding so far this year. City officials are trying to split up a large computer purchase over two years rather than purchasing all of them next year.