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C. 48

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	John Kopchik, Director, Conservation & Development Department
Date:	October 4, 2022

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Allocation of Livable Communities Trust funds to Mt. Diablo Unified School District Educatering Program

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 10/04/2022

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

Kristin Sherk 925-655-2889

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: October 4, 2022
Monica Nino, County Administrator

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

1. ALLOCATE $50,000 from the Livable Communities Trust (District IV portion) to the Mt. Diablo Unified School District Educatering program at Olympic Continuation High School and Mt. Diablo High School, as recommended by Supervisor Mitchoff.
2. AUTHORIZE the Conservation and Development Director, or designee, to execute a contract, subject to approval by the County Administrator and approval as to form by County Counsel, with Mt. Diablo Unified School District in an amount not to exceed $50,000 to augment education programs at Mt. Diablo High School and Olympic Continuation High School in Concord for the period October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025.

FISCAL IMPACT:

No General Fund impact. The $50,000 required for the contract will come from the District IV allocation of the deposits into the Livable Community Trust. The current available balance in the District IV portion of the fund is approximately $541,000 (this total does not reflect the proposed $50,000 allocation).

BACKGROUND:

The Livable Communities Trust Fund is a Special Revenue Mitigation Fund that was established by the Board of Supervisors on November 15, 2005, following the approval of the Camino Tassajara Combined General Plan Amendment Project, also known as the Alamo Creek and Intervening Property residential projects, and was required as a condition of approval. The Fund was established to implement the County’s Smart Growth Action Plan. The residential developers pay an $8,000 per unit fee (excluding the affordable housing portions of the projects) into the Fund. The Department of Conservation and Development administers the Fund. On December 3, 2013, the Board of Supervisors determined that revenue from the Fund should be spent equally among supervisorial districts. At complete build-out, deposits to the Fund will total $8,448,000. As of June 1, 2022, the account has collected $8,376,000 in revenue fees, and $880,125.68 accrued interest with $4,827,732.04 remaining in uncommitted funds. The approved expenditures to date are attached.

The Educatering program is offered at Olympic High School in Concord, CA, a continuation high school that serves students from Contra Costa County that need additional supports that are not available in traditional high school settings. Olympic High values non-traditional measures for its students including job acquisition, reduction of “at-risk” behaviors, self-esteem/agency, and connecting school experiences to future expectations by exposing students to a wide variety of career and educational opportunities.

In the Educatering program, the cafeteria is used as the classroom. Career technical educators work with students to prepare food for their school. Students learn the importance of maintaining their health for their future, and the role food plays in this. There are school gardens where the students learn to grow their own food and care for their garden, develop healthy recipes based on the food they grow, and learn how to safely and properly prepare food to be served in their cafeteria with minimal ingredients, while maintaining freshness and flavor. Many students have families that experience food insecurity and having access to food at school helps to address this need. Students learn life skills to care for themselves as well as their family. This is especially pertinent for the teen mothers program at Olympic High School. Teaching them healthy eating will have lasting and generational impacts.

In addition, Educatering is about equity and opportunity for at-risk students. They will have opportunities to intern with local restaurants in Contra Costa County and will learn and gain the necessary skills that will lead to job opportunities and gainful employment, which too will have lasting and generational impacts.

The proposed funding will go towards Educatering’s programs and services that further economic goals of the community as well as necessary equipment including: work tables, tools necessary for garden maintenance, kitchen needs such as aprons, bowls, cutting boards and other specialty kitchen equipment for students to use. The proposed allocation will support Smart Growth Action Plan goal number 2: Promote economic revitalization in urban infill communities.