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Home My WebLink About21357 1 ORDINANCE NO. 21,357 2 3 AN ORDINANCE TO DISPENSE WITH THE REQUIREMENT OF A 4 COMPETITIVE SELECTION PROCESS AND AUTHORIZE THE CITY 5 MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A ONE (1)-YEAR SOLE-SOURCE 6 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH THE BOARD OF 7 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AND THE LITTLE 8 ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR A PILOT PROJECT RELATIVE TO 9 THE CITY'S LOVE YOUR SCHOOL INITIATIVE; AND FOR OTHER 10 PURPOSES. 11 12 WHEREAS, the City of Little Rock's Love Your School (LYS) initiative is based on the Socio- 13 Ecological Model of Health Behavior Change, as recommended by the Center for Disease Control and 14 Prevention, to implement evidence-based obesity-related preventive health behavior changes in children 15 and their families; and, 16 WHEREAS, this framework guides health behavior change by implementing interventions at five 17 (5) different levels: Individual; Interpersonal; Organizational/Institutional; Community; and Systems- 18 Structures-Policies, and LYS has adopted evidence-based interventions that directly address all five (5) 19 levels; and, 20 WHEREAS, in 2010, the City of Little Rock was awarded a Two Hundred Thousand Dollar 21 ($200,000.00) Cities of Service Grant to develop and implement a Service Plan based upon the Cities of 22 Service Model which addressed three (3) pressing community needs identified, namely: Childhood 23 Obesity;Neighborhood Stabilization; and Environmental Sustainability; and, 24 WHEREAS, utilizing these grant funds for the years 2010 through 2012, the City of Little Rock 25 developed and implemented the following three (3) service initiatives that addressed each pressing 26 community need: Childhood Obesity: Love Your School; Neighborhood Stabilization: Love Your 27 Block; and Environmental Sustainability: Little Rock Volunteer Park Rangers; and, 28 WHEREAS, in 2013, the City of Little Rock applied for and received a One Hundred Thousand 29 Dollars ($100,000.00) grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies Fund for Cities to extend its Love Your 30 School Program at eight(8)high poverty K-5 elementary schools; and, 31 WHEREAS, on November 15, 2016, the City and the Board of Trustees of the University of 32 Arkansas, acting for and on behalf of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock College of Education and 'Page 1 of 3] 1 Health Professions' School of Counseling, Human Performance & Rehabilitation's undergraduate Health 2 Education & Promotion Internship (Institution), entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to 3 memorialize the collaboration of the parties with respect to a continuation of the City's LYS Initiative in 4 support of the goal of reducing childhood obesity in K-5 elementary schools within the Little Rock 5 School District and the Institution's undergraduate Health Education and Promotion Internship to provide 6 high quality community service and hands-on learning experiences through LYS for undergraduate 7 Education,Nursing, and Health Education & Promotion internship students enrolled at the University of 8 Arkansas at Little Rock; and, 9 WHEREAS, pursuant to this Memorandum of Understanding, the Institution provided student 10 interns to serve as LYS Coordinators at up to eight (8) designated elementary schools in the Little Rock 11 School District in order to assist the City with the City's LYS Initiative; and, 12 WHEREAS, the City and Institution have evaluated the services provided under this initial 13 Memorandum of Understanding and now desire to conduct a Love Your School Pilot Project whereby the 14 City, the Institution and the Little Rock School District will enter into a sole source Memorandum of 15 Understanding for one(1)-year in the furtherance of the LYS initiative. 16 NOW,THEREFORE,BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CITY 17 OF LITTLE ROCK,ARKANSAS: 18 Section 1. The Board of Directors finds that a competitive selection process should be dispensed 19 with and the City Manager is authorized to enter into a one (1)-year sole-source Memorandum of 20 Understanding with the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas and the Little Rock School 21 District as follows: 22 A. The University of Arkansas — Little Rock: Funds required for up to thirty-six (36) student 23 interns to execute the Love Your School Pilot Project during the 2016-2017 Winter-Spring 24 Term (January 2017 through May 2017) and the 2017-2018 Fall Term (Mid-August 2017 25 through Mid-December, 2017), in an amount not to exceed One Hundred Ten Thousand, 26 Two Hundred Sixteen Dollars ($110,216.00); 27 B. Little Rock School District Partner Schools: Funds required to execute the Love Your 28 School Pilot Project during the 2016-2017 Winter-Spring Term (January 2017 through May 29 2017) and the 2017-2018 Fall Term (Mid-August 2017 through Mid-December, 2017), in an 30 amount not to exceed One Hundred Eleven Thousand, Four Hundred Ten Dollars 31 ($111,410.00). 32 Section 2. Funding for these services is available from Account Number 108129-S 10A770. [Page 2 of 31 1 Section 3. Severability. In the event any title, section, paragraph, item, sentence, clause, phrase, or 2 word of this ordinance is declared or adjudged to be invalid or unconstitutional, such declaration or 3 adjudication shall not affect the remaining portions of the ordinance which shall remain in full force and 4 effect as if the portion so declared or adjudged invalid or unconstitutional was not originally a part of the 5 ordinance. 6 Section 4. Repealer. All ordinances and resolutions, and parts thereof, which are in conflict with 7 any provision of this ordinance are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict. 8 ADOPTED: January 17,2017 9 • ,S APPROVE : 10 .0,„,„,„. i. l 12 i anjy,City Clerk Ma,, _ , , , A(/// rk S odola,Mayor 13 AP' ' I VE i AS TO LEGAL FORM: 14 e ;7./ 15 kt7'112 W 16 Thomas M. Carpenter,City Atto ey 17 // 18 // 19 // 20 // 21 // 22 // 23 // 24 // 25 // 26 // 27 // 28 // 29 // 30 // 31 // 32 // 33 // 34 // [Page 3 of 3]