Review Agenda Item
Meeting Date: 4/19/2023 - 5:30 PM
Category: DIVISION OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, FUNDED PROGRAMS & THE ARTS
Type: Action
Subject: 21.9 Amendment # 3 to The North Star Project
District Goals:
Goal 1 Student Achievement
Strengthen academic outcomes and graduation pathways through culturally responsive and sustaining curriculum and instruction.
Enclosure BOCS
Performance Based Contract Guidelines
Schedule B
File Attachment:
Performance Based Contract Guidelines - 10 Questions - Schedule A SUMMER 2023-Signed.pdf
Performance Based Contract Guidelines - Schedule B - SUMMER 2023.xls
BOCS-The North Star Amendment #3.xlsx
Rationale: Amendment #3 for resolution 21.5 The North Star Project (Contract #2023-00000317, BOE Approved 10/19/22-BOCS Approved 10/27/22) to increase the contract by $25,000 to be able to provide consulting services for the upcoming Bilingual Summer Academy at Hostos. The students will use digital art as a forum to respond to the constantly changing society around them by using the Digital Art Software Pixlr.com to create original artwork. They will use saturation, coloration, texturization and font tools to layer on an image of the American flag and an image or images that they would like to see America stand for. They then will write an original My America poem to be overlaid using the text tools on their actual artwork.
Funding: ESSER II
490.5241.22F270.2118.B2300
Resolution: WHEREAS the Board of Education wishes to amend the contract with The North Star Project to provide consulting services for different initiatives for Yonkers Public Schools for the 2022-2023 school year,

WHEREAS the district administration has designed in conjunction with The North Star Project a program which meets the objectives set forth by the Board and the New York State Education Department, and,

WHEREAS the Board of Education authorizes the Superintendent of Schools to enter into an agreement with The North Star Project to provide these services, and

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby authorizes the Superintendent of Schools to enter into an agreement with The North Star Project at a cost not to exceed $145,500.00.

It is acknowledged and agreed that pursuant to the terms of that certain intermunicipal agreement by and between the City of Yonkers Board of Education (“BOE”) and the City of Yonkers (the “City”) as filed in the Office of the City Clerk on June 16, 2014, the terms of this agreement are subject to review and revision by the Corporation Counsel, as well as approval by the City’s Board of Contract and Supply. Furthermore, this Agreement shall not be enforceable until signed by both parties and approved by the Corporation Counsel’s Office.
Approvals:
Recommended By:
Signed By:
Lissette Colon-Collins - Assistant Superintendent
Signed By:
Tom Collich - Purchasing Director
Signed By:
Finance Department - Finance Reviewer
Signed By:
Elizabeth Janocha - Deputy Commissioner
Signed By:
John Liszewski - Commissioner
Signed By:
Matthew Gallagher - Corporation Counsel
Signed By:
Dr. Edwin M. Quezada - Superintendent of Schools
Vote Results:

Original Motion
Member Gail Burns Moved, Member Sheila Greenwald seconded to approve the Original motion 'WHEREAS the Board of Education wishes to amend the contract with The North Star Project to provide consulting services for different initiatives for Yonkers Public Schools for the 2022-2023 school year,

WHEREAS the district administration has designed in conjunction with The North Star Project a program which meets the objectives set forth by the Board and the New York State Education Department, and,

WHEREAS the Board of Education authorizes the Superintendent of Schools to enter into an agreement with The North Star Project to provide these services, and

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby authorizes the Superintendent of Schools to enter into an agreement with The North Star Project at a cost not to exceed $145,500.00.

It is acknowledged and agreed that pursuant to the terms of that certain intermunicipal agreement by and between the City of Yonkers Board of Education (“BOE”) and the City of Yonkers (the “City”) as filed in the Office of the City Clerk on June 16, 2014, the terms of this agreement are subject to review and revision by the Corporation Counsel, as well as approval by the City’s Board of Contract and Supply. Furthermore, this Agreement shall not be enforceable until signed by both parties and approved by the Corporation Counsel’s Office.'. Upon a Roll-Call Vote being taken, the vote was: Aye: 9 Nay: 0.
The motion Carried 9 - 0
   
Kevin Cacace     Yes
Rev. Steve Lopez     Yes
Dr. John Castanaro     Yes
Dr. Rosalba Corrado Del Vecchio     Yes
Sheila Greenwald     Yes
Gail Burns     Yes
Amjed Kuri     Yes
Rosemarie Linton     Yes
Lawrence Sykes     Yes