Review Agenda Item
Meeting Date: 8/21/2024 - 6:00 PM
Category: OFFICE OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP, ENGAGEMENT AND EQUITY
Type: Action
Subject: 8.2 One Circle Foundation
District Goals:
Goal 4 Support Student Needs
Establish inclusive learning communities that support students with diverse social and emotional needs for equitable student growth and development.
Goal 1 Student Achievement
Strengthen academic outcomes and graduation pathways through culturally responsive and sustaining curriculum and instruction.
Goal 2 Professional Development
Continue to develop teacher content and pedagogy to increase opportunities and outcomes for each student.
Enclosure BOCS
Performance Based Contract Guidelines
Schedule B
Sole Source Letter
File Attachment:
BOCS-One Circle Foundation.pdf
Performance Based Contract Guidelines - 10 Questions - One Circle.pdf
Schedule B-One Circle Foundation.pdf
Sole Source Letter.pdf
Rationale: Vendor: One Circle Foundation
Term: September 2024 - August 2025
Amount: $18,224.23
Scope: One Circle Foundation will provide The Council for Boys and Young Men Facilitator Training and Complete Set of Curricula so the School District can provide The Council for Boys and Young Men program to the youth. The Council for Boys and Young Men® is a strengths-based group approach to promote boys’ and young men’s safe and healthy passage through pre-teen and adolescent years. In this structured environment, participants gain the vital opportunity to address masculine definitions and behaviors and build capacities to find their innate value and create good lives individually and collectively.
Funding: 490.5241.24H344.2110.B2300
Pending Grant Approval
Resolution: WHEREAS the Board of Education wishes to enter into a contract with One Circle Foundation to purchase The Council for Boys and Young Men Facilitator Training to support and promote boys’ and young men’s safe and healthy passage through pre-teen and adolescent years for the 2024-2025 school year,

WHEREAS the district administration has designed in conjunction with One Circle Foundation 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 One Circle Foundation to provide these services

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby authorizes the Superintendent of Schools to enter into an agreement with One Circle Foundation at a cost not to exceed $18,224.23.

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 - Associate 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:
Anibal Soler, Jr. - Superintendent of Schools
Vote Results:

Original Motion
Member Kevin Cacace Moved, Member Lawrence Sykes seconded to approve the Original motion 'WHEREAS the Board of Education wishes to enter into a contract with One Circle Foundation to purchase The Council for Boys and Young Men Facilitator Training to support and promote boys’ and young men’s safe and healthy passage through pre-teen and adolescent years for the 2024-2025 school year,

WHEREAS the district administration has designed in conjunction with One Circle Foundation 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 One Circle Foundation to provide these services

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby authorizes the Superintendent of Schools to enter into an agreement with One Circle Foundation at a cost not to exceed $18,224.23.

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: 8 Nay: 0.
The motion Carried 8 - 0
   
Kevin Cacace     Yes
Dr. Rosalba Corrado Del Vecchio     Yes
Dr. John Castanaro     Yes
Gail Burns     Yes
Sheila Greenwald     Yes
Rosemarie Linton     Yes
Lawrence Sykes     Yes
Felix Rios     Yes