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Council approves one-year change to crossing-guard cost split; districts to pay slightly more while city seeks RFP and grants

3343239 · May 6, 2025
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After debate, council approved a one-year amendment to the city’s crossing-guard arrangements: for fiscal year 2025–26 the reimbursement schedule moves to a 45% city / 55% school-district split, adding three guards at the new Casablanca Elementary; council directed staff to issue an RFP next year and to pursue grant funding.

Riverside City Council voted 6–1 on Tuesday to adopt a one-year revision to the city’s crossing-guard contract and related memoranda of understanding with the Riverside and Alvord unified school districts.

Christie Garcia, fiscal manager for Public Works, presented staff recommendations that would add three crossing-guard locations for the new Casablanca Elementary School and revise the reimbursement schedule so that the districts begin paying a larger share of program costs. Garcia told the council that implementing staff’s full proposed multi-year…

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