Metro - File #: 2019-0024

• File #: 2019-0024
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 1/18/2019
• In control: Executive Management Committee
• On agenda: 2/21/2019
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE status report on the SEED School of Los Angeles (Transportation School) and E3 Initiative.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Blue Line Improvement, Board approved a Motion, Compton, Construction management, Expose, Educate, and Employ Youth Initiative, Gateway Cities (Southeast LA County) Service Sector, Gateway Cities subregion, Informational Report, Location 30, Los Angeles Unified School District, Maintenance facilities, Metro Blue Line, Metro Divisions, Metro Rail A Line, Pilot studies, Program management, Project, Safety, SEED School of Los Angeles, Students, Teachers, Train operation, Training programs, Transportation careers, Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station

Meeting_Body
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Subject
SUBJECT: UPDATE ON SEED SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES (TRANSPORTATION SCHOOL) AND E3 INITIATIVE

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE status report on the SEED School of Los Angeles (Transportation School) and E3 Initiative.

Background
BACKGROUND

At its April 2017 meeting, the Metro Board approved a Motion by Directors Ridley-Thomas, Fasana, Garcetti, Barger, Garcia, and Dupont-Walker directing the CEO to develop a framework for a pilot educational and job training program, specifically, though not exclusively, targeting at-risk probation youth who had exposure to the County's safety net and who had historically been under-served educationally.

At its June 2017 meeting, the Metro Board received and filed the proposed framework for a pilot educational and job training program with the objective of facilitating career pathways for local youth in Los Angeles County's transportation sector.

At the May 2018 meeting, the Metro Board approved Metro to negotiate and enter into an MOU with the County for the development of the SEED School of Los Angeles (Transportation School). At its June 2018 meeting, the LA County Board of Supervisors authorized an Exclusive Negotiating Agreement with the SEED Foundation to serve as the boarding school operator for a site in the County's possession on the 8500 block of South Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles.

At the September 2018 meeting, the Metro Board approved $1M for the predevelopment activities associated with the school site.

At the October 2018 meeting, the Metro Board approved the programming of up to $2.875 Million in FY21, $3.631 Million in FY22, $4.494 Million in FY23, and $5 Million annually from FY24 through FY35 (cumulatively, up to $71 Million over 15 Fiscal Years), to support the operations of Los Angeles County's first transportation infrastructure school.


The development of the SEED School of...