RES-2022-095 RESOLUTION NO. 2 0 2 2-0 9 5
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ANAHEIM SUPPORTING LOCAL PUBLIC COMMUNITY
SCHOOLS
WHEREAS, the City of Anaheim, acting through the Anaheim City Council and the
City's officers and employees, is responsible for serving the needs of its residents, businesses,
and visitors; and
WHEREAS, the Anaheim Union High School District (AUHSD) provides secondary
education in grades 7 through 12 for a racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse student body at
thirteen junior high schools, high schools, and alternative education centers across the City of
Anaheim; and
WHEREAS, most of the 29,000 students served by the AUHSD live in the City of
Anaheim, their own futures being interconnected with the future economic and social well being
of the City; and
WHEREAS, the Anaheim Educational Pledge, which includes as partners the City of
Anaheim, University of California Irvine (UCI), California State University Fullerton, and North
Orange County Community College District, has been tremendously successful in AUHSD with
students achieving the highest grade point averages and retention rates in Orange County at UCI,
with similar results at other feeder higher education institutions; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of the AUHSD, through policy and resolution, has
demonstrated its commitment to the creation and maintenance of community schools to
collaborate with community-based organizations, local governments, and businesses to increase
the resources and services available to our students, our families, and the broader community to
address the challenges of mental health, housing, access to health care, workplace preparedness,
and mentorships and internships in the Anaheim community; and
WHEREAS, Sycamore Junior High School and Anaheim High School have piloted the
community schools model, serving as a hub for students, parents, and families within our
community to access basic services such as health, dental, legal, social services, and other
needed services; and
WHEREAS, on or about May 18, 2022, the California State Board of Education awarded
a five-year California Community Schools Partnership Program implementation grant of
$23,275,000 for 13 schools in AUHSD, as well as $7,325,000 to AUHSD's feeder elementary
schools in the City of Anaheim, including Anaheim Elementary School District, Centralia
Elementary School District, and Magnolia Elementary School District; and
WHEREAS, AUHSD's work in the area of community schools within the City of
Anaheim has drawn statewide attention, including a visit by the State Superintendent of Public
Education to a ribbon cutting for the new community school resource center at Sycamore Junior
High School on September 1, 2022; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Anaheim wishes to provide its support to the
implementation and maintenance of community schools to serve the needs of the community at
the public schools within the City of Anaheim.
NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Anaheim that the
City of Anaheim supports the AUHSD community schools model and is committed to its
success, in continued collaboration with AUHSD, to create more cohesion and synergy to better
address the needs of the residents in the City of Anaheim.
THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved and adopted by the City Council of the
City of Anaheim this day of Sept., 2022, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Mayor Pro Tem O'Neil and Council Members Diaz,
Ma ' ae, Moreno, Valencia and Faessel
NOES: None
ABSTAIN: None
ABSENT: None
[Mayoral vacancy]
CITY OF ANAHEIM
By:
MAYOR PRO TEM OF THE CI OF
ANAHEIM
ATTEST:
CL RK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
CLERK'S CERTIFICATE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, THERESA BASS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the
original Resolution No. 2022-095 adopted at a regular meeting provided by law, of the Anaheim
City Council held on the 27th day of September, 2022 by the following vote of the members
thereof:
AYES: Mayor Pro Tem O'Neil and Council Members Diaz, Ma'ae, Moreno, Valencia
and Faessel
NOES: None
ABSTAIN: None
ABSENT: None
[Mayoral vacancy]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of September, 2022.
a,
CITY •LERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)