Pasadena Awards New Contract for Crossing Guard Services for PUSD School Sites

The City Council approved on Monday, June 13 the three-year contract with All City Management Services, Inc. (ACMS) for crossing guard services at select Pasadena Unified School District sites.

The contract sets aside $284,518 per year or a total of $853,554 for three years, for the mentioned services from the period of August 2022 through June 2025.

The city was provided the option to extend the contract for two additional one-year terms valued at $304,114 per year.

The contract provides crossing guard services while school is in session at a total of 14 intersections at 10 PUSD school sites including Blair Middle School, Hamilton Elementary School, Longfellow Elementary School, Madison Elementary School, Marshall Fundamental Elementary School, among other PUSD sites.

The contract allows the addition and removal of the sites as needed.

As per city staff, the crossing guard locations have been selected based on factors such as volume of traffic and pedestrians at times when students are coming to and from designated school sites.

“We work very closely with PUSD in identifying locations. We also take suggestions from parents and others who work at the school. We are very open on how we determine the list of locations that will have crossing guards,” said Brenda Harvey-Williams, Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services.

According to Harvey-Williams, the number of crossing guard locations is consistent with the number of the remaining schools that are open.

“We could have entered a longer contract but because we don’t know what might happen with school enrollment and other factors we chose to go with the three year but the list of current locations are all schools that are open and as far as we know will continue to be open.”

ACMS has been providing crossing guard services for Pasadena since 2003. The City Council extended the contract four times since.

According to Harvey-Williams, there is no other company in Pasadena that provides the services aside from ACMS.

The most recent contract with the firm, approved in November 2018 will expire on June 30.