DEPARTMENT: Pre-K 4 SA
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Sarah Baray, Ph.D.
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Purchases of playground equipment, classroom furniture and clinic supplies for Pre-K 4 SA Education Centers and Competitive Grant awardees
SUMMARY:
This item requests Board consideration of the request for Pre-K 4 SA staff to utilize the BuyBoard Purchasing Cooperative to purchase playground equipment from Grounds for Play in an amount not to exceed $80,000 through September 30, 2019; classroom furniture and playground equipment from Community Products LLC dba Community Playthings in an amount not to exceed $80,000 through March 31, 2019 and clinic supplies from School Health Corporation in an amount not to exceed $30,000 through May 31, 2020 for the Pre-K 4 SA Education Centers and Competitive Grants Program awardees.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The Pre-K 4 SA program will have an estimated 2,000 students enrolled each school year. Playground equiment, classroom furniture and clinic supplies are purchased through various vendors throughout the school years. Grounds for Play, Community Playthings and School Health Corporation are heaviliy utilized by all four Pre-K 4 SA Education Centers to purchase, replenish or replace equipment and supplies throughout the school year. Beginning July 1, 2018, the Pre-K Competitive Grants program will purchase playground and classroom supplies, equipment and furniture for up to eleven childcare entities to provide an enhanced learning environment and replace outdated playground equipment, supplies, toys and equipment for each awarded classroom.
Grounds for Play provides playground equipment that includes various types of play equipment: dramatic play, nature products, music play, creative arts, motion and sensory and outdoor classroom. Pre-K 4 SA has previously purchased various types of play equipment to enhance child development and education by engaging students in different play environments.
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