MARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT

2411 West 14th Street, Tempe, AZ 85281-6942

MARICOPA LEARNS THROUGH SERVICE

Community Partner Agreement Form

The Maricopa County Community College District (“MCCCD”) and ______ (“Community Partner”), located at ______, enter into this agreement for services (“Agreement”). The purpose of the Agreement is to provide a public benefit to MCCCD by placing a MCCCD eligible employee (“Employee”) with the participating Community Partner for a limited amount of time to provide services to the community that MCCCD serves.

The Community Partner is public or private entity that provides opportunities for citizens of Maricopa County to engage in community services. Community Partners under the Maricopa Learns Through Service will offer learning and training for an Employee as the primary focus for, and in conjunction with, an Employee’s provision of community services (“Services”).

MCCCD and the Community Partner agree as follows concerning the delivery of the Services:

1.  Services. For each Employee placed with the Community Partner, MCCCD and the Employee will establish goals and objectives and specify them in a Community Based Learning Placement Form (“Placement Form”) that will be provided to the Community Partner. If the Community Partner believes that an Employee’s service is not meeting those goals and objectives or if an Employee’s service or conduct is otherwise causing the Community Partner concerns, the Community Partner agrees to contact the MCCCD representative specified in Paragraph 8 immediately.

2.  Public Benefit. The primary focus of this Agreement is to provide a public benefit through an opportunity for development for MCCCD employees to attain additional knowledge, skills, and abilities that will strengthen, through service, MCCCD’s educational vision, mission, and goals.

3.  Effective Date and Termination. The effective date of this Agreement shall be the date that the MCCCD representative signs it. Either party may terminate this Agreement by providing written notice to the other party. If the Community Partner wishes to terminate this Agreement, it shall provide the notice to the person specified in Paragraph 8. Termination shall be effective on the date specified in the notice, or upon receipt of the notice by the other party, whichever is applicable. On termination, the service of any Employee placed with the Community Partner shall end.

4.  Prohibited Work. The Community Partner shall not permit an Employee to perform any Services that involve inherently hazardous activities. Additionally, the Community Partner shall not permit an Employee to operate its vehicles or to transport items or persons on behalf of the Community Partner without the specific authorization of MCCCD and only if the Community Partner trains an Employee before permitting her or him to operate vehicles or otherwise transport items or person on the Community Partner’s behalf.

5.  Compensation. The MCCCD shall pay an Employee the compensation and benefits to which he or she is entitled at the time that the MCCCD and the Community Partner enter into this Agreement. The Community Partner shall not provide any financial benefit to an Employee.

6.  Costs. Except as provided in Paragraph 5, the Participating Organization shall incur all costs related to the performance of the Services for activities it directs an Employee to attend or participate in, such as travel expenses, mileage reimbursement, conference fees, and hotel accommodations.

7.  Work Hours; Schedule. Under this Agreement, an Employee shall not work more than total number of hours, and the number of hours per week, specified on the Placement Form. The Community Partner and MCCCD shall mutually agree on any changes to the schedule before those changes are implemented, and shall amend the Placement Form to reflect those changes.

8.  Time Log. An Employee shall, on a monthly basis, complete and sign a written time log of the Employee’s hours, or prepare a log electronically, and send that log monthly to:

Maricopa Community Colleges
Coordinator, Creative Pathways Program
2411 West 14th Street
Tempe, AZ 85281-6942
Tel: 480.731.8299 / Fax: 480.731.8263

9.  Indemnification. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each party shall defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the other party and its agents, officers, officials, and employees from and against all claims, damages, losses, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney fees and court costs) arising from the acts, errors, mistakes, omissions, work or service of the indemnifying party, its agents, employees, or students in the performance of this Agreement.

10.  Nondiscrimination. The Community Partner shall not discriminate in employment or in the delivery of services against any person on the basis of sex, race, national original, disability, religion, veteran’s status, age or sexual orientation. The Community Partner agrees to comply with all applicable local, state and federal laws, rules, regulations, and executive orders concerning nondiscrimination.

11.  Insurance. Each party shall maintain the following insurance policies issued by companies licensed in Arizona with a current A.M. Best rating of A VIII or better. Before any Employee provides Services and thereafter annually for as long as this Agreement is in place, each party shall furnish the other with certificates of insurance evidencing the coverage specified below at the following address:

MCCCD Risk Manager
2411 West 14th Street
Tempe, AZ 85281
480-731-8879 / 480-731-8890 (fax)

If the Community Partner has a current insurance certificate on file with MCCCD at the time that the parties sign this Agreement, it need not provide an additional certificate. Each certificate shall name the other party, its agents, officers, officials, employees, and volunteers as additional insureds with the following language or its equivalent:

Maricopa County Community College District, its agents, officers, officials, employees, and volunteers are hereby named as additional insureds as their interest may appear.

If the Community Partner’s insurance policies are written on a “claims made” basis, coverage shall extend for two years past completion of the last employee assignment to the Community Partner. Each party shall ensure that its insurance does not expire, or is not cancelled, suspended, voided or materially changed, without giving the other party 30 days written notice by certified mail. The Community Partner’s insurance must be primary, and any insurance or self-insurance maintained by MCCCD shall not contribute to it. The following coverage is required:

11.1.  Commercial General Liability insurance with a limit of not less than $1,000,000 per occurrence for bodily injury, property damage, personal injury, products and completed operations, including but not limited to, the liability assumed under the indemnification provisions of this Agreement;

11.2.  Automobile Liability insurance with a combined single limit for bodily injury and property damage of not less than $1,000,000 each occurrence with respect to owned, hired, and non-owned vehicles; and

11.3.  Workers’ Compensation insurance with limits statutorily required by any Federal or state law and Employer’s Liability insurance of not less than $100,000 for each accident, $100,000 disease for each employee, and $500,000 disease policy limit.

12.  Cancellation for Conflict of Interest. MCCCD may cancel this Agreement under Arizona Revised Statues § 38-511.

13.  Authorized Representative. The Community Partner represents that the person signing this Agreement on its behalf is authorized to sign contracts for the Community Partner.

COMMUNITY PARTNER: MCCCD:

______MARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT

for its Colleges and Skill Centers

By: ______By: ______

Its Authorized Agent Margaret E. McConnell

Assistant General Counsel

Name: ______

Title: ______

Phone: ______

Date: ______Date: ______

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