Napa Approves Police-School Agreement for Seven Campuses
The Napa City Council has approved a police-school services agreement with Napa Valley Unified School District covering seven schools during the 2026–27 school year.
The council’s June 2, 2026, action gives final approval to a memorandum of understanding that provides for one Napa Police Department Youth Services Bureau detective and three school resource officers. The agreement runs from Aug. 12, 2026, through June 4, 2027.
For the city and school district, the agreement establishes the personnel covered, the campuses included and how the base cost will be divided. The total joint cost is capped at $761,169.65.
Seven schools are included
The participating schools are Napa High, Vintage High, Valley Oak, New Technology, Redwood Middle, Unidos Middle and Silverado Middle.
The agreement identifies the schools and the four positions included in the program. The approved record does not provide a daily staffing schedule or state that each officer will be stationed full time at every listed campus.
That distinction is relevant to the scope of the council action. The record supports a shared police and youth-services program serving seven Napa Valley Unified schools, but it does not specify how the detective and school resource officers’ time will be allocated among those sites each day.
City and district shares
Napa’s share of the base agreement is $304,372.72. Napa Valley Unified’s share is $456,796.93, together totaling the $761,169.65 cap.
The city’s approved record says the funds were already appropriated through the normal budget process. The council also authorized the Napa police chief to execute the memorandum of understanding, allowing the agreement to move from approval into implementation.
The financial arrangement gives the city and district a defined cost-sharing framework for the program during the coming school year. It also makes clear that the city’s contribution is smaller than the district’s share under the approved terms.
Optional event supervision
Separate from the base program, the district may request additional police supervision for football games, school board meetings and dances. Those additional services are capped at $45,000 under the agreement.
The $45,000 is an authorized ceiling, not a reported expenditure. The approved record does not say whether the district has requested any of those services or whether any of that amount has been spent.
That means the known commitment is the $761,169.65 base cost, while the additional event-related services represent a possible further expense if the district makes requests covered by the memorandum.
What happens next
The council’s June 2 vote was final approval of the memorandum rather than a proposal or preliminary recommendation. The next known step is implementation of the agreement for its stated term, beginning Aug. 12, 2026.
The source record does not identify a separate public implementation deadline beyond that start date. It also does not establish changes to school disciplinary policy or provide additional details about daily operations.
For Napa’s city government and school district, the action commits more than $761,000 in shared costs to a police and youth-services arrangement spanning seven local campuses. It also sets the terms for requesting additional police coverage at selected school events through June 4, 2027.
Sources
- File 135-2026: Napa Police–NVUSD School Resource Officer MOU, City of Napa
- City of Napa NewsFlash, City of Napa
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