City of Coconut Creek - File #: RES 2025-120

• File #: RES 2025-120
• Name: Amendment No. 2 - Junior Achievement Partnership Agreement
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 7/29/2025
• In control: City Commission
• On agenda: 8/28/2025
• Title: A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER, OR DESIGNEE, TO EXECUTE THE ATTACHED AMENDMENT NO 2. TO THE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA, INC. FOR SPONSORSHIP OF TWO (2) COCONUT CREEK GOVERNMENT BIZTOWN STOREFRONTS FOR AN ADDITIONAL THREE (3) YEAR TERM.
• Indexes: Agreement, Amendment, City Manager, Junior Achievement (JA), Resolution
• Related files: RES 2016-196, RES 2019-310, RES 2022-166

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A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER, OR DESIGNEE, TO EXECUTE THE ATTACHED AMENDMENT NO 2. TO THE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA, INC. FOR SPONSORSHIP OF TWO (2) COCONUT CREEK GOVERNMENT BIZTOWN STOREFRONTS FOR AN ADDITIONAL THREE (3) YEAR TERM.

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BACKGROUND:
Junior Achievement of South Florida (JA) is a nonprofit organization located on the Broward College North Campus in Coconut Creek, Florida that helps students build the skills and confidence they need to thrive in today's global economy. Through hands-on lessons in financial literacy, career readiness, and entrepreneurship, JA gives students the tools to explore meaningful careers, start businesses, and develop values that strengthen workplaces. Each year, with the help of more than 7,000 volunteers, JA reaches over 50,000 students from Broward and south Palm Beach counties at its JA World Huizenga Center.
All JA programs are offered free of charge, ensuring students from all economic backgrounds have access to these opportunities. Every Broward County Public School fifth grader participates in the JA BizTown program, a simulated city where students run businesses, manage finances, and work in teams after completing a 16-hour classroom curriculum. Coconut Creek's two (2) sponsored government storefronts in BizTown give these students a firsthand look at municipal careers and the role of local government, serves as a platform for the City to engage with the community, and provides economic development, networking, and branding opportunities for the City.
DISCUSSION:
The City of Coconut Creek has had a partnership with JA to sponsor two (2) Coconut Creek Government storefronts in JA BizTown since 2016. The City continued its partnership with JA by entering into a new agreement in 2019 and extended the agreement in 2022 for an additional three (3)-year term by executing Amendment No. 1 to the Agreement.
Amendment No. 2 proposes to amen...