BEYOND THE BELL
2025 ELOP Proposal for the consideration of NVUSD
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Napa Valley (BGCNV) is proud to present its 2025-26 ELOP proposal, reflecting the actual costs required to sustain high-quality programming, regardless of NVUSD’s funding structure.
BGCNV’s ELOP pricing has remained unchanged for two years despite rising costs. To maintain affordable, high-impact enrichment, this proposal sets rates at $32/day for TK & Kindergarten and $16/day for 1st-6th grade, serving 1,500+ ELOP students across 10 campuses and two clubhouses. Following the success of the 2024 Mobile STEM Lab Pilot, BGCNV seeks NVUSD investment in mobile enrichment, including Esports, Music, and Fine Arts trailers, to expand hands-on learning and equitable access for unduplicated pupils (UDP).
Summary Of Service BGCNV operates at 12 NVUSD schools, serving 2,600+ students, including 1,500+ UDPs. As NVUSD’s largest after-school provider, BGCNV supports 40% of all ELOP students and 25% of TK-6 students districtwide.
Programs focus on academic support, social-emotional learning, and hands-on enrichment in STEM, the arts, health and wellness, leadership, and physical activity. Students receive homework help, literacy/math skill-building, structured play, and project-based learning, ensuring a safe, engaging, and developmentally appropriate after-school experience.
Proposal BGCNV will serve qualifying students at 10 NVUSD campuses and two off-site clubhouses. ASES-funded sites remain dual-funded, with ELOP covering additional students beyond contracted limits.
The proposal maintains a daily rate of $32 for TK & Kindergarten and $16 for 1st-6th grade, ensuring sustainability while maximizing access. BGCNV also seeks funding for mobile enrichment, including STEM, Esports, Music, and Fine Arts trailers, to expand learning opportunities districtwide.
Note: Estimates may adjust based on UDP enrollment, Kinder & TK updates, and statelevel ELOP funding changes.
Roles Enrollment: BGCNV retains full autonomy over enrollment, schedules, training, and operations, aligned with its ELOP and ASES subcontractor role.
Reporting: BGCNV will maintain and submit all required grant reports and coordinate audits as needed.
Snack: NVUSD will provide snacks to eligible UDP students at BGCNV-run ELOP sites.
Facilities: NVUSD will provide free ASES-equivalent facility use, covering janitorial and maintenance costs. This includes:
• One dedicated classroom for Club use.
• One classroom per 20 students (1st-6th grade).
• One Kinder/TK-ready classroom per 20 students, coordinated by NVUSD principals.
• Restroom access and a quarantine/office space.
Transportation: Families are responsible for transportation to BGCNV’s Napa Clubhouse for waitlisted/overflow students. Donaldson Way students will be supervised by BGCNV staff walking to the clubhouse, with NVUSD ensuring a centralized pickup location.
Special Needs Resources: NVUSD will provide 1:1 aides for students requiring support after school and during intersession, subject to staff availability. BGCNV will conduct background checks but is not responsible for hiring, training, or costs.
2025/2026 PROPOSED MODEL
In preparing this proposal BGCNV created a site-by-site cost analysis of all on- and off-campus locations currently funded by ELOP and ASES and operated by BGCNV over the current 24/25 year was conducted. ELOP daily rates for BGCNV programs have not been adjusted since 2023. This means that while the Club received $3,738,000 per our 24/25 ELOP MOU our costs far outstripped that allotment. BGCNV is not in a position to do so moving forward. This pricing reflects actual cost associated with providing service.
To ensure equitable access and transparent billing, BGCNV has simplified its ASES funding offset strategy. Previously, ASES-supported students were charged a reduced rate, creating administrative complexity and inconsistencies in program access. For 2025-26, BGCNV will apply a standard daily rate to all students and deduct actual ASES funding received from NCOE from NVUSD’s invoice. This approach:
• Eliminates confusion by ensuring one consistent rate for all students.
• Maintains equity by removing funding-based cost discrepancies.
• Prevents double payment, addressing NVUSD’s financial concerns. This streamlined, transparent model ensures full accountability while continuing to provide high-quality expanded learning services.
As of March of 2025 BGCNV operates with a waitlist of 250 students. To eliminate waitlists, BGCNV will provide overflow services at the Napa Clubhouse and American Canyon Clubhouse for heavily impacted programs, particularly at: Canyon Oaks, Napa Valley Language Academy, West Park, and Willow Elementary Schools.
NVUSD will be responsible for either:
✔ Providing sufficient on-campus space to accommodate all enrolled students or
✔ Providing transportation from school locations to these service satellite locations
This ensures every qualifying student receives access to expanded learning opportunities without disruption.
BGCNV is committed to ensuring universal access to its expanded learning programs, eliminating waitlists and meeting or exceeding NVUSD’s 60% UDP enrollment goal. As of February 2025, BGCNV has enrolled over 2,600 students, including 1,530 ELOP-qualifying UDP students. With NVUSD’s support, we are confident in reaching or surpassing the 60% UDP threshold for the 2025-26 school year. To prevent service gaps, BGCNV will implement an overflow strategy, offering enrollment at the Napa Clubhouse and American Canyon Clubhouse for heavily impacted schools. NVUSD would be responsible for either providing sufficient on-campus space to accommodate all eligible students or ensuring transportation to these satellite locations. BGCNV will maintain full autonomy over enrollment, program schedules, training, and operations, consistent with its role as an ELOP and ASES subcontractor. This strategy ensures fair and consistent access to expanded learning opportunities for all students while supporting NVUSD’s enrollment and equity goals.
The Governor’s proposed budget strongly indicates that ELOP funding for NVUSD will transition from the current Tier 2 rate of $1,750 per student to the Tier 1 rate of $2,750 per student. If approved, this shift would significantly increase NVUSD’s ELOP funding, directly enhancing program sustainability and expansion.
With 4,000 UDP students enrolled at BGCNV-served schools, total ELOP funding would increase from approximately $7 million (Tier 2) to $11 million (Tier 1) a $4 million increase in potential funding. At NVUSD’s request, we have identified strategic areas for expansion that could enhance student academic performance and overall program impact:
BGCNV would hire 20 district teachers to directly addresses learning gaps, particularly for UDP students, by providing targeted academic support in math, literacy, and STEM within a structured, accessible after-school setting. Additionally, as BGCNV Employees this program ensures instructional continuity in the transition from school to after school.
BGCNV’s Mobile STEM Lab pilot successfully launched and will complete its first year in June 2025. To sustain and expand its impact, the lab requires resupply and staffing for the 2025-26 school year. This innovative program delivers hands-on STEM education directly to NVUSD schools, ensuring equitable access to cutting-edge technology, robotics, and engineering activities that enhance learning and inspire future careers in STEM fields.
A Mobile Esports Lab would bring competitive gaming, strategy development, and digital literacy directly to NVUSD schools, fostering teamwork, problem-solving, and career pathways in gaming, coding, and technology. With structured play and coaching, students would gain critical thinking skills while engaging in a rapidly growing industry.
A Mobile Fine Arts Lab would provide high-quality visual arts education, allowing students to explore painting, sculpture, digital design, and mixed media. By bringing art workshops directly to schools, this program ensures equitable access to creative expression, supporting cognitive development, cultural appreciation, and artistic skill-building.
A Mobile Music Lab would offer students the chance to learn, create, and perform music, with access to instruments, production technology, and expert instruction. This program fosters collaboration, self-expression, and music literacy, helping students develop confidence and creativity in an engaging, hands-on setting.
BGCNV currently receives $178,000 from NVUSD to support Napa-based teen programs, yet no Boys & Girls Club teen programs exist in American Canyon. With additional ELOP funding, NVUSD can extend critical after-school support to American Canyon middle and high school students, providing academic enrichment, workforce readiness, leadership development, and social-emotional support. This expansion would ensure equitable access to mentorship, career exploration, and college preparation, empowering teens with the skills and resources needed for future success.
rising labor and operational expenses, and new program expansions to ensure sustainable, high quality services.
A: It aligns with NVUSD’s goals by expanding student access to high-quality after-school learning, addressing learning gaps, supporting social-emotional development, and ensuring equity for UDP students.
A: Tier 2 funding ($1,750 per student) is NVUSD’s current rate, while Tier 1 funding ($2,750 per student) would significantly increase available resources to expand and enhance programs.
A: It won’t change the proposal because it reflects the actual costs required to sustain and operate high-quality programs, regardless of NVUSD’s funding structure.
A: BGCNV will charge a standard daily rate for all students and subtract ASES funds from the total NVUSD invoice, ensuring transparency and eliminating double-payment concerns.
A: 20 NVUSD teachers would provide targeted academic support in math, literacy, and STEM, helping close learning gaps in a familiar, after-school setting. Teachers could offer these services in their own classrooms or in concert with our Power Hour Programs. This also builds much stronger connective tissue between teachers and club staff.
A: These mobile labs bring hands-on learning directly to schools, ensuring equitable access to technology, gaming, creative arts, and music education.
A: Currently, BGCNV receives $178,000 to support Napa-based teen programs, but none exist in American Canyon. Expanding mentorship, college prep, and career readiness programs would ensure equitable access for all teens.
A: NVUSD and BGCNV will continue collaborating on funding allocations, logistics, and program expansions based on available ELOP resources and district priorities.
Who we Serve: If we were to consider all of the youth attending the Club, their age, household, economic status, and time spent in our programs and condense it into ONE story here is how that would read: The typical member at the Boys & Girls Club lives and attends school in Napa. They live in a family of four with a sibling who likely also attends the Club and parents who work full-time. Collectively their household earns less than $80,000/year. They live in a home that is rented jointly by family or friends. Despite shared resources, money is tight and this often disrupts basic needs like nutrition & housing. As a result, their parents often work multiple jobs and rely on the Club for care when school isn’t in session.
If you were to summarize the average Club member’s entire year (after school, Spring, Summer, and Winter breaks into one 24 hour period here is how that time would be allotted.
Club: 6 hrs
School: 5 hrs
Home: 5 hrs
Sleep: 8hrs
If you were to take all the children attending afterschool programs in the County of Napa and combine them into a village of 100… 67 of them attend the Boys & Girls Clubs of Napa Valley. 18 of them attend programs run by Napa County. 15 of them attend other programs.
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