Civic Engagement Agreement: Team CivX
The official document
What the district published
This is the source material — exactly as released by RUSD. The plain English translation below is this site's version, written for community members who shouldn't need to know all the lingo to understand what they're legally entitled to as taxpayers, and how to access it.
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What this document actually says
This is a contract between Reed Union School District and TeamCivX, LLC, a civic engagement consulting firm. The agreement runs from August 19, 2026 through September 30, 2026, covering about six weeks of work.
TeamCivX will provide public information services to raise awareness of the district's funding needs and a ballot measure. Their work includes developing informational messaging, fact sheets, talking points, FAQ documents, website content, social media content, PowerPoint presentations, and outreach strategies for different groups (parents, teachers, community leaders, etc.). The base consulting fee is $7,500, with additional costs for any mailings or advertising materials produced.
The contract includes standard legal terms: either party can cancel with 10 days notice, the district is responsible for ensuring all activities comply with laws about public funds and informational (not advocacy) activities, and disputes would go to binding arbitration. The consultant owns the general ideas and methods, but the district owns the specific materials created for them.
What this means for your family
This contract means the district is hiring a professional firm to help communicate with the community about school funding needs and an upcoming ballot measure. Families can expect to see informational materials (fact sheets, website updates, social media posts, presentations at school events) explaining why the district needs funding and what the ballot measure would do.
The materials should be informational only, not political advocacy, since this is paid for with public funds. The contract covers just over a month of work in late summer/early fall 2026, so families would likely see these communications during that period leading up to an election.
Lina's read
Candidate perspective
I want to be clear about what this contract is and is not. Hiring a communications firm to explain our funding needs makes sense when we have a ballot measure, but I would want to see the specific materials before they go out to ensure they are genuinely informational and accessible to all families, including those who don't speak English as a first language. The $7,500 base fee is reasonable for six weeks of consulting, but I'd want to understand what the additional costs for mailings and advertising might be. Most importantly, the contract puts the legal responsibility on the district to decide whether materials cross the line from information to advocacy, so we need to be very careful about that line.
Summaries are AI-assisted and based on the original district document shown above. Nothing has been editorialized — interpretations are clearly labeled. This site is maintained by Lina Godfrey's campaign as a community resource.