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Home My WebLink About2002-01-22 - AGENDA REPORTS - COMM SERV GRANT PRGM (2)CITY OF SANTA CLARITA AGENDA REPORT CONSENT CALENDAR City Manager Approval Item to be presented by: Adele Macpherson DATE: January 22, 2002 SUBJECT: COMMUNITY SERVICES GRANT PROGRAM — PROJECT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2001-02. DEPARTMENT: Parks, Recreation, and Community Services RECOMMENDED ACTION 1. City Council approve Community Services Grant Committee's Project Recommendation List for fiscal year 2001-02 in an amount not to exceed $100,000. 2. Direct staff to execute agreements approved for funding. Approved projects have been budgeted in fiscal year 2001-02 budget in account number: 7413-8110. BACKGROUND For approximately 11 years, the City of Santa Clarita has provided funds for community organizations through the Community Services Grant Program. Each year, a Community Services Grant Committee is assembled to determine funding categories, review and rate applications, and make final funding recommendations. In the past, funding has been used to provide programs in the Arts, Violence Prevention, Beautification, Drug and Alcohol Prevention, Literacy, and After School Programs. This year's funding categories are the Arts, Tolerance and Diversity, and Junior High and High School Off -Hour Programs. Thirty-nine grant applications were received, with requests totaling $178,956.10. The breakdown per category is as follows: Arts — 18 applications, totaling $91,754.00 Tolerance and Diversity — 9 applications, totaling $37,622.10 Junior High and High School Off -Hour Programs — 12 applications, totaling $49,580.00 City Council approved funding for $100,000 in the 2001-02 budget to be awarded to the selected grant applicants. The maximum funding for each applicant is $5,000. Twenty-two applications will be funded for the total amount of $97,970.10 (see Attachment A). Similar to last year, the Santa Clarita Resource Center provided four opportunities for the applicants to meet and network in preparation for writing the grants. Agenda item: ALTERNATIVE ACTION 1. City Council not approve Community Service Grant Funding. 2. Other action as determined by City Council, FISCAL IMPACT City Council approved funds from the 2001-02 budget, not to exceed $100,000, from account number: 7413-8110. ATTACHMENTS Attachment A: Fiscal Year 2001-02 Project Recommendation List. SO:ada council\a9nrepta\2002\ce 9r nmdoc Attachment A Community Services Grant Program Rankings Fiscal Year 2001. 2002 1 Arts Saugus Union School Distrist Visual and Performing Arts Education $4,953.00 2 Arts Valencia High School Choral Music Program Carnegie Hall Performance $5,000.00 3 Arts Saugus High School Choral Music Program Carnegie Hall Performance $5,000.00 4 Arts Charles Helmers Elementary PTA Treasures: Unlocking the Creative $5,000.00 Talents of Helmers' Kids 5 Arts Cedarcreek Elementary School Art With a Heart $5,000.00 6 Arts Canyon Theatre Guild ACT III (After Class Theatre) $5,000.00 7 Arts Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society Museum Displays $5,000.00 S Arts Placerita Junior High School Commedia Del Hart Summer Drama $2,200.00 9 Arts Saugus High School Saugus High School Television $5,000.00 Broadcast Studio 10 Arts 11 UNION iI California Institute of the Arts community Arts Partnership SCV Arts Resources Website Project - $5,000.00 1 Jr.High/HighSchool Boys and Girls Club of Santa Clarita Teen Outreach Off -Hours Programs Valley $5,000.00 2 Jr.High/HighSchool Off -Hours Programs Placerita Junior High School Art Smart (After -School Art Club) $700.00 3 Jr.High/HighSchool Off -Hours Programs Santa Clarita International Film Festival Educational Outreach Program $5,000.00 4 Jr.High/HighSchool Ott -Hours Programs Santa Clarita Valley Pregnancy Center Alternative Resources Center $5,000.00 Curriculum 5 Jr.High/HighSchool Off -Hours Programs The Betty Ferguson Foundation You've Got the Power Workshop $4,380.00 6 Jr.High/HighSchool Off -Hours Programs The SCV Youth Project STEP, PPP and YES Programs for $5,000.00 High -School Students I Tolerance/Dlversity Helmers Elementary School Character Counts through Video- $3,700.00 editing Production 2 Tolerance/Diversity Saugus Union School District Community Based English Tutoring $4,970.00 3 Tolerance/Diversity Sulphur Springs Elementary School CHARACTER COUNTSI $4,997.20 4 Tolerance/Diversity Placerita Junior High School Solving Together Our Problems (S.T.O.P.)------------------------------ $3,769.90 5 Tolerance/Diversity Placerita Junior High School A World of Difference 6 Tolerance/Diversity Santa Clarita Special Olympics Santa Clarita Special Olympics First $3,300.00 Annual Area Games $5,000.00