SUBJECT/RECOMMENDATION:
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Approve a one-year Agreement with Juvenile Welfare Board (JWB) and the City of Clearwater for funding youth programs, approve a first quarter budget amendment of $468,897 in special program G2107, JWB Youth Programming, and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent)
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SUMMARY:
Since 2000, the City has received annual funding from the JWB Children’s Services Council to provide after school and summer programming for youth in Clearwater. Once again, the City has been awarded funding for youth programming for Fiscal Year 2022/2023 from JWB.
The funding provides the “Charting a Course for Youth” program for 193 children at the North Greenwood and Ross Norton recreation facilities throughout the year.
“Charting a Course for Youth” is a program designed to incorporate exercise and nutrition-based activities in an after school and summer camp setting, to improve academic success, encourage healthy lifestyle choices, improve social skills, increase athletic abilities, and develop leadership skills of the participants. The program serves school aged children at the Ross Norton and North Greenwood Recreation Complexes.
There is no requirement to continue the program when the grant ends.
APPROPRIATION CODE AND AMOUNT:
A first quarter budget amendment will provide an increase of $468,897 in other governmental revenue in G2107, JWB Youth Programming, to account for both revenues and expenditures for this agreement.
USE OF RESERVE FUNDS:
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