SUBJECT/RECOMMENDATION:
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Approve a one-year Agreement with Juvenile Welfare Board (JWB) and the City of Clearwater for funding of youth programs, approve a first quarter budget amendment of $372,645 in special program 181-99872, Coordinated Child Care Ross Norton, and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent)
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SUMMARY:
Since 2000, the City has received annual funding from 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 2017/18 from JWB.
The budget is based on serving 233 children in the program over the course of the year. In Fiscal Year 2016/17, the City was awarded $361,791 for this program.
In June 2015, the City Resource Committee approved the original grant application that covered not only 2015 but additional years. This year, JWB did not require a request for proposal, thus providing a continuation of program services and gave a three percent increase for staff costs.
“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 community youth ages 6-17 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 $372,645 in other governmental revenue in special program 181-99872, Coordinated Child Care Ross Norton, to account for both revenues and expenditures for this agreement.
USE OF RESERVE FUNDS: N/A