Fiscal Note
The 2008 Operating Budget includes $200,000 in Miscellaneous Appropriations for the Emerging Neighborhoods Fund. RES-08-00636, adopted on June 17, 2008, allocated $176, 296 ($44,315 to projects carried over from 2007 and $131,981 to new projects). This resolution allocates the remaining $23,704.
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Approving the provision of 2008 Emerging Neighborhood Funds to several agencies and authorizing the Mayor and the City Clerk to enter into agreements with those agencies to implement the project.
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WHEREAS the 2008 City of Madison Operating Budget provides $200,000 in Miscellaneous Appropriations for the Emerging Neighborhood Funds; and
WHEREAS the 2008 City of Madison Operating Budget established the Emerging Neighborhood Fund Committee consisting of four City Staff members, a member of the Community Services Commission, a member of the Early Childhood Care and Education Board, a member of the Community Development Block Grant Commission, a Mayoral representative, and the Common Council President or designee to review applications and make funding recommendations to the Common Council; and
WHEREAS on June 17, 2008, the Common Council adopted Substitute Resolution 10762 that committed funding for the following applications and projects: Madison School & Community Recreation, up to $48,401 for a Meadowood Neighborhood Center; Common Wealth Development, Inc., up to $3,600 to expand its Youth-Business Mentoring Program with a focus on Memorial High School students; Neighborhood House Community Center, up to $9,000 for a Neighborhood House Youth Restorative Justice Project; Animal Crackers, Inc., up to $3,000 for an Animal Crackers Day Care Center; Respect - a project of ARC Community Services, Inc., up to $3,000 for an Allied Area Partnership Toward Recovery; YWCA of Madison, Inc., up to $9,000 for a YW Driver's License Recovery Program; Wisconsin Youth Company, up to $4,500 for Elver Park Winter Sports Program; Triangle Community Ministries, Inc., up to $2,700 for P.L.A.N. - Preparedness Through Linking All Neighbors; Dane County Parent Council, up to $6,930 for Building Community: Family Literacy and Health Partnership; Youth Services of Southern Wisconsin, Inc. up to $4,050 for Youth Peer Court on the Southwest side; Bridge Lake Point Waunona Neighborhood Center, up to $10,800 for an Educational Support Services Annex; Vera Court Neighborhood Center, up to $13,500 for a relocation feasibility study; Dane County Time Bank, Inc., up to $4,500 for an Allied Drive Timebank and Time Dollar Store; Mentoring Positives/Worthington Park Neighborhood Association, up to $9,000 for an expansion of the Mentoring Positives program (the breadth of which is to be evaluated by the Office of Community Services' Youth Services Coordinator); and
WHEREAS, the pilot Meadowood Neighborhood Center project is pending final approval by the Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education (expected to make a determination at its November 3, 2008 Board meeting), thereby making it possible - although unlikely - that the $48,401 allocated to the pilot project may not be able to be utilized for this purpose; and
WHEREAS, the Emerging Neighborhood Fund Committee released the second round of 2008 applications with a due date of October 6, 2008 for the remaining $23,704 in Emerging Neighborhood Funds; and
WHEREAS the Emerging Neighborhood Fund Committee reviewed the applications received by October 6, 2008 (which included $198,080 in total funding requests) and now makes the following primary and secondary funding recommendations.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Common Council approves the following primary allocation recommendations for the noted groups and activities, the combination of which totals $23,704:
Worthington Park Neighborhood Association, up to $7,087 for continuation of the Mentoring Positives program; Madison School & Community Recreation, up to $3,875 for After School Recreation and Enrichment Center at the pilot Meadowood Neighborhood Center; and Bridge Lake Point Waunona (BLW) Neighborhood Center, up to $12,742 for a children's program focused on the Owl Creek/Great Gray neighborhood; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that should the pilot Meadowood Neighborhood Center project not be approved by the Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education, the Common Council also approves the following secondary allocation recommendations for the noted groups and activities, the combination of which totals $52,276 (the original $48,401 combined with the $3,875 included in the primary recommendations):
Urban League of Greater Madison, up to $10,000 for a Job Service Network pilot; the North/Eastside Senior Coalition, Inc., up to $10,000 for a Brentwood Neighborhood Mentoring program; the Meadowood Neighborhood Association, up to $8,908 for a Farmer's Market project; Dane County Parent Council, up to $10,000 for a Family Literacy and Health Partnership; Animal Crackers, Inc., up to $6,994 for a Hammersley Neighborhood Child Care program; Youth Services of Southern Wisconsin, Inc., up to $1,950 for an expanded southwest Youth Peer Court; and Bram's Addition Neighborhood Association, up to $4,424 for Penn Park Partners; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Community Development Block Grant Office serve as the lead agency for the Madison School & Community Recreation, and, if the secondary recommendations become viable, also for the Urban League and Meadowood Neighborhood Association; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Office of Community Services serve as the lead agency for the Mentoring Positives project and the Bridge Lake Point Waunona Neighborhood Center project, and, if the secondary recommendations become viable, also for the North/Eastside Senior Coalition, Inc., Dane County Parent Council, Animal Crackers, Bram's Addition project, and Youth Services of Southern Wisconsin projects; and
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Mayor and the City Clerk are authorized to sign agreements with the above listed agencies or their fiscal agencies for the described activities.