Fiscal Note
The 2008 Adopted Operating Budget includes $200,000 in Miscellaneous Appropriations for the Emerging Neighborhoods Fund. This resolution allocates $176,296 of the 2008 funds.
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SUBSTITUTE - Approving the provision of 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 Education and Child Care 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, the Emerging Neighborhood Fund Committee released applications with a due date of May 15, 2008 for initial 2008 funding requests, and
WHEREAS in 2007, the Common Council adopted resolutions 06152, 06976, 07477 and 08333 that, in part, committed funding from 2007 Emerging Neighborhood Funds for the following agencies in the following amounts: Allied Area Task Force ($9,315); ARC Community Services ($12,500); Dane County Time Bank ($7,500); Financial Education Center ($5,000); Mentoring Positives ($5,000); Project Home ($12,800); and Vera Court Neighborhood Center ($5,000), and
WHEREAS the contracts for the above-listed agencies were not completed by December 31, 2007 and the Office of the Comptroller has indicated that 2007 Emerging Neighborhood Funds cannot be carried over into 2008, and
WHEREAS the Emerging Neighborhood Fund Committee issued applications, reviewed the submissions (which included $494,209.50 in total funding requests) and now makes the following funding recommendations.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Common Council approves both the carryover recommendations from 2007 as noted above and the following recommended allocations for these groups and activities, the combination of which totals $189,096 $176,296:
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
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Community Development Block Grant Office serve as lead City agency for Financial Education Center, Project Home, all three Vera Court Neighborhood Center, Wisconsin Youth Company, and Madison Schools & Community Recreation; and
BE IT STILL FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Office of Community Services serve as the lead agency for Allied Area Task Force, ARC Community Services, Dane County Time Bank, both Mentoring Positives projects, Common Wealth Development, Inc., Neighborhood House Community Center, Animal Crackers, Inc., Respect - a project of ARC Community Services, Inc., YWCA of Madison, Inc., Triangle Community Ministries, Inc., Dane County Parent Council, Youth Services of Southern Wisconsin, Inc., Dane County Time Bank, Inc.; and
BE 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.