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....
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