Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution accepts the Community Development Division’s (CDD) recommended funding allocations and contracts with community organizations to support youth and adult employment programming.
Adopted RES-17-00629 (Legistar file 47999) authorized a competitive RFP from community agencies for providing youth and adult-oriented programming. The 2018 Executive Budget included $1,278,588 for youth and adult employment agency contracts (youth: $649,580; adult: $629,080) with $50,000 being added to youth employment and $100,000 being added to adult employment at Council budget adoption for a total of $1,428,588 in the 2018 Adopted Operating Budget.
The proposed resolution also authorizes reallocation of $22,500 from adult employment community agency contracts to youth employment contracts in the manner specified. The Community Services Committee recommendations reduced the awards only for those eight (8) adult employment programs recommended to share in additional funds authorized through a budget amendment adopted by the Council, and they calculated those reductions among the eight programs on a proportionate basis. The substitute amendment allocates the $22,500 reduction evenly among each of the 14 adult employment programs, resulting in a $1,607 reduction for each, whether or not they shared in the additional funds added to the budget. The third second substitute amendment reinstates the $22,500 in adult employment funding that the CSC recommended reallocating to youth employment. The restored funds would be allocated per the November 16, 2017 staff recommendations for adult employment. The remaining $7,500 in youth employment shall be evenly distributed between Mellowhood, Mentoring Positives, Bayview, and Centro Hispano. allocates the $22,500 reduction evenly among each of the 8 applicant agencies recommended by the CSC Committee to receive funding. For purposed of this calculation, the collaborative proposal put forth by the Goodman Communi...
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