Fiscal Note
Funding of $35,518 is available within the Contingent Reserve. Following adoption of this resolution, the available Contingent Reserve balance is expected to total $1,136,864. There is no impact on the tax levy or State Expenditure Restraint Program eligibility limits.
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SUBSTITUTE - Amending the 2010 Operating Budget of the Community Development Division by appropriating $35,518 from the Contingent Reserve Fund and utilitizing these funds to immediately enhance youth-related programming in southwest side neighborhoods, and authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to enter into agreements with agencies to provide the described services.
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WHEREAS, the City continues to work collaboratively with residents, businesses and property owners in our southwest side neighborhoods to improve the quality of life; and
WHEREAS, part of these efforts include the focused work of staff from the Madison and Dane County Public Health Department (PHMDC) on violence prevention and social capital building initiatives throughout the area; and
WHEREAS, PHMDC, working closely with neighborhood stakeholders, has developed a broad scope of responses to address a wide variety of concerns throughout the neighborhoods; and
WHEREAS, neighborhood residents, businesses and property owners, as well as City and County staff and policymakers, have been involved in launching a host of initiatives to date and recognize that a necessary focal point of these efforts is the engagement of youth, especially - but not solely - during the summer months; and
WHEREAS, in the interest of implementing some of these recommendations for the summer of 2010, the Mayor asked the existing Emerging Neighborhood Fund workgroup to convene, review the recommendations and make its own recommendations for timely funding to the Common Council; and
WHEREAS, the workgroup met during the week of May 28th and developed the following recommendations for funding in an effort to engage youth of all ages in...
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