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DATE: March 20, 2007
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBJECT: Allocation of District Two Community Project Funds         

SUMMARY:
Several organizations in East County have demonstrated a need for improvements to their community and/or recreational facilities, and have shown that they are prepared to work together with other jurisdictions and community members to provide these opportunities. This action will provide funds to several organizations to improve community and/or recreational facilities in East County.

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Supervisor Dianne Jacob:

  1. Allocate $200,000 from the District Two Community Project Fund to the East County Family YMCA to help pay the costs to expand and renovate the John A. Davis Family YMCA in La Mesa.
  2. Allocate $9,111.38 to Lakeside Pony Baseball to purchase a John Deere 4x2 Gator that will be used to maintain the Lakeside Pony Baseball fields.
  3. Authorize the Chief Financial Officer to execute a grant agreement with the organizations listed above establishing terms for receipt of the funds described above. 
  4. Find that these grant awards have a public purpose.

FISCAL IMPACT:
The fiscal impact of these recommendations is $209,111.38.  The funding source is FY 06-07 District Two Community Projects. This action will result in the addition of no new staff years and no future costs.

BACKGROUND:
Since the early 1960s, the John A. Davis Family YMCA has been a center of community growth in San Diego's East County. To ensure that the facility meets the modern needs of its community, an exciting $2 million renovation and expansion project has begun.  Today’s allocation of $200,000 from the District Two Community Project fund to the East County Family YMCA will be used to help pay the costs to expand and renovate the John A. Davis Family YMCA in La Mesa. 

Lakeside Pony Baseball has been providing safe and quality recreational opportunities to the youth of East County since 1964.  Today’s allocation of  $9,111.38 from the District Two Community Project fund to Lakeside Pony Baseball will be used to purchase a John Deere 4x2 Gator that will be used to maintain the Lakeside Pony Baseball fields.

Respectfully submitted,

 

DIANNE JACOB
Supervisor, Second District