Explanation
Background:
This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Recreation and Parks to enter into a grant agreement with MY Project USA, a non-profit company. Funding will support expenses created from the Covid-19 pandemic and support youth and community programming.
MY Project USA experienced revenue losses such as cancelled fundraising events, decreases in donor support, and increased expenditures due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
MY Project USA’s Youth Empowerment Center will continue as the core of MY Project USA’s activities and will require additional space to ensure year-round recreation programming (currently the Hilltop Tigers Soccer Team cannot practice from November until March) and to expand academic and career programming. In addition to programming, MY Project USA will open the space to other organizations in the community, especially those serving youth, to help ensure that all our community members always have someplace safe to be.
Fiscal Impact: Funding for this grant agreement is available within the Reimagine Safety subfund and the American Rescue Plan Fund, 2209.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested in order to avoid a delay in providing the necessary funding resources for MY Project USA.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Recreations and Parks to enter into a grant agreement with MY Project USA; to authorize an appropriation within the general fund; to authorize a transfer from the general fund; to appropriate funds and authorize an expenditure within the Recreations and Park operating fund; to appropriate funds and authorize an expenditure within the American Rescue Plan Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($250,000.00)
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WHEREAS, MY Project USA aims to protect and empower American youth by providing access to educational, healthy, and fun programs that keep them away from danger and temptation; and; and
WHEREAS, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in disproportionate negative econo...
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