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A Resolution Of The City Commission Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Approving And Authorizing The Appropriate City Officials To Execute The Attached First Amendment To The Agreement Between The City Of Hollywood And Boys & Girls Club Of Broward County To Provide The Youth Education Success (YES) Educational Program Through Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Funding By Reducing The Number Of Students And Adjusting The Individual Cost Per Student.
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Staff Recommends: Approval of attached Resolution.
Explanation:
CDBG funds are used to carry out activities that serve one of the national objectives of benefit to low- and moderate-income families, aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight, or to meet other community development needs having a particular urgency because existing conditions pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare.
An eligible and suggested use of CDBG is to fund Public Service activities concerned with education.
To this end, on June 16, 2014, the City Commission funded the Boys and Girls Club of Broward County to conduct the Youth Education success Program (YES) that seeks to improve the math and reading competency levels of low and moderate income City of Hollywood youth.
The Boys and Girls Club of Broward requested to reduce the number of youth served from fifty (50) to thirty (30) due to the fact that the program will be discontinued without full funding. Amending the agreement will increase the cost per student from $14.52 to $24.21, but it will prevent discontinuation of the program.
On May 13, 2015, the Community Development Advisory Board met to review the proposed amendment and forwarded a recommendation of approval to the City Commission.
Recommended for inclusion on the agenda by:
Dr. Wazir A. Ishmael, City Manager
Gus Zambrano, Assistant City Manager for Sustainable Development
Davon Barbour, Director of Community & Economic Development