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II. COMMUNITY GRANT (CG) PROGRAM BACKGROUND As noted earlier, the City streamlined its annual grant process two years ago to combine funding from CDBG, HOME, Lower Income Housing Funds, and City Grant General Funds into a single Housing and Human Services Grant (HHSG) program. The arts/culture and youth components of the former City Grant program were recombined to form the new "Community Grant" (CG) program. For FY 2012-13, a total of $41,260 is available for arts/culture projects and $43,243 is available for youth projects. This $84,503 total includes $4,503 carried over from this current fiscal year. Grant awards for this program are limited to a maximum of$7,500. DISCUSSION Information on the CG program was provided to a large audience at two regional pre- application informational workshops held on December 6 and 7, 2011, in Pleasanton and Livermore. Attendees also received information about Pleasanton's HHSG program as well as similar grant programs offered by the cities of Livermore and Dublin. A total of 19 CG applications were received by the January 23 deadline. Thirteen (13) of these were in the arts/culture category with a total aggregate request of $80,900 (for the $41,260 available which included $1,260 extra from funds that were approved for carry-over for the Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council "Poetry Prose and Arts Festival"). A total of six (6) applications were received in the youth category with a total aggregate request of$41,280 (for the $43,243 available, of which $3,243 was carried over from FY 2011-12). The 19 CG applications received are listed in Table B of Attachment 1. Arts/culture applications were reviewed by the Civic Arts Commission at its meeting of March 5. The minutes from the meeting are included as Attachment 4. Youth applications were reviewed by the Youth Commission at its meeting of March 14. The minutes from the Youth Commission meeting are included as Attachment 5. At each meeting, representatives from each applicant agency made a presentation to the appropriate commission. After reviewing all applications and presentations, the commissions discussed the merits of each project and determined that all projects that had applied should receive funding. Each commissioner was asked for her/his recommended funding amount for each project, and the level of funding for each project was determined by commission consensus for recommendation to the City Council. The results of this process, including project summaries and recommendations for each project, are detailed in Table B of Attachment 1. Of special note is the fact that the Youth Commission is requesting that the City Council consider funding the Bernal Property 4-H Farm Complex predevelopment at $15,000, which exceeds the current Community Grant maximum funding limit of $7,500. The Commission's recommendation is based on its perspective that the program meets specific unmet needs of the Youth Master Plan, and it would like the project to come to fruition as soon as possible. The total project cost is estimated at $28,500. Even with the additional 4-H Farm Complex funding, the total grant recommendations amount to $75,040 which is $9,463 less that the total amount of funding that is available for FY Page 9 of 11