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II. COMMUNITY GRANT (CG) PROGRAM BACKGROUND As noted earlier, the City streamlined its annual grant process three 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 2013-14, $40,416.06 is available for arts/culture projects and $70,120.12 is available for youth projects for a total allocation amount of $110,536.19. This includes a new annual allocation of $80,000 plus $416.07 in the arts/culture category carried over from FY 2011-12 and $30,120.12 in the youth category carried over from FY 2011-12 and FY 2012-13. CG grant awards are typically limited to a maximum of$7,500. DISCUSSION Information on the CG program was provided at two regional pre-application informational workshops held on December 4 and 6, 2012, in Pleasanton and Livermore which also discussed information about Pleasanton's HHSG program and similar grant programs offered by the cities of Livermore and Dublin. In response, twelve (12) applications were received in the arts/culture category with a total aggregate request of $75,438 and fifteen applications were received in the youth category with a total aggregate request of $117,750. The 27 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 4, and its minutes are included as Attachment 4. Youth applications were reviewed by the Youth Commission at its meeting of March 13, and its minutes are included as Attachment 5. At each meeting, specific agency representatives made a presentation and addressed Commission questions. All agencies attended their designated Commission meeting, with the exception of Pacific Chamber Symphony. After reviewing all applications and presentations, the commissions discussed the merits of each project and determined funding levels for 20 of the 27 applications. 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 Community Farm — Site Design predevelopment at $27,007 which exceeds the current Community Grant maximum funding limit of $7,500. The Council may recall that last year it approved $24,463 for this project. However, the Abbie 4-H was unable to meet the contract requirements and the funding has been withdrawn. For FY 2013-14, Abbie 4-H has partnered with Rotary Club of Pleasanton which will be administering the grant on behalf of Abbie 4-H and is confident the work will be completed. The total recommended funding for the project is $27,007, and the additional amount of $4,943 will be contributed from the Rotary Club of Pleasanton. Page 8 of 20