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Project Grants The Education Advisory Board received ten applications for project grants totaling $340,797. The Board awarded seven project grants to the following projects: Regional Parks Foundation - Camp Arroyo -- $35,000 to support camper-ships to allow low income youth an opportunity to attend Camp Arroyo; SF Environment -- $15,400 for the Food to Flowers Program for custodial stipends and project supplies for a lunchroom compo sting program; Kids for the Bay -- $40,000 to bring the 4 R's Action Program-Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot to thirty teache" and nine hundred students in low income, urban schools in Alameda County; Plea.anton Unified School District -- $40,000 to fund the Environmental Awareness Program designed to train students throughout the District to become environmental stewards and to spread the waste prevention and recycling message and programs to schools throughout the district; Earth Team -- $16,897 to support Our Schools Our Planet as a sustainable schools video project for teens; Go Green Initiative Foundation -- $40,000 to fund Teen P.R.I.D.E. (Promote Recycling and Integrated Diversion Education), for training and guidance to help students develop a marketing plan to improve campus recycling and waste diversion behavior among teens at middle and high schools in Livermore, Dublin and Pleasanton.; St. Vincent de Paul Society of Alameda County -- $20,000 to support the recycled material Functional Found Art job training program for formerly homeless men in Alameda County. A total of $200,000 was awarded from the project grant total funding allocation of$200,000. An additional $7,297 was allocated to the project grants from Board initiated project funds. Board Initiated Projects In addition to funding an additional $7,297 for the project grants, the Board approved a grant to the Ecology Center in the amount of $40,000 to support the Terrain Magazine in the Schools program that provides environmental education curriculum at Bay Area high schools. The Board also initiated discussions with Chabot Space and Science Museum to expand their internship program to include more job training elements and outreach to and participation from Cal State East Bay and the Peralta Community College District. In response to the Board's request, Chabot Space and Science Museum submitted a grant application in the amount of$50,000 that will be considered in the 2006 funding cycle. ALARM Mitigation Projects Pursuant to the terms of the settlement agreement, the 2005 Expenditure Plan allocated $10,000 for mitigation projects for landowners in the vicinity of the landfill. The Education Advisory Board corresponded with ALARM (Altamont Landowners Against Rural Mismanagement) to notify them of the available funding. No proposals were submitted for consideration during the 2005 funding cycle. The Board will continue to communicate with ALARM regarding appropriate projects for funding. 2005 Funding Allocations Total Allocations for 2005 were as follows: Mini-grants Project grants Board initiated projects ALARM mitigation projects Fund administration Total 2005 Expenditure Plan $5,985 $200,000 $47,297 $0 $15.000 $268,282