REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Review and Approve Recommendations from the Community Event and Neighborhood Grant Distribution Council Subcommittee and Approve Budget Modification No. 1 Contingent on City Council Approval of the FY 2017/18 Recommended Budget
Report
SUMMARY OF SUBCOMMITTEE ACTION
On January 10, 2017, the City Council appointed Councilmembers Klein, Smith and Melton to serve on the Community Event and Neighborhood Grant Distribution Subcommittee (subcommittee). At the subcommittee's meeting on April 28, 2017, with Councilmember Smith absent, the subcommittee reviewed grant applications. Councilmember Smith had an excused absence from the meeting.
In reviewing grant applications, the Subcommittee noted grant requests exceeded the total amount in the FY 2017/18 Recommended Budget. Consequently, the Subcommittee recommended Community Event Grants in the amount of $10,250 and Neighborhood Grants in the amount of $6,278 to align with the FY 2017/18 Recommended Budget. In addition, the Subcommittee recommended allocation of $900 from the Council Service Level Set Aside Fund to address additional needs in the Neighborhood Grant program. The Report to Subcommittee and Draft Minutes from the April 28, 2017 Subcommittee meeting are included as Attachments 1 and 2.
The Subcommittee made a series of motions that resulted in the following recommendations to the City Council:
1. Approve a single Community Event Grant in the amount of $10,250 be awarded to the Sunnyvale Downtown Association (SDA) with eligible expenses to include those items identified in the four individual grant applications submitted by SDA including the Holiday Tree Lighting, the Jazz & Beyond Music Series, the Magic of Sunnyvale and the Summer Music+ Market.
2. Approve Neighborhood Grants in the amount of $6,278 itemized as follows:
Grantee
Purpose
Amount
Cherry Chase Neighborhood Assn.
Cultural & Social Improvement
$1,000
Cherry Hill Neighborhood Assn.
Cherryhill Heritage Project...
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