Title:
Title
Social Engagement Grant Agreement for Simmons Community Center Programs
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FileID
File ID: 2019-00689
Location
Location: District 8
Recommendation:
Recommendation
Pass a Motion authorizing the City Manager or the City Manager's designee to execute a social engagement grant agreement with the South Sacramento Christian Center Church and Sierra Health Foundation: Center for Health Program Management for an amount not-to-exceed $350,000 to administer children and youth programming at Simmons Community Center.
Contact: Christopher Conlin, Assistant City Manager (916) 808-8526, Office of the City Manager
Body
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Social Engagement Grant Agreement
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: On February 5, 2019, the City Council approved the Fiscal Year 2018/19 Midyear Budget including priorities directly aligned with youth development and family investment. These strategies are in alignment with principles laid out in the Council-adopted Citywide Youth Development Campaign Plan including the need to focus increased investments in underserved youth and communities.
The grantee, South Sacramento Christian Center Church (SSCCC), provides children and youth programming at its Simmons Community Center. The Simmons Community Center is well known in Sacramento by its former name, Cal Skate, and is located on the corner of Mack Road and Stockton Boulevard (District 8). In recent years, SSCC reactivated Cal Skate into the current Simmons Community Center where it provides comprehensive support services for youth between the ages of 7-25 and their families.
Under this grant agreement, The Sierra Health Foundation: Center for Health Program Management (The Center), will serve as the SSCCC's fiscal agent and project administrator, providing capacity building to support reporting and evaluation requirements. The Center is uniquely qualified to function as project administrator by leveraging the relationships and operatio...
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