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Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to submit a grant application to the California Department of Parks and Recreation for funding under the Statewide Park Development and Community Revitalization Program, for the first phases of the Drake Chavez Vision Plan Implementation Project and MacArthur Park Vision Plan Implementation Project (Projects); and, if awarded, execute all documents necessary to accept the funds in an amount up to $8,500,000 for each Project, for a total grant funding amount of up to $17,000,000 for the Projects. (Districts 1,6)
DISCUSSION
On June 5, 2018, voters passed the Parks, Environment, and Water Bond (Proposition 68). Proposition 68 authorized $4 billion in general obligation bonds for state and local parks. The measure required that between 15 and 20 percent of the bond funds, depending on the type of project, be dedicated to projects in communities with median household incomes less than 60 percent of the statewide average; that 60 percent threshold amounted to about $39,980 in 2016. The largest amount of bond revenue, $725 million, was earmarked for neighborhood parks in park-poor neighborhoods in accordance with the Statewide Park Development and Community Revitalization Act of 2008's competitive grant program. The California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) has notified applicants that $395,300,000 will be distributed in this final round. Grant applications are due March 12, 2021 and grant awards are anticipated to be announced in September 2021.
The Parks, Recreation and Marine Department (PRM) is requesting approval to submit grant applications for two park projects that were submitted for the same grant in a previous round, but were unfunded: (1) Drake Chavez Vision Plan Implementation Project; and, (2) MacArthur Park Vision Plan Implementation Project.
Drake Chavez Vision Plan Implementation Project
In 2010, the Drake Chavez Greenbelt Master Plan was completed, follow...
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