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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a sponsor/site agreement with the Long Beach Community Services Development Corporation, dba Long Beach Community Action Partnership, a nonprofit organization, for participation in the 2010 Summer Food Service Program. (District 7)
DISCUSSION
On March 23, 2010, City Council authorized the City Manager to execute sponsor/site agreements with various agencies throughout Long Beach and Signal Hill for participation in the 2010 Summer Food Service Program (Program), which runs from June 21, 2010 through August 20, 2010. A copy of the City Council letter is attached for reference purposes. The Program provides free lunches to low-income children, 18 years of age and under, who, in the absence of the Program, would not receive their normal lunches during summer vacation. The Program is sponsored through a grant with the California Department of Education (CDE). The participation of other agencies is necessary for the Program's success.
On May 24, 2010, the Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine (PRM) was approached by the Long Beach Community Services Development Corporation, doing business as Long Beach Community Action Partnership (LBCAP), requesting I authorization to participate in the Program once again. LBCAP participated in the 2008 Program, serving lunch out of the Long Beach Unified School District's Pacific Learning Center on Atlantic Avenue.
For the 2010 Program, LBCAP is proposing to function as a sponsor/site for the Villages at Cabrillo, a 26-acre transitional housing facility located at 2200 W. Willard Street.
Villages at Cabrillo is the largest comprehensive residential social service complex of its kind in the country, serving veterans and their families with a variety of programs, including: substance abuse treatment; employment training and placement; residential employment; and special programs for females, Native Americans, seniors, and disabled veterans. Homeless families and youth...
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