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June 24, 2013
SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Board Chair Michelle Spence -Jones
and Members of the CRA Board
From: Clarence E. Woods, III
Executive Director
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Date: June 14, 2013 File: 13-00739
Subject: Resolution Authorizing Grant for 2013
Summer Youth Training institute.
References:
Enclosures: Supporting Documentation; Resolution
BACKGROUND:
It is recommended that the Board of Commissioners of the Southeast Overtown/Park West Community
Redevelopment Agency ("CRA") approve and adopt the attached Resolution authorizing the deallocation of
$200,000 previously authorized by Resolution No. CRA-R-12-0032 for the 2012 Summer Youth Entrepreneur
Academy, as well as the issuance of a grant, in an amount not to exceed $155,000, to Urgent, Inc. ("Urgent") for
the 2013 Summer Youth Training Institute.
Urgent, Inc. ("Urgent"), a local non-profit committed to issues impacting children and youth, seeks assistance in
administering a summer youth employment program that would complement the CRA's support of the its
institutes, including the Art & Cultural Tourism Institute, Film Institute, and Hospitality Institute. The Board of
Commissioners, by Resolution Nos. CRA-R-10-0038 and CRA-R-11-0027, has previously supported the
establishment of summer employment programs for youth.
JUSTIFICATION:
Goal 4, at page 11, of the Plan provides the "creattion of] jobs within the community" as a stated redevelopment
goal.
FUNDING:
$155,000 from SEOPW Tax Increment Fund, "Other Grants and Aids" Account Code No.
10050.920101.883000.0000.00000.