Community Services Commission Informational ReportDATE:
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MEETING DATE: 2-24-96
ITEM NO. COMvIUNITY SERVICES
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COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT
February 15, 1996
MAYOR AND TOWN COUNCIL
TOWN MANAGER
COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMISSION INFORMATIONAL REPORT
RECOMMENDATION:
For information, only.
DISCUSSION:
Attached is an informational report from the Community Services Commission. The Commission is very active with
six committees and three liaison appointments.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Staff manages the $350 allocated for Commission operating costs (copying, postage, etc.).
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Attachments:
1. Community Services Informational Report
2. CSC Roster
Distribution:
Community Services Commission
PREPARED BY: Regina A. F
Community S
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Reviewed by: Attorney Finance Revised: 2/21/96 4:15 pm
Reformatted: 10/23/95
MEMORANDUM
COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT
To: Town Council
From: Community Services Commission
Subject: COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMISSION COMMITTEES
Date: February 21, 1996
Evaluation Committee - Jack Neal, Chair
This Committee consisting of myself and three other Commission members, has the
responsibility of reviewing the requests for funding of the CDBG monies. The 1995-96 funds
authorized for funding by the Town of Los Gatos was $190,000. This amount was to be
allocated to Public Services and Housing categories. This evaluation for the current fiscal year
is done by this Committee in March of the preceding year. This Committee's recommendations
then are presented to the full Community Services Commission, who in turn submit its
recommendations to the Town Council. I will attend the Town Council meeting to present these
recommendations and to attempt to answer any questions.
This Committee also reviews the Town's Community Funding grants in the Human Services area
in a similar fashion to the above, but usually approximately 30 to 60 days later. The FY 1995-96
funds allocated were $116,110.
"Re -Seed" Program - (Smythe European Empowerment Drive) - Jack Neal
This Committee, consisting of myself and the Community Services Director, are responsible for
the allocation of funds from the SEED program to any qualified "human services" nonprofit
organization in the Town of Los Gatos. Smythe European granted the Town's Community
Services organizations the sum of $5,000 in July 1995. The Town's grants are in the areas of
Seed Programs, Emergency Needs, and Efficiency Activities.
The Town Council, in their meeting of November 20, 1995, approved granting $3,000 to six
different organizations at $500 each. In December 1995, the Town was granted an additional
$1,075 from the SEED program. Smythe European is funding the Town's Community Services
at the rate of $25 for each new or used vehicle sold or leased to a Los Gatos ZIP code resident
through June 30, 1996. This Committee reviews the one -page grant request and recommends to
the full Community Services Commission its recommendations, which are then recommended
for approval by the Town Council.
Recycling Committee - Toni Blackstock, Chair
With the success of our efforts to encourage residential recycling and having met the 1995 goal
of AB939, the Recycling Committee has turned its efforts to reduction of junk mail and paper
recycling among businesses in Town. Phil Couchee' at Green Valley Disposal Company has
been very cooperative distributing information through his Newsletter, but it is felt that a more
active campaign to encourage and facilitate the reduction of paper products going into the land
fill is needed. The committee is also interested in working with The Los Gatos Downtown
Association and the business community in general to promote a cleaner Town.
Housing Committee - George Perazzo, Chair
The Housing Committee reviewed the new Safety Grant Component to the Housing
Conservation Program and recommended approval by the Commission to forward the proposal
to the Town Council.
The Safety Grant Component will augment the existing housing rehab program by allowing
clients to correct the more serious health and safety deficiencies on their properties. It will also
address earthquake retrofitting, security improvements, and fire -related safety improvements.
Grants could not exceed $10,000 and would be applicable only to owner -occupied households
with annual incomes less than 80 percent of the County Median Income.
Los Gatos Community Foundation - Paul Dubois, Liaison
Over the past year I have been working specifically on the Foundation's Endowment Committee
to help establish a program in which people can receive tax benefits through planned giving or
endowments to the Foundation for use in support of community service and needs programs.
The program was designed in 1995 and is planned to be implemented in Fall 1996. I have been
recently elected to the Board of Directors and am serving as the organizations; Treasurer.
Americans with Disabilities Agency (ADA) - Paul Dubois, Liaison
As a result of a 1995 address by a member of the ADA Committee suggesting that the
Commission give consideration to adjusting priorities in the amount of funds recommended for
ADA compliance projects, I have been assigned as liaison to this group. My responsibilities are
to report back to the Commission on the progress of the ADA compliance project so that the
Commission can recommend appropriate funding priorities from CDBG grants.
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