CA DEPT TRANSPORTATION (5) - 2004

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4. Parent and Family Services: This Program Coordinator will be responsible for providing direct services and supervision to accomplish the goals and objectives set forth for the Family PRIDE Club and Parent Education Workshop activities. This will include working with school personnel in recruiting parents to participate and coordinating with Project PRIDE staff as well as the neighborhood associations and other partners working in the same target area to schedule activities, identify parent community service projects, and other activities. This Program Coordinator will also coordinate with McFadden Education and Technology staff to develop and implement three parent workshops and work with the schools to ensure parent participants attend school activities as part of their goals and objectives. BENEFITS Benefits for Full Time staff are based on 28.77% oftotal salaries and include Health Benefits, Medicare, and Worker's Compensation. Benefits for Part Time staff are based on 7.52% of total salaries and include Retirement, Medicare, and Worker's Compensation. OVERTIME Overtime for SAPD officers are based on the negotiated rate of $69 per hour. OPERATING EXPENSES CONTRACTUAL SERVICES Margaret Zuliani is the Cultural Arts Program Coordinator who will be responsible for providing direct services and supervision to accomplish the goals and objectives set forth for the cultural arts activities, including providing arts instruction in the visual and performing arts. Ms. Zuliani is a recipient ofthe Community Building Award, which was presented by the City Council in 2001. She has been a contracted Visual Arts Instructor for the City since 1999 and has been highly successful in working with at risk youths, including youth placed in alternative education programs, placed in group homes, incarcerated in local facilities, on probation, teen parents, and the homeless. Ms. Zuliani will conduct three eight-week art classes made up of20 students each class and will coordinate and organize a culmination activity appropriate to the specific art venue taught. By contracting this service, the program is able to utilize the services of a professional art instructor who has the flexibility to use her vast skills to tailor each class to the specific target population she is working with at any given time. BUSES Buses are used to transport program participants in groups of 20 or more to educational excursions, Family PRIDE Club excursions, and Teen Club excursions. Due to the high rate of economic deprivation ofthe target population, families do not have the resources to provide transportation. Buses are provided at no cost to program participants. In addition to buses covered by grant funds, the lead agency has several 11 and 7 passenger vans that are covered 100% by the city's general fund that are available to transport smaller groups of program participants to various program activities.