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. skills by attending courses such as English-as-a-Second-Language. This educational benefit insures that employers of the Project Area have access to an educated labor force within the community, whether it be adults or employment-age students of the District. The District's capital facilities are all public access facilities, and therefore provide a substantial portion of the public areas of the community, which are available to the residents and employees of the Project Area and the adjacent neighborhoods. These areas are an integral portion of the community's public service programs. The deterioration and/or the over-utilization of the District's capital facilities will have an adverse affect on the District's ability to meet its requirements of providing adequate and acceptable facilities for the community, in general, and the Project Area, in particular. The vitality of the Project Area depends not only on the removal of blighted physical, social and economic conditions, but also on the adequacy of public facilities within the Project Area and within proximity to the Project Area which provide the educational and public facilities and services required to meet the demands and needs of residents, employees, and employers within the Project Area. . As the Project Area is revitalized, employment opportunities are created, and residential development is made available to prospective tenants, all directly or indirectly requiring adequate educational capital facilities in the community. However, as such facilities become burdened with the impact of such usage, the District will need to transition such use to other capital facilities in the District. Such transition will have impacts on other District facilities which are not in proximity of the Project Area. Therefore, there is a direct correlation between all capital facilities which the District utilizes and its responsibility to provide educational services. The public access to the District's capital facilities within close proximity to the Project Area, or in other areas of the community has direct and indirect benefit to the Project Area, by the mere fact that all District facilities are equally available to all employees and residents of the community and the Project Area, and that the utilization of such facilities are not dictated by location, but rather the overcrowded or under-utilized condition of said capital facilities, and the availability of services offered at anyone site. Of even more importance, the Agreement provides a vehicle for the District to pursue the necessary facilities required for its Fire and Police Training Programs, which will enhance the accessibility of these educational curriculums to the residents and employees of the Project Area and the community. Additionally, the visibility of the Fire and Police Training Facility in the community will enhance the City's efforts towards crime and fire prevention, and will provide a local facility where the City's police and fire officers can enhance their skills and capabilities. This is all consistent with the City's redevelopment program intent. . 8-4 Page 8 of 14