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PrOl!ram Hil!hlil!hts The 2005-2006 fiscal year budget wiU enable the City to fulfiU its purpose of providing quality service to enhance the safety, livability and prosperity of our community. m light of this purpose, this budget emphasizes public safety, quality development standards, effective community-driven code enforcement, and a positive partnership with the business and educational communities as its external priorities; while quality customer service and sound internal systems serve as internal priorities. Given these objectives, in 2005-2006 the City will: · Continue to offer programs and services to provide youth with supervised, positive after school experiences; · Provide additional leisure time opportunities to residents by increasing the number of self- sustaining adult and youth classes; · Conclude the $1.5 million major renovation of the El Salvador Park Recreation Center and complete design and begin construction of the $2.5 million renovation of the Jerome Recreation Center; · Design and construct the Delhi Neighborhood street improvements and coordinate the design and construction of landscape park improvements at Delhi Park; · Begin construction of the Edinger Avenue Widening Proj ect between Ritchey Street and Redhill Avenue; complete acquisition for intersection improvements at Fairview and MacArthur and begin design for the expansion of the First Street Bridge from four to six lanes; · Allocate $4.2 million to begin the reconstruction of three major arterials: McFadden Avenue, Broadway Avenue and Civic Center Drive; · Begin design for the reconstruetion of portions of 12 arterials: Bristol, Edinger, First, Flower, Fourth, Main Santa Clara, Segerstrom, Seventeenth, Standard Tustin and Warner; · Invest in upgrading and replacing critical infrastructure components by dedicating $2.3 million in capital improvements through the Sewer Enterprise and $2.5 million in water system improvements; · Enhance the development of both the Main Street Corridor and the Museum District by facilitating the construction of the grant and privately funded, 30,000 square foot expansion of the Bowers Museum and the groundbreaking for a mixed-use development project with 44 courtyard residential units above neighborhood-serving retail uses fronting on Main Street; · Continue efforts to attract artists, quality restaurants, appropriate retail amenities, and complementary development in the Artists Village; · Prepare new parking and development standards for the Downtown residential projects; · Support the City's economic base by facilitating the expansion and redesign of the Main Place Mall; 2 Resolution No. eRA 2005-003 Page 9 of 22