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City Lights Skate Park and Dream Center ($10,000): City Lights Skate Park and Dream Center was established in 1992 in Santa Ana to provide opportunities for young people to become involved in sports as an alternative to joining gangs. The City Lights Dream Center is currently hosting clinics to teach inner city kids about the benefits involved in the skating world. Pastor Chris, along with the support and contacts of his nephew, professional skater Christian Hosoi, has built an entire skate park in the lot behind the Ross Street building. These funds will be used to provide industrial lighting in the skate park. Santa Ana YMCA Soccer /Sports Field ($100,000): The Santa Ana YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) is currently in the process of being built at 2100 W. Alton Parkway at Armstrong Ranch, a development that features a high school, single family homes, and a future church. The Santa Ana YMCA will be a place for thousands of youth who attend school nearby to explore possibilities in a nurturing and positive environment. There are 80,000 youth under 18 within 3 miles of the site, and eight K -12 schools with 12,000 students within 1.5 miles. These funds will go toward the building of a new soccer /sports field which will provide access to hundreds more youth who are turned away from soccer programs due to lack of fields and resources. Hoover Elementary School Playground Upgrade ($55,661): Hoover Elementary School in Santa Ana services almost 900 students, 88% of whom are eligible for discounted lunches. Hoover Elementary is in need of completing its playground upgrade and will purchase and install a playcraft structure in its playground. Funds will go to the Santa Ana Unified School District for completion of this project. Lien Doan Outdoor Equipment Upgrade (Boy Scout/Girl Scout Troop 680) ($14,000): Lien Doan Huong Dao Truong Son provides quality year -round programs for young children within Orange County. Over 1,000 youth and their families have been served since 1980 by this organization and currently over 150 boys and girls are members of this scout troop. Boys and girls between seven and 18 years old are introduced to scouting principles and practices such as serving society and helping others. These funds will allow this troop to purchase outdoor equipment and pay the required fees associated with outdoor activities no more than three times prior to December 31, 2008. H. Louis Lake Senior Center Outdoor Fitness Equipment ($30,000): The H. Louis Lake Senior Center in Garden Grove offers seniors 50 years and older a multitude of services and activities. The Center is an active participant Senior Citizen's Center. The Center offers many volunteer opportunities, activities, travel opportunities, classes (some in conjunction with Garden Grove Unified School District), holiday parties, sports and special events. The funds will go toward purchasing seven to eight pieces of outdoor fitness equipment for the City of Garden Grove open space park area near the H. Louis Lake Senior Center. Proximity to the Senior Center would allow staff to conduct fitness programs for the seniors. Staff would also be able to teach seniors to use the equipment on their own, and encourage its use on a regular basis to support healthy aging of Center participants. Funds will go to the City of Garden Grove for completion of this project. The Performing Arts Guild of Orange County Barrier Free Upgrades ($100,000): The Performing Arts Guild of Orange County was founded as a 501 (c) (3) non - profit organization and built on the belief that music and the arts are a vital necessity in our community, which should also be available to people of all levels of ability and disability. The Performing Arts Guild's mission is to develop a set of full functioning facilities in our local communities to provide innovative and affordable training of the major performing arts for all students. The Performing Arts Guild operates in music studios and classrooms in Santa Ana. The funds will help make these studios and classrooms barrier free in compliance with the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) so that students of all physical ability levels can be appropriately served. The music equipment, rehearsal facility and recording training studios will also need to be retrofitted to accommodate ADA requirements. Page 5