65C - COMM ENHANCEMENT PROG GRANT

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Academy of International Dance - Healthy Lifestyle Rank: 28 Strategic Plan Alignment: *Goal 5 Objective 5c Score: 75.2% Funding Request: $ 20,000 The Academy of International Dance's Healthy Lifestyle program educates and motivates families about eating nutritious meals, exercising regularly and learning about health topics through dance. Parents of the academy will be given excellent health and nutrition seminars yearly. Students will attend a special dance acting class that will empower them to take care of their bodies and minds. In order to fully embed what the parents and students learned in class or the seminars, they will be given illustrated reading material to study and short quizzes pertaining to the information they receive. Community Engagement, Inc. - Una Vuelta a la Manzana /Once Around the Block Rank: 29 Strategic Plan Alignment: Goal 5 Objective 4b Score: 74.8% Funding Request: $ 125,000 Una Vuelta a la Manzana /Once Around the Block is a program in which residents in our 64 Santa Ana neighborhoods will come together over 6 months to organize and throw 64 neighborhood block parties across the City of Santa Ana. These community events will be a mechanism to inspire community building since engagements like block parties have been shown to provides a casual and relaxed setting where residents can meet, play, eat and hopefully find similarities that bring them closer together. Friends of the Santa Ana Public Library - Children's Patio Enhancement Rank: 30 Strategic Plan Alignment: Goal 2 Objective 2a Score: 74.2% Funding Request: $ 90,000 This project will provide 3,000 sq. ft. of additional space to serve Santa Ana children at the Santa Ana Public Library. The project proposes to expand the Children's Patio west of the Main Library. Performance, craft, and reading spaces will be supplemented with raised bed gardens where children may learn about sustainable living and drought tolerant gardening. The result will be a long -term improvement in educational programming available to children in Santa Ana. Orange County Fair Housing Council, Inc. - Tenants' Repair and Deduct Short -Term Loan Program Rank: 31 Strategic Plan Alignment: Goal 5 Objective 4b Score: 74% Funding Request: $ 40,000 California Civil Code Section 1942 provides a remedy to some tenants in need of habitability - related repairs to their unit. The code allows tenants to make repairs deemed necessary to maintain habitability and deduct the cost from the following month's rent. This remedy is typically referred to as "repair and deduct" Before tenants utilize this remedy they have to give the landlord a reasonable opportunity to make such repairs. Additionally, a tenant is limited to use of the remedy to twice in any 12 -month period and to repairs that can be made for no more than one month's rent. Legal services to tenants who might experience retaliation by their landlord will also be provided. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County - High School Bigs- School -Based Mentoring Program Rank: 32 Strategic Plan Alignment: Goal 2 Objective 2a Score: 73.8% Funding Request: $ 25,000 High School Bigs is an after school, site -based mentoring program that works with principals, teachers, and counselors to identify students that need additional academic, social and behavioral support, and high school students that are eager, willing and capable to serve as academic tutors and peer mentors to the elementary students. The program helps to bring one -to -one tutoring and mentoring to youth that may not have families engaged enough to refer their children to our traditional community -based model of mentoring. Pg. 7 65C -13