TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Jeffrey L. Oris, CEcD, Assistant City Manager
THROUGH: Terrence R. Moore, ICMA-CM
DATE: August 11, 2026
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ANNUAL PRESENTATIONS BY CITY-FUNDED, NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
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Recommended Action:
Recommendation
Allow each organization to make their presentation and ask questions of each as the Commissioners deem appropriate.
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Background:
Each year during a budget workshop, the non-profit organizations that have on-going funding agreements with the City are asked to present to the Commission regarding their achievements during the past year and to discuss these accomplishments and future endeavors. To this end, staff has reached out to the 8 non-profits that currently receive funding and have asked them to prepare such a presentation along with anything else they would like to share or discuss with the Commission.
Each organization has been asked to prepare for a 10 minute presentation and a roughly 5 minute question and answer session.
The presentations have been scheduled in the following order (with the amount of the organization's funding in the current FY):
A. Delray Rocks*
1. Grant for expenses ($100,000)
2. Waived Special Event Fees ($45,859)
B. Boys & Girls Club of Palm Beach County ($25,000)
C. Spady Cultural Heritage Museum ($159,000)
D. Achievement Center for Children and Families
1. To Support Achievement Center Programming ($81,000)
2. Pine Grove Elementary and Village Academy ($62,000)
E. Delray City Collaborative D.B.A Arts Garage ($275,000)
F. Delray Beach Historical Society ($200,000).
G. Friends of Sandoway House Nature Center ($31,200)
H. The Delray Beach Public Library**
1. Allocation to the Library ($2,229,141)
2. Share of parking operations and maintenance to PB County ($44,487)
* - Delray Rocks receives a grant for expenses and their events have been treated as a partnership with the City in which the City has covered 100% of the costs associated with their events (their games). Th...
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