TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Jeffrey L. Oris, CEcD, Assistant City Manager
THROUGH: Terrence R. Moore, ICMA-CM
DATE: July 16, 2024
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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 6 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 group 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
current funding):
A. Friends of Sandoway House Nature Center ($31,200)
B. Boys & Girls Club of Palm Beach County ($25,000)
C. Achievement Center for Children and Families
1. To Support Achievement Center Programming ($81,000)
2. Pine Grove Elementary and Village Academy ($62,000)
D. Delray Beach Historical Society ($100,000)
E. Spady Cultural Heritage Museum ($50,000)
F. The Delray Beach Public Library*
1. Allocation to the Library ($1,633,152)
2. Share of parking operations and maintenance to PB County ($34,271.55)
* - The Library's funding agreement governs an annual allocation granted to the library (not a pre-set amount) through the City's annual budget. The agreement also provides for the City will pay the Library's portion of the costs of operations and maintenance of the South County Courthouse parking facilities (an amount equal to 30% of the County's annual cost - thi...
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