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., RESOLUTION NO 93-125C STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF RAMSEY CITY OF NEW. BRIGHTON RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING APPLICATION FOR BOARD OF GOVERNMENT INNOVATION AND COOPERATION GRANT; SERVICE BUDGET MANAGEMENT MODEL GRANT Whereas, the 1993 Minnesota State Legislature approved a $1.2 million grant fund for local units of government to plan and implement cooperative and service sharing projects; Whereas, the money will be awarded to the most innovative proposals; those that cannot be addressed locally because of some of the special and excessive costs to plan a cooperative arrangement or provide a prototype for other governments to follow to institute comparable changes; Whereas, the City of New Brighton and Mounds View School District #621 have agreed to build a "Family Service Center" to house services for families and youth offered by the schools, the City, and various nonprofit social service agencies including Northwest Youth and Family Services; Whereas, respondents to the 1992 community survey, said youth services and activities were an important need in the community; and recreation staff have long felt teenagers were a segment of our community who were underserved due to space and resources; and the Police Department has begun to deal with criminal and destructive activities on the part of larger numbers of teens with inadequate supervision and idle time; Whereas, the participants in the "Family Service Center" have all agreed and expressed their interest in working as a partnership to serve youth in the center's services and programs because: teens need someplace to "hang out", teens don't need "programming" they need activities and resources they can participate in or access at a moments notice, someone needs to listen to teens to find out what they want to do and what help they need and assist them in organizing it, and teens are attracted to and excel at opportunities where they can be the "expert" or gain employment skills and earn money or something of value; Whereas, the vision is to hire a youth advocate to coordinate the services and determine the activities and resources through a youth advisory board; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and Council of the City of New Brighton authorize staff, and support their efforts, to apply for a $50,000 service budget management model grant to develop the youth advocate project. Adopted this 26th day of Octobar, 1993. 'J. ...... ~A~ '. ~ /7 (,/11' . . .. ..' J:t~/) ////1,,(,/tl/l/l . !(J't ,'..' (l / Barbara JeanettJ---' . '. , Acting City ~nag~r ATTEST:- " .0/ .,.--,,/~