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EXHIBIT "A" CITY OF COLTON CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Project Proposal Applications 1. City of Colton Community Services Department — Colton Public Library: "Adult and Youth Literacy Program," $13,000. The Colton Public Library seeks CDBG funding to provide literary services. Professional staff will maintain adult and youth literacy services at the Main Library, Luque Branch and Homework Assistance Center. The library literacy programs will serve the basic needs of functionally illiterate adults and provide literacy education to youth in the Colton area. Adults and youth will be educated to succeed in everyday life skills. Adults will learn basic reading and writing skills to improve their social and occupational environments. Youth will be instructed in homework assistance to succeed in school to further their education. The Colton Public Library proposes to use CDBG funds to pay salary for one part-time literacy assistant to provide specialized literacy services to adults and youth. By maintaining an established literacy program that recruits volunteers and helps adults and youth with literacy skills, the library can address an urgent community need in as cost effective a manner as possible. 2. City of Colton Police Department Colton Police Activities League: "Colton Police Activities League," $37,700. The Colton Police Activities League (PAL) is requesting CDBG funds to provide activities to youth to avoid juvenile crime during non -school hours and weekends, and to educate parents and teens on how to cope with family problems. Colton PAL is organized as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, sponsored by the Colton Police Department to serve at -risk youth ages 8 to 8 who reside in the City of Colton. Coordinated by police officers and citizen v9lunteers, PAL teams the police officers and volunteers with at -risk youth in non- threatening, sports oriented programs, geared toward keeping the juveniles away from negative, possibly criminal influences. Such criminal influences are prevalent in low - and moderate -income neighborhoods. Colton PAL anticipates beginning an after school program directed toward at -risk boys and girls who are unable to participate in traditional for -fee programs. Colton PAL expects to continue to offer boxing classes designed to teach discipline and self-esteem while building and strengthening their character. Colton PAL will provide three Parent Project classes, two in English and one in Spanish, which will include a Teen Project component dealing with troubled youth. Colton PAL will sponsor youths in a boot camp CART (Colton At Risk Teen) program. Upon the identification of youth leaders involved in the program, a youth director and council will be established to follow the youth to develop their leadership skills while determining the future direction and focus of the Colton PAL program.