HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 03051985 - 1.36 TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Contra a
Ida Daniel Berk, Director, Community Services Department Costa
DATE: March 5, 1985 County
SUBJECT: Approval of Head Start Expansion Grant Application
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATIONS) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
REQUEST:
APPROVE submission of an application to the Department of Health and
Human Services in the amount of $224,080 federal and $56,000 non federal share
for expansion of the County Head Start program to serve an additional sixty (60)
children in the West Contra Costa County area, and AUTHORIZE the Director,
Community Services Department, to execute appropriate application documents.
BACKGROUND:
For fiscal year 1985 the federal government has allocated $29,400,000 for the
purpose of providing services to an additional 14,000 children nationwide. Existing
and prospective Head Start agencies are invited to submit applications, on a competing
basis, to expand Head Start services in local areas.
The local Head Start program proposes to expand services to areas of the County's
unserved population in the West County area. If funded, this grant will serve an
additional forty children in the San Pablo area and provide services for twenty
Native American and Southeast Asians, presently not served by the existing programs.
If funded, the program would be expected to begin operation in September and
continue indefinitely as a portion of the total County Head Start Project.
The Head Start Policy Council approved submission of the application on
February 26, 1985. Application must be .postmarked by March 11 , 1985, for consideration
of funding.
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Auditor-Controller
Comtminit SerViCeS PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF j
y SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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