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Item No: 7E <br />Meeting Date: August 25, 2008 <br />Type of Business: CB <br />Administrator Review: ____ <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: James Ericson, Clerk - Administrator <br />Item Title/Subject: Resolution 7322 Accepting a Donation from Bethlehem <br />Baptist Church <br /> <br />Background <br /> <br />Bethlehem Baptist Church purchased the building located at 5151 Program Avenue in <br />2004 and received City zoning approval to renovate the former office / warehouse <br />space for church usage. At this same time, the Church expressed its desire to sponsor <br />and support worthy community endeavors and thus created the Mounds View Service <br />Project Fund pledging annual donations totaling $25,000. According to the Church they <br />envisioned the fund to be used to help meet certain community needs jointly identified <br />by the city and the church that would be “in harmony” with their mission and values. <br />Previous donations have funded Mounds View park improvements, the YMCA’s Y <br />Partners program, the Mounds View Festival in the Park, the Mounds View School <br />District’s SAIL and STAND programs, the DARE program, Irondale High School <br />athletics and CEAP—the Community Emergency Assistance Program—among others. <br /> <br />Discussion <br /> <br />At the February 25, 2008 City Council meeting, the Council accepted the first-half <br />donation from Bethlehem as proposed by the Church, which distributed funds to the <br />Festival in the Park, the YMCA’s Y-Partner’s Program, non-specific park improvement <br />projects and supported the economic development climate of the community. <br /> <br />On July 25th of this year, I met with Pastor Dan Holst and Jon Granno from BBC along <br />with Steve Dazenski and Parks and Recreation Commissioner Cindy Palm to discuss <br />potential funding needs for the second half donation. (Pat Riemersma from the YMCA <br />was invited to this meeting but did not attend.) The second half donation which has <br />already been delivered to the City is proposed to be distributed as follows: <br /> <br /> Silver View Park improvement projects $10,000.00 <br /> Ralph Reeder Food Shelf $3,530.50 <br /> Economic Development $2,706.00 <br /> Total second half donation: $16,236.50 <br /> <br />Recommendation: <br /> <br />Attached for your consideration is Resolution 7322, a resolution which accepts the <br />donation from Bethlehem Baptist Church in the amount of $16,236.50 and authorizes <br />the distribution of the donation according to the Church’s recommendations.