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Item No: 8 <br />Meeting Date: July 9, 2009 <br />Type of Business: Work Session <br />Administrator Review: ____ <br /> <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: Discuss Potential Projects to Receive Funding Through <br />Bethlehem Baptist Church Donation <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, <br />they envisioned the fund to be used to help meet certain community needs jointly <br />identified by the city and the Church that would be “in harmony” with their mission and <br />values. <br /> <br />Discussion <br /> <br />The Church made a donation in the amount of $16,561 earlier this year which the <br />Council accepted on April 13. Representatives from the City, the Community Center <br />and the Park & Rec Commission will be meeting with representatives from Bethlehem <br />later this month on July 29 to discuss possible projects for funding with their second half <br />donation. Prior to having this meeting, I wanted to have the City Council consider <br />potential projects for funding and have asked the Park and Recreation Commission to <br />do the same thing. (The Parks, Recreation and Forestry Commission will be meeting <br />on July 23rd.) Below is a partial list of projects and programs which have benefitted from <br />BBC donations in the past: <br /> <br />• Trailway project (benches, lighting, landscaping) <br />• Backstop & Fence at Silverview Park <br />• Landscaping around the Co. Rd 10 gateway signs <br />• YMCA’s Y-Partners program <br />• YMCA’s Club Mid program <br />• MVCC Audio / Video needs <br />• Miscellaneous park improvements <br />• Festival in the Park <br />• Mounds View School District’s SAIL and STAND programs <br />• DARE program, <br />• Irondale High School athletics <br />• Community Emergency Assistance Program <br />• Economic Development activities <br />