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NEIGHBORHOOD PARK PLANNING FUND GUIDELINES •iPURPOSE The purpose of the neighborhood park development and planning fund is to encourage , promote and assist local residents, neigh- borhood onganizations, and civic groups in the establishment and development of local park projects from a both financial and in- kind labor perspective . OBJECTIVES 1 . To establish, develop and create other neighborhood park planning councils using the Groveland Park Foundation as a model . 2. The neighborhood park planning fund will not expend more than 50% of the available monies on an annual basis in each of the three established and separate accounts. 3 . There will be three separate accounts established for dissem- inating neighborhood park planning funds : a. Initial or seed money account will consist of 15% of the total fund . This account will be utilized for developing new neighborhood park planning councils and first time projects proposed by local neighborhood residents , organ- izations and/or civic groups. The grant monies from this account need only be matched by an equivalent of inkind labor from the sponsoring group. • b. Short term projects. The short term project fund will not exceed 60% of the total fund balance at any time . Short term projects are those projects defined as those having a budgeted dollar amount of less that $5 ,000 and will be completed within a one year period. All short term projects are required to be matched by an equal amount of funds from the sponsoring agency or group. c . Long term project. This account will not exceed 25% of the neighborhood park planning fund and will consist of projects exceeding a $5 ,000 budgeted amount. The project should be planned with a minimum of one year involvement by the proposed group or organization and needs to be matched on a 50% cash basis and 50% inkind labor and/or materials. GUIDELINES 1 . The neighborhood park planning fund project requests will be reviewed on an individual project basis and applications may be submitted to the Parks and Recreation Commission throughout the year. All applications must be submitted on the official application form and be received at least one week prior to the regularly scheduled Parks and Recreation Commission meeting for review at their following meeting . 2 . The neighborhood park planning fund monies are available for all neighborhood parks within this system excluding Silver View Community Park and the two school park locations, Edge- wood and Pinewood Elementary School .