Authorizing the Mayor to submit to the Community Services Administration, an application for Summer Youth Recreation Funds

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E. RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES The Summer Youth Recreation Program offers a minimum of approximately 3,000 opportunities of participation for disadvantaged youngsters. However, the city anticipates that at least 15,000 persons will benefit from the program. F. RESULTS AND BENEFITS The Summer Youth Recreation Program will benefit the entire community by allowing the expansion of recreation services for disadvantaged youngsters who are too young to secure employment. The expansion of leisure time activities will permit the city to address the long recognized need of comprehensive summertime recreational alternatives for disadvantaged youngsters of our community. G. PROGRAM COORDINATION The Department of Human Resources, the grantee's designated administrative agent, will coordinate the Summer Youth Recreation program with each agency listed below: 1. A.C.T.I.O.N., Inc. 2. Department of Public Recreation 3. Bureau of Employment and Training 4. Bureau of Planning, Grants and Evaluation 5. Youth Services Bureau 6. Hansel Neighborhood Service Center 7. YMCA The Department maintains on -going contact with these agencies in order to relate the city's delivery of social services to the activities of these agencies. The involvement of listed agencies in the program will insure smooth program coordination. H. CLIENT SELECTION The responsibility of client selection for the Summer Youth Recreation Program will be delegated to each execution agency. Each agency will be required to assure the city that it has developed an adequate screening system to insure that Summer Youth Recreation Projects reach low- income persons. Additionally, ACTION, Inc. and the Bureau of Employment and Training will utilize their outreach capacities to recruit clients for all activities. The Department of human Resources will closely monitor delegate agency performance in the selection process. Should problems develop, the city will immediately mandate corrective actions.