Title
Request to Award Grant Funding to A New Leaf, Inc. for the Phoenix Day Janis Merrill Education Center (Ordinance S-50349)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to issue a grant award and enter into an agreement with A New Leaf, Inc. to provide supplemental funding for their Phoenix Day Janis Merrill Education Center. The award will not exceed $250,000. Further request to authorize the City Controller to disburse all funds related to this item.
Report
Summary
A New Leaf, Inc. is a nonprofit organization providing a broad spectrum of support services to help individuals and families in need. The Phoenix Day Janis Merrill Education Center is a bilingual early childhood education program serving children six weeks to five years of age. It utilizes a child-centered, emergent curriculum as its approach to early learning. The curriculum is based on developmentally appropriate practice focused on skill development in all five domains of child development, including social, emotional, cognitive, language, literacy, adaptive, self-help, and physical areas of development through a well-rounded methodology focused on school readiness.
Contract Term
The contract term will begin on or about July 1, 2023, for a one-year term with no options to extend.
Financial Impact
The grant award shall not exceed $250,000. Funding is available from the 2023-24 Annual Budget.
Concurrence/Previous Council Action
On May 31, 2023, Ordinance S-49709 authorized the adoption of the tentative 2023-24 Annual Budget.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Gina Montes and the Human Services Department.