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State LECFTF Funding for Corner Drug Store Interface Youth Program and Spotlight on Youth Campaign (B)
This item requests that the City Commission appropriate and expend funds from the State Law Enforcement Contraband Forfeiture Fund for the Corner Drug Store Interface Youth Program and Spotlight on Youth campaign
Explanation
The annual Spotlight on Youth fundraiser is a unique program that features talented youth throughout Gainesville/Alachua County and exhibits their artistic talents in one gala event held annually at the University Performing Arts Center. LECFTF of an amount not to exceed $5,000 will be used to enhance services in the Interface Youth Program/Shelter Central for at-risk youth who are in the early stages of system penetration and may be diverted from incarceration. The facility is a twenty bed operation that provides short-term residential care to truants, runaways, and ungovernable youth. Tickets for under-privileged youth to attend the gala will be issued at no cost and credited as compliments of the Gainesville Police Department.
Fiscal Impact
Funds in an amount not to exceed $5,000 for this project are available in the State Law Enforcement Contraband Forfeiture Trust Fund and is allowable per Federal 21 U.S.C. ยง 881, found in the U.S. Department of Justice "A Guide to Equitable Sharing of Federally Forfeited Property for State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies." Available balance is $114,974.00.
Recommendation
The City Commission authorize the appropriation of an amount not to exceed $5,000 from the State Law Enforcement Contraband Forfeiture Trust Fund, for the Corner Drug Store Interface Youth Program and Spotlight on Youth campaign.
Alternative Recommendation A: The City Commission decline the appropriation and advise staff to not fund the request from the Corner Drug Store. There is no fiscal impact.