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Palm Beach County commissioners approve a $4,000 request by Boca Raton Promise
July 13th, 2008
By John Johnston
Managing Editor
Palm Beach County commissioners have approved $4,000 toward funding the Boca Raton Promise spring break creative arts workshop, held at Boca Raton Community Middle School during the 2008 Palm Beach County School District spring break.
Commissioners said Boca Raton's Promise -The Alliance for Youth, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation “that engages volunteers in providing youth resources and assesses and provides resources to youth in the greater Boca Raton area to enable them to achieve happy, healthy, and productive lives.”
With a goal of increasing communication and understanding between generations, commissioners said the workshop served approximately 22 youth performers, 120 youth participants, and 30 senior citizen participants, and consisted of one week of intensive training to assist youth in creating a theatrical show for families and the community.
The workshop cost approximately $6,800 for contractual services, personnel costs, program expenses, and other miscellaneous expenses, said commissioners. Funding will come from the
District 4 Recreation Assistance Program (RAP) fund.
Other Business
In other recent business commissioners:
- Approved a $2,500 RAP funds request to fund Project Graduation 2008 at Boca Raton Community High School.
- Approved an easement in favor of Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department to provide water service to the county's new Hagen Ranch Road Library in western Delray Beach. Commissioners said the county has completed construction of the library, located on the east side of Hagen Ranch Road, approximately one mile north of Atlantic Avenue. The development required several easements to provide notice of the existence and location of water main pipes, said commissioners.
- Approved a reclaimed water service – lake discharge irrigation system agreement with Gleneagles Country Club, Inc in District 5. Commissioners said the recent expansion of the Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department’s reclaimed water system provides the opportunity for existing developments to install infrastructure to convey reclaimed water into a development’s lakes for subsequent irrigation through the development’s irrigation system.
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