Title
Resolution to amend the Fiscal Year 2025 Council Approved Budget to Accept and Appropriate the 2024-2025 Foster Grandparent Program Grant Amendment Awarded by the Corporation for National and Community Services (CNCS).
Purpose
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
The Hampton Department of Human Services (HDHS) was awarded the first Corporation for National and Community Services (CNCS) grant in 1972. HDHS has received this grant each year since then. The CNCS's mission is to provide government agencies federal funds to improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic participation through services and volunteers. Programs provided through CNCS include the Senior Corps, which incorporates the long standing Foster Grandparents Volunteer Program.
The Foster Grandparent Program provides a way for volunteers 55 and over to stay active serving children and youth in their communities.
The Foster Grandparent Program on the Peninsula serves the cities of Hampton, Newport News, Williamsburg, and the counties of York and James City.
Discussion:
The Corporation for National and Community Services (CNCS) is an independent, federal grant - making government agency, whose mission is to improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic participation through services and volunteers. For over 21 years, CNCS through its programs-Senior Corps, Ameri Corp, Volunteer Generational Fund (VGF) and Social Innovation Fund (SIF)-has helped to engage millions of citizens in meeting community and national challenges through services and volunteer action. CNCS provides grants to national and local non-profits, schools, government agencies, faith-based and other community organizations, and other groups committed to strengthening their community through volunteering.
The Senior Corps incorporates the long standing Foster Grandparent Volunteer Program. The foster grandparents serve as role models, mentors, and friends to children, where the personal attention helps our young people mature and gain confidence to become full and productive members of society.
Continuation of the Peninsula Foster Grandparent Program will ensure the active eighty foster grandparents (105 available slots) will provide services to children, building positive relationships across generations. Foster grandparents serve in community organizations such as schools, child care centers, and the Boys and Girls Club.
Impact:
The grant encompasses three (3) funding sources, (1) an award of federal funds from CNCS in the amount of $435,633, (2) a contribution from the City of Newport News in the amount of $20,000, and (3) a City of Hampton Virginia ("the City") contribution of $69,770 to be funded through a specific appropriation of the general Grant matching Funds.
Recommendation:
Approve and Appropriate.
Body
WHEREAS, the Corporation for National and Community Services (CNCS) has awarded an independent federal grant to the City of Hampton Virginia ("the City"), a 2024-2025 Foster Grandparent Program Grant in the amount of $435,663;
WHEREAS, the Foster Grandparent Program Grant award requires a local cash match of $69,770:
WHEREAS, the City of Newport News contributes a cash match of $20,000;
WHEREAS, the combined funds of the Foster Grandparent Program Grant award, the required City of Hampton local cash match and City of Newport News cash match, which totals $525,433, will be used by the Hampton Department of Human Services to fund the salary and fringe benefits cost of two (2) permanent full-time (PFT) positions and one (1) When Actually Employed (WAE) position, along with the cost for supportive services for operational costs and stipends for the foster grandparents who are dedicated to being role models, mentors ,and friends to children with exceptional needs; and
WHEREAS, the grant award is for the period of July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Hampton, Virginia hereby amends its Fiscal Year 2025 Council Approved Budget to (1) accept and appropriate the Foster Grandparent Program independent federal funds in the amount of $435,663, and any supplemental funding, to the Grant Fund; (2) accept and appropriate $20,000 from the City of Newport News, and (3) approve the transfer of $69,770 from Departmental Support - Grant to the Grant Fund for the purpose of funding the salary and fringe benefits cost for two (2) permanent full-time and one (1) When Actually Employed ("WAE") position, and the program's operational cost and stipends for the foster grandparents.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Hampton, Virginia authorizes the City Manager, or her designee, to take any and all actions necessary to implement this grant award.