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SIEMPRE VERDE PARK IMPROVEMENT COMMUNITY MEETINGS The City of San Leandro has several meetings scheduled; dates are on attached flier. We strongly encourage you to attend any and all of the meetings. We also ask you to invite and encourage your friends, neighbors and family to attend and participate. The meetings will be completely interactive. The participants will be designing the park from top to bottom. Snacks will be served and Spanish translation will be available. This is a tremendous grant opportunity that may make Siempre Verde Park revitalization a reality. Proposition 84, the statewide "Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood control, River and Coastal protection Bond Act of 2006" contains a provision to provide $400 million for competitive grants for local and regional parks. The funding for this new competitive grant program, known as the "Statewide Park development and Community Revitalization Program of 2008", was delayed due to the State's 2009 bond freeze. However, Round One of this funding has been announced, offering the City an opportunity to compete with other cities, counties and districts for a portion of the initial $184,000,000 in grant funding. Although several sites throughout the City were analyzed; Siempre Verde was selected based on most closely fitting the requirements of the grant. One of the requirements of the grant is that the site location meet the criteria of having a critical lack of park space. Siempre Verde Park is located in an area that meets the criteria at .35 acres per 1,000 residents within a %: mile radius of the site. Also, the state requires that the project is a "grass roots" effort. Siempre Verde is a park that has had significant neighborhood involvement over the past several years in looking for solutions to many problems including noise, litter and inappropriate behavior. Over the years the residents have met with and worked with City staff from the Police, Recreation and Human Services, Engineering and Transportation and Public Works departments in helping to develop and implement strategies to make the park a safe, beautiful, welcoming multi-use park. Their grass roots effort to improve the park over the last several years will strengthen the community outreach and input process and, thereby the competitiveness of our application. In order to ensure we design the park so that it meets the needs of a diverse and changing community, and, in order to strengthen our chances of receiving funding, we need as much public participation as possible! We need input and participation from all park users. For more information contact Carolyn Knudtson, Director of Recreation and Human Services at 577- 3466; or email her at cknudtson@ci.san-leandro.ca.us