DATE: June 17, 2025
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Director of Library Services
SUBJECT
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Adopt a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute the Hayward Promise Neighborhoods (HPN) One (1) Year Contract; Accept and Appropriate Up to $150,000 in Congressionally Funded Community Project Funding for South Hayward Promise Neighborhoods Partners for Calendar Year 2025; and Execute an Agreement with Ross McDonald Co., Inc.
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
That Council adopts a resolution (Attachment I) authorizing the City Manager to:
1.) Execute the Hayward Promise Neighborhoods (HPN) one (1) year contract totaling up to $150,000 for Calendar Year 2025. No match funding required; and to
2.) Accept and appropriate up to $150,000 in funding from HPN for Calendar Year 2025.
3.) Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a single source agreement with Ross McDonald Co., Inc. to provide customized library furniture and shelving in the amount not to exceed $150,000.
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SUMMARY
The Promise Neighborhoods Initiative was established under the federal legislative authority of the Fund for the Improvement of Education (FIE) program. Started during the Obama administration, the vision of the initiative is to make it possible for all children, youth, and young adults growing up and being educated in “Promise Neighborhoods” to have access to high quality schools and strong systems of family and community support.
In January of 2023, Council was made aware that the U.S. Department of Education awarded the Hayward Promise Neighborhoods (HPN) consortium a new $30 million (5) five-year grant ($6 Million per year for five calendar years 2023 through 2027) to expand their decade-long South Hayward focused initiative to serve Downtown Hayward and the surrounding communities along the A St. and Mission Blvd. corridors. HPN works through an extensive partnership of community organizations to serve the community. Starting in 2025, the South Hayward HPN partners had the opportunity to request Congressional funding up to $150,000. These funds have been approved to be used towards the Weekes renovation project.
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment I Staff Report
Attachment II Resolution