93-022 - 03-16 Support Brooklyn Park Head Start FacilityResolution 93-22
March 16, 1993
Member Johnson introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT FOR
BROOKLYN PARK HEAD START FACILITY
WHEREAS, the ten cities of northwest Hennepin County served by Parents in
Community Action (PICA) - (Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Champlin, Crystal,
Golden Valley, Maple Grove, New Hope, Osseo, Plymouth and Robbinsdale) are
working together with Success by 6@ Northwest and with PICA to bring a Head Start
site into northwest Hennepin; and
WHEREAS, Parents in Community Action (PICA) operates three Head Start sites
which are located in South Minneapolis (McKnight), Richfield and North
Minneapolis (Grant Park), no Head Start site currently exists in northwest
Hennepin County; and
WHEREAS, 197 northwest suburban children are currently being served by PICA
in north Minneapolis, however an estimated 1,588 are eligible; and
WHEREAS, research shows that $6 are saved for every $1 spent on preventive
early childhood programs such as Head Start; and
WHEREAS, the City of Brooklyn Park has agreed to a long term lease of their
old city hall at $1 per year as a resource center housing Head Start and other
early childhood programs; and
WHEREAS, the City of Minneapolis has donated $6,000,000 (six million
dollars) to the Grant Park Head Start site and requests that Minneapolis
children be given priority for services; and
WHEREAS, Head Start is strongly supported by the state Legislature, which
has provided increases to serve underserved areas; and
WHEREAS, this is a federally funded program that covers mostly
"operational" costs, with very little money to cover capital expenditures; and
WHEREAS, our children are being transported to the north and south
Minneapolis facilities; and
WHEREAS, this new facility is at capacity, with Minneapolis children
waiting for space that currently is occupied by children from northwest Hennepin
County; and
WHEREAS, a suburban Head Start Access Task Force formed by the three human
service councils and Community Action for Suburban Hennepin County (CASH) has
been trying for five years to find a way to improve the accessibility and
availability of Head Start services for suburban children; and
Resolution 93-22 - Continued
March 16, 1993
WHEREAS, the Head Start Site Selection Committee and PICA, after
inspecting 13 potential Head Start sites in northwest Hennepin County, chose the
old Brooklyn Park city hall as the site that would most easily meet federal
Head Start performance standards, state licensing requirements and all building
codes.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Golden Valley will contri-
bute a total of $5,000 in 1993, to support renovation of the City of Brooklyn
Park's previous city hall, at 5800 - 85th Avenue North, to meet the needs of the
Head Start program.
ATTEST:
S irley J6 Nblsbn, City Clerk
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was seconded by Member
Russell; and upon a vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor
thereof: Bakken, Johnson, Russell, Stockman; and the following voted against the
same: Thompson; whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted,
signed by the Mayor and his signature attested by the City Clerk.