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APPROPRIATION <br />Teensight Program <br />$20,000 <br />WHEREAS, FOCUS of Charlottesville/Albemarle, through its <br />Teensight program, provides employment and training services to <br />young people in Charlottesville; and <br />WHEREAS, due to severe cuts in federal funding, the Teensight <br />program will lose $184,000 in program funds for fiscal year <br />1995-1996; and <br />WHEREAS, Alicia Lugo, Project Director of Teensight, has <br />requested emergency funding of $20,000 to fulfill its commitments <br />to 53 youths under its two-year contract with the Piedmont Job <br />Training Administration; and <br />• WHEREAS, Teensight staff will continue to search for <br />alternative sources of funding to continue the program; now, <br />therefore, <br />BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, <br />Virginia, that the sum of $20,000.00 is hereby appropriated as a <br />grant to the TeenSight program from expenditure account 05-010- <br />031020-53199 for the above -stated reasons. <br />Approved by Council <br />June 14, 1/ C_&/ <br />}y/ <br />_&" <br />rk of City Council <br />Is <br />