Item K4BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: August 17, 2011_ Division: Monroe County Sheriff's Office
Bulk Item: Yes X No Department:, Monroe County Sheriff s Office
Staff Contact Person/Phone #: Val Marinello 292-7001
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Request for expenditure from the Law Enforcement Trust Fund
ITEM BACKGROUND:
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PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION:
Have been approved in the past
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES:
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS: Approval
TOTAL COST BUDGETED: Yes X No
COST TO COUNTY: 0.00
Flinn
SOURCE OF FUNDS: Law Enforcement Trust
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes No AMOUNT PER MONTH Year
APPROVED BY: County Atty OMB/Purchasing Risk Management
DOCUMENTATION: Included X Not Required
DISPOSITION: AGENDA ITEM #
Revised 11/06
Sheriff
SUBSTATIONS
Freeman Substation
20950 Overseas Hwy,
Cudjoe Key, FL 33042
(305) 745-3184
FAX (305) 745-3761
Marathon Substation
3103 Overseas Hwy.
Marathon, FL 33050
(305)289-2430
FAX (305) 289-2497
Islamorada Substation
87000Overseas Hwy.
Islamorada, FL 33036
(305) 853-7021
FAX (305) 853-9372
Roth Building
50 High Point Road
Tavernier, FL 33070
(305)853-3211
FAX (305) 853-3205
DETENTION CENTERS
Key West Det. Center
5501 College Road
Key West, FL 33040
(305)293-7300
FAX (305) 293-7353
Marathon Mt. Facility
3981 Ocean Terrace
Marathon, FL 33050
(305) 289-2420
FAX (305) 289-2424
Plantation Det. Facility
53 High Point Road
Plantation Key. FL 33070
(305) 853-3266
FAX (305) 853-3270
SPECIAL OPERATIONS
P.O. Box 500975
Marathon, FL 33050
(305) 289-2410
FAX (305) 289-2498
AVIATION DIVISION
.Monroe County Sheriff's Office
Robert P. Peryam, Sheriff
5525 College Road
Key West, Florida 33040
(305) 292-7000 FAX: (305) 292-7070
1-800-273-COPS
www.keysso.net
July 25, 2011
Mr. Roman Gastesi
County Administrator
CIO Historic Gato Building
1100 Simonton Street
Key West, Florida 33040
RE: REQUEST FOR EXPENDITURES FROM LAW
ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND
Dear Mr. Gastesi:
I would like to request that the Commission authorized the following
expenditures from the Law Enforcement Trust Fund:
$10,000.00 Boys and Girls Club
TOTAL: $10,000.00
I hereby certify that these expenditures are lawful pursuant to the
Florida Contraband Act. There will be no recurring expenses in the
existing budget.
Please feel free to contact my General Counsel, Patrick McCullah, or
me should you have any questions or concerns regarding this request.
Sincerely,
obert P. Peryam
Sheriff of Monroe ounty
10100 Overseas Hwy. RPP:ts
Marathon, FL 33050
(305) 289-2777
FAX (305) 289-2776
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2796 Overseas Hwy.
Marathon, FL 33050 V
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FAX (305) 289-2493 Sm
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Mr. Patrick McCullah
General Counsel
Monroe County Sheriffs Department
5525 College Road
Key West, Fl 33040
Re; Boys and Girls Clubs of the Keys
Dear Mr. McCullah
GRANT RRISSX Mt kf GEMENT
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BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS
OF THE KEYS AREA, INC.
Boys & Girls Clubs
of the Keys Area, Inc.
1400 United Street, Suite 10B
Key West, FL 33040
Tel 305-296-2258
Fax 305-296-4632
Thank you for this opportunity to update your office about our summer program, as well
as our needs.
Boys and Girls Club of Key West Mission: To enable all young people, especially those
who need us the most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible
citizens.
Our summer program in Key West and in Big Pine Ke� is open from 7:45 am until 5:30
pm Monday to Friday. The program began on June 13' and will continue to August 19tn,
the last day before school resumes. We have over 170 children who are members of or
Club in Key West and over 110 in our Club in Big Pine. Our average daily attendance to
date this summer in Key West has been 89 children and in Big Pine we are averaging 47
children a day. There is are no other full time summer programs for school age children
in the Lower Keys and the School District choose not to offer a recreation program at all
this summer. This has left parents with very few options for their children to be
supervised during the summer months.
We are very proud of our summer program and the activities we offer. Each summer we
have offered day trips and overnight camping at Camp Sawyer, fishing on a charter boat,
day trips to Jacob's Aquatic Center, bowling, the movies, Martin Luther King
Community Pool, Higgs Beach, swimming lessons, snorkeling, Community Gardening,
summer reading, computer lab, day trips to local attractions, places of interests and
museums, community service projects, tobacco and alcohol prevention weeks, dancing,
and arts and crafts. We also provide two free USDA snacks a day, breakfast and lunch.
We have a junior staff program and have also collaborated with A Positive Step of
Monroe County to offer local adolescents the opportunity to develop employment skills,
as well as the chance to earn a salary, by assisting us with our summer program. All of
these services are provided to families at no additional charge. I know of no other
summer program in Monroe County that is as diversified, offers free meals,
transportation and is open for as long as we are during the summer.
About 40% of young people's waking hours are discretionary; that are not committed to
activities such as school, homework, meals, chores or working for pay. American youth
spend about 32% of their waking hours in school. Violent juvenile crime triples during
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non school hours/days and it is during these hours that children face the most serious
danger of becoming victims of crime. Unsupervised non school days/hours represent a
period of significant risk in other areas as well, including increased risk of substance
abuse and early sexual activity. This risk is magnified more when the focus of study is on
children from homes of low family income or single parents.
Each day, the Boys and Girls Club offers an array of academic, computer, civic,
environmental, recreation, social and life skills, prevention, drug and alcohol, career
development, dental and health care, money management, health and safety and other
youth development programs and activities. Programs conducted by the Boys and Girls
Club have established both short and long term positive outcomes, such as;
- provide a place where youth are both physically and emotionally safe;
-shaping the character of members' attitudes toward school and the community
(including levels of engagement at school;
-helping youth avoid legal troubles; and
-fostering abstinence from illegal drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and other self -injuring
activities.
-install healthily habits with food choices, education and exercise.
-civic responsibilities with community service projects, recycle programs and
education programs.
Currently, many families in our community are still experiencing economic difficulties.
Information from some local schools serviced by the by the Boys and Girls Club are
evidence of the financial issues many families are facing. Glynn Archer Elementary
School has as alarming 88% of their students receiving free or reduced lunch and at
Horace O'Brien 50% of their students are receiving discounted or free lunches. This is
according to the National Center for Education Statistics. U.S. Dept of Education 2009-
2010 and this is where the bulk of our Club members in Key West attend school. Many
parents have been placed in a situation of having to decide on what bills have to be paid
and which ones can wait or can not get paid. Subsidized child care funding has also been
slashed. It now only provides financial assistance to children 9 years or younger, at one
point it was 12 years or younger. Parents in need of the services offered by Boys and
Girls Club continue to struggle to pay their child care fess each month. Parents are being
forced to contemplate leaving their children home alone while they try to work, having an
older sibling becoming the primary caretaker in the home or even the possibility of giving
up their jobs because they cannot afford childcare expenses. These are all difficult and
dangerous choices that no parent should have to make a decision about. Due to this
reduction in funding and in response to the needs of our community our scholarship
program has increased to the point that over 25% of the children who attend our Clubs in
Key West are now receiving a full scholarship. Our ability to continue to offer these
preventive services to the most at risk children in our community is being threatened by
the economic climate. Currently, over 75% of the children who attend the Boys and Girls
Clubs come from families living at or below the Monroe County poverty level, reside in
single family homes or homes where there is a history of domestic violence, substance
abuse or have a history of parental incarceration or criminal activity. We can not pass
these additional costs on to these families; they simple can not afford them. As it stands
now every child who comes to our Clubs receives some type of financial assistance. This
includes subsidized child care, multi sibling discounts, children over 13 attend free of
charge and our own scholarship program.
We are requesting $10,000 from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office to assist us with the
cost of our summer program. These funds would be used to pay for food costs,
scholarships for deserving children, transportation, field trips and materials and supplies.
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u fo 1 erm this request.
Dombroski, MSW
Executive Director
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Keys