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HomeMy WebLinkAbout3.8 Pride Week ReportG~~~ OF DU~~JG /// ~ 1~~~~~2 STAFF REPORT C I T Y C L E R K ~~ ~. ~ DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL File #^0~ Q~- Q ~LIFOR~ ~ ~ DATE: June 1, 2010 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers FROM: Joni Pattillo, City Manager SUBJE . Report on 2010 Dublin Pride Week Activities Prepared By: Jordan Figueiredo, Environmental Technicia~ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The City Council will formally recognize the contributions made by various individuals and organizations, which helped make the 2010 Dublin Pride Week activities into a successful community event. The City Council will also recognize the Dublin Pride Week Poster Contest winners. FINANCIAL IMPACT: Sufficient funds were included in the Fiscal Year 2009-2010 Budget. Other funds and in-kind donations were provided by the following organizations: Amador Valley Industries, citilinks, Dublin Lion's Club, Dublin/San Ramon Women's Club, Lowe's, Armstrong Garden Center, Home Depot, Dublin San Ramon Services District (DSRSD), East Bay Regional Park District, Pete's Coffee, Mimi's Cafe, and Zone 7. Contributions Expenses City of Dublin General Fund $1,737 School Giveaways $2,593 City of Dublin Measure D Fund $6,462 Posters &Banners $240 Amador Valley Industries 1 000 Awards $500 Water Bottles $4,134 T-Shirts $495 Miscellaneous 1 237 Total $9,199 I Total ~g ~g9 Page 1 of 6 ITEM NO. J. ~ rt l In-Kind Donations: Amador Valley Industries - Food Coliection Containers Armstrong Garden Center - Tools for Volunteer Day citilinks - Website Design and Maintenance DSRSD - Publicity design, Artwork, and Water Wise Workshop Dublin Lion's Club - Barbeque for Volunteers Dublin/San Ramon Women's Club - Poster Contest East Bay Regional Park District - Nature Walk Giveaways Home Depot - Tools for Volunteer Day Lowe's - Tools and Buckets for Volunteer Day Mimi's Cafe - Muffins Pete's Coffee - Coffee Safeway - Sodas Zone 7- Water Wise Worksh RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the City Council receive the 2010 Dublin Pride Week activities report, recognize the sponsors and also recognize the poster contest winners. ..~---- Submitt y Sr. Administrative Analyst Revie y Assistant City Manager Page 2 of 6 DESCRIPTION: Dublin Pride Week was celebrated from Saturday, April 24 to Sunday May 2, 2010. A number of activities and projects were conducted and are summarized below. Dublin Pride Week Poster Contest All students from both public and private schools in the City of Dublin were invited to participate in this year's Dublin Pride Poster Contest. The students were asked to create posters that reflected this year's theme "Planet Dub~in". As in previous years, the Dublin/San Ramon Women's Club volunteered to coordinate the poster contest, which included distributing the materials, judging the posters, and distributing the certificates. Each of the Poster Contest participants will be receiving Certificates of Appreciation. The City awards first and second prizes to individuals from each of the following grade categories: Kindergarten-1St grade, 2"d grade-3~d grade, 4th grade-5th grade, 6th grade-8th grade, and gtn grade-12th grade, as well as an overall grand prize winner. The grand prize winner receives a $100 Target gift card, the first prize winners receive a$25 Target gift card, and second prize winners receive a$15 Target gift card. The grand prize, first prize, and second prize winners also have their posters displayed at the Civic Center and will be presented with Certificates of Merit. Additionally, a Classroom Award is given in the amount of $200 to the teacher of the Grand Prize Winner to be used in his or her classroom. The Poster Contest winners are as follows: Grand Prize Winner Jieun (Jeannette) Hong 5tn Grade Dougherty Elementary School Classroom Award Mrs. Pam Luhman Teacher pougherty Elementary School Kinderqarten-1 St Grade Cateqorv First Prize Winner.~ Farhan Karuvally Kindergarten Dougherty Elementary School Second Prize Winner.~ Tanish Raina 1 St Grade Dougherty Elementary School 2~d _ 3~a Grade Cateqory First Prize Winner. Josephine Kao 3~d Grade Dougherty Elementary School Second Prize Winner: Alex Cobbe 2~d Grade Quarry Lane School 4cn_ 5rn Grade Categorv First Prize Winner.~ Bella Mairs 4tn Grade Valley Christian Elementary School Second Prize Winner.~ Mikayla Borromeo 5tn Grade Valley Christian Elementary School Page 3 of 6 6m_ $cn Grade Categorv First Prize Winner. Chelsie Cunningham 8t`' Grade Second Prize Winner. Kymberlee Hoheisel 7th Grade 9cn_ 12tn Grade Category First Prize Winner: Dylan Lewis 11 th Grade Second Prize Winner.~ Julie Dykes 12th Grade Volunteer Day Wells Middle School Wells Middle School Valley Christian High School Valley Christian High Schoot Over 650 community volunteers donated significant time and energy to community clean up and beautification projects on Volunteer Day, Saturday, April 24, 2010. Volunteers met at 8:00 a.m. at Shannon Park to receive instructions and supplies for the various projects throughout the community. Mayor Sbranti began the event with a welcoming address and word of thanks to the volunteers. Volunteers were given Dublin Pride Week stainless steel water bottles and were provided snacks, coffee, hot coco, juice and water including muffins donated by Amador Valley Industries and Mimi's Cafe and coffee donated by Peets. At the completion of the projects, all volunteers were invited to a free barbecue provided by the Dublin Lion's Club. Volunteer Day consisted of the following projects: Senior Projects: There were approximately 250 volunteers that made up the 32 separate Senior Project Teams. The teams were able to assist 38 senior homes with a variety of activities that ranged from cleaning windows to minor home repair. These projects were coordinated by the Senior Support Program of the Tri-Valley, which assists the City in finding Dublin seniors who are in need of some assistance. Frederickson Elementary School: Approximately 30 volunteers were sent to Frederickson Elementary to do weeding and trimming, as well as to drop and spread rock on muddy areas. Dougherty Elementary School: Approximately 25 volunteers were sent to Dougherty Elementary to help fix the school garden fence, put up lattice, and do weeding and trimming. Dublin Elementary School: Approximately 15 volunteers were sent to Dublin Elementary to do garden cleanup, vegetable garden setup, weeding and trimming. Dublin High School: Approximately 20 volunteers were sent to Dublin Nigh to help with weeding and trimming. Fallon Middle School: The Fallon School's California Junior Scholarship Federation (CJSF) Club worked on improving the Fallon Middle School landscaping by cleaning out flower beds, pulling weeds and trimming. The CJSF group totaled more than 80 individuals. John Green Elementary School: Approximately 35 volunteers were sent to John Green Elementary to help with weeding and trimming. Page 4 of 6 Murray Elementary School: Approximately 30 volunteers were sent to Murray Elementary to paint, spread rock, wash windows, do weeding, trimming and pick up trash. Wells Middle School: Approximately 45 volunteers were sent to Wells Middle School to help with planting ivy, painting, planting flowers, weeding and trimming. Non-Profit Assistance Projects: Approximately 40 volunteers were sent to the Valley Pregnancy Center and Easter Seals Kaleidoscope School. At Valley Pregnancy Center, volunteers helped with cleaning, dusting, washing windows and blinds, vacuuming, moving items to the storage and with light gardening. At the Easter Seals Kaleidoscope School, volunteers helped with blacktop painting, window and floor washing, weeding, sweeping and trimming. City Park Projects: Approximately 125 volunteers assisted with beautification and clean-up projects at various park locations within the City. For example, many volunteers assisted in wood chip spreading at Ironhorse Trail (near BART), at Dolan Park, at Fallon Sports Park and at Emerald Glen. Another group of volunteers helped with painting the fountain near the play area at Shannon Park. Volunteers also thinned ivy, removed wood, cleaned up trash, pulled weeds and spread wood chips at the Heritage Center and Historic Park. City Creek Cleanups: Approximately 20 volunteers were sent to pick up litter at three of the City's creeks. South San Ramon Creek, Alamo Creek South and Alamo Creek North were host to these volunteers. Environmental Outreach: Within each bucket of supplies for senior assistance projects, volunteers were given compact fluorescent light bulbs and energy efficiency handouts to give to each senior. Storm Drain Medallions: Over a dozen volunteers were engaged in pasting medallions to the City's storm drains, which warn against dumping material into the storm drain system. Food Drive: This year, Dublin Pride Week included a Food Drive organized by City Staff and Pride Week Committee members. Collection bins were set up at the two Safeway grocery stores in Dublin to collect non-perishable food items during Dublin Pride Week. Collection bins were also set up at Volunteer Day. The City was able to collect approximately 20 full boxes or 116 cubic feet of food. All food collected was donated to the Dublin Children's Emergency Council. In addition, a special thanks goes out to the Cities of Livermore and Pleasanton for loaning the City additional yard maintenance tools. Due to the significant increase in volunteers this year, the City alone did not have enough tools for everyone to use to keep everyone busy. The other Tri-Valley cities stepped in and provided the needed tools, which was integral to completing the number of projects planned in a timely manner. Martin Canyon Creek Nature Walk Following the Volunteer Day Activities on April 24th, naturalist and park ranger Katie Colbert lead a nature walk along the Martin Canyon Creek Trail exploring the creek's diverse flora and fauna. Approximately 15 people participated in the walk this year. Page 5 of 6 Water-wise Workshop Residents were invited to the Dublin Library on Saturday, April 24th for an informational workshop on drought tolerant gardening. This project was organized and sponsored by DSRSD and Zone 7 Water Agency. Approximately forty-five (45) residents attended the workshop. Household Hazardous Waste Event The City sponsored another successful household hazardous waste drop off event, which was managed by Amador Valley Industries and held at the MicroDental parking lot on Arnold Drive on Sunday, May 2nd. The City's annual household hazardous waste event ensures that materials such as paint, used oil, batteries, pesticides and other harmful chemicals are disposed of properly. In totaf, there was 23,233 pounds of waste collected. Also, 500 bags of compost were given away. 2010 Dublin Pride Week Committee At the forefront of this year's activities was the Dublin Pride Week Committee. The Committee comes together each year to plan and organize each Pride Week activity. This year, the Committee was made up of various community members and organizational representatives. Special thanks and appreciation go to the following individuals for serving on the Pride Week Committee and helping to mak~ this year's events a success: • Vice Mayor Kasie Hildenbrand • Councilmember pon Biddle • Renee Olson, DSRSD • Bonnie Brewer, Zone 7 Water Agency • Valerie Barnes, Dublin/San Ramon Women's Club • Claudia Ambrose, Resident - Volunteer Coordinator • Gloria Gregory, Resident - Volunteer Coordinator 2010 Dublin Pride Partners The 2010 Dublin Pride Week events could not have been accomplished without the City's key partners: • Amador Valley Industries • citilinks • Dubtin San Ramon Services District • Dublin Lions Club • Dublin/San Ramon Women's Club • East Bay Regional Parks District • Senior Support Program of the Tri-Valley • Zone 7 Water Agency These Dublin Pride Partners, as well as the other major contributors previously mentioned, will be recognized by the City Council with a Certificate of Appreciation. NOTICING REQUIREMENTS/PUBLIC OUTREACH: None. 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