Whats New: Enclosure 2

April 2, 2001 - Enclosure 2
Urban Recreational and Cultural Centers, Museums, and Facilities for Wildlife or Environmental Education Program

Nominations due from Members of the Legislature
You are encouraged to provide proposed Urban Recreational and Cultural Centers, Museums, and Facilities for Wildlife or Environmental Education Program (Urban Recreation and Cultural Centers) projects to Members of the Legislature well before July 1, 2001 for their nomination.

This nomination process is unique to the Urban Recreation and Cultural Centers Program. You will need to supply the following information to your legislator:

1. Project name
2. Requested grant amount
3. Name, address and phone number of applicant
4. Name and title of applicant's day to day contact person
5. Project location
6. Legislative district
7. A brief narrative description of the project, including collaborative efforts, with key features highlighted in a "bulleted format."

Your legislator must nominate your project by letter to the Department of Parks and Recreation, Office of Grants and Local Services by July 1, 2001.

If your project is nominated, you must submit a complete application package by November 1, 2001.

The Office of Grants and Local Services will study each nominated project and will submit a prioritized list and comparative evaluation of each project to the Legislature by April 1, 2002.

The 2000 Parks Bond Act requires the Office of Grants and Local Services to consider competitive criteria, including, but not limited to the following:

• The project will interpret one or more important California historical, cultural, economic, or resource themes or an important historical, cultural, economic, technological, or resource theme in a major region of California. Higher priority shall be assigned to projects whose themes are not interpreted in any existing museum or have demonstrable deficiencies in their presentation in an existing museum.
  
  
• The project is proposed to be operated on lands that are already in public ownership or on lands that will be acquired and used for the project in conjunction with adjoining public lands.
  
  
• Projects that are closely related geographically to the resources, activity, structure, place, or collection of objects to be interpreted, and are close to population centers and access routes.
  
  
• Projects that are in, or close to, population centers or are adjacent to, or readily served by, a state highway or other mode of public transportation.
  
  
• Projects for which there are commitments, or the serious likelihood of commitments, of funds or the donation of land or other property suitable for the project.