2009-2010 Budget
2009 June Budget Report
The Sylmar Neighborhood Council has limited funds
available as an outreach tool to benefit the people of Sylmar. These
funds are from your tax dollars distributed to the Neighborhood
Council by the City of Los Angeles.
A service organization may request funding
consideration by completing a Request Form. Please submit your
FUNDING REQUEST FORM
at least 3 MONTHS in advance of the planned event or project.
This time is needed to gather information regarding your event or
project, for the appropriate Committee and the Board of Directors to
discuss and consider whether to allocate funds, to prepare our
documentation and to ensure with the City that the Neighborhood
Council has funds available to allocate for your event or project if
the Neighborhood Council chooses to do so.
Funding requests made at
General Board Meetings without first having been made to the
appropriate Committee are not likely to be considered for funding
until the request has been made to the Committee. Funds can never be
allocated for events or projects that have already occurred.
The following is the Funding
Consideration Process:
- Click the “REQUEST
FORM” link to download and print a copy of the Funding Request
Form.
- Complete and submit an original paper copy of the
signed Funding Request Form by U.S. Mail to Sylmar Neighborhood
Council, Funding Request, c/o Sylmar Recreation Center, 13109 Borden
Ave., Sylmar, CA 91342 or fax (call first to arrange a faxing time)
the Form to (818) 833-8707. (The City of Los Angeles does not
accept e-mailed Funding Request Forms.)
- The appropriate Committee, at one of its monthly
public Meetings which you and/or another representative of your
organization are expected to attend, may discuss and possibly vote
on whether to recommend that the Board of Directors allocate funds.
Only the Board can allocate funds, not the Committee.
- If the appropriate Committee votes to recommend
allocating funds, the Board of Directors, at one of its monthly
public Meetings which you and/or another representative of your
organization are expected to attend, may discuss and possibly vote
on whether to allocate funds. (Two levels of the Neighborhood
Council consider allocating funds: first, the appropriate Committee,
which does not allocate funds but can recommend to the Board of
Directors to allocate funds, and second, the Board of Directors.)
Information to Include
Consideration of your funding request can include and your request
is more likely to be supported and possibly funded if you provide
the following information with your Funding Request Form:
- the name of your event or project;
- the date(s) and beginning and ending times of
your event or project;
- the exact location of your event or project;
- the name of your organization;
- the name of your organization’s Executive
Director, President or Chair;
- the exact location of your organization;
- your organization’s phone number, e-mail
address and website address;
- who from your organization and/or who will
your organization be recruiting to help at your event or
project;
- from what part(s) of the City do or will your
staff and/or volunteers live;
- a brief description of what activities will
happen at your event or project;
- what you expect the benefit of your event or
project to be;
who you expect your event or project to benefit;
- from what part(s) of the City do or will the
people live who you expect to benefit from your event or
project;
- the expected attendance at your event or
project;
- the total amount of funding your organization
needs for your event or project;
- the amount of funding you are requesting from
the Neighborhood Council;
- the latest date by which your organization
needs the funding;
all the expected expenses of your event or project;
- the specific expenses for which you are
asking the Neighborhood Council to allocate funds;
- a line-by-line item budget of your event or
project;
- the names of the other organizations from
which you have already requested funds;
- the names of the other organizations that
have already allocated funds;
- the amounts of funds that other organizations
have already allocated;
- readable copies of event or project receipts
that your organization has already received or will receive soon
after your event or project;
- copies of event or project promotional
materials you have or will have such as flyers, brochures and a
paper copy of the banner design, if any, and what the Sylmar
Neighborhood Council name will look like and where it will
appear on the promotional materials;
- whether your organization will provide an
outreach booth for the Neighborhood Council at your event or
project and the cost of the booth;
- the names of other organizations that will or
may participate in your event or project;
- the names of elected officials or other
government officials or organizations that will or may
participate in your event or project;
- whether your organization will expect or
provide an opportunity for a Neighborhood Council representative
to formally speak at your event or project, and if so, for how
much time; and
whether there is a former or existing relationship between your
organization and a Neighborhood Council Board Member.
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