Please don't cut the King Community School.  Please continue funding the Longfellow Community School full-time director and give the Amigos Program a Community School and full-time director.  Please restore the promised floater position that was the Fletcher Community School Director's position so that directors' positions can be covered during illness or personal or vacation leave, and so that the floater can help overly stretched directors run their busy programs.

Community Schools serve more children than any other OST program in the city and do it at a much lower cost to the city than other OST programs.   If there were a program that serves 1,400 children, 200 seniors, hundreds of families and adults with offerings of 1,700 enrichment classes, dozens of exciting day trips per year, and immensely successful summer camp programs serving 900 children, and Arts in the Parks program for hundreds of city children during summer school vacation, all at very little cost to the city per child or adult served, WOULD YOU CONSIDER IT A GREAT PROGRAM WORTHY OF FUNDING? Let's further ask: Why wouldn't you want to fund a program that PROMOTES the City Council GOALS of "fostering community..." and "supporting neighborhood vitality" and also meets the Council GOALS to "strengthen and support Human Services... and out of school learning" which Community Schools do on a greater scale than any other out-of-school-time program or community building program in this city.  

COUNCILLORS:  WE ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT TO INSURE THAT ABSOLUTELY NO COMMUNITY SCHOOL PROGRAMS WILL BE CUT, EVER, NOT THE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL, NOR THE LONGFELLOW COMMUNITY SCHOOL,  AND THAT THE AMIGOS PROGRAM IS GIVEN A COMMUNITY SCHOOL IN THEIR NEW HOME ON UPTON STREET.  Thank you, the Citywide Community Council.