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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1509 |
| Smoke Free Society Education Center |
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| Requester: |
Rez Seyedin |
Organization: |
Smoke Free Society Education Corporation |
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| Project Title: |
Smoke Free Society Education Center |
Date Submitted |
1/4/2008 11:35:26 AM |
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| Sponsors: |
Aronberg, Bullard |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| This first-of-its-kind and much-needed research and education center will help save millions of Florida's citizens' and children's lives by reducing the number of those who smoke and preventing children from ever starting to smoke and use tobacco. It will also help prevent millions of health crises while saving billions of dollars of Floridian's citizens' hardearned money for generations to come as well as create hundreds of jobs for the state. |
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| Recipient: |
Smoke Free Society Education Corporation |
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Contact: |
Rex Seyedin |
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P.O. Box 33103 |
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Contact Phone: |
(561) 844-0585 |
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Palm Beach Gardens 33420-3103 |
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Contact email: |
rez@sfsec.org |
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| Counties: |
Palm Beach |
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| Gov't Entity: |
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Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
Yes |
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| Project Description: |
| A research and education center that is solely dedicated to smoking and tobacco use prevention, education, awareness, cessation and research. |
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| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| Success will be measured by the number of smokers reached and children/general public/elders educated. Our goal is to reach 5 million children/public/elderly in the first 5 project years and effectively educate them on the dangers of smoking and the benefits of staying smoke free. Over 5 million perople/amokers will also be reached that will lead to saving thousands of smokers' lives by helping them quit smoking. By doing so many millions more people and children will also by saved from the exposure to secondhand smoke. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$2,000,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$7,000,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Operations |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
None |
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Cash Amount |
$ |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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No |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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Yes |
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Amount: |
$2,000,000 |
To Fund: |
Operations |
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| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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No |
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| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
No |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
Yes |
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Documentation: |
The passage of Amendment4, Tabacco Trust Funds-Lawton Chiles Endowment Fund |
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| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? |
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Yes |
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Hearing Body: |
Palm Beach County Legislative Delegation |
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| Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida? |
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No |
