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CBIRS Request 271
 
Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #271
Manatee Educational Television
 
Requester: Charles Clapsaddle Organization: Manatee Educational Television
 
Project Title: Manatee Educational Television Date Submitted 12/19/2007 10:51:35 AM
 
Sponsors: Bennett
 
Statewide Interest:
Educational access services, advocate public interest programming
 
Recipient: Manatee Educational Television   Contact: Charles Clapsaddle  
  109 26th Ave. West   Contact Phone: (941) 741-3470  
  Bradenton 34205   Contact email: clapsadc@fc.manatee.k12.fl.us
 
Counties: Manatee
 
Gov't Entity: Yes Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit):  
 
Project Description:
Full service production for workforce development, citizen education. Three-year funding support to develop and implement a more fully privatized model of service delivery that will permit continuous long-term delivery of services with significantly reduced public funding and more balanced reliance on alternative funding sources
 
Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? No
 
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
Shared governance of three public educational entities (USF, MCC and MCSD) and public interest bodies that are represented on the Board. This model assists in fulfilling the intent that METV will be: An agent for workforce development; A force of citizen education;a contributor to the quality of intellectual life;a patron contributing to arts awareness;an advocate in the public interest;a means for government to efficiently inform citizens of the complexities of governance in the local community and state
 
Amount requested from the State for this project this year: $175,000
 
Total cost of the project: $260,000
 
Request has been made to fund: Operations
 
What type of match exists for this project? None
  Cash Amount $  
 
Was this project previously funded by the state?   No
 
Is future-year funding likely to be requested?   Yes
  Amount: $150,000 To Fund: Operations
 
Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?   No
 
Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? No
 
Is there a documented need for this project? Yes
  Documentation: Business plan development exercise for support through collaboration with USF.
 
Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?   Yes
  Hearing Body: Manatee Legislative Delegation
 
Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida?   No