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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: September 16, 2003 Action Agenda ~ Item No. ~-/ SUBJECT: Sponsorship Request: Many Cultures, One Race DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): Letter from Fund Raising Chair INFORMATION CONTACT: Gwen Harvey, Asst Manager, ext 2307 Donna Dean, Budget Director, ext 2151 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider a request from EI Centro Latino for $5,000 in funding to support the "Many Cultures, One Race" event on September 20, 2003. BACKGROUND: The Board of County Commissioners has received a request from EI Centro Latino to become a sponsor for the event, "Many Cultures, One Race" (10K road race, 1 mile walk/run and children's track) to be held at the McDougle School in Carrboro on Saturday, September 20~'. The race/walk has traditionally been a very popular activity associated with the annual "La Fiesta" celebration hosted on the campus of Chapel Hill High School. Last year there were over 1,000 participants and a total of $15,000 was raised for Youth Leadership Development Programs for EI Pueblo and EI Centro Latino. "La Fiesta" itself has been a partnership project of EI Centro Latino and del Pueblo, a sister organization based in Wake County. However, due to space considerations (the success of the festival caused them to outgrow the location), del Pueblo had to make a decision last winter to move the principal location of "La Fiesta" from Chapel Hill to the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. It was agreed then by the two organizations that they would retain "Many Cultures, One Race", under the immediate direction of EI Centro, as a standalone event in Carrboro. EI Centro has hopes in the future of being able to transform the race/walk from a single activity into the anchor event of a "La Fiesta" style celebration encompassing all of Orange County, with activities in venues beyond Carrboro. However, in this year of transition, no funding request was made of Orange County government during the normal course of the County's budget process by either nonprofit organization for race/walk sponsorship. Del Pueblo made no funding application to Orange County at all this year. EI Centro requested funding in the amount of $25,000 and received funding of $20,000, the same level as the year before, to provide solely for home and center based family support services and culturally appropriate case management.