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2016 LEGISLATIVE PLATFORM SCORECARD <br />Engagement <br />(Parks, Recreation and Community Services <br />Agency and Planning and Building Agency) <br />Seek special grant monies for community <br />engagement. These grant monies may be used <br />to support public outreach on a number of <br />planning efforts including the City General Plan <br />update, historic preservation programs and <br />survey efforts as well as specific planning urban <br />design projects. In addition, monies may be <br />used to support the City's existing <br />Neighborhood Improvement Program <br />community engagement efforts. <br />• <br />(PRCSA) The library has utilized volunteer <br />assistance and staff expertise to begin <br />creating a drought -tolerant <br />demonstration garden adjacent to the <br />library. The first phase was planted <br />during the Dia de los Nino celebration in <br />2016. The library plans to continue <br />development of this community <br />resource in 2017, adding plantings and <br />explanatory signage, along with a <br />specialized collection of books to assist <br />residents with developing their own low- <br />water -use gardens. <br />(PBA) This past year the Santa Ana Public <br />Library submitted a grant funding <br />proposal, on behalf of the Santa Ana <br />Civic Atlas to the Knight Foundation. The <br />proposal was not funded, but staff will <br />continue to pursue funding for the Civic <br />Atlas and community engagement in <br />Santa Ana on an ongoing basis. <br />Discuss with state and federal legislature <br />representatives the need to find a funding <br />stream to help the Santa Ana Public Library <br />provide a 5-year effort to increase voter <br />registration. <br />• (PRCSA) in November 2016, the library's <br />Young Adult Department and its Youth <br />Civic Engagement Interns collaborated <br />with the City Clerk in a city-wide project <br />to outreach to Santa Ana youth, <br />promoting increased voter participation <br />among 18-24 year olds. <br />GOAL 6: COMMUNITY <br />FACILITIES & <br />INFRASTRUCTURE <br />The City of Santa Ana has the responsibility to install and <br />maintain the basic facilities required for a community to <br />operate including streets, sidewalks and bikeways, <br />sanitary sewers, storm drains, water systems, public <br />buildings and facilities, and collection of solid waste. The <br />City also has an important advocacy role concerning mass <br />transit and public utilities. <br />O.C. Streetcar <br />(Public Works Agency) <br />Seek continued support for the OC Streetcar. <br />The project under consideration is a modern <br />streetcar running from the Santa Ana Regional <br />Transportation Center through Santa Ana's <br />Downtown and Civic Center within mixed flow <br />traffic in city streets and within the Pacific <br />Electric right-of-way to Garden Grove, The OC <br />Streetcar may be extended to the east at the <br />SARTC, and could potentially connect with a OC <br />Streetcar being planned by the City of Anaheim <br />via Harbor Boulevard in Garden Grove. The <br />streetcar will expand regional transportation <br />system benefitting mobility and goods <br />movement as well as providing expanded <br />regional and local economic development <br />opportunities. <br />CITY OF SANTA ANA <br />19 <br />65B-44 <br />