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Marin City’s Center for Community Life Receives $3.85 Million Grant

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7 years ago

July 5, 2017

The Marin Community Foundation has awarded a $3.85 million grant to the Center for Community Life in Marin City.

The award will be part of the money that will contribute to upgrading the existing Manzanita Center, which includes the gymnasium, a recreation center, the senior center, an early childhood center, the health center, and the Harriet Tubman building. Future plans may include a community pool.

The total money that will be needed to transform the Manzanita Center to the envisioned “Center for Community Life will be $24 million. So far, $7 million has already been raised.

The Manzanita Center has already started to transform with the opening of the boxing and fitness center, and teen center. A Health and Wellness Center has recently acquired a new mobile dental van is serving low-income residents and families, and homebound older adults throughout Marin County.

But the leaders and the community is striving to improve the center to better serve the 3,000 residents living in Marin City, especially in the areas of health and wellness, early childhood development, education, job training, and recreation.

The Health and Wellness Center has a new dental van, funded by the County of Marin, to serve the to low-income residents throughout Marin County, especially families living in public housing and homebound older adults.

The Center for Community Life, according to their website, will bring together children, families and neighbors in Marin City with people from across Marin County. It will provide a place for the community to learn new career or job skills, participate in early childhood and after-school programs and take advantage of health and fitness programs to stay healthy and active.

Marin City community leaders are working to identify the best opportunities to strengthen early childhood development, educational achievement, job training, recreation and health and wellness. The leaders has also collaborated and has been in partnership with other community leaders, businesses, educators, health professionals and parks and recreation officials including the YMCA, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Boys and Girls Clubs and the City of Sausalito, in developing the Center of Community life.

“We are very pleased to offer this grant in support of a community’s dream and its future,” said Dr. Thomas Peters, President and & CEO of the Marin Community Foundation. “The array of services that will be available is impressive, and the facility itself will no doubt quickly become a dynamic hub of activity for one and all.”

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The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post: Week of April 24 – 30, 2024

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DA Pamela Price Stands by Mom Who Lost Son to Gun Violence in Oakland

Last week, The Post published a photo showing Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price with Carol Jones, whose son, Patrick DeMarco Scott, was gunned down by an unknown assailant in 2018.

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District Attorney Pamela Price with Carol Jones

Publisher’s note: Last week, The Post published a photo showing Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price with Carol Jones, whose son, Patrick DeMarco Scott, was gunned down by an unknown assailant in 2018. The photo was too small for readers to see where the women were and what they were doing. Here we show Price and Jones as they complete a walk in memory of Scott. For more information and to contribute, please contact Carol Jones at 510-978-5517 at morefoundation.help@gmail.com. Courtesy photo.

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Vallejo Welcomes Interim City Manager Beverli Marshall

At Tuesday night’s Council meeting, the Vallejo City Council appointed Beverli Marshall as the interim city manager. Her tenure in the City Manager’s Office began today, Wednesday, April 10. Mayor Robert McConnell praised Marshall’s extensive background, noting her “wide breadth of experience in many areas that will assist the City and its citizens in understanding the complexity of the many issues that must be solved” in Vallejo.

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Beverli Marshall began her first day with the City on April 10. ICMA image.

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At Tuesday night’s Council meeting, the Vallejo City Council appointed Beverli Marshall as the interim city manager. Her tenure in the City Manager’s Office began today, Wednesday, April 10.

Mayor Robert McConnell praised Marshall’s extensive background, noting her “wide breadth of experience in many areas that will assist the City and its citizens in understanding the complexity of the many issues that must be solved” in Vallejo.

Current City Manager Michael Malone, whose official departure is slated for April 18, expressed his well wishes. “I wish the City of Vallejo and Interim City Manager Marshall all the best in moving forward on the progress we’ve made to improve service to residents.” Malone expressed his hope that the staff and Council will work closely with ICM Marshall to “ensure success and prosperity for the City.”

According to the Vallejo Sun, Malone stepped into the role of interim city manager in 2021 and became permanent in 2022. Previously, Malone served as the city’s water director and decided to retire from city service e at the end of his contract which is April 18.

“I hope the excellent work of City staff will continue for years to come in Vallejo,” he said. “However, recent developments have led me to this decision to announce my retirement.”

When Malone was appointed, Vallejo was awash in scandals involving the housing division and the police department. A third of the city’s jobs went unfilled during most of his tenure, making for a rocky road for getting things done, the Vallejo Sun reported.

At last night’s council meeting, McConnell explained the selection process, highlighting the council’s confidence in achieving positive outcomes through a collaborative effort, and said this afternoon, “The Council is confident that by working closely together, positive results will be obtained.”

While the search for a permanent city manager is ongoing, an announcement is expected in the coming months.

On behalf of the City Council, Mayor McConnell extended gratitude to the staff, citizen groups, and recruitment firm.

“The Council wishes to thank the staff, the citizens’ group, and the recruitment firm for their diligent work and careful consideration for the selection of what is possibly the most important decision a Council can make on behalf of the betterment of our City,” McConnell said.

The Vallejo Sun contributed to this report.