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May 21g 1968 TO: Dan Seat Fru»f• Pete Jones Ref rence our convere tion regarding reductions in the Atl nt Progr StttMER HEAD START The 1967 Program provided for 3,050 participant and made v 11~ ble $540,409 in Fed r l Fund . The 1968 Program provid • for 3,.070 p rtieip nt end mad vail bl $513 . 649 and within thi r duced amount the grant 1mpo es gre tly incre s d medical nd dent 1 care and n oblig tion for child inaur nee without proViding fund ther for . '!be reduction of 51 in funding with dditional 20 p rticipants and incr ases of m dical • dent 1 and 1naur nee co ts ha th ff ct of reducing needed upport · ervic a or other c tegortcs of cost . CENTERS The 1967 Pro9r p~ov1ded for 725 p rticip of $700,000 . The 1968 Progr provid for th am numb r of particlp ti bue r duce funding to $605,204 (r duction 94,196) . includ din th 60S,204 i pproxim t ly 58 1 000 which w coll ct d - Dy Car F sin 1967 and which BOA h d planned to program into th 1968 project• in addition to led ral Fund . So ctually 080 t due d Pd ral i upde fr $700.000 in 1967 to 547;204 in 1968, r dw:tlon of 152,796 in F deral Funde. Pund Ji W w re th r . fore unabl to provid He dquarter, ·t ff fro Gr nt for eith r Head t rt or Day Cr. Thi• ounta to about $6S,OOO. Parh appar ntl7 believ a he c n t thi r qu std money l•ter . In th Au8',lstt 196 •Ausu,t, 1967 Contra t we •tarted ~1th 620 11 t• and 1~323,910. Durio mid 1967 th unt wa• r ducad to 1.223,910. the elota r reduced to 550 and we re r uir d to run th p~ogr f urt tht 1nat ad of twelv; w1thin th redu~ed fund1. The u c dlng Contract October, 1967 ct b r, 1968 we were auth te 440 •lots and 1,1 9.110. Wear n f c with a r du ti to 330 al ta d a~ d ti 1 funding. �Mr . Dan Sweat Page - 2 CAP FUNDS Our v ra tile funds for Program Direction and Neighborhood Servlc Centers. NSC Support nd other Gr nt 306 Funds were reduc d from around $2 , 900~000 in 1967 to $2,350, 000 in 1968, a reduction of a ound $550,000. PSJ:rw �