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. Planning and development of several community facilities in tbe Grand Park on tbe Bemal Property, including: a cultural arts center, environmental education center, amphitheatre, and a youth/community center. The timing for construction of tbese facilities will depend on available funds and is budgeted each year in two-year increments in tbe City's Capital Improvement Program. HUMAN SERVICES Pleasanton uses a variety of strategies to assure that it meets its diverse citizens' human services needs. The City directly provides hnman service programs including transportation for tbe disabled and elderly, social programs for developmentally disabled adults, swimming programs for disabled youth, and preschool programs. Pleasanton also meets human service needs through cooperation and collaboration witb otber providers, For example, tbe PIeasanton Senior Center, a multi-service facility utilizes a number of agencies to provide services such as senior nutritious lunches and home-delivered meals; health check-ups; case management; and legal, financial, Medicare, and income-tax assistance. The City contracts with various human service agencies such as Child Care Links, Senior Support oftbe Tri-Valley, and Spectrum Community Services. The City has otber contracts to address eIdercare and caregiver issues, provide in-home supportive services, and nutritional and healtb needs of at-risk elders. In addtion, tbe City annually awards grant funds to local non-profit agencies meeting tbe human services needs of the community, Projects supported through these awards include low-income family heaItbcare, homeless shelter counseling/support, Aids case management, food pantry and hot meal programs, domestic violence counseling/support groups, youth-at-risk intervention, hospice medical services, and physically and developmentally disabled independent housing support. The City of Pleasanton has become more etlmically diverse during tbe past years. For example, aceording to US Census data, from 1990 to 2000 tbe City's white population dropped from 90.7 percent to 80.4 percent of total population, while the Asian population grew from 5.8 percent to 11.7 percent and the Latino population (of any race) grew from 2.1 percent to 7.9 percent. Otber racial groups stayed about tbe same percentage of tbe total population. During tbis time Pleasanton's senior population grew by more tban 70 percent. The Tri-Valley area is tbe fastest growing region in Alameda County, and is becoming more racially and etlmically diverse. The Tri-Valley's non-English speaking population (primarily Spanish witb a number of Asian/Pacific Islanders) has increased by over 200 percent. The schooI- aged population has grown by 45 percent while tbe number of people living below the federal poverty threshold increased by about 27 percent. In addition, about one-fifth of tbe population reported long-term disabilities. Thus tbe Tri- Valley area is becoming more diverse. Child Care The need for high-quality day-care, pre-school, and after-school child care is growing in Pleasanton, Within the City, each oftbe nine PIeasanton Unified School District elementary schools has at least one after-school child-care program, altbough many of tbese programs are at capacity and cannot service the entire after-school child-care need. The City also has 18 otber licensed child-care centers (including pre-schools) in commercial, industrial and institutional areas. VI-30