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. Planning and development of several community facilities in the Grand Park on the Bernal Property, including: a cultural arts center, environmental education center, amphitheatre, and a youth/community center. The timing for construction of these facilities will depend on available funds and is budgeted each year in two-year increments in the 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 human service programs including transportation for the 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 with other providers. For example, the Pleasanton 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 of the Tri- Valley, and Spectrum Community Services. The City has other contracts to address eIdercare and caregiver issues, provide in-home supportive services, and nutritional and health needs of at-risk elders. In addtion, the City annually awards grant funds to local non-profit agencies meeting the human services needs of the community. Projects supported through these awards include low-income family healthcare, 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 PIeasanton has become more ethnically diverse during the past years. For example, according to US Census data, from 1990 to 2000 the 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. Other racial groups stayed about the same percentage of the total population. During this time Pleasanton's senior population grew by more than 70 percent. The Tri-Valley area is the fastest growing region in Alameda County, and is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse. The Tri-Valley's non-English speaking population (primarily Spanish with a number of Asian/Pacific Islanders) has increased by over 200 percent. The school- aged population has grown by 45 percent while the number of people living below the federal poverty threshold increased by about 27 percent. In addition, about one-fifth of the population reported long-term disabilities. Thus the 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 of the nine PIeasanton Unified School District elementary schools has at least one after-school child-care program, although many of these programs are at capacity and cannot service the entire after-school child-care need. The City also has 18 other licensed child-care centers (including pre-schools) in commercial, industrial and institutional areas. VI-30