CC Exhibit 08-19-14 Item #17 4H Services Info C g � � 9 � ,y .�4-PPI
4 H Services provided to the Community
Listed below are some examples of the services provided to the Cupertino community by the Rolling
Hills 4-H Club:
• During the busy spring and fall season(mid-September-mid November and then April through
the first week of June) 3-5 school groups visit 4H. This is including school groups that just view
the animals from the Stevens Creek Trail.The creek trip classes for example just stop to briefly
look at the animals on their way to or from the creek and we briefly talk about 4H opportunities
and their barn tours--that's 1,879 students, 78 teachers, and 387 parents adding up to a total of
2,345.
• A smaller number of parent/tot,preschool, and kindergarten groups come on school tours that do
include entering the 4H area—approximately 26 tours annually.
• Summer camps (Nature Camp, Summer Science Fun, and Preschool Adventures)make 10 visits
to the 4H area, or about 285 participants plus staff and volunteers per summer season.
• After school classes visit the 4H area about 10-12 times/year,that would include 100 -144
participants.
• Thursday Evening nature Programs visited 4I1 twice and about 40 people attend.
• Many programs that do not visit the 4H barn and large animal area do visit the bee yard. Because
a camp or afterschool class may visit the goats,pigs and horses one day and stop by to observe
the hives on another day, a program may visit 4H areas more than once per program.
• There are two family.Bug Programs and one Bees and Honey program offered through
Recreation and Community Services each year that serve about 50-60 people.
Community Programs:
• 4H tours that occur during SCVAS Wildlife]Education--650-750 in attendance.
• Monthly barn tours for the public run through.4H.
• The number of visitors is unknown that view the 4H animals from outside of the fenced area.
• Both the San Mateo and the Santa Clara Valley Beekeepers Guilds hold 3-4 classes at McClellan
Ranch each year and the 50-75 class participants visit the 4H hives.
In addition, 4H members have made material and labor contributions to projects at McClellan Ranch over
the years. The 4H beekeeping project contributed a few hundred dollars worth of native plants and labor
to restore the hillside above the Stevens Creek Trail. One 4H member applied for a grant to rebuild a
portion of the rail fence in the community garden and received $1,000 he contributed to materials for the
project. A 4H woodworking project contacted me about building and donating owl boxes for PW put up
at elementary school sites where there are rodent problems. The 4H Beekeeping Project has offered to
contribute towards an observation beehive for the new Environmental Education Center