Proposal for

A grant from DEMCO

to be provided to

Class Act, Inc.

By

Class Act, Inc.

68 Reeves Crossing

Felton, Delaware

Contact: Kevin Carter, President & CEO

or

James Petrucelli, CFO

Table of Contents:

· Mission Statement

· Description of Services

· Financial Statement

· Grant Request

· Resumes of key personnel

· References and Key Contact Points

· Legal and business requirements

· Executive Summary

Mission Statement:

Description of Services:

Financial Statement:

		Class Act, Inc.
		Profit & Loss
	1998	1999	2000	2001	Total
Income
Sales	$ 120,000.00	$ 144,000.00	$ 156,000.00	$ 168,000.00	$ 588,000.00
Total Income	$ 120,000.00	$ 144,000.00	$ 156,000.00	$ 168,000.00	$ 588,000.00
Expenses
Rent	72,000.00	72,000.00	72,000.00	72,000.00	$ 288,000.00
Management of Center	8,000.00	9,000.00	50,000.00	50,000.00	$ 117,000.00
Loan Payments	6,000.00	10,800.00	10,800.00	10,800.00	$ 38,400.00
Professional Stipends	-	-	12,000.00	28,800.00	$ 40,800.00
Wages	6,528.00	6,528.00	6,528.00	6,528.00	$ 26,112.00
Bank Fees	120.00	120.00	120.00	120.00	$ 480.00
Utilities	3,600.00	5,400.00	7,200.00	7,200.00	$ 23,400.00
Security	24,000.00	24,000.00	24,000.00	24,000.00	$ 96,000.00
Contractual Fees	14,400.00	14,400.00	64,400.00	64,400.00	$ 157,600.00
Supplies	6,600.00	6,600.00	6,600.00	6,600.00	$ 26,400.00
Insurance	7,200.00	7,200.00	7,200.00	7,200.00	$ 28,800.00
Total Expenses	148,448.00	156,048.00	260,848.00	277,648.00	$ 842,992.00
Net Income	$ (28,448.00)	$ (12,048.00)	$ (104,848.00)	$ (109,648.00)	$ (254,992.00)

Grant Request:

Class Act, Inc. requests a grant in the amount of $ 250,000 and this will be for programs that will be offered for the remainder of the year 2000 and 2001. Class Act, Inc. does have revenue producing activities which are used to fund most of its activities but it desires to expand its current programs and develop new programs; these programs are listed in the description of services section and quantified in the financial statement.

Resumes of Key Personnel Attached:

Kevin D Carter - CEO

(302) 284 – 4891 (Home)

(302) 284 – 3830 (Office)

Objective:

To Train, teach and inspire the youth of our community to work diligently, move toward not knowing the meaning of quit and to obtain their goals in life so that one day what our youth have reaped is a reflection of what was sewn years before.

Summary of Qualifications:

Nine years in the development, management and problem resolution of a youth recreational center in the State of Delaware. Also, experience in the security of casinos, factories and local business establishments was gained during the nine years of youth center management.

Experience:

November 1992 – Present Class Act, Inc Felton Delaware

Management Specialist

Performed management, marketing, security of the youth recreational center and other various youth activities at the Youth Recreational Center in Dover, Camden, Harrington and Smyrna. Inventory Management, records of youth that attend the center and monitoring of the center’s financial center were performed for Class Act, Inc.

February 1991 – November 1992 MBNA America Dover Delaware

Outbound Telemarketing Representative II

Through creative sales scripts and sales leads which were provided by the marketing department potential and current customers were called. A numerous amount of products was presented to them. For a period of three months I assisted the computer specialist in preparing statistical analysis proposals on the Dover Telemarketing Site.

Other Experience:

To help fund my college education I held various positions in food preparation in the area of inventory control and product alignment.

Education:

1987 - Present Delaware State University Dover, Delaware

Pursing a BS in Business Marketing Management. The expected graduation date is May 2002.

Activities:

• Sunday School Teacher, St. James Union AME, January 1991 – Present.

• Member of the Male Choir, St. James Union AME, March 1991 – Present.

• Vice President of YPD (Young People’s Department), St. James Union AME, September

1987 – Present. This job entails preparation, organization and coordination of Black History

Month, the Easter Program and the Christmas Program.

• Participates in many athletic programs throughout the Dover Area including bowling, softball,

Kempo and membership in local health clubs. Also while participating I have held and currently

Hold many leadership positions including Secretary of the Fellowship Bowling League.

• Selected to the National Vocational/Technical Honor Society in September 1988.

• Selected as the Delaware AME Youth of the year in 1988 and competed against other states and nations for the

National Christian Education Congress Youth of the Year Award of which I received.

• Member of the VICA (Vocational/Industrial Club of America) Delaware Chapter in 1988.

• President of the Data Processing Class at Kent VoTech in 1988.

• Member of the Ebony Club in 1988.

• Member of DEA (Office of Education Association) from August 1985 – June 1988.

• Member of SGA (Student Government Association) from August 1986 – June 1988.

James L Petrucelli – CFO

(302) 284 – 4581 (Home)

(888) 646 – 3935 (Pager)

Objective:

Seeking a dynamic, challenging and growth oriented position in the Information Technology Field which will utilize my Application Analysis, System Analysis as well as my in depth Business, Financial and Project Management Experience.

Summary of Qualifications:

Thirteen years experience in the design, development, testing and implementation of application software systems. During my career, I have performed system analysis for Fortune 500 Companies, State Governments, the Federal Government and small to mid-size companies. I understand the complete software application lifecycle as well as business rules and analysis that must be developed and performed.

Experience:

December 1997 – Present Conectiv Power Delivery Newark, Delaware

Senior Application Specialist

Responsible for the Engineering Applications for the corporation to include Electric and GAS Delivery. I work on application interfaces of the legacy applications with the client/server application. A thorough knowledge of UNIX, TCP/IP as well as the legacy application system platform is critical and necessary. Along with this responsibility, daily monitoring of application and system reports have to be analyzed. I am also instrumental in the migration of the Electric NATURAL/ADABAS Engineering Application to a GIS Implementation. In this endeavor, I am required to develop conversion programs, batch and online job control procedures as well as conversion documentation.

November 1994 – December 1997 State of Delaware Dover, Delaware

Application Specialist

Responsible for the Public School Information System, the State Treasury and Banking Transfer System and the Division of Revenue Accounting System. I had to monitor the daily processing of the above listed critical applications which included being on-call to resolve problems that may occur in the non-primetime hours of operation. Test plans, user and program documentation, as well as status reports needed to be developed for upper management and my fellow application specialists. I was required to communicate necessary technical changes to the end users in a way that they would understand. A thorough knowledge of Natural/ADABAS, COBOL, OS/MVS JCL and TCP/IP was very critical in my application assignments.

I was further responsible, as an adjunct responsibility, for the maintenance of a portion of Application Development Staff Intranet and Internet Website. My website maintenance responsibility required a knowledge and use of HTML, Java, Visual Basic as well as HTTP and FTP Protocols.

September 1992 – November 1994 Sales Technologies, Inc. Newtown Square, PA

Application Specialist

Responsible for the development, testing, implementation and re-design of a Sales Tracking System for a Pharmaceutical Company. I needed to thoroughly understand the backend report distribution system, which I was responsible for maintaining and enhancing. An additional requirement was to understand the Sales Force Laptop Front end Software System. Status reports to management and the end user were required on a weekly basis. I needed to develop a comprehensive user document and program system flow using ABC Flow Charter. Further software tools that were needed while on this assignment were Natural/ADABAS, OS/MVS JCL, COBOL and the Microsoft line of software products to include Word and Excel.

November 1989 – September 1992 State of Delaware Dover, Delaware

Application Specialist

Responsible for the development, testing, re-design and final implementation of the Delaware Financial Management System Fixed Asset System. To accomplish this task, communication with management and the end user, which was the Department of Finance, was extremely necessary. The following tools were necessary to accomplish this assignment: Natural/ADABAS, COBOL, AMS Core Software, OS/MVS JCL and Project Estimation Tools. Weekly status and time reports were required and the Word Star Software Package was used to accomplish the project administration part of this task.

May 1989 – November 1989 US Marine Corps Quantico, Virginia

System Engineer

Responsible for the development and testing of the Table Maintenance Sub System of the Standardized Accounting and Budgeting Recording System (SABRES). I had to develop test plans, coordinate file changes with the DBA, prepare work assignments for Associate Engineers and develop status reports for the System Manager. To accomplish this assignment, it was vital to understand Natural/ADABAS, OS/MVS JCL and the program flow of a Military and Civilian Accounting System.

May 1987 – May 1989 US EPA Falls Church, Virginia

Programmer

Responsible for the development, maintenance and testing of a Criminal Docket System. I needed to be able to take specifications from a project leader and develop Natural/ADABAS and COBOL Program Source Code and ultimately produce a working piece of Application Software. I was required to communicate my progess in written form to my Team Leader and at times was called upon to give verbal status reports to the Project Leader.

Education:

1996 – Present Delaware Technical & Community College Dover, Delaware

Pursuing a certification in Computer Information Systems with and emphasis on Client/Server Systems to include, but not limited to Visual Basic, Java, C++ and HTML.

1990 – 1993 Wilmington College Dover, Delaware

Master of Business Administration which required Financial Analysis, Financial Mangement, Business Policy and Business Case Study Cirricula.

1982 – 1986 Shepherd College Shepherdstown, WV

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems, Business and Mathematics.

Other Education / Proficiencies:

I am two classes from having a Client/Server Certification from Learning Tree International. I am knowledgeable in the following software products: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Corel Word Perfect and Intuit’s QuickBooks. I am a certified tax preparer and a financial executive for many small and non-profit firms that include Tri Tech Systems Inc, Class Act Inc, B & C Unlimited Corp. Adam’s Limousine LTD and the 21^st Century Pioneers.

References and Key Contact Points:

SRI Contracting, Inc – James Harris Jr.

Adam’s Limousine, LTD – Lloyd Wheatley

Legal and Business Requirements:

Business License – Class Act is properly licensed to do business in all the municipalities, states and counties that it currently does business.

Tax Status – Class Act is in good standing with the Tax Authorities of

All local municipalities it does business and the Federal Government.

Executive Summary