On a recommendation from District 2 Supervisor Dianne Jacob, the county board of supervisors approved $100,000 for Ramona Girls Softball improvements.
   The money is part of Jacob’s discretionary budget of $2 million per year and will be used to purchase new bleachers, dugout roofs, and backstops. The money also will be used to improve the bullpen and sideline areas of the field off Aqua Lane.
   Each of the county’s five supervisors is allocated $2 million a year to provide grants to nonprofit organizations for public purposes at the regional and community levels. In addition to nonprofit organizations, county supervisors have also funded school and fire department projects, and some supervisors have used the money to supplement other county funding for specific county projects such as parks, roads, and libraries.
   The county initiated the Community Projects Program in 1999 and renamed it the Neighborhood Reinvestment Program in September 2009. Each county supervisor recommends the allocation of his or her Neighborhood Reinvestment Program funds, and the allocations must be approved by a majority of the five-member board of supervisors.
   Ramona Girls Softball officials hope that the funding will allow their fields to be improved in time for their 2010 season opener this spring.