OCEANSIDE -- Anti-gang and family-care programs are in line to receive federal grant money via the city, but a senior transportation program and ex-Charger Junior Seau's teen fitness center could miss out.

The City Council on Wednesday will hear about 39 projects that would benefit from Community Development Block Grants, also called CDBG. Those federal funds, distributed each year by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, can be used for housing, public works or other community projects that benefit low- and moderate-income neighborhoods and residents.

The council is scheduled to vote on which projects to fund at a March 22 workshop.

Among the projects that have been recommended for the federal grants by a city grant committee are the Boys & Girls Club's Gangbusters program, the North County National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Stay in School Program, and the Oceanside recreation department's For Kids Sake Afterschool.

"It's not so much just after-school programs," said John Lundblad, the CDBG manager in Oceanside's Housing and Neighborhood Services department. "All of these, one way or another, deal with gang resistance and gang prevention."

Senior nutrition and other food programs, three health centers, and a crisis intervention program also got the nod from the city's committee.

Among the 16 programs that didn't meet the qualifications laid out by the grant committee are the Why Try? anti-gang school program, which has been running on a trial basis at Jefferson Middle School, and Seau's Club 55, a teen fitness center at the Boys & Girls Club that benefited from nearly $10,000 in CDBG funding last year. The committee also turned down a request by the city's Senior Commission to have its transportation program for elderly taxi vouchers considered for grant money.

"The CDBG committee, trying to balance all the needs, didn't want to (support the taxi voucher program)," Lundblad said.

Also Wednesday at the 5 p.m. council meeting at 300 N. Coast Hwy.:

n Under the consent calendar, council members will vote on a letter of support for the city's Gang Intervention and Prevention Program, which if approved will be sent to Congressman Darrell Issa, Sen. Barbara Boxer, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein in the hopes of getting $350,000 in grant money from the Department of Justice's Juvenile Justice Program.

The letter, written by Mayor Jim Wood, endorses the Boys & Girls Club's Gangbusters, Integracion Latina, Why Try?, Set Free Ministries, and From the Inside Out as specific anti-gang groups the city is working with to curb the city's gang problems.

Contact staff writer Chris Tribbey at (760) 901-4067 or ctribbey@nctimes.com.