Celebrating the last legislative step in a decade-long effort to revive the “Q House,” the Board of Alders unanimously approved a three-year, $300,000 contract between the city and LEAP that will have the local youth tutoring and recreation agency run the reborn Dixwell Avenue community center.

City legislators took that vote Monday night during the latest full Board of Alders meeting, held online via Zoom and YouTube Live.

The alders unanimously approved a contract that would have the city pay the long-time tutoring and swimming instruction nonprofit LEAP—short for Leadership, Education And Athletics In Partnership Inc.—up to $100,000 each year for the next three years to manage the soon-to-reopen “Q” House.

The resolution approved on Monday night also allows the city to funnel public money already earmarked by the city Youth and Recreation Department for Q House programming directly to LEAP each year. Another provision of the amended agreement would allow the city and LEAP to accept financial contributions outside of city funding to support programming and operations of the Q House.

In previous public meetings and comments, LEAP Executive Director Henry Fernandez has estimated that his organization will still need to fundraise several hundred thousand dollars each year on top of the city allocation in order to cover the full budget of running the community center, which will include a dance studio, a music studio, a gym, an arts studio, a kitchen, the Stetson Library, the Cornell Scott Hill Health Center, a senior center, and various community meeting rooms.