RACINE - Organizers presented their vision for an "all-encompassing" Hispanic community center Tuesday at the center's first advisory committee meeting.

The center, which has Mayor John Dickert's backing, is planned to offer many different resources: health, education, crime, housing, business, law and art, to name a few, according to Marie Black and Rolando Gomez, the center's project leaders.

The center will also use resources from the various Hispanic-focused organizations already in place, Black and Gomez said at the meeting of 14 people at the City Hall Annex, 800 Center St. "We're not going to re-create the wheel," Gomez said.

The project should be complete by 2012, but Gomez and Black have set two dates this year for plans to progress: an Aug. 25 meeting to form the planning, fundraising and volunteer committees, and a Sept. 22 planning committee meeting to identify a temporary facility, as well as participating organizations.

"By the third meeting, we would already have rolled up our sleeves," Gomez said. Gomez and Black hope to have the center's full organizational structure and a Web site for donors in place before the September meeting.

No taxpayer money will be used for the center. Gomez and Black have begun looking for help from service groups and other organizations - such as the Hispanic Business Alliance - and looking for fundraising sources, they said.

Racine Police Chief Kurt Wahlen was at the meeting, and he said that the police could use the center to improve relations with the Hispanic community. The opportunity could help the police department improve its response to crimes targeted specifically to Hispanics. "We could be there and give talks on crime prevention," he said.

Gomez and Black said it was too early to say how much the center would cost to run, or how many people it would employ.