The city is struggling through tough times, but you’d never know it from the way the City Council is doling out pork — including $85,000 earmarked for a group Mayor Bloomberg disqualified from getting taxpayer money last year.

The grants to the Davidson Community Center in The Bronx are included in the council’s spending report for fiscal year 2010, released last night and expected to be approved by lawmakers today.

Following the discovery last year of a City Council slush fund that stashed dough for fake groups to later spend on pet projects, a rigorous review process was put in place. As a result, Bloomberg’s office yanked $10,000 slated for the Davidson center earlier this year, citing “poor performance on past contracts.”

But that didn’t stop Councilmembers Maria Baez and Joel Rivera. Both of the Bronx Democrats earmarked a combined $85,000 for the group in the budget, according to the lengthy list of grants.

The money is designated for a commercial revitalization program and educational programming and computers for job training.

Maria Alvarado, a spokeswoman to Council Speaker Christine Quinn, said Davidson is among many groups that are still in the “full review process” and will not receive the money until it “demonstrates that it has improved sufficiently.”

Overall, council spending is going up $300,000, reaching $48.8 million when the new fiscal year begins July 1.

The largesse is split up among the council’s 51 members for pet projects and nonprofits in their districts and more expensive programs they fund with the speaker’s pot of money.

It will be a good year for outdoor festivities, with a total of $132,500 being handed out to a variety of parades, $32,000 going to an organization that shows films outdoors and $10,000 paying for block parties.

Another $10,000 is going to a program to teach disadvantaged kids in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, how to play golf, and $4,000 will pay for helping children learn about fashion modeling to build their self-confidence.

Alvarado pointed out that the entire council spending package is down to $362.3 million this year from $411.3 million last year when citywide programs funded by the council are added.

Source: NY Post