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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCommunity Development Block Grant PH SOUTHOLD TOWN BOARD PUBLIC HEARING November 19, 2013 4:35 PM Present: Supervisor Scott Russell Justice Louisa Evans Councilman William Ruland Councilman Christopher Talbot Councilwoman Jill Doherty Councilman James Dinizio, Jr. *~s Town Clerk Elizabeth Neville Town Attorney Martin Finnegan This hearing was opened at 4:54 PM COUNCILMAN TALBOT: In April, 2014 the Town of Southold expects to receive approximately $98,385.00 in Federal Community Development Block Grant Funds. These funds may be used, and have been previously used for a variety of projects to be selected by local officials. Eligible activities include: Acquisition and demolition of blighted property Housing rehabilitation Elimination of physical barriers for the handicapped Public facilities and improvements Street Reconstruction Code Enforcement Public Water projects Economic Development Public Services (total allotment limited to 15%) Town Residents are invited to attend this public hearing on Tuesday. November 19.2013.4:35 P. M. at the Southold Town Hall, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York, to express citizen views on local housing community development needs to be met with these funds. I have a notice that it was posted on the Town Clerk's bulletin board on October 23, 2013 and it was also posted in the Suffolk Times on October 31, 2013 and that is it. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Would anybody like to be heard on this particular local law? Please. I just ask that you state your name. Community Development Block Grant Public Hearing 2 November 19, 2013 KATHRYN GUTLEBER: My name is Kathryn Gutleber, I am real estate project development manager for Habitat for Humanity of Suffolk. I am before you again for the Community Development Block Grant funding for a project that we are looking to take title on. It is 550 Greenway East in Orient. So as some of you may know Habitat for Humanity of Suffolk was founded in 1987 as an independent local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, a non- profit affordable housing organization. We work in partnership with thousands of Suffolk county volunteers and responsible, low-moderate income partner families to build and renovate homes. Our goal is to create decent and affordable houses in communities in which people can live and grown. As you know, we are currently working towards obtaining title of a property located at 550 Greenway East in Orient. HFHS is currently working with Suffolk County and Fidelity National Title to clear one exception on the property in order to obtain clear title. Once we take title of the subject site, HFHS plans to demolish the existing blighted home and build a new, affordable home for a low-moderate income family. AS a non-profit affordable housing organization, we rely on the generosity of donated land and infrastructure support from Suffolk County and its various townships, as well as support in the form of grants and tax exemptions. The Town of Southold has generously reserved Community Development Block Grant funding in the amount of $10,000 toward the demolition of the existing blighted home at 550 Greenway East. In order to further assist with the development of the new home at 550 Greenway East, HFHS is formally requesting the use of an additional $10,000 in CDBG funds from the Town of Southold. The additional CDBG funding will be used toward building infrastructure and materials for the new home. By securing this additional funding, HFHS will be better able to ensure that we will have the funds necessary to not only demolish the existing home in a timely manner but to begin construction on a new, affordable home for a deserving working class family within the Town of Southold. Thank you. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Thank you very much. As you know, we have been supportive of the project. I would just urge you to reach out to the community association if you haven't already to discuss your plans with them and include them every step of the way. MS. GUTLEBER: Yes. We have been working very closely with them in order to do that. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Very good. Thank you. Would anybody else like to be heard on the issue of Community Block Grant Funds? DWAYNE WAGNER: I have a hand-out for the Board. Good afternoon, my name is Dwayne Wagner, I am appearing on behalf of Maureen's Haven. I am an immediate past chair of Maureen's Haven and I thank you for allowing us to present again to you, I have appeared before you in the past. For those that aren't familiar with Maureen's Haven, the mission of Maureen's Haven is to provide temporary shelter to homeless using houses of worship in the community of the north and south forks from the months of November through March. Specifically in the Town of Southold Maureen's Haven has partnered with the First Unitarian church of Southold, First Presbyterian church of Southold, St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Southold, St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Greenport and Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church in Cutchogue. To give you an update, last winter we made 5,433 beds using volunteers in the houses of worship not only in Southold but in a number of other south fork and north fork towns. We used the money that you have generously provided to fund not only the day center, I don't know if you Community Development Block Grant Public Hearing 3 November 19, 2013 are familiar with this but last year we opened a day center in the Town of Riverhead which was an expanded facility which it was intended to actually bridge the gap past the immediate sheltering needs of the homeless and provide job training and next step services so that the individual clients that we serve could become employed and become self-sufficient. It also provided, that center, provided some computer training and a place for our clients to be during the day, so that they weren't forced after being in a church, a house of worship at night, being turned out on the street. This day center which you helped pay for as far as its monthly operating costs, allows them to actually get training and be off the street in the middle of the winter rather than be placed back on, essentially being placed back on the street until they were brought back in in the evening to another house of worship. So in summary, that is how we operate. Really our strength is the volunteers, 1,500 volunteers in 32 houses of worship donate their time to basically provide this day to day sheltering from November 1 to April 1. Given Sandy and the economic conditions, we greatly appreciate your continued support and would respectfully request that you do that. If you have any questions for me, I would be happy to answer them. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: I would just, first of all, thank you for being here tonight and on the larger perspective, thank you for everything you and your group are doing. MR. WAGNER: Thank you. Thank you for helping us. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Thank you. Would anybody else like to be heard on the issue of Community Development Block Grant funding? Please. SARAH BENJAMIN: Hi, I am Sarah Benjamin, I am the director of Community Action Southold Town and we are in our 48th year and I know that you are aware that our mission is to promote self-sufficiency and to provide a safety net for Southold Town residents in need. CAST answers the requests of over 6,000 people a year. It is about 25-30 people a day that come in for one reason or another. We have 266 families certified for our food pantry and we are asking again for your continued support as we provide for the 281 adults, 260 children and 35 seniors that take advantage of our food pantry. As per the Town of Southold comprehensive plan census of 2010, there are about 276 families affected by poverty in Southold Town. That was about 4.5% of the families. But the numbers have increased sharply in the past 3 years and food scarcity is an ongoing concern for many people even here in Southold, our home. Government assistance is down and food prices are up. You could spend $3 to $5 on a loaf of bread and $4 on a gallon of milk and American cheese is $6.99 a pound. It is difficult. Times are tough. Thanks to your support, we are able to help families on a regular basis with basics to help with their food budget. Thank you and please consider that again and in the future. We would like to ask just one more consideration, if it is not out of line, not to bring, take away anything from your consideration of funding our food pantry but CAST is implementing a new program called North Fork Parent Child Home Program this year. It is an early literacy family support for families of poverty, it is home visiting which is a method of service delivery that has been effective with families of poverty for hundreds of years in America. And we are getting back into home visiting here in Southold Town. The program, the Parent Child program also has a 48year history here on Long Island. It is in over 155 different sites and different countries in the country and in other countries. But it would be the first time for Southold Town. We really believe that the key to the self-sufficiency part for families is education and it starts really early. Community Development Block Grant Public Hearing 4 November 19, 2013 Scientists told us what happens early lasts forever. And that children can be ready for school and ready to learn that they are going to graduate at a higher rate and become more self-sufficient. We have 5 nursery schools in the Town of Southold and Head Start is the main one that provides for families of poverty and they are down to serving 36 children. So it is an underserved population, our early childhood people and families of poverty in Southold Town. We are not talking tens of thousands but we are talking maybe a 1,000 children with 36 slots. Not all of them are families of poverty. So we are trying to make a difference with CAST, with this new initiative, the funding for this is coming from grants from several foundations outside of our town and we wanted you to at least be aware, the other schools are mostly all for people that can pay tuition, so this would be a new initiative to reach young children and parents and help them. Thank you. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Thank you very much. Would anybody else like to be heard on the issue of Community Block Grant Funding? (No response) This hearing was closed at 6:06 PM Eliz th A. Neville Southold Town Clerk COMMUNITY ACTION SOUTHOLD TOWN, INC. 311 Front Street • P.O. Box 159 • Greenport, NY 11944 T. (631) 477-1717 0 F. (631) 477-1788 W. www.castsoutholdtown.org • E. cast311@optonline.net "it is our mission to promote self sufficiency andprovide a safety net for Southold Town residents in need." November 19, 2013 Phillip Beltz RECEIVED Special Projects Coordinator NOV 19 Town of Southold Town Hall Southold Town Ceti Southold, NY 11971 Dear Mr. Beltz, On behalf of Community Action Southold Town, Inc. the following information is for your consideration as a request for funding under the Federal Community Development Block Grant Funds. Our primary request is for continued funding for the CAST Food Pantry. Food scarcity is increasing and of those who are affected CAST is one of their only options for support. In addition, we are mentioning a new program initiative that CAST has started to serve families of young children in Southold Town who have no access to early childhood education. The North Fork Parent-Child Home Program is a new site of an evidence- based home visiting program and is not funded out of our general fund, but is grant funded. We would very much appreciate consideration of the town to contribute to this program, however not at the expense of the food pantry. Sincerely, Sarah Benjamin Denis Noncarrow Director President NEIGHBORS NEIGHBORS Board Members Denis Noncarrow, President • Peggy Murphy, vice President • Jeanne Kelley, Treasurer Christine DiBona, Secretary • Lisa Boyd • Dave Hewitt • Scott Ellis • Ellen Neff • Sarah Benjamin, Director Community Action Southold Town, 311 Front Street, Greenport, NY 11944 Community Action Southold Town (CAST) is a Not-For-Profit (5010) organization incorporated in 1965 to help low-income residents meet their basic needs. We address the areas of nutrition, clothing, employment, energy, housing and education. Advocacy, referral and assistance are offered to help families in need to get services from other sources such as Social services, Energy Assistance, Social Security etc. We also help families move towards self-sufficiency with various educational programs at different times. It is the mission of Community Action of Southold Town to promote self-sufficiency and provide a safety net for Southold Town residents in need. CAST provides comprehensive wrap-around services for high-need students and their families. Our continued goal is to improve student and family well being through direct services and referrals. CAST for almost 50 years has served people on the North Fork of Suffolk County. Southold Town encompasses almost 54 square miles of land from the western end of the Town of Riverhead in Laurel to the end of the island at Orient Point. CAST answers the requests of over 6000 individuals a year. Two of the Proerams CAST Provides in Direct Services to Families: Food Pantry Staff and volunteers help keep the CAST food pantry stocked with non-perishable food items to help families who have limited financial resources with weekly food bags. In addition, CAST provides supplemental feeding programs to families with school-aged children, especially those who receive free/reduced breakfast/lunch at school during school vacation weeks and summer recess. Local organizations, faith-based and secular, as well as public donations in local supermarkets add to the stock. CAST would like to ask for the Town's support again for the food pantry. There are over 266 eligible families of poverty signed up to our food pantry. That is 381 adults, 260 children and 35 seniors. North Fork Parent-Child Home Program CAST is in the beginning stages of developing a Parent-Child Home Program site that will provide a developmentally appropriate early-childhood education and parent support program to be delivered in the homes for eligible families across the town. This program will begin in the fall of 2013. We would also like to be considered for a small grant for our new program. The Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP) is a research-based early literacy, school readiness and parenting education program that prepares young children for school success by increasing language and literacy skills, enhancing social-emotional development and strengthening the parent- child relationship which provides critical support to at-risk families. The Program provides two years of intensive home visiting to families with children 16 months:4 years of age who are challenged by poverty, low levels of education, and other obstacles to healthy child development such as homelessness. The Program was developed in 1965 and currently serves more than 6,500 families throughout over 150 communities in 14 states and also serves children internationally in Canada, Ireland, and Bermuda. The Parent-Child Home Program, Inc., which houses the Program's National Center, was incorporated as a non-profit in 1978 and provides training, technical assistance, and quality assurance to all replication sites. It has been serving families on Long Island for almost 50 years and recognizes the benefits of the Program as a protective factor for needy families. PCHP is supported by decades of research on brain development and the importance of parent-child verbal interaction, as well as more recent research demonstrating that children's cognitive and social-emotional development are interwoven and are most successfully nurtured within a positive relationship with a primary caregiver. PCHP promotes a safe and healthy development and school success by stimulating reading, conversation, and play between parents and their children. The Program helps parents create a language-rich home environment and prepares them to actively participate in their children's development and education. In the PCHP model the Home Visitor supports the parent as the child's first and most important teacher and advocate and acts as a protective factor for the family by developing a long-term relationship with the parent and connecting them to needed services in the community. Unfortunately, there is very little early childhood education available for children of poverty on the North Fork. Due to a lack of funding, the recent closing of the only day-care center and cuts to existing federal programs such as Head Start, less and less children in this district can access early childhood education. The North Fork Head Start is only able to serve 36 children of low income in Southold town. According to the Town of Southold Full Demographic Inventory for the Comprehensive plan many hundreds of families in Southold are affected by poverty. It is estimated that 4.5% of families are in poverty. Over 1000 children are under the age of 5 and so many of these are also affected by poverty. They only have the 36 slots at Head Start for these children and all the rest must pay tuition at one of the 4 other preschools in Town. Presently there are no home visiting programs in the geographic catchment area of CAST that provides early childhood education or literacy services for families. This is an extreme area of need in our town. This program, The Parent-Child Home Program with its proven outcomes, would meet the need of the most at-risk families in the district for early education. We are seeking to begin in a few weeks. Community Action Southold Town has been traditionally the go-to agency serving families of poverty. Our agency hopes to become a leader in serving the youngest children in need, through this home visiting program. This program would benefit the isolated families with young children who have little or no transportation. There are many families in our town that are living below the poverty line with young children. Using the home-visiting model, transportation gaps are overcome and the continuity of services often lost in highly mobile families is provided. The connection to and relationship with the Program Coordinator and Home Visitors, who find isolated families and stay connected to them over a period of several years, becomes a critical source of support. Research has proven that a relationship with even one competent and caring adult can make the difference in the life of a parent and their family, acting as a lifeline to the community at-large and bridging the gap between parents and schools. We will serve families affected by poverty, homelessness and those from migrant families across Southold. Sarah Benjamin, CAST Director had successfully developed the first Parent-Child Home Program model to serve homeless families with the Mobile Outreach Parent-Child Home Program which gained National attention and recognition from 2001- 2013. Presently Sarah has brought her experience and expertise to her home town, Southold, to better serve families with young children with this essential and effective program. See: www.parent-child.org for more information PARENT-CHILD HOME PROGRAM A PROVEN BEGINNING FOR SCHOOL SUCCESS SINCE 1%5 The Parent-Child Home Program 1415 Kellum Place, Suite 101, Garden City, NY 11530 www.parent-child.org 516-883-74801516-883-7481 (fax) February 7, 2013 To Whom It May Concern: The Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP) is an evidence-based, research-validated early childhood literacy, parenting, and school readiness program. The Program uses trained paraprofessionals to work with families who have not had access to educational and economic opportunities, preparing children for academic success and strengthening families through intensive home visiting. Sarah Benjamin, Director of Community Action Southold Town (CAST), has the support of The Parent-Child Home Program's National Center in Garden City, New York to begin the process of establishing a new Parent-Child Home Program site in Southold Town on the North Fork of the eastern end of Suffolk County. Southold covers 53.7 square miles and includes six school districts. CAST, a 501c3 non-profit agency focused on promoting self-sufficiency and providing a safety net for Southold Town residents in need, has served the neediest families in the town since the early 1960's. The North Fork Parent-Child Home Program will operate under the auspices of CAST. The Program's proven success at preparing low-income, high need children for school success by building language and literacy-rich home environments and strengthening families will be a powerful addition to CAST's self-sufficiency goals. Sarah Benjamin's outstanding work as the founder and leader of the Mobile Outreach Parent-Child Home Program, which provides the Parent-Child Home Program to homeless families in Suffolk County, makes her the ideal person to lead the implementation of PCHP in Southold Town. We offer our support to CAST in the development of this new local PCHP site, enabling PCHP to reach the needy families of Southold for the first time, and would be happy to answer any questions concerning PCHP and/or the proposal for a new Southold site. Very truly yours, Sarah E. Walzer, CEO Sarah Benjamin Bio Sarah Benjamin has a Master of Arts in Child and Family Studies and a BS in Human Development from the State University of New York. She is Director of Community Action Southold Town in Greenport, NY. Previously she was Teacher Coordinator of Mobile Outreach Parent-Child Home Program (MOPCHP) of Eastern Suffolk BOCES serving homeless families in Suffolk County, New York. Sarah has a Post-Graduate Certificate in Infant - Parent Development from the Institute for Infants, Children and Families at the Jewish Board of Children and Family Services in New York City. Sarah was also the Eastern Suffolk BOCES Homeless Liaison for Suffolk County Homeless Children and Youth and acts as an education advocate/homeless liaison for all school districts, agencies serving homeless and shelter providers in Suffolk County. In 2008 Sarah was named as `An Outstanding Educator In a Program' by the National Association for the Education Of Homeless Children and Youth at their 20th Annual National Conference in Washington, D.C. Sarah is an Alumni Fellow of the Zero To Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families Leaders for the 21" Century and has published an article in the Zero to Three Journal, January 2010, Volume 30, Number 3, Homeless Families With Infants and Toddlers, Prenaring The Youngest Children for School Success. The Parent-Child Home Program. In 2011 she was the Teacher Recipient of the Eastern Suffolk BOCES Board Lighthouse Award and most recently has collaborated on an 11 minute film with Filmmaker Diane Nilan of Hear US, Inc. entitled Littlest Nomads, to raise awareness of the plight of early childhood homelessness in America. PARENT-CMILQ 140ME PROGRAM RESEARCH VALIDATED MODEL • Trained home visitors make 92 biweekly visits over a 2-year period. • Visitors model reading, play, and conversation activities for parents and children. t Families receive a minimum of 46 books and educational toys. • Curriculum guides provide families additional literacy and school readiness activities. r. • Coordinators connect participants to other social and educational services. • Coordinators help enroll graduates in high quality preschool programs. "Promising Program that Works," Rand's Promising Practices Network "Bright Spot Program," The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading NATIONAL CENTER SUPPORT The Parent-Child Home Program's National Center ensures low-income families across the country have access to the Program by; • Identifying high-need areas and working with local agencies to successfully implement the Program in their communities. • Providing comprehensive training, support, and technical assistance. • Supporting quality Program implementation through annual certifications and regular evaluations, • Promoting parent-child interaction and home visiting to support school readiness at local, state, and national levels. • Providing seed funding and assisting with fundraising to start, sustain, and expand services in high need communities. • Conducting an annual conference on home visiting early literacy strategies and parent child interactions. FAMILIES SERVED- 2 r - "Without the encouragement of this program I would not have learned to read and play with my children every night. The Program brought us all y' closer...and helped my children to adjust' and enter school ready to learn." e that low-income families across the country are provided with the best possible home visiting services to promote early literacy and school readiness. 1 ~ Valu NM Help us close the achievement gap - ' IFewtSbr CAPII11 FSill 7PU57 visit www.Parent-child.or9 to donate today. - - - PARENT-CHILD HOME PROGRAM A PROVEN BEGINNING FOR SCHOOL SUCCESS SINCE 1%5 PROGRAM OVERVIEW THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP STARTS EARLY Research shows that daily reading and regular conversation with Lt By Kindergarten Low-Income Middle-Income caring adult are the foundation of early literacy and school success. Children who enter school without this foundation are unlikely to be Age appropriate 1 vs. 54 books at home reading on grade level by 3rd grade and more likely to drop out of high school. This cl lever it yap begins at none Before cl-il;irer even enter scha 1-on-1 reading time 25 hours vs. 1,700 hours The Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP) works to close tri: Listening vocabulary 3,000 words vs. 20,000 words achievement gap by giving low-income parents the tools, skills, aria encouragement to prepare their children for school success. The Letter recognition 1.2 vs. 26 nationally replicated, evidence-based Program provides a 2-yea cycle of twice weekly home visits to two to four-year-olds and their parents. Using books and educational toys that are gifts to the family, trained home visitors model reading, play, and conversation activities, building language rich home environments, increasing positive parent-child interaction, and developing pre-literacy and social emotional skills that are essential for school readiness,. l ' jurt f' - RESEARCH VALIDATED PARTICIPANT OUTCOMES Over the past 45 year.;, research and evaluations have consistently shown that PCHP graduates: • Increase, on average, 17 points on IQ assessments. 40% of children enter • Perform significantly better on school readiness measures than kindergarten unprepared. their socio-economic peers. 10 points higher on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test PC H P s proven to 0 months above their chronological age on the Daberon 'prepare graduates • Ar _ 50% less likely to be referred to special education services by the 3rd grade. for school success. • Graduate from high school at the rate of middle class children, >n% higher than their socio-economic peers. COST EFFECTIVENESS • Savings of approximately $210,000 per child on reduced Over 5 million children need for special services. • Earnings increase of 5.66% above state average. are from low-income families. • Estimated $600,000 - $1,000,000 increase in lifetime o v r 7 1111000 annually earnings per participant. PCHP and, with your support, can reach Help us close the achievement gap- many more families in need. visit www.parent-child.org to donate today. n _ -'9 . e i Cr. !.I H me Program 1 1415 Kellum Place, Suite 101 1 Garden City, NY 'I 1530 1516.883.7480 1516.883.7481 (f) I www.parent-child.org 643 WWI( Goontry Rocid Habitat for Humanity 19 88 : 20 13 www,habitatsuf to ik.ot (i November 1, 2013 RECENED Philip Beltz, Special Projects Coordinator KIV 19 30 Southold Town Hall 53095 Main Rd. >outhold Town Clerk P.O. Box 1179 Southold, NY 11971 Re: 550 Greenway East, Orient (Tax Map No. 1000-15.00-02.00-14.000) Dear Mr. Beltz, Habitat for Humanity of Suffolk (HFHS) was founded in 1987 as an independent local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, a non-profit affordable housing organization. We work in partnership with thousands of Suffolk County volunteers and responsible, low-moderate income partner families to build and renovate homes. Our goal is to create decent and affordable houses in communities in which people can live and grow. As you know, we are currently working towards obtaining title of a property located at 550 Greenway East, Orient (Tax Map No. 1000- 15.00-02.00-14.000). HFHS is currently working with Suffolk County and Fidelity National Title to clear one exception on the property in order to obtain clear title. Once we take title of the subject site, HFHS plans to demolish the existing blighted home and build a new, affordable home for a low-moderate income family. As a non-profit affordable housing organization, we rely on the generosity of donated land and infrastructure support from Suffolk County and its various Townships, as well as support in the form of grants and tax exemptions. The Town of Southold has generously reserved Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding in the amount of $10,000 toward the demolition of the existing blighted home at 550 Greenway East. In order to further assist with the development of the new home at 550 Greenway East, HFHS is formally requesting the use of an additional $10,000 in CDBG Funds from the Town of Southold. The additional CDBG funding will be used toward building infrastructure and materials for the new home. By securing this additional funding, HFHS will be better able to ensure that we will have the funds necessary to not only demolish the existing home in a timely manner, but to begin construction on a new, affordable home for a deserving, low-moderate income family within the Town of Southold. Phone 631 HABITAT s On behalf of HFHS, we thank you in advance for your assistance with this project. Please do not hesitate to call me if you have any questions or concerns. In Partnership, ~.ti.e.._ ane Burke Interim Executive Director Habitat for Humanity of Suffolk 643 Middle Country Road Middle Island, NY 11953 (631) 924-4966 x 101 dianeL&habitatsuffol k.or~ .awl t c. a y RECEI nY,.D E Remarks to Southold Town Supervisor and members of the Town Board aoarhold Town Clerk Community Development Public Hearing November 19, 2013, 4:35 pm Good Evening. My name is Dwayne Wagner, immediate past chair of the board of Maureen's Haven. Thank you for the opportunity to address you today in order to request funding for the Maureen's Haven Homeless Outreach Program operated under the auspices of Peconic Community Council. The goal of Maureen's Haven is to provide safe, warm temporary shelter to homeless individuals from November through March utilizing volunteer houses of worship and congregation volunteers. The host facilities and supporting organizations provide much more than a place to sleep and a nutritious dinner and breakfast. They provide support through embracing the values of human dignity, respect, service, compassion, teamwork, diversity and love. Now entering its twelfth season of service, the program provides shelter and supportive services five nights a week in partnership with 15 Host Houses of Worship, 17 Supporting Houses of Worship and Community Organizations and over 1,500 individual volunteers providing an estimated 20,000 hours of service each winter season. Peconic Community Council is responsible for screening and transporting the homeless guests to the host facilities each night. In October 2011, we opened a day center in order to provide services focused on building self-sufficiency skills and also to provide respite during the day for those in need. Programs and services at the day center are also volunteer-driven. Last winter we served 312 individuals over 108 nights. Our average number of guests per evening was 50 with a high of 60. Overall 5,433 beds were made for the season. Of that total, 79% were male and 21% were female. It is important to note that due to the ever declining economy, the number of new homeless has risen and the working poor are included in our guest list. In fact, about 10% of those served this past season were newly homeless due to loss or decline in income. The impact of our work can best be told through the stories of the men and women who come to us for assistance: Board of Directors r,. a,. Joann Piche, LMSW Chair, Jacqueline Stein, Esq., Vice Chair, Laura Barrie, Secretary Ellen Cea, Kay Kidde, Maria Moore, Esq., Jim Morgo, Eric Ripert, Joyce Skarka, Dwayne S. Wagner, Esq. + Susan has suffered from depression most of her adult life but was always able to work and provide for herself and her children. After the tragic death of her oldest son, Susan fell into a deep depression and was unable to work to support her family. Eventually, her children went to live with their father and Susan became homeless. She began using the ovemight shelter services offered here at Maureen's Haven and through the support of volunteers and staff, she slowly regained her ability to manage her life and begin the healing process over the loss of her son. Today, Susan lives independently, is employed and has regular contact with her children. Henryk, age 77 and suffering from dementia, was brought to our center by a concemed community member. He had no family and no support system. He stayed with us for several months until we secured supportive housing and a day program for adults specializing in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. We check on him regularly and he is healthy and happy in his new home. In an effort to provide services to the homeless in Southold Town, we have partnered and collaborated with the faith community to provide overnight shelter and other supportive services. Participating congregations include The First Unitarian Church of Southold, The First Presbyterian Church of Southold, St. Patrick's RC Church in Southold, St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Greenport and Sacred Heart RC Church in Cutchogue. We are very appreciative of the past support we have received from the Town of Southold and respectfully request funding once again in support of our program. We ask the Town Board to consider an allocation of $10,000 to assist in the cost of screening and transporting our guests to the host facilities throughout the season, ongoing operations of our new day center and to offset the salaries of the program staff. Thank you for your consideration of this request. new UAa 1 program to lend helping hand to parents, kids By Pad Sguin 11/14/2013 11:10 AM I Community. Top News uke 2A Tweet i: t K-1 0 1 JOSEPH PINCIARO PHOTO I Offering children's books will be one segment of a new program offered by CAST. Spending quality time with your child may not seem like a difficult task, but for impoverished families on the North Fork, it can be hard books and toys necessary for reading to and playing with their children, said Sarah Benjamin, director of Community Action Southold T A new program offered by the nonprofit hopes to change that for about 45 needy families, giving them the support to properly parent the without doing the work for them. CAST has begun ramping up its efforts toward the Parent-Child Home Program, a national initiative launched on Long Island in 1965, tt children between 18 months and 2 years of age. Through the effort, CAST will send home-workers to the houses of participating families for two years, dropping off donated books and encouraging the parents to read to and play with their children. "It's like being a good neighbor," Ms. Benjamin said, adding that the program will follow poor families in the town to their new homes c they should havCto move. "We want the mother to be the hero." CAST will pay the home-workers and the roughly $30,000 program cost through grants and donations, including the Ronan Guyer Fund, donations set up in memory of the Southold teen who died during a cross country meet a year ago this week. The Southold Rotary also d( toward the program. The program will service about 20 families across Southold Town in its first year, doubling the number next year, she said. She said that Ms. Benjamin said it's essential for young children to be read to and engaged while their brains are still developing. "If you start behind, you stay behind," she said. The program's goal is to help pull families out of poverty by educating their children, making them "self-sufficient," Ms. Benjamin said. "We're empowering the parent to do it," she said Ms. Benjamin - who helped organize the same program for Eastern Suffolk BOCES for 12 years before she joined CAST - said she's project's effects firsthand. "I know that it works," she said "We have a real hope that this is going to slowly and quietly, but consistently, make a difference in the families on the North Fork" #11401 STATE OF NEW YORK) ) SS: COUNTY OF SUFFOLK) Karen Kine of Mattituck, in said county, being duly sworn, says that she is Principal Clerk of THE SUFFOLK TIMES, a weekly newspaper, published at Mattituck, in the Town of Southold, County of Suffolk and State of New York, and that the Notice of which the annexed is a printed copy, has been regularly published in said Newspaper once each week for 1 week(s) successfully commencing on the 31St day of October, 2013. i i Principal Clerk Sworn to before me this day of Kb/ V 2013. LEGAL NOTICE 1 I / Citizens' Ideas Wanted On Community Development Program 1 Announcement of Public Nearing In April, 2014 the Town of Southold CHRISTINA VOUNSKI expects to receive approximately NOTARY PUELIC-STATE OF NEW YORK $98,385.00 in Federal Community De- velopment Block Grant Funds. These I`~' r1VGGi~5p..0 funds may be used, and have been previ- ?cJt e.! !n SUf.a1K county ously used for a variety of projects to be selected by local officials. My Comm is,!or. ft~ires Fib'.uoly 28, 2016 Eligible activities include: Acquisition and demolition of blight- ed property Housing rehabilitation Elimination of physical barriers for the handicapped • Public facilities and improvements Street Reconstruction Code Enforcement Public Water projects Economic Development Public Services (total allotment lim- ited to 15%) Town Residents are invited to attend this public hearing on Tuesday. Novem- ber 19. 2013, 4.35 P. M. at the Southold Town Hall, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York, to express citizen views on local housing community development needs to be met with these funds. Dated: October 8, 2014 BY ORDER OF THETOWNBOARD OFTHE TOWN OF SOUTHOLD Elizabeth Neville Town Clerk 111401-IT 10/31 STATE OF NEW YORK) SS: COUNTY OF SUFFOLK) ELIZABETH A. NEVILLE, Town Clerk of the Town of Southold, New York being duly sworn, says that on the day of pelp/~I,tTlD13, she affixed a notice of which the annexed printed notice is a true copy, in a proper and substantial manner, in a most public place in the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, New York, to wit: Town Clerk's Bulletin Board, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York. Re: 2014 CDBG Hearing • Elizabeth A. Nevi le Southold Town Clerk Sworn before me this day of 2013. Notary Pu 1c LINDA J COOPER NOTARY PUBLIC, State of New York NO. 01C04822563, Suffolk CoU f • Term Expires December 31, 207 LEGAL NOTICE Citizen's Ideas Wanted On Community Development Program Announcement of Public Hearing In April, 2014 the Town of Southold expects to receive approximately $98,385.00 in Federal Community Development Block Grant Funds. These funds may be used, and have been previously used for a variety of projects to be selected by local officials. Eligible activities include: Acquisition and demolition of blighted property Housing rehabilitation Elimination of physical barriers for the handicapped Public facilities and improvements Street Reconstruction Code Enforcement Public Water projects Economic Development Public Services (total allotment limited to 15%) Town Residents are invited to attend this public hearing on Tuesday. November 19, 2013,4:35 P. M. at the Southold Town Hall, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York, to express citizen views on local housing community development needs to be met with these funds. Dated: October 8, 2014 BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF SOUTHOLD Elizabeth Neville Town Clerk PLEASE PUBLISH ON October 31, 2013, AND FORWARD ONE (1) AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION TO ELIZABETH NEVILLE, TOWN CLERK, TOWN HALL, PO • BOX 1179, SOUTHOLD, NY 11971. Copies to the following: The Suffolk Times Town Attorney Phillip Beltz Comptroller Town Board Members Town Clerk's Bulletin Board James McMahon Website Southold Town Board - Letter Board Meeting of October 8, 2013 rm~+. RESOLUTION 2013-733 Item # 5.17 ` " ADOPTED DOC ID: 9134 THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION NO. 2013-733 WAS ADOPTED AT THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE SOUTHOLD TOWN BOARD ON OCTOBER 8,2013; RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby sets 4:35 PM, Tuesday, November 19.2013, Southold Town Hall, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York 11971, as the time and place for a Public Hearing to hear citizens views on local housing and community development needs to be met with approximately $98,385.00 in Community Development Block Grant funds the Town of Southold expects to receive in April 2014 and authorizes the Town Clerk to publish an "Announcement of Public Hearing Notice". 0C?.? • Elizabeth A. Neville Southold Town Clerk RESULT: ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: Christopher Talbot, Councilman SECONDER: Louisa P. Evans, Justice AYES: Dinizio Jr, Ruland, Doherty, Talbot, Evans, Russell • Generated October 9, 2013 Page 26 Cooper, Linda From: Cooper, Linda Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 11:02 AM To: Reisenberg, Lloyd Subject: 2014 CD Block Grant PH Attachments: 2014 CD Block Grant.doc Please post on Town's website when you get a chance. Thanx • • i Cooper, Linda From: Reisenberg, Lloyd Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 12:38 PM To: Cooper, Linda Subject: RE: 2014 CD Block Grant PH Posted Lloyd H. Reisenberg Network and Systems Administrator Town of Southold, New York 1?mailaloyd. reisenbergCdjown..southold. ny.us O: 631-765-1891 C:631-879-1554 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication with its contents may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. It is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). Unauthorized interception, review, use or disclosure is prohibited and may violate applicable laws including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of the communication. Irom: Cooper, Linda Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 11:02 AM To: Reisenberg, Lloyd Subject: 2014 CD Block Grant PH Please post on Town's website when you get a chance. Thanx • 1 Cooper, Linda From: Tracey Doubrava <toubrava@timesreview.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 9:48 AM To: Cooper, Linda Subject: Re: 2014 CD Block Grant Hi Linda, Had not received. Have it now and will have published in the 10/31 edition of the Suffolk Times. Hope you enjoyed your vacation! Thanks. Tracey Doubrava Display Ad Sales Coordinator Times/Review News Group 7785 Main Rd. P.O. Box 1500 Mattituck, NY 11952 (631) 298-3200 tdoubrava@timesreview.com From: <Cooper>, Linda <Linda.Cooper@town.southold.nv.us> Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 9:43 AM To: tr-legals <leaals@timesreview.com> Subject: 2014 CD Block Grant Good morning. I just got back from a 2 week vacation and I cannot remember IF I sent this notice to you. (I swear I get more forgetful by the minute!) If I haven't please schedule this legal notice for the 10/31/13 edition of the Suffolk Times and confirm receipt of this notice. anks again for all your help. 1