RS5 National Community Development Week
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A resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring the week of April first through the fifth, n twenty twenty four. as National Community Development Week in Pasco County. Whereas the Pasco County communities are the fountain Whereas Pasco County's communities are the foundation of providing a high quality of life for its residents, and Pasco County's Community Development Department has developed a dedication to homeless initiatives and revitalization of nep
of neighborhoods and production of affordable housing. And whereas the week of April 1 through 5, 2024, has been designated as National Community Development Week by the National Association of Counties and the National Community Development Association to celebrate the Community Development Block Grant Program and the Home Investment Partnerships Program. And whereas in nineteen seventy-four, Congress enacted the Housing and Community
Development Act, making this year the fiftieth anniversary of the C D B G program. And whereas the C D BG program and the Home Program provide annual funding and flexibility to local communities to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing and a suitable living environment for economic opportunities to low and moderate income citizens. And whereas over the past ten years our community has received a total of thirty million eight hundred fifty-three
thousand four hundred eighty-eight dollars in community development block grant funds. and twelve million one hundred thirty-nine thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars in home funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. And whereas a grant of over $1.1 million utilizing CDBG funding was used in partnership with the Florida Department of Education, the Florida Department of Labor, and several others to create the M Skills Workforce Innovation Center designed
to introduce people to careers in the manufacturing industry and provide training and job placement opportunities for. Low to moderate income citizens. And whereas this past January, the M Skills Workforce Innovation Center received the 2024 Audrey Nelson Achievement Award for Community Development from the Community. uh from the National Community Development Association as an exemplary and innovative. C D B project.
and whereas, in addition to this award, there were several significant accomplishments reported for this past year. Over two hundred individuals ban their uh began their careers in manufacturing. Sixty-one special needs households were provided affordable housing units, and one hundred percent of funds expended benefit benefited low to moderate income households. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby declares the week of
April first through the fifth. Twenty twenty four. as National Community Development Week in Pasco County. Thank you.
Well, Marcy, thank you and your team for doing such a great job for the county. Um we are working as a commission, I think, to get more and more affordable projects coming forward to help you and uh help people with the with the housing issue that's out there. Um Helping people with AMP skills. What a what a tremendous group. Met them from day one they they came in from w way back in Coastal Quezon way a long time ago. Um we want to try to keep gre bringing great projects like we did at Lake Lisa, Wesley Chapel. Um matter of fact I might have a line on some new artificial
turf that someone's gonna be not using that we can probably use to help cut down the cost for another park coming up. So I know that you're that's very special to you and we want to make sure we have those happen. So Commissioner Weightman.
And you guys take on the projects and the challenges that are Tough.
Can hurt your heart. And thank you for taking on, you know, carrying that torch to to help those who Or struggling. And to get in there and and and really do some dirty work to figure out how can we as a government find a way to help folks who are in a difficult time or may not just have the ability or the means To bootstrap up. So the work you guys that all all of you do are are incredibly important for our community. And thank you for your your dedication. It truly is a servant's heart. and a
calling when you're in a department like yours. So so thank you all and thank you for hanging hanging in there, especially with some of the politics that that come around that come with budgeting and whatnot with your department. But uh just know that we are all I think the entire board is incredibly grateful for the work you do and um keep hanging in there. Thank you. Russian?
Thank you, Commissioner Mariano, for sponsoring the resolution. Uh, for the record, Marcy Esberg, Director of Community Development. Thank you to the commissioners. I'd also like to thank our County Administrator Carbella and our assistant county administrator. Kathy Pearson for the support that we do, for the support that the work that we do here in community development and for celebrating National Community Development Week. Next week we're gonna be joining with uh organizations like NACO, the National Association
of Counties and the National Community Development Association, uh communities all over the country celebrating uh community development week. week recognizing the important work that we do. Commissioner Weightman, to your point of serving our low and moderate income citizens here in our county with the CDBG Community Development Block Grant and Home Investment Partnership. We are making a difference every day with homeless initiatives, affordable housing, neighborhood resitization,
and behind me are the incredibly professional, dedicated, and passionate team members of our department. And please join me in giving them a round of applause for what you're doing.
So 50 years ago, President Ford signed into law the Housing and Community Development Act. And we were talking yesterday in my office. What did you do in where were you in 1974? And there's some people here that weren't around in 1974, but we've talked a lot about people that have been here for 30 and 35 years. So there are people that have been here for 50 years. Um and that's what implemented C BG and what uh incredible history and impact that's had
on our community since then. Um while our team does work individually with households, uh we also work a lot with our community partners, and we talked about today our work with AMP skills, and uh that is very critical to our mission, and we are very Proud to recognize Amskills as this year's award with us, the 2024 Audrey Nelson Award. And for those of you that don't remember, both Tom Mudano
and Commissioner Starkey came to Washington, DC to accept the award. We did a panel discussion and people are still talking about what we did. So it was really kind of exciting. I wanted to give Tom a chance to say a few words, but before I do that, where's my Vanna? We wanna We want to draw your attention to this national poster that communities all over the country are using to celebrate community development week. There are four
projects noted here. What's one of them? Amskills. So how cool is that?
We're just really excited about the mark that Pasco County is making around the country. We have a week full of activities next week that we'd like to invite people to, including a kickoff on Monday, downtown Newport Ritchie. A lot of people don't realize that we do work with economic opportunities with our partner department planning and economic. Growth. So we'll be kicking off the time at one of the businesses that has been
invested in with community development block ground funds. On Wednesday, Tom and Hillary are going to be doing a lunch and learn about our AMP Skills project. And on Friday, we'd like to invite you all to community development for an open house, and those will be all of our activities to sell. Community Development Week. Again, thank you so much for your support. Tom, would you like to say a few words?
Good morning. Um what I first wanted to say was uh thank you to Pasco County for your vision. Uh because you all established AM Skills and helped to establish AM Skills back in 2014. And I know you were uh uh Commissioner Mariano, a very big part of that. So we want to thank the the Pasco County for For your support and helping us to get started. Um, we're just a small part of what you all are uh community development is doing, but but clearly it's a big part of what we're
doing, and we are just so thankful for them as well because we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the community development. And we're just so thankful. I want to thank you and your entire team because it's been a fantastic. experience getting us to this point where we are. You know, we've got four and a half acres of property on Darlington Road, uh over two million dollars of renovations to our building. and we're debt free and that's pretty amazing. So uh we're very excited. We've got uh you really to
conclude, our mission's transforming lives and strengthening communities through workforce training and apprenticeships. And this project and you are helping us to achieve that. We want to thank you for that. Thank you, thank you. Thank you, Tom.
And I I'd like just to add in as you know, C D BG is so important. And Marcy, thank you for having the vision to work with M Skills, because let's face it, you can put someone in a home. But if they can't afford to pay for it, it doesn't last long. The the groundwork of giving a place to live, a roof over the heads, number one thing in life is to have that, um than the belief in God. But to have a job to go to afterward that can be very productive, uh, is great and that builds the community up because the more manufacturing uh people we create. the more opportunity for more companies to come in as well. So
your work together is is dyna dynamic. So we appreciate it. Do a picture.
So we'd love it if you hold your mugs and little product prints in here that we hate you all.
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Great, thank you all.
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