Resolution 23192 Holiday Florida Children's Initiative Zone

1:03:34Yeah, R S three? Resolution number 23192, a resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida recommending and supporting Holiday, Florida as a Florida Children's Uh Initiative Zone. Whereas 26% of children growing up in a catchment area east of the U.S. 19 Corridor in the Holiday Florida area experience poverty, have limited opportunity for upward mobility, remain low-income as adults, and

1:04:05experience higher than average teen birth rates. And whereas 62% of families living in the holiday catchment area are housing cost burdened, with 46% of the households considered asset limited income constrained employment, with many living paycheck to paycheck without a safety net. And whereas Metropolitan Ministries has uh been awarded a planning grant from the state of Florida. To bring the holiday community together

1:04:35to create a cohesive community plan to address the needs and barriers to upward mobility that is experienced by children in holiday. And whereas Metropolitan Ministries experience presence in the community facilities and ability to leverage partners from all facets of the holiday community. Make them uniquely situated to support the creation of a unified strategy to provide a new path forward for the children living in

1:05:05holiday. And whereas lifting children out of poverty in holiday must be supported by the actions and resource investments to improve infrastructure and provision of services within Pasco County, the state. and private sector. And whereas Metropolitan Ministries will apply for the Florida Children's Initiative designation on behalf of the holiday community. This grant started in 2006 was modeled after the Harlem Children's Zone and

1:05:36is defined by Florida Statute 409.147 to provide funding to assist disadvantaged areas within the state in creating a community-based service network that develops, coordinates, and provides quality education, accessible health care, youth development. programs, opportunities for employment. and safe and affordable housing for children and families. And whereas the Florida Children's Initiative designation will help support the

1:06:06community of Holiday and address the critical needs of children and their families. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, the said board hereby supports holiday as a Florida Children's Initiative Zone. Done and resolved in regular session with a quorum president voting this fifth day of September 2023.

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1:06:30Second. All in favor say aye.

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1:06:33Um we we do have someone here from Metropolitan Ministries. This this was that's yes, right there. Oh okay. I didn't think anyone was over here.

1:06:44So um I just wanted you to speak about this today uh and let everyone know what this is gonna do for us.

1:06:50Okay, thank you. Thank you. I'm Christine Long. I'm the uh Executive Vice President and Chief Programs Officer at Metropolitan Ministries. And I am honored to be here and thank you, first of all, for your support of our project in Holiday, Florida. We're well under construction, we're going to be serving the community even in a bigger and broader way. And the addition of this Children's Zone designation is going to bring even more resources, not just to the campus of Metropolitan Ministries, but to the neighboring community. I am super

1:07:20excited to get to know each resident in that neighborhood person by person, find out their needs, and work together with the other nonprofits in the community, the churches, the schools, the libraries, everyone who was in that neighborhood and community working together to really make a difference in the lives of these families. This would not have been possible without your support. We're looking forward to it. lot of wonderful things happening in the holiday community thanks to your generosity and support. So thank you.

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1:07:49And Commissioner Oakley at our meeting a couple weeks ago. There are grants out there that we are not going for. This one has been out there since two thousand and six. And we know we have communities in me. So we just need to be more aware of what our community can go after to help our citizens, in my thing. Alrighty. I'm happy to come. Oh can you tell us the the date of your um day gala that's coming

1:08:18up? Yes, we are going to have a celebration and lots of information about what's uh what we're doing in Pasco County and that's gonna be October twenty fifth at uh sunrise. So uh we'll kinda get some invites out to all of you. That's

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1:08:32Commissioner Starkey, I'm glad you brought this forward. Um but I'd like to have our people in the in in our in the county take a look and see if there's other areas too that may qualify. Um and if we it create creates more opportunities we want to take advantage of that.

1:08:46Yeah and um and if you wouldn't mind if you could email me the m the map of the neighborhoods that this is going to cover. They're all on the east side of nineteen um in that Elfers holiday area. Nothing on the west side but Um but it's uh I'm very excited for what th this can bring to that community. Thank you, I will do that.

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