14—The Daily Collegian Thursday, June 23, 1983 Council approves programs for block grant expenditures By S.A. MILLER Collegian Staff Writer ; Some members of the State College Municipal Council and the director for the Community Devel opment Block Grant program both blame a lack of time for their trepidation in approving CDBG allocations last night. Republican council members John Dombroski and Fred Honsberger said they believe that the CDBG jobs bill allocations could have been better spent if thought gone into the process. Council was faced with.a July 1 deadline to submit a jobs bill budget to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which administers the CDBG program. The jobs bill allocations $253,000 in federal funds to create jobs for low- and moderate-income persons who have been out of work for the last three to six months came through for the borough only about two months ago. At the meeting, Honsberger said he questioned “in his own mind” whether the money could have been better spent in other ways. However, when voting time came on the jobs allocation recommendations from borough CDBG Director Harry Lawlor, Honsberger voted for them. “(The jobs bill funds were) a last minute thing thrown in,” Honsberger said. “It’s the best we could do with the limited amount of time allotted to us.” But Dombroski refused to vote for the budget because he said he could not understand the ratio nalization behind why some programs got the money and others did not. “I just didn’t think it created enough jobs,” Dombroski said. “I had to vote with my conscience and not with my pocketbook.” Lawlor said his recommendations would create 50 to 60 temporary construction jobs and seven full time equivalent jobs. *NAUTILUS HUMAN PERFORMANCE CENTER• 3 FREE TRIAL 1 1 Qc>. 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Lawlor’s jobs bill recommendations included: • $127,640 to create better access for the hand icapped to Schlow Library. • $70,192 to continue the streetlighting and handicapped ramp programs on College Avenue. • $16,000 to cover administrative costs incurred in developing the jobs bill program. • $12,053 to cover some of the deficits that will be incurred by the Centre County Youth Service Bureau in establishing a shelter for runaways and homeless youths in Centre County. • $11,115 to Home Health Services of Bellefonte to train and employ one person as a home health aide. • $lO,OOO to create two part-time health code enforcement aides. One will be employed 30 hours per week and the other 20 hours per week. • $6,000 to create an engineering and planning aide position, mostly for work in the construction phases of the downtown streetlighting and hand icapped access programs. Concerning the CDBG funds themsleves, Lawlor recommended allocating: • $24,513 for the Ad Hoc Committee on Emer gency-Temporary Housing to operate a four-bed center for families needing temporary housing from two nights to two weeks. • $15,000 to the Blair and Centre County Asso ciation for the Blind and Handicapped to provide a full-time service coordinator and a part-time assis tant. • $11,976 to Home Health Service to establish a home-care hospice program. ' • $10,659 to the Youth Service Bureau for the agency’s Big Brother - Big Sister program. • $4,910 for On Drugs Inc. to expand programs $199.00 rnno-unc.es its summer schedule MONDAY 6-9 am 9am-Ipm i-spm FREE FORM 58pm FINE ARTS SHOWCASE 8-9 pm SPORTSWEEK IN REVIEW 9pm-6am r- C CO r~ , c: CO 0 KAPLAN Wg& EDUCATIONAL CENTER I c H c cn R* wdfm9lfm TUESDAY CONSIDER THE ALT. FOCUS 9pm-midnlght BLUES midnight-3am FEATURED ARTIST OFF AIR UNIVERSITY OF JAM a smooth mixture of funk, disco and jazz INDEPENDENT RADIO experimental FLASHBACKS oldies, up to mid 70’s METAL WIND ear crunching heavy metal TOO MUCH, TOO SOON State College’s only punk show ROOTS, ROCK, REGGAE reggae, ska and rock steady relating to drug and alcohol abuse, while increas ing its capabilities for crisis intervention. Lawlor said that because of the peculiar nature of the borough, many human services are offered. Fifteen human services applied for CDBG funds. “It was with regret that I had to recommend these five,” Lawlor said. Council passed the recommendations unani mously, but not before some complaints were filed by members of the public in attendence. Most of the complaints centered on the fact that recommendations to council from the borough’s CDBG staff were made based only on information included on applications for the funds to Lawlor. Michael Bresnahan, a representative of Keystone Legal Services, which was refused fund ing for a program that would have trained elderly to be legal assistants, said he believed it’s difficult to understand from the application what a program is designed to do. “The people making decisions got a skewed view of the proposals,” Bresnahan said. “Oral dis cussion is absolutely necessary in the future.” Lawlor said he believed last year, the first year of the CDBG program, was different from this year “I did a better job last year because I had more time,” Lawlor said. Democratic council member Felicia Lewis said she believes council must find “a more thoughful way” to determine who gets the funds. “We’re still learning to do this,” Lewis said. In other business, council voted: • 4 to 3, with Democrats Lewis and Daniel Chaffee and Republican Mary Ann Haas dissent ing, to fund a feasibility and preliminary planning study for extending University Drive from Park Avenue to Aaron Drive. 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