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.
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Lawlor explained that CDBG jobs bill allocations
must both create jobs for, and benefit, low- and
middle-income people.
“It’s not just the job, it’s the activity; it’s not just
the activity, it’s the job,” Lawlor said.
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
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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. Haas said she dissented
because the extension will receive no funding for at
least 12 years.'
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