January 4, 1978 SUSQUEHANNA TIMES—Page 3 { : 1 IF YOU ARE B Interested In How Your Community Development Program Tax Dollars Are Being Spent : ; ® Willing to Share Your Ideas About the Community Development Program ® Concerned About Needs In the Areas of Housing, Human Services, Community Facilities, Utilities, and Historic Preservation Masons elect new officers Robert E. Rohrer has been installed as worship- ful master of Casiphia Lodge, No. 551, Free and Accepted Masons, Mount Joy. He is postmaster of Landisville and lives at 230 Hempfield Ave. Robert W. Adams, Lan- disville, was installed as senior warden, and R. Bruce Bernhard, Elizabeth- town, as junior warden. Jay W. Smith of Mount Joy, immediate past mas- ter, was installed as treasurer, and Rollin C. Steinmetz, Manheim R7, SPEAK OUT At The Public Meeting Being Held In Your Area To Discuss LANCASTER COUNTY’S 1978-1979 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Meeting Times and Places Wednesday, January 4, 1978 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ephrata Senior High School Audion, 803 Oak Boulevard, Ephrata Thursday, January 5, 1978 at 8:00 p.m. in the Solanco High School Cafeteria, Robert Fulton Highway, Quarryville Monday, January 9, 1978 at 7:30 p.m. in the Blue Ball Fire Hall, Route 322, Blue Ball Tuesday, January 10, 1978 at 1:30 p.m. in the Lancaster County Courthouse Sixth Floor Conference Room, 50 North Duke Street, Lancaster Thursday, January 12, 1978 at 7:30 p.m. in the W.I. Beahm Junior High School Dining Room, South Poplar Street, Mount Joy REPRESENTATIVES OF COUNTY GOVERNMENT WILL BE PRESENT TO HEAR YOUR COMMENTS AND ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS. Be Sure To Attend These Important Meetings. The Lancaster County Community Development Program is a program administered by the County of Lancaster and funded by the U.S.. Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]. It has a three-part goal: the improvement of conditions for low and moderate income persons, the elimination of blight, and economic development. Lancaster County expects to receive more than $10 million over the next three years to be used to address this goal. These funds may be used by the County or they may be channeled through the County to units of local governments or other organizations which have eligible projects. Thus, you or a group you know of may wish to apply for a share of these Community Development funds. Funding Request forms are available from both the Lancaster County Planning Commission and the Redevelopment Authority of the County of Lancaster. Assistance in filling out these forms is available from the Redevelopment Authority [394-0793]. Funding Request forms must be submitted to the Redevelopment Authority during the week from January 16 - January 20, 1978. To give you an idea of the kinds of projects that may be funded under the Community Development Program, a partial list of projects which have received funding in the past is listed below: * a housing rehabilitation program under which properties were purchased and then resold to those promising to rehabilitate them * a credit and home-buying counselling service for low and moderate income persons who are interested in purchasing a rehabilitated house or rehabilitating. their own home * a program to remove architectural barriers to the elderly and handicapped * the purchase of land for future park development * the construction of a fire station to house the equipment of a fire company serving a borough and five-township area * improvements to a borough street, including road bed and surface, curbs and sidewalks * installation of two traffice signals along a highway passing through a suburban township * construction of a borough stona sewer to eliminate an existing flooding condition + restoration and weatherproofing of the exterior of an historic property * a social and recreational program for aged, handicapped, isolated, institutionalized, and low income rural adults The use of Community Development Program funds is regulated by guidelines which define project eligibility. They generally require that projects address the goals of the Community Development Program [CDP], as outlined above. Anyone wishing to see a copy of these regulations should contact the Lancaster County Planning Commission [299-8333] or the Redevelopment Authority of the County of Lancaster [394-0793]. Lancaster County is an eligible participant in the CDP because it has been declared by HUD to be and ‘“‘urban county.” This means that, in relating the goals of the CDP to the County, the entire County should be viewed as one urban community. Within the ‘‘community,’’ certain ‘‘neighbor- hoods’’ [boroughs, townships, or smaller areas] which have a majority of low and moderate income residents must be given priority in the distribution of funds. Your involvement in the CDP is important, particularly during the next two weeks. In preparing its application for funds to HUD, the County must know what citizens view as the County’s needs. This will be useful in developing a program. With various local governments and other organizations submitting requests for a share of these funds, some guidance from those people expected to be served by the CDP is needed. Your participation in one or more of the five upcoming meetings listed above can thus be very meaningful. Representatives of those administer ing the local program, and perhaps some potential applicants for funds, will be present to hear and record your comments and questions about CDP. Following these meetings, there are a number of other steps in the application process. First, committees set up to review Funding Requests will need representatives from the entire community— including citizens and representatives of local governments and other organizations. Anyone willing to donate some of his time and effort for this purpose is asked to call the Planning Commission. Second, after committee review of the Funding Requests is completed, the recommendations of the committees, staff, and others will be passed on to the Redevelopment Authority of the County of Lancaster and the Lancaster County Commission- ers. Third, their tentative decisions on the proposals at that point will be open to public comment at additional public meetings. Finally, these and other comments will all be considered for the formal and final review by those two bodies before an application for funds under the CDP is submitted to HUD. This entire process will continue from January to May, with program imple mentation expected to begin in August of 1978. was reelected secretary. Also reelected was Samuel W. Witman, past master, as representative in the Grand Lodge. Installed as trustees: of the lodge were Gene J. Grubb, Marlin A. Thompson and Robert S. Eshleman. The lodge celebrated its 100th anniversary last September. Rohrer, the new wor- shipful master, received his education in the Hempfield schools, Thaddeus Stevens School, and the Postal Training Centers in Phila- delphia and Norman, Okla. He is a director and past president of the Hempfield Ambulance Association, and a member of the Lancaster West Rotary Club. His Masonic affilia- tions include Lancaster Lodge of Perfection, Har- risburg Consistory, Zembo Temple, Harrisburg, and the Lancaster County Shrine Club. He is married and has two daughters and a son. Rohrer will announce his appointive officers and comittees at the stated meeting of Jan. 20. AS FOR REAL gsTaTE 2) Jack Johnson & Associates 684-7700 Sindy Shoemaxer 426-3655 LeRoy Appley 426-1420 3d : YY STATE THEATRE downtown Columbia 684-2273 Starts Wednesday The Spy Whe Loved Me show times - Anyone unable to attend these meetings can still express his opinions about the CDP; please contact the Lancaster County Planning Commission, 50 North Duke Street, P.0. Box 3480, Lancaster 17604 [299-8333], or the Redevelopment Authority of the County of Lancaster Nitely at 7 PM Fri. & Sat. 7 & 9 8 sas =
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