January 4, 1978 SUSQUEHANNA TIMES—Page 3
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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.
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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
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