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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2007-05-14 07-166 ORDERItem No, 07 7.88 Date: 4-160] Item/Subject: Order, Authorizing the City Manager to apply for $5,MG.W Through dce Maine Family ❑teracy Initiative. Responsible Department: health & Welfare Commentary: If we are successful, these funds will be used at the Park Woods Transitional Housing ProjecCs Family Learning Center to develop a sustainability plan for the Center. From 1996 to 2005, the Malrre Literary Volunteers developed the Family t.eami g Center, an mske community center providing literacy and academic support. The Literacy Volunteers left in 2l and the Center secured! a VISTA position to keep the Center open. Many of our tenants are currently dealing with cognitive and developmental disabilities, psychiatric disadlldes, and mobility impairment. More than half (63%) of adults entering into a tansiUoml plan have not completed a high school diploma, the children have changed school districts up to five times in the lag two years, and the experience of homelessness creates chaos, with little time for training or education or even attaining a viable living wage. An on-site learning center will help to address some of the aforementioned i sues drat contribute to me barriers in the residents' lives It is clear that a thoughtful planning process will be required to make the Learning Center a sustainable resource for this community. Department Head Marmper's Commands: Tins has been reviewed and Is recommended by the Government Operations Committee. CityCLAW—gCityag Maner tsgal Approval: 1 � IUn"/ City solid r Introduced for X passage _ Fil Reading Page_ of _ Referral 07 166 Aesig�dbCowmgor a'Errico May 16, 2007 CITY OF BANGOR (TULE.) ORDER Authorizing the City Manager to apply for and =apt a $5,000. gram through the Maine Family Literacy Initiative. By the Oly Cin iM/ofi eGly of Bangor. ORDERED THAT the City Manager is hereby authorized to apply for and accept a $5,000 grant to be used at the Park Woods Transitional Housing Projects Leamirg Center. IN CITY COUNCIL May Y . 2007 raaa x o2 -its ITL cLBee - N N (TMXJ Authorising the City Xenegei to apply for and adept giant through the Maine Pauly Literary Initiative 'pIr AAI�EC W Conetlbr J1 (/y�'r'v