Council ready to award $1.5 million in grants.Byline: CITY BEAT/SPRINGFIELD By Bob Keefer The Register-Guard The City Council is set to hand out $1.5 million in federal grant money at its meeting Monday night. The city is to allocate $760,547 in Community Development Block Grant money and $756,676 in Home Investment Partnership funds. At a public hearing in March, the Community Development Advisory Committee evaluated 16 requests for funding and picked 13 to give money to. The council makes the final decision at a public hearing Monday during its meeting at 7 p.m. in the Council Meeting Room at City Hall, 225 Fifth St. The committee recommended giving $321,891 to St. Vincent de Paul Vin·cent de Paul , Saint 1581-1660. French ecclesiastic who founded the Congregation of the Mission (1625) and the Daughters of Charity (1633). , to help pay for its Royal Building housing project downtown; $200,000 to Neighborhood Economic Development Corp., to buy four houses to rehab and sell to first-time homebuyers; $34,556 to GOREAP Ministries of Springfield to help construct a day care center; $25,000 to Community Health Centers of Lane County to buy medical equipment; and $20,000 to the Springfield School District for renovation of the play area at Brattain Elementary School elementary school: see school. . It also recommended giving $80,250 to the city Public Works Department Many governments worldwide have had departments or ministries referred to as the Public Works Department either formally or informally. In Australia: - New South Wales -
tr.v. pub·li·cized, pub·li·ciz·ing, pub·li·ciz·es To give publicity to. publicize or -cise Verb [-cizing, -cized] its services. Not recommended for funding were two proposals from Cascade Animal Clinic, which sought a total of $171,000 to buy property and operate a low-cost veterinary clinic in Springfield; and one from Jujitsu jujitsu or jujutsu: see judo; martial arts. jujitsu Martial art that employs holds, throws, and paralyzing blows to subdue or disable an opponent. It evolved among the samurai warrior class in Japan from about the 17th century. School of Grappling, which sought $9,719 to teach a martial art martial art Any of several arts of combat and self-defense that are widely practiced as sport. There are armed and unarmed varieties, most based on traditional fighting methods used in East Asia. to 15 low-income children. Human rights award Beatriz Martinez, coordinator of the Springfield School District's Welcome Center, received the Human Rights Leadership Award from Springfield Alliance for Equality and Respect on Tuesday. The daughter of migrant farmworkers, Martinez has instituted programs to help immigrant families, including English and literacy classes, parenting classes and a mothers' support group. She is involved with the Lane County Migrant Education Program and is a key member of the planning committee planning committee n (in local government) → comité m de planificación for the annual Latino Family Conference. SAfER gives its Human Rights Leadership Award three times a year to people who have contributed to the cause of human rights in Springfield and who exemplify the values of Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez Noun 1. Cesar Chavez - United States labor leader who organized farm workers (born 1927) Cesar Estrada Chavez, Chavez and Eleanor Roosevelt. Bob Keefer can be reached at 338-2325 or bkeefer@guardnet .com. |
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