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5. Allocation of Year XVIII Funds for Urban Hennepin County Comm Dev Block Grant 1 I ,I C ITY O F - -- i 4,,, 690 COULTER DRIVE • P.O. BOX 147 • CHANHASSEN, MINNESOTA 55317 I (612) 937 -1900 • FAX (612) 937 -5739 Action by C::y omit+ s`:r' & 1 MEMORANDUM pv�, _ -- . ix TO: Don Ashworth, City Manager ry�. ••3,��`z X FROM: Paul Krauss, Planning Director "° D""c'__`- 1 DATE: March 17, 1992 � 3y.a4-1 � I SUBJ: 1992 Community Development Block Grant Funding - Public Hearing to Allocate Year XVII • 111 sk: Each year at this time, the City Council is asked to allocate the coming year's Community Development Block Grant funding allocations. The CDBG program is operated by 1 Hennepin County, on behalf of the City of Chanhassen which, makes us an "entitlement" community. In other words, by handling this program through Hennepin County, we have an annual entitlement of funds as opposed to all other communities in Carver County which I must compete for grant applications, often unsuccessfully. We are able to do this since a portion of Chanhassen is actually in Hennepin County. 1 The program requires that we make our official request, by Council resolution, to the Block Grant Program through Hennepin County. In some instances, due to program requirements, I we may be asked to reassign funds, particularly since block grants heavily favor capital expenditures rather than payments for services. In addition, eligible projects for block grant funding are extremely limited. In our case, most eligible projects would either have to do I with senior citizens or serve to make facilities more handicapped accessible. In other communities, eligible activities would include programs for individuals and families residing below the poverty line; however, in our case, we have few that would qualify under this 1 criteria. The block grant funding year runs from approximately July to June. Staff has held discussions on the block grant with the Chanhassen Senior Commission and I with our Park and Recreation Coordinator, Todd Hoffman. Initially, Hennepin County informed us that a preliminary estimate of our grant for the coming year would be $41,511.00. I have recently been notified that overall grants for all the communities in the I program have been reduced slightly and our grant allocation would be for $40,744.00. Even so, this represents an increase over the $37,543.00 we received last year. This reflects the -1 • 1 t0 PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER Mr. Don Ashworth CDBG Funding Year XVIII March 17, 1992 1 Page 2 city's growing population, as well as minor increases in program funding by the federal 1 government. Based upon communications with the Senior Commission, with our Park and Recreation ' Coordinator, and correspondence we received from Senior Community Services and Sojourn Adult Day Program (see attached information and letters), I am proposing the following allocations for block grant funding. These allocations will be described in further detail below. South Shore Senior Center $ 4,000 Chanhassen Senior Coordinator through Senior Community Services $ 8,736 HOME Program through Senior Community Services $ 5,830 Sojourn Adult Day Program $ 2,700 Lake Ann Park Facilities $ 8,000 Senior Housing Feasibility Study $11,478 TOTAL $40,744 South Shore Senior Center Funding 1 The city has traditionally allocated funds to support ongoing programs for the South Shore Senior Center. Our city residents are significant users of this facility and have benefitted from its operation. In the past, our funding level in recent years has been in the range of $7,000 to $8,000 per year. In light of the upcoming construction of the Chanhassen Senior Center, the proposal calls for starting to phase down our support of South Shore, proposing ' that $4,000 be allocated this year. We note that the South Shore Senior Center provides congregate dining, which will not be available in Chanhassen for some period of time. 1 Chanhassen Senior Coordinator As the Council is aware, we have contracted with Senior Community Services for the part- 1 time services of a Senior Coordinator. Judy Colby is very ably filling this role and is available at City Hall 12 hours per week. She is quite busy planning and coordinating programs for our seniors, concurrent with their activities designed to promote the 1 development and use of the Senior Center. The $8,736 requested for this position represents a nominal 4% increase over the previous year's monthly rate: I feel that contracting through Senior Community Services for Judy's time gives the city the best of ' both possible worlds. We have a highly competent and interested person working directly for us in our City Hall, but we do not have the expenses of a full time position. 1 1 Mr. Don Ashworth 1 CDBG Funding Year XVIII March 17, 1992 Page 3 • HOME Program The HOME Program assists senior residents in offering services designed to help them to remain in their homes. This could include construction renovation, in -home cleaning assistance, lawn care assistance, and anything else that can be thought of. The $5,830 requested represents a nominal 4% increase over the monthly rate used during the past year. As with the Senior Coordinator, I believe that the city is well served by contracting through Senior Community Services for this program, since we are able to piggyback onto a much better developed and professionally managed program. This funding allocation; however, bears some watching and should be potentially contracted for on a six month basis, with a renewal in six months. I raise this concern through the fact that to -date, our residents have not availed themselves of the program to any great extent. I am not certain that it has been given a fair trial yet. Spring is one of the more heavily utilized periods and we have only begun to advertise it over the last few months, so I want to be able to give it the benefit of the doubt. I think it would be prudent, however, to reassess our funding for this at the end of six months and possibly seek reallocation of remaining funds if utilization rates do not improve. Sojourn Adult Day Program Last year was the first year in which we were able to channel funds to the Sojourn Program. 1 This program operates out of the Holy Cross Lutheran Church in the northwest corner of the community. It is a senior day care program, wherein, families taking care of senior adults are able to drop them off during the day and have them thrive in a structured environment. .I note, speaking for the staff, we have been very impressed with their operation and with the commitment of the church itself to senior programming. In fact, this church has also begun operation of a day care center that is being organized in conjunction with the senior program to offer intergenerational support for both groups. Last year we were able to fund some minor building improvements, acquire a dishwasher, signage and 1 lawn furniture. This year, Sally Hebson, the Program Coordinator, has requested a total of approximately $2,700. This would be used to acquire a medicine cart that is needed to comply with state regulations, so that medications and medical supplies may be safely 1 secured, a Wander Guard Alarm System to help in client management, and various medical supplies to meet state licensing requirements requiring monthly nursing assessment of each client's health status. I think the $2,700 is a nominal amount that will be well spent in 111 support of this program. Senior Housing Feasibility Study 1 Over the past few years, the idea of senior housing has come up on a number of occasions. It initially began with the Senior Needs Study conducted several years ago. Last year, the City Council had allocated approximately $20,000 to allow the undertaking of a very • 1 1 Mr. Don Ashworth CDBG Funding Year XVIII March 17, 1992 1 Page 4 • comprehensive feasibility study. The study would be designed not only to assess the market ' demand for senior housing but also to get specific answers to questions regarding where it should be located, how big should it be, what sort of facilities should be involved, what size and rents are supportable, and related data. This information is really useful before ' significantly larger expenditures are sought for actual construction if it is determined that it is warranted to proceed with this idea. ' Although we had allocated $20,000 to it last year, we reallocated those funds to pay for architectural services and other programs undertaken during this ongoing year. The architectural services were undertaken relative to the Senior Center design. I continue to 1 feel that approximately $20,000 is required to do this study adequately. In conversations with the Assistant City Manager, I have been assured that it is possible to fund the difference between what we are proposing for the allocation and what the study ultimately 1 requires through the offices of the Chanhassen Housing and Redevelopment Authority. We would envision that this would be a competitively bid request proposals and would only allocate as much funds as were required to get the job done. Hopefully, we could bring this in at a lower cost. The $11,478 level of funding was derived by first allocating funds to all other programs mentioned in this report and seeing what was left over. It is not a very scientific process but since we have some flexibility to fund the balance through the HRA we felt it was reasonable. 1 Lake Ann Park Facilities Todd Hoffman, Park and Recreation Coordinator, requested $8,000 be allocated to support the refurbishment of the play area near the ball fields at Lake Ann Park. Work includes installation of bituminous access transfer points and rubber matting. These modifications would be of service to all residents in the city but are fundable under the CDBG program 1 since they are making park facilities handicapped accessible. Summary . I believe the package being good requested represents ood use of available funds. I think we q P get a lot of "bang for the buck "due to the manner in which this is structured since the funding is spread not only amongst active senior programs, but also for seniors needing higher levels of service, as well as any residents who use the park facilities. Due to the timing constraints and the way in which funding requests are received, the Senior 1 Commission was unable to act on the total request. The Senior Commission did, however, recommend approval of the HOME Program, Senior Center Coordinator, South Shore Senior Center, and Senior Housing Feasibility Study funding proposals. At the time they 1 made these proposals, we had not yet received the request from Sojourn, but I am certain 1' 1 • Mr. Don Ashworth 1 CDBG Funding Year XVIII March 17, 1992 Page 5 1 that given their past support for this program, they would encourage your looking favorably on meeting their requests. 1 STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends the City Council approve Year XVIII 1992 CDBG Funding as follows: South Shore Senior Center $ 4,000 1 Chanhassen Senior Coordinator through Senior Community Services $ 8,736 HOME Program through Senior Community Services $ 5,830 Sojourn Adult Day Program $ 2,700 Lake Ann Park Facilities $ 8,000 Senior Housing Feasibility Study $11,478 TOTAL $40,744 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Senior Commission Meeting February 21, 1992 - Page 11 1 Jeanne Strauss: Yes, CART will be exhibiting. Southwest Metro, I don't remember but we'll contact them. And Judy's name is on the list to be contacted for an exhibit. - don't know, have you been contacted? Colby: No, nob-yet. Jeanne Strauss: Okay. So she will be contacted. If you have other ideas, let Judy know. So yes, very good idea. 1 Montgomery: Well thank you very much. We appreciate it. Sounds like a . great program coming up. 1 Colby: I am hoping that we can get together a plan for the exhibit that you are represented here as a Commission. I'm hoping also by the time we'll have the Advisory Board so we can have accommodations... I think it's a great opportunity for us. CDBG FUNDS - PRESENTATION BY PAUL KRAUSS, PLANNING DIRECTOR. 1 Krauss: We've got some late breaking stuff here. The City's block grant allocation increased somewhat. Not as much as I would have helped but somewhat. Up to $41,511.00. Now this is a preliminary number. It's going I A to be refined somewhat but in past years it's pretty reliable. What I need to do is to put together the package for the City Council to approve. Now in recent years we've been devoting a greater and greater percentage of this to senior related activities. Originally our primary focus was on South Shore Senior Center and in discussing this with JoAnn and Ron Block, who's the financial person over there, I think for a long time we've told I them that as we develop a facility here we're not looking to totally abandon South Shore. That they offer some services that we won't. At least at the outset and that a lot of our residents go up there but we couldn't fund it at the same level we've been funding it at. What we ' funded them, I think we gave them about $8,000.00 last year. I'm proposing that we give them about $4,000.00 this year. The balance of the funds, in talking to Ron. What we've done in the past, in the past year. We funded ' Judy's position and the H.O.M.E. program. Now because of the way the block grant money is given out, we didn't fund a full year. Their year runs from June to June. So it was like 6, well maybe a little more than 6 months• It ' was like 7 or 8 months that we funded last year because Judy came on in December. • Montgomery: Does it go through June or July 1st starts the-next? Krauss: Yeah, I think that's true. So what Ron did on the H.O.M.E. program and the senior coordinator was annualized it. Instead of having a 7 month, he made it 12 months and he added 4% over what we had from last year to cover inflation which I felt was reasonable.' And that came out to those two figures. The 5830 and the 8736. Now I asked Ron for some information on how well the H.O.M.E. program is going. We've heard that people are calling but we're not certain how many people are using it yet. There's a letter that outlines a little bit of that that I passed out to you that talks about the activities that they've been doing. We're going 1 to contact the H.O.M.E. program to get some more specific information. At this point it will be my recommendation to go ahead and fully fund it for 1 Senior Commission Meeting 1 February 21, 1992 - Page 12 1 next year because as our center hits the ground, as the PR effort takes place, I think there's a momentum that you have to leave some time for it to build. And we just want to make sure that the funds that we've been 11 giving them are being used appropriately for activities in Chanhassen. They're good folks and I'm pretty comfortable they are. Right now my preference or my recommendation would be to give it the benefit of the doubt and let's let it go through the coming year and hopefully it will take off like we think it should. One of the goals I think that we had established for this year is a delayed goal from last year which was to ge a real solid senior housing feasibility study done. You know we've talked to Judy about that. We'd have to go out for bid on it so you'd get other bids as well but we had thought initially that that would have cost about $20,000.00. We had that money reserved this past year for it but we took it and we spent it on Bert for the senior center. So what I'm proposing i thy, we need about $20,000.00 of reserve, about that amount to get a fe study done. The problem comes about that I've got an $8,000.0 request for handicapped accessible recreational facilities over at Lake Anil Park. You may be aware that our Parks Department has been making all our .recreational facilities more fully accessible and we just built a very nic facility out here by the grade school. It's pretty expensive. I think it was about a $30,000.00 effort with some city funds a some locally raised donations and some supporters of the school but it's a real neat completely. handicapped accessible facility for the kids. So we want to keep that ' a stuff going. So that was $8,000.00. Now the problem came up with was that I overspent our $41,500.00 by about $5,000.00 to get all these things done. Fortunately though I think we can still pull it off. Our tax increment district plan, our tax increment plans were revised to outline a senior housing as one of the eligible projects. In fact we just got it app -roved at the Planning Commission the other night. And in talking to . Todd Gerhardt, who's our Assistant HRA Manager, he felt that we could come' up with the extra $5,000.00 that we needed to complete that senior housing study out of tax increment funds. So what you see here, that proposal that I have laid out on that sheet is, it totals up to the $41,511.00. At leas it totaled up that way to me at 8:00 this morning and I wasn't quite awake but it should work out. And what that leaves us is $14,945.00 towards that $20,000.00 study and we'll make up the difference for tax increment. So I put this on the table for your comment and review and if you agree with it hopefully your approval or if you have some other suggestions, we can still • incorporate that. We did not receive a request from Sojourn this year. You also have to keep in mind that we're going a little bit far on this onil in terms of the amount that we're paying towards services. You know we have that service cap. Normally 15% of your money max can go to services and we've got much more than that. Now the $15,000.00 for the senior housing study, it doesn't count. I mean they don't count that as a service. That's okay. But the H.O.M.E. program and the senior coordinator and the South Shore Senior Center are services. That's about $18,000.00 out of $41,000.00. So we're probably pushing that cap but it's figured over all of the eligible communities of Hennepin County. We'll probably be okay but what this is is all the communities submit this to Hennepin County. They gel it out and they say, they see if they meet their 1 guidelines and if they don't, .they come back to the cities and say you've got to alter your request. We haven't had to do that in the past but there's a possibility. 1 i 11 Senior Commission Meeting February 21, 1992 - Page 13 Montgomery: go ery• If that happens Paul, then what is the recourse? Then what do. you do? Krauss: Well they'll come back and tell us that you've got to lower the amount you're spending on services and increase your capital ' or your planning budget on something else. How we'll juggle that at this point I'm not sure. ' Bragg: We've never had the H.O.M.E. program before have we so this is an estimate. Krauss: That's a contract. Montgomery: If we got into trouble, could we lower the amount that goes to the Lake Ann Park facilities? ' Krauss: Well in fact you'd have to raise that if we got in trouble. That's a capital expenditure. That's the kind of stuff that is okay. • 1 Montgomery: Oh yeah. St. John: You have to lower all the services. What are these dates from when to when then? Krauss: This is from June of 1992 to June of 1993. Howard: There is something for South Shore Center but nothing for our center here. ' Krauss: Well there is. I mean we have Judy and we're spending more than we ever spent on South Shore Center on Judy's position. Also keep in mind too that I have some money in my budget and Todd has some money in his ' budget that is completely outside of this. Together we had about $13,000.00 for a variety of things that we can, I mean I paid Judy_Marshek to do the stuff for her assistance on getting the survey together. Todd has money for programming. I think Todd might have front ended the cost on the trip to the Ice Palace. Yeah, so we do have the ability to do things like that. I think we're in pretty good shape. There's certainly going to come a point though with the senior center and it should, that if you want ' things like, and Judy and I were talking about you know, maybe there's a need for a wide screened TV or there's always the possibility the Council might trim back something like the display cases to save money. That's where the volunteer effort comes in to raise the funds for actually outfitting it. Bragg: Actually they have more of a sense of it belonging to them if they do participate in raising some funds. St. John: I would just like to see about the South Shore. There's so many of the Chanhassen areas that are serviced by the South Shore and that is not forgotten with the dining and the van and some of the other programs. And there's a lot of them that come over and take advantage of that which is good and hopefully that until the Chanhassen center is in full swing for Senior Commission Meeting February 21, 1992 - Page 14 all of those things, that they will consider helping supporting the South Shore. Krauss: Yeah, I think this does that and this is consistent. I mean I talked to Ron when we started getting into this about 5 months ago and let' him know that we never had intended to abandoned it but we probably were not going to be able to fund it at the levels we were. And realistically' as soon as our center is open, apart from congregate dining. Senior centers are obviously much more than just facilities and programs. They'r, social relationships and they're friendships and where you're comfortable and you don't just snap your fingers and say everybody come over here. Everybody will go over there for lunch. But over time realistically, if we're doing our job, a lot of the stuff that people go up there for, except for the dining, they'll probably start coming here and that's by design. Bragg: I think that they feel eventually more and more have been coming I this way but in the meantime they will be utilizing that space. Montgomery: One thing occurs to me. If we do fundraising and channel those funds through the Senior Community Services, it can only be for the II center. We wouldn't be able to raise any money for.,housing or anything else using that route. 1 Krauss: Right. No, and you're not looking to raise funds to build housing or anything else. That's going to. Montgomery: Or something outside the center. Okay. Krauss: And we're in much better shape than we were last year too because, of, Todd and I were able to sell the City Council on actually starting funding. Normal city revenues, starting to fund senior programs and projects so we have some access into money that we didn't have before and it's not subject to the whims of bureaucrats in Washington. Just subject to the whims of bureaucrats here. Montgomery: Anybody have any more discussion? Do you need to have us do anything? Krauss: Yeah, I would need a motion to take forward. ' Montgomery: Okay. Would somebody like to make a motion that we approve the allocations for the Community Development Block Grant proposal? Howard: I make a motion that we accept them as proposed. Billison: I second the motion. ' Montgomery: Okay, it's been moved and seconded that we approve the Community Development Block Grant proposal as presented. Howard moved, Billison seconded that the Senior Commission recommend approval of the Community Development Block Grant funds proposal as presented by the Planning Director. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously. 1 1 Sgjottrn March 16, 1932 adult day program 1 To Honorable Mayor and City Council Members ' City of Chanhassen 690 Coulter Drive Chanhassen., MN 55317 1 Sojourn Adult Day Program is beginning its eighth year of serving seniors in Western Hennepin and Carver Counties. ' Sojourn Adult Day Program addresses the problems and issues facing the frail elderly in the far west, suburban, Hennepin and Carver County area. These include social and physical 1 isolation, fear of institutional placement and burdened families and caregivers. Sojourn provides a professiopally supervised social, 1 recreational adult day program. Each participant has an individual plan of care, with therapeutic objectives to meet his or her individual needs. The program offers life affirming activities enhancing social, spiritual and emotional well being. Family members and caregivers are offered support, counseling, education and referral in order I to assist them to continue to care for the elderly at home. Sojourn serves a large number of low income-older persons. Sixty -two percent of Sojourn's participants receive financial assistance in order to attend day care. Sources of income which provide assistance for adults include: * Alternative Care Grant funds through Carver and Hennepin Counties 1 :4: Medicare Alzheirners Demonstration Project #: Private Pay 1 :4: Contributions Sojourn was very pleased to be awarded funds through Chanhassen's Community Block Grant in 1991. The money was used to purchase wheelchairs, outdoor furniture, a portable dishwasher, directional signs and a door to secure the program area. C/O Holy Cross Lutheran Church 4151 Highway 7 Excelsior, MN 55331 1 . . . Sojourn respectfully presents the following items for your N� review and consideration for the 1992 budget: * In compliance with State and Federal regulations all N� prescription medications and medical supplies must be safely secured for the safety of clients and staff. In order to be professionally in compliance with these regulations we are requesting: »� 1 Multi-treatment Medicine Cart $ 620.00 * In order to provide maximum safety and security for. those participants with memory loss who may have a tendency to wander we are requesting: N� The Wander Guard Alarm System. This is an electronic alarm system that signals when a wanderer wearing a trigger tries to exit a monitored door. 1 Single Door Sensor $1200 1 Signal Tester at $ 150 N� 10 Signal Devices with Wrist Band at $24.95 each $ 249.95 - 0� �1599.95 * The Adult Day Care Licensing rule requires a monthly nursing assessment of each client's health status. In order to provide the most accurate results we are requesting: ' 1 PhysicianS Office Scale - Health-O-Meter $ 210.00 ~~ 1 Sphygmomanometer $ 25.95 N� 1 Electronic Thermometer $ 207.00 1 Box of Probes for Electronic Thermometer $ 33.95 N� Total Request $2696"B5 N� Sincerely, 5def Sojourn Adult Day Program C. Chanhassen City Council Members . -- i 1 w ' Iiihnif SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES I 1600 South 2nd Street, Hopkins, Minnesota 55343 933.9311 Fax 933.2101 I BOARD of DIRECTORS February 12,1992 Walter Levesque ' Proficient Tom Timm Mayor Dort Chmiel and City Council Members tit vlca President CITY OF CHANHASSEN 690 Coulter Drive, P.O. Box 147 Bob Millar Chanhassen, MN. 55317 Ind Vise President - I Linda Stokes Dear Mayor Chmiel and Council Members: Secretary Carla Pavone Senior Community Services is very pleased, and we hope that ' Treasurer the City of Chanhassen is satisfied, by the progress made in the two recent areas of cooperation between us; the planning and John Siaser organizing of a new Chanhassen Senior Center and the Past President marketing and local start -up of the HOME (Household & " Derelyn Palter Outside Maintenance for Elderly) Program. The City of M•rn er•et•Larye Chanhassen is providing $ 4,900 for the Senior Center and $3,270 Ryan Schroeder for the HOME Program through its share of County -wide Afember•et•Lerge Community Development Block Grant (CDBG Year XVII) funds. I These amounts are designated for the seven month period that Tonl Anderson began December 1, 1991. Karl Density Robert DeQhetto ' Alison Fuhr Senior Conununity Services is requesting support levels of Marty auritz $8,736 for the Senior Center and $5,830 for the HOME Program Commissioner Ted Judo in CDBG Year XVIII. These figures are derived by annualizing I Con nerd Kopp th current fundin levels and factorin in a 4% cost- of -iivin Connie McCullough g $ g John Nelson increase. Senator Oen Olson I Steve Rood We are confident that City fficials are aware and Russ W Zagaros ro ress made on the Senior pleased r Center and the work done by Judy Bob Zaparos P � y � y Colby. Because she has an office in the Municipal building and II Benjamim F. Withhart has attended numerous meetings, she and her efforts are highly Executive Director 4 c.E,O. visible. Progress on marketing and start -up of the HOME Program has also been progressing. Betty Crouch, HOME r - - -. Program Director, has been coordinating most of her efforts with (4401 Sharmin Al -jaff, Assistant City Planner for Chanhassen. Judy • Colby has also been promoting the HOME Program as she ' identifies this need in the seniors she is contacting. A United Way I Supported Agenoy 1 Senior Community Services /Chanhassen letter February 12, 1992 Page 2. I have enclosed a brief report on the HOME Program. I po ogram. Judy Colby is available to report, if desired, on the Senior Center. All of the programs operated by Senior Community Services, including Senior Centers and HOME are aimed at helping to 1 maintain people's independence in their respective communities for as long as possible. On behalf of the seniors, who are the real beneficiaries of your funds, I many thanks for your support. If you have any questions, or if the City Council would like to have art informational presentation, please let me know. Sincerely. ' ■ e jamin F. Withhart Executive Director 1 1 cc. Paul Krau City Planner • 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 r • • HOME PROGRAM - CITY OF CHANHASSEN REPORT February 12, 1992 Significant marketing activities to date include; 1 * Article on HOME Program in Chanhassen Villager 1 * Article published in City newsletter Direct mailing, with a HOME Program insert, sent from the City to all seniors ' " HOME Program video presentation at Chanhassen SeniOr Commission meeting * HOME Program informational flyers distributed in area 1 including Carver County Municipal offices Brochures sent to individuals in Chanhassen in response to ' requests /calls made to the HOME Program office In the first two months three Chanhassen residents have signed up with Betty for snow .removal service (one of the Chore services offered by the Program) and she has recruited local volunteers to provide that work when needed. Betty has also been successful in recruiting homemakers and a skills bank worker from the area. Winter months, as is typical for the whole construction /rehabilitation industry, are generally the slowest for the Program. With the advent of warmer weather, people will once again become more cognizant of needed home repairs and ' chores like lawn mowing. 1 1 • r r r r 1 . . �VV 1 il SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES I. 1600 South 2nd Street, Hopkins, Minnesota 55343 933 -9311 Fax 933 -2101 February 11,1992 ; BOARD of DIRECTORS Mayor Don Camile and City Council Members CITY OF CHANHASSEN 1 Walter Levesque 690 Coulter Drive, P.O. Box 147 President Chanhassen, MN. 55317 Tom Ticen I lst Vice President Dear Mayor Camile and Council Members: Bob Miller 1 2nd Vice President The City of Chanhassen provided $ 7,573 for the past year through its share of County -wide Community Development Linda Stokes Block Grant (CDBG Year XVII) funds to support the Southshore Secretary Senior Center. With the City now working to open a Center on I Carla Pavane its own premises, Paul Krause has suggested that it will no Treasurer longer be possible for Chanhassen to sustain Southshore support John Glaser at the same level. Senior Community Services would then, on 1 Past President Paul's recommendation, like to request an intermediate amount to be determined by your funds available for the 1992 -93 fiscal Daralyn Peifer year. I Member -at -Large Ryan Schroeder Chanhassen, along with the other cities that support the Member -at -Large Southshore Senior Center, provides a very valuable service to 1 its elderly residents. The Southshore Center serves more elderly Toni Anderson Chanhassen residents than any other program. Dining, KarlDansky y p $T am. g , 1 Robert DeGhetto transportation and the meeting with friends, helps maintain the Alison Fuhr independence of the Center's participants in the community for Marty Guritz as long as possible. 1 Commissioner Tad Jude Leonard Kopp . - Connie McCullough On behalf of the seniors, who are the real beneficiaries of your • John Nelson funds, many thanks for your on -going support. If you have any I Senator Gen Olson q uestions, or if the City Council would like to have an Steve Rood • Russell Weinstein informational presentation, please let me know. Bob Zagaros • Sincerely, . Beniamim F. Withhart �� _ ((..) Executive Director & C.E.O. , I _ : en'amin F. Withhart oAnn Kvern `4' Executive Director Center Director I • A United Way • cc..Paul Krause, City Planner RECEIVED 1 Supported Agency FEB 1 2 1992 1 CITY Ui- utirtivr1ASSEN •• , 1 . • CITY OF • I v CHANHASSEN' 1 111 - - . 690 COULTER DRIVE • P.O. BOX 147 • CHANHASSEN, MINNESOTA 55317 (612) 937 -1900 • FAX (612) 937 -5739 MEMORANDUM 1 TO: Paul Krauss, Planning Director 1 FROM: Todd Hoffman, Park and Recreation Coordinator DATE: March 17, 1992 I SUBJ: Play Area Project Y J 1 By this memo, I am requesting Community Development Block Grant funds to refurbish the play area near the ball fields at Lake Ann Park. The project would include the installation of a bituminous access, transfer points, and resilient rubber matting. These modifications I will bring this play structure in to compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). By providing access to the play structure in conjunction with the installation of adquate transfer points, persons with disabilities vali be able to access the play equipment I in a reasonable and dignified manner. The estimated project cost is $8,000. 1 s 1 1 - r:_ - .x . ------------ 1 1 • 1 . 4.7 PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER 1