Focus on Community Development

Spring 2005

Lancaster County Redevelopment Authority

Lancaster County
Redevelopment Authority
Board of Directors
Cindy Stewart, Chairman
Edward Hollinger, Vice Chairman
Ralph Murray, Sr., Treasurer
Neil Kinsey, Assistant Treasurer
Miriam Fletcher

Lancaster County Commissioners
Dick Shellenberger, Chairman
Molly Henderson
Howard “Pete” Shaub

Executive Director
Randy S. Patterson

The preparation of this newsletter was financed through a
Community Development
Block Grant
from the U. S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development.

Any questions or comments concerning information printed in this newsletter should be addressed to:
Steve Glatfelter,
Community Development Program Assistant

150 North Queen Street, Suite 110
Lancaster, PA 17603-3562

Phone: (717) 394-0793
Fax: (717) 394-7635
Email: Steve Glatfelter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Director's Message

Baseball is Back in Lancaster

Focus On: Ed Hollinger

Wanted: Citizen Volunteers

Good Luck Bill and Lisa

Proposed Funding for 2005
Human Service Activities

Executive Director’s Message

Dear Colleagues,

Spring is the time when we begin preparing for next year’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. Our staff is drafting a new Consolidated Plan that will govern the County’s CDBG Program, HOME Investment Partnerships Program and Emergency Shelter Grant Program over the next five years. Municipalities are now considering what projects they will choose to submit seeking CDBG funds for 2006. The Authority has been reviewing the citizen participation process we have used for the past 25 years to determine if any changes should be made to the process to ensure it is effective in determining those projects which meet the greatest need and benefit low and moderate income families.

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Baseball is Back in Lancaster!

Eight hundred tons of steel, 5,530 cubic yards of concrete, over 6,000 seats and about 100,000 square feet of professional sports-turf grass to cover the infield, outfield and foul territory, all on a 14+ acre site in downtown Lancaster. Despite these impressive statistics, the Clipper Magazine Stadium, home to the Atlantic League Lancaster Barnstormers, is much more than the sum of its physical parts.

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Focus On: Ed Hollinger

Ed Hollinger is currently serving in his fifth year on the Redevelopment Authority Board. He came onto the Board as Assistant Treasurer; and then, at the beginning of 2004, he stepped up to the position of Vice Chairman.

FOCUS: What led you to become involved with the Redevelopment Authority?

HOLLINGER: There are a number of things. In the late ‘80’s, early ‘90’s, I had gotten involved in the CDBG [Community Development Block Grant] process as a municipal rep for Lititz. I did that for quite a few years and that is how I first became acquainted with the Lancaster County Housing and Redevelopment Authorities.

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Wanted:

Citizen volunteers from outside the city of Lancaster to serve on the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Advisory Board

Would you like to have a voice in how federal funds are spent in Lancaster County? Are you interested in learning more about local community needs and what goes into the decisions to meet those needs? If you just answered "yes" to one or both of these questions, you should consider volunteering your time to review CDBG Physical Improvements applications and to make funding recommendations on behalf of the Citizen Advisory Panels for the County of Lancaster.

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Good Luck Bill & Lisa!

With 45 combined years of experience at the Lancaster County Housing and Redevelopment Authorities, and having suffered through many years of East Coast winter weather, Bill and Lisa Fountain are heading west this summer to relocate in sunny Southern California.

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Fiscal Year 2005 CDBG and HSDF Funds
Allocated to Human Services Projects

The allocation process for the County Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Human Services Development Funds (HSDF) was completed on June 1, 2005. A total of $596,817 in CDBG funds and $302,400 in HSDF were allocated to 22 different human service projects that serve low and moderate income persons in Lancaster County. The projects, their funding levels, and a brief description of each are listed below. Contracts will begin July 1, 2005.

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