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<br />30~ <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />DECEMBER 14, 1976 <br /> <br />volunteer driver, no cash; although, the City may incur <br />expenditures for future year's gas, maintenance and <br />insurance if future applications for these expenditures <br />are not approved. <br /> <br />In addition, the Piedmont Arts Center received $3200 Title <br />III funds matched by $547 cash to provide art classes to <br />Senior Citizens and build a ramp to provide easy access to <br />the Arts Center at Lynwood House for the handicapped and <br />older citizens, and the Martinsville Jaycees received <br />$2000 for a winterization program involving insulation of <br />homes for the poor. The Jaycees provided the matching <br />funds. <br /> <br />....- <br /> <br />In summary, this Community has received, to date, approximately <br />$55,000 at a cost of less than $348 to the City, $547 to the <br />Piedmont Arts Center and about $2000 to the Jaycees. <br /> <br />The Programs Requirements, or "Strings": <br /> <br />Council began studying the program on February 24, 1975, and <br />has discussed the program at twelve Council meetings. At <br />almost all of the meetings, Council questioned the city <br />attorney and city administrators about the program's <br />requirements, or "strings". The program's requirements, <br />as explained at previous Council meetings, as I understand <br />them, are as follows: <br /> <br />(1) The program is a year-by-year funding program, and the <br />City is not committed to participate in the program for more <br />than one year at a time. The City can drop out of the <br />program at the end of any fiscal year. <br /> <br />(2) Piedmont Seniors of Virginia, the Area Agency on Aging, <br />is answerable to the governing bodies; it is responsive, <br />rather than directive, in design. All policy and programs <br />must initiate at the local level. Piedmont Seniors is not a <br />policy-making body. <br /> <br />(3) The program will cost the city minimal cash, to be <br />approved by the City Council, as most of the money comes from <br />the Federal Government and is matched by in-kind services by <br />the locality instead of cash. <br /> <br />(4) The receipt of Federal Money by the City to renovate the <br />building on Moss Street for use by the handicapped and senior <br />citizens does not commit the City to funding the program for <br />more than one year at a time, nor does it make it mandatory <br />that the City use the building only for the elderly and <br />handicapped. The requirement is that the City agree not to <br />preclude the elderly and handicapped from using the building <br />