HomeMy WebLinkAbout92-106WHEREAS,
WHEREAS,
WHEREAS,
WHEREAS,
A RESOLUTION supporting the Community
Development Block Grant application of
Jefferson County and Skookum Educational
Programs to establish a multi-faceted
transitional center for the disadvantaged
people of our community.
Skookum Educational Programs, dba Skookum Jump Rope
Company, has been extremely successful in producing a
quality product while devoting itself to employment of
developmentally disabled workers; and
Skookum's national reputation has brought phenomenal
sales orders and the opportunity to expand and diversify;
and
Jefferson County plans to construct for Skookum a new and
larger building to house Skookum Educational Programs and
allied social service organizations, and for this purpose
has made application to the State of Washington for a
Community Development Block Grant; and
the planned facility and programs will benefit the
residents of the entire community; Now, Therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the city of Port Townsend
that the City enthusiastically supports the application of
Jefferson County for Community Development Block Grant funding for
the Skookum Educational Programs building; and
BE IT FURTHER resolved that the City Council will explore specific
ways in which the city can provide in-kind assistance to the
project, and all city departments are requested to lend assistance
to this important project to the fullest extent permitted by law
and appropriated resources.
Adopted ~~ouncil of the City of Port Townsend in regular
ielsio~ Sixteenth .day of November, 1992.
Attest: . ~. ~
David A. Grove, Clerk-Treasurer