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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