2001 S Housing - TANF Housing Program Professional Services Contract Renewal

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Gee Associates, Inc., was incorporated in the State of North Carolina in December 1998. Prior to that, it had operated as a sole proprietorship in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Clients there included the City of Boston, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Foundation, Roxboro Community College System, community -based public health coalitions in Boston, Worcester and Woburn, the national Affordable Comfort Housing Conference. (Consulting resume attached.) Current and previous consulting contracts include: • Program Administration and direct services for the Pilot Phase of the TANF Housing Program in Orange County, N.C. • Contract administrator and Board/Staff development trainer for $100,000 HUD grant to Chapel HilUCarrboro Residents' Council; • Facilitated planning exercise for Executive staff of the community college in Boston: • Strategic planning, staff development and grant writing for community -based public health coalitions in three Massachusetts cities; • Grant- writing and coalition development assistance to the City of Boston in preparation of a $93 million Empowerment Zone Grant; • Evaluation of an inner -city youth service program in Boston that served as the prototype for City Year, which was the model for Americorps; conducted a survey of prior participants; developed a training manual for youth volunteers with accompanying video and management guidelines for staff; also assisted Foundation Board and staff to develop a strategic plan and conducted executive search for new program director; • Assisted in development of a resident energy conservation manual for use nationally. Ms. Gee has spent most of her life in North Carolina and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in English. She served two years as a university English teacher in Tunisia, North Africa while in the Peace Corps. For six years, Ms. Gee held a department head position with the N.C. Alternative Energy Corporation in Research Triangle Park (now Advanced Energy) where her department conducted energy conservation research projects on innovative financing for local governments, schools and nonprofit organizations, cost reduction strategies for public housing, service delivery models for hard -to -reach populations and consumer education. Her management experience includes service as Executive Director of a non -profit 80- member organizational coalition outside Boston with an annual budget of $1.4 million and a Board of Directors that included the Mayor, City Manager, Superintendent of Schools, service providers and CEO's of major corporations. Ms. Gee was employed with the Town of Chapel Hill Department of Housing where she developed their welfare -to -work self - sufficiency program, ACHIEVE!. She has been president of her consulting practice for 5 years. Fiscal and Sub - contract Management Patricia Gee and contract staff as assigned will develop reporting and tracking systems for expenditure of all contract funds in coordination with fiscal grantee, Dept. of Social Services and other County departments as required. Gee Associates, Inc. will have direct responsibility for the recommendation for payment of all project funds. The contractor will complete all fiscal reporting and tracking tasks as required by the County and by the State for approval by the County in the manner and on the schedule requested.