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4 <br />Inter-Faith Council for Social Serv <br />Pamela Srr <br />Pr~sid~ <br />2505 Homestead Rc <br />Chapel Hill, NC 27; <br />(919) 932-6025 (o), (919) 408-0035 <br />August 7, 2000 <br />Mr. Moses Carey, Jr., Chair <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />Orange County Offices <br />P.O. Box 8181 <br />Hillsborough, NC 2727$ <br />Dear Mr. Carey: <br />Chris Moran and I would like to thank you for the productive meeting we had with you on <br />August 4 concerning our agency's concerns about future funding for Project Homestart. <br />As you are aware the original three-year "Supportive Housing" grant awarded to the IFC <br />will end on June 30, 2001. We also informed you that officials at the U.S. Department of <br />Housing and Urban Development have informally told our staff that enough grant funds <br />remain to extend transitional housing services beyond the fiscal year period through March <br />30 of 2002. Our Executive Director is currently handling our request for this extension. <br />The IFC Board of Directors would like to inform all concerned parties that we will no longer <br />be able to provide transitional housing services at Project Homestart after March of 2002 if <br />we are to assume full financial responsibility. The Board has also decided, based on a <br />recommendation from its Strategic Planning Committee, to ask the Orange County Board <br />of Commissioners to reconvene the original 1994 Emergency Family Support and Shelter <br />Task Farce. If you recall this was afollow-up group that was appointed by the Board of <br />Commissioners to implement the original recommendations of the 1991 Orange County <br />Task Force on Homeless Women and Children. Our board expressed the concern that <br />since Project Homestart was a direct outcome of both Orange County task forces; the <br />responsibility for continuing services to homeless families should be shared by a greater <br />number of organizations in addition to the IFC. Mr. Carey, the board of directors clearly <br />stated on July 19 that our organization must receive the necessary financial support from <br />HUD or other revenue sources if future services are to be provided. <br />At the July 19 IFC Board meeting, Chris Moran gave board members an update on a <br />number of options that might be considered for the continuation of Project Homestart. He <br />reported that a newly developed "Continuum of Care" model recommended by HUD had <br />been implemented whereby community agencies and partners will meet on a monthly <br />basis to review needs, services and make funding recommendations for consideration by <br />