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RESOLUTION NO. 2003-55
RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SAN BERNARDINO RATIFYING THE SUBMITTAL OF A GRANT
APPLICATION BY THE DIRECTOR OF PARKS, RECREATION AND
COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CDBG FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $19,884
FROM THE CITY OF VICTORVILLE FOR THE SENIOR COMPANION PROGRAM
(SCP).
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Mayor and Common Council of the City of San Bernardino hereby
ratify the submittal by the Director of Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department
ofa grant application for CDBG funding in the amount $19,884 from the City ofVictorville for
the Senior Companion Program, a copy of which is attached hereto, marked Exhibit "A" and
incorporated herein by reference as fully as though set forth at length.
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RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SAN BERNARDINO RATIFYING THE SUBMITTAL OF A GRANT
APPLICATION BY THE DIRECTOR OF PARKS, RECREATION AND
COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CDBG FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $19,884
FROM THE CITY OF VICTORVILLE FOR THE SENIOR COMPANION PROGRAM
(SCP).
1 HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the Mayor
and Common Council of the City of San Bernardino at a j t. regular meeting thereof, held
February
,2003, by the following vote, to wit:
on the 18th day of
Council Members:
AYES
NAYS
ABSTAIN ABSENT
ESTRADA
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LONGVILLE
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MCGINNIS
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DERRY
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SUAREZ
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ANDERSON
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MCCAMMACK
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.J) (l.~~h;l H.-,Clark, City Clerk. .
The foregoing resolution is hereby ap~=;h'::*~ et!::i~
2003.
Approved as to
Form and legal content:
JAMES F. PENMAN,
City Attorney
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City of Victorville
Community Development Block Grant
Program Year July 1, 20032 through June 30, 2004
PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAM PROPOSAL
- Project Application Form -
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PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAMS involve the use of CDBG funds to pay the non.construction costs of
providing services such as: graffiti removal, social services, transportation services (in support of
qualified social services); employment, housing, legal, health and education services; and blight
abatement.
NOTE that funding for all Public Service Programs is restricted to 15% of the total grant awarded to
the City of Victorville.
Tvpe or Print
A. APPLICANT INFORMATION
1. Name of Applicant: City of San Bernardino
2. Mailing Address: 600 West Fifth Street
San Bernardino, CA 92410
3. Contact Person: Bettv Deal. Manager
Name and Title
4. Phone No. 909-384-5413 Fax No. 909-889-9801 E.mail deal be@sbcity.orR
5. Organizational Structure: I2'l Government or Public Agency 0 Non-Profit Corporation
o Other (Please specify)
(Recipients must be incorporated public or private non-profit organizations.)
For Non.Profit, identify status [i.e. 501 (c)(3)]
For Non.Profit, state Federall.D. Number or Social Security Number
95-6000072
B. PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Using 25 words or less, provide a concise description of the proposed program. This 25 word description is
required in order for this application to be considered complete. A more detailed project description is also
required in Attachment "A" of this application.
Senior over 60 provide in-home services to low-income, homebound, handicapped or
elderly versons needing grocery-shopping, meal preoaration. escort to doctor
appointments, stimulation, companionship.
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C. PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS
1. Street address and nearest cross streets of the site or office where the program will be conducted:
600 W. 5th St., San Bernardino
2. Legal property owner: City of San Bernardino
3. Local zoning restrictions that would affect the program: None
4. Conditional use permit required?
o Yes (attach copy) rn No
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5. Describe the community need(s) addressed by this proposal: isolation, lack of transportation
for medical needs and to grocery stores. low-income persons. frail-elderly
6. Describe the geographic boundaries of the neighborhood, community or area to be served in which clients of
the proposed program reside (attach a map, if needed):
City of Victorville - homes of varjollR rlipntR
j Companlons
7. Estimated number of people to be served in Victorville: 12-15 clients Total: 15-18 each week
8. The proposed Public Service or Community project would be provided to:
X Low. and moderate income Battered Spouses
persons or households
Abused children
Handicapped persons
Illiterate persons
x
Homeless persons
Migrant farm workers
Elderly persons
x
D. PROPOSED PROGRAM BUDGET
Provide the financial information in the form below for the appropriate project. Costs should be based on the
best information available. When preparing this information, consider the following factors:
Personnel
Equipment
Consultant Services
Space Rent, phone. supplies & postage
Voj.unteer meals
Other Transportation
Volunteer Recognition
Total Costs:
ProjectTotal (CDBG + Other): $ 22,344.00
Estimator Name and Title: Betty Deal, Manager
CDBG Share
$14.540.00
$
$
$
$ 1.09? 00
$ 4.252.00
$
$19.884.00
Other Source
$2.160.00
$ 100.00
$2.460.00
E. FUNDING COMMITMENTS
1. Identify the amount of CDBG funds requested in this application: $19,884.00
2. Identify the amount of funds to be provided by other source(s) for this project.
The date of commitment for funding from these other sources must be stated below.
Source: City of San Bernardino (in-kind) $ 960.00
Award date: ongoing Date available: ongoing
Source:
Donations from clubs and individuals
300.00
$
Award date: ongoing
Date available: on-~oi ng
Source: Federal Budget
Award date: ongoing
Date available: ongoing
$ 1,200.00
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PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAM PROPOSAL
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Source:
Award date:
$
Date available:
Source:
Award date:
$
Date avail"iJle:
Total Amount Committed By Other Sources:
$ 2,460.00
F. AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE. To the best of my YJlowledge, the information provided on this application is
true and J am authorized to submit this application on behalf of the applicant agency.
Name: Bil;~hn
Signature: I ?7Jtt:O; "
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Phone: 909-384-5012
Date: ./ '-J...4:.-lJ_ '3
. City of Victorville Project Applications will be lccepted until Thursday, January 30, 2003.
· Applications must be delivered to the Finarce Department, City Hall, 14343 Civic Drive, P.O. Box
5001, Victorville, CA 92393 not later than 4:00 p.m. on that date in order to be considered eligible.
· For more information, or for questions contact Francene Millender, Management Technician at (760)
243.6322.
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BUDGET JUSTIFICATION
CDBG Funds:
Personnel - Companions
Stipends:
3 x $2.65 x 1044 hrs =
Meals: .
3 x $1.75 x 208 days =
Mileage:
3 x 3600 mi @ $.34 =
$ 8,300.00
1,092.00
3.672.00
$13,064.00
Part-time Coordinator
10 hrs x 52 wks @$12.00=
6.240.00
$19,304.00
Mileage:
140 mi x 12 mo @ $.345 =
580.00
$19,884.00
Other Sources
City of San Bernardino:
(in-kind match)
Supplies, postage, printing -
Phone
Space
$ 1,200.00
360.00
600.00
$ 2,160.00
Individual & Group Donations:
Volunteer recognition-
300.00
Total:
$ 2,460.00
$22.344.00
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PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAM PROPOSAL
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ATTACHMENT "A"
DETAILED PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Within the space provided on this page, furnish additional information needed to fully describe the
project, its purpose and its beneficiaries. Please refer to the City of Victorville CDBG Procedures
Manual for guidance on factors that will be considered toward funding limits. Maps, pians, and
brochures may be attached to this application.
The Senior Companion Program was formed by U.S. Congress in 1974 with a two-fold
purpose: I) utilizing low-income seniors (60 and over) to provide 20 hours per week of personal
in-home services to adults who need help with activities of daily living while supplementing their
incomes with a tax-free "stipend" payment and 2) allowing low-income, handicapped, disabled or
frail elderly persons to remain in their own homes instead of living in expensive institutional
setting.
Services provided include meal preparation, transportation to medical appointments,
grocery-shopping, reading, writing and providing much needed companionship. In many cases,
the Companion is the only contact the client has with the outside world. This link has proven to
be most beneficial to the well-being ofthc clients and prevents or delays institutionalization.
Companions also provide respite to family members who give 24 hour, 7 days a week care to
loved ones with Alzheimer's Disease, other forms of dementia, stroke, etc. This service is
extremely important and appreciated by the caregivers, and has proven to prevent abuse caused
by overstress on the provider trying to meet all the needs of the afflicted client. Benefits to the
Companions, besides the tax-free stipends, include lunch reimbursement, mileage, training,
insurance, recognition and the reward of helping others. It has been proven that Senior
Companions live longer and stay healthier than their peers who are not active.
There is another very important benefit of this program; it is so economical. The annual
cost for one Companion is approximately $4,000.00. This one Companion serves at least 4
clients every week. Most clients are Medi-Cal eligible and therefore would be covered for
convalescent hospital residency, which would be paid by the taxpayers at a cost of $40,000 each
per year, if the cost-effective Companion services were not available. $4,000 per year per
Companion versus $40,000 x 4 clients per year certainly makes economic sense: spending
$160,000 or $4,000 a year leaves only one sensible decision.
See attached brochure for further information.
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Grantee Information
The City of San Bernardino's Parks, Recognition and Community Service
Department is the only Senior Companion Program grantee in San Bernardino County.
The original grant from the Federal Government began in 1974 and serves not only San
Bernardino, but surrounding cities, including Highland, Redlands, Loma Linda, Colton,
Rialto, Fontana and Yucaipa. Three years ago a $98,902.00 State Grant (through the S.B.
County Department of Aging & Adult Services) was also awarded to this sponsor to
serve Victorville, Hesperia, Apple VaUey, Adelanto, Crestline, Yucca Valley, Joshua
Tree and Twentynine Palms.
The office and staff are located in San Bernardino; therefore there are no
additional administrative costs. The City's Finance Department handles aU the fiscal
reports. The office space and record-keeping are provided as an in-kind match to aU
grants, thus eliminating rent, added staff costs, etc.
In 2001 the State funding was cut to $78,807.00. And now we are facing total
elimination of these funds as the Governor tries to overcome the $35,000,000,000.00
budget deficit.
The beneficiaries of this cost-effective program would face forced
institutionalization without their in-home personal care. We earnestly ask for your
assistance to keep this valuable program operating in your City and look forward to
attending the public hearing on or about February 18.
Thank you for your consideration. Please feel free to contact us at 909-384-5413
if you have questions.
NOTE: On January 13, Governor Davis said, "No matter the advocacy argument, SCP
funding is dead." (This will become effective between April 1 and June 30 this year.)
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State budget cuts could hurt
or eliminate senior programs
Senior Companionship and
Meals on Wheels could lose funds
By CHRISTINA L. ESPARZA
Staff Writer
VICTORVILLE - Victorville res-
.dent Josefina Ochoa, 82, doesn't go
>utside alone.
fIer weak legs' ache and her walk-
,r is of little comfort to her. Some-
imes she gets dizzy and falls. She
leeds constant companionship
,hen she leaves her" home, and at
,ast once a week, she gets it.
Ochoa is a member. of San
ernardino's Senior Companion- .
lip program. Funded mostly by the
ate and federal government, the
rogram pairs seniors with th.eir
,ers that cannot do normal, every-
lY things for themselves. Mickey
iller, 70, drives Ochoa to the bank,
the doctor's office, or the mall
len she feels like shopping.
Ochoa gets e:!cited when she
peeks out her window and sees
Miller there standing on her
doorstep. She hates being alone.
lilt's very important to me, that
companionship," Ochoa said.
But soon, her once-a-week visit
with Miller may end. If passed by
the California Legislature, Gov.
. Gray Davis' plan to cut $10.2 billion
from the general fund for the rest of.
this and next fiscal year, will elimi-
nate funding to the Senior Compan.
ionship program entirely, said Sue
san Brown, who manages the aging
program for the county's Depart-
ment of Aging and Adult Services,
where the program gets its state
. funding.
The program has 13 volunteers
and 52 clients in the High Desert.
The volunteers get paid a stipend of
$4,000 a year, plus reimbursement
for transportation.
If Davis' proposal passes, the sen-
ior companionship program will
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FRO'M THE FRONT
Friday, December 20, 2002
Staff Photo I Christina Esparza
Josefina Ochoa, 82, left, and Mickey Miller, 70, are
'Participants in the Senior Companion program.
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Seniors: Cuts
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lose about $73,000, said Betty
Deal, the manager for the
program. Another source of
income, a- grant, expires in
October.
The program, Deal said,
has little chance of surviving.
Cutting the program does
not make sense, she added. It
costs $4,000 for one person
to care for up to five clients a
year. The clients, who have
low incomes and qualify for
Medi-Cal or Medi-Care, will
have to live in nursing homes
if they cannot be cared for,
she said.
Nursing homes could cost
up to $40,000 a year, Deal
added, which means the state
has to foot that bill for sen-
iors who qualify for Medi-Cal
or Medi-Care.
"If (the state) had any
brains .at all, they'd keep the
companions," Deal said. "For
the state to say 'We'll have to
cut the programs' is economi-
cally stupid."
Not only would cutting the
28-year.o1d program be detri-
mental to the clients, their
companions will also feel the
pinch, both financially and
emotionally.
"That money pays for my
groceries," Miller said. "If I
start to stay home, I would
deteriorate."
Meals on Wheels, which
brings hot meals every day to
seniors at their homes or
congregational halls, serves
about 1,600 High Desert sen.
iors alone and could lose
$108,750, Brown said.
The county will look for a
way to cut costs without
denying any seniors the
Meals on Wheels service,
such as outside grants and
donations, she added.
Funding for the county's
Brown 'Bag program, whiCh
provides unmarketable fruit
and vegetables for 10w-
income seniors in Chino, may
also be eliminated, said Mary
Sawicki, the director for the
Department of Aging and
Adult Services.
In the meantime, Ochoa
and Miller will walk together,
shop together and talk about
the governor. .
"I'd say cut his paycheck
and give it to these poor peo-
ple," Miller said.
Ochoa said if she had the
chance to talk to the gover-
nor, she'd simply say, "It's
hard to be sick and alone."
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Sydney Loynd, Older Adult Program Specialist
San Bernardino Adult School
1200 N. "E" Street
San Bernardino, CA 92410
Date: January 14, 2003
To: Community Development Block - Grantors
I have worked with the San Bernardino Senior Companion Program on several levels for
14 years.
The Companions were vital in providing an instructional program for the Department of
Mental Health that I supervised. The Companions loved the work and the students were
benefited daily by their input and example. We provided a great transition program to 65
students who would not have otherwise have had such a positive relationship.
I have been the Advisory Council Chairperson for the Senior Companions for five years.
The reputation of the program is outstanding! State and Federal Congressmen send
representatives to our meetings and events. Local businesses and Social Service
Agencies are also represented. The Companions have more than proven their worth to the
community and the clients they serve.
As an instructor it has been my privilege to train our Companions regularly. I am but a
part of the comprehensive training provided to the Volunteers. The Department of Aging
and Adult Services, Social Security Department, County Health Department and various
important agencies provide valuable information and networking.
Clients remain at home much longer than expected. This program provides
transportation to the doctor, pharmacies, and other locations to insure the clients' well
being. Relationships become long term and important through the program.
Emergencies are handled well and in some instances, lives saved because of the
Companion program. The cost to the community is minimal compared to the
institutionalization cost.
I urge you to support this valuable agency for your community! Please call if you have
any questions. My work number is (909) 384-5430.
Sincerely yours,
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DEPARTMENT OF AGING & ADULT SERVICES
The Designaled Area Agency on Aging
686 East Mill Street. San Bernardino, CA 92415.0640
(909) 891.3g00 . Fax (909) 891.3919
COUNTY OF SAN BERNAROINO
HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM
MARY R. SAWICKI
Director
TOO - Telephone Selviceslor the Hearing Impaired
(909) 380.4502 Adult SoNice,
(909) 388-4555 Aging Ser\'fces
Date: January 6. 2003
To: Community Development Block Grant - Grant, J! s
From: Aging and Adult Service&. San Bernardino Co Uity of San Bernardino
Re: Request for funding for the Senior Companion Program
Please accept this letter of support for the request of n:r.de sought by the City of San
Bemardino to continue operation of the Senior Companion Program. The Governor has
recently targeted this program as one of the community based service programs in the
State that may be eliminated from fllrther funding.
The County of San Bernardino, for the past 6 years, ba.s been a recipient of State funding
and has contracted wilh the City of San Bernardino to operate the Senior Companion
Program tluough these funds. The City has operated this program for over 20 years. The
main purpose of the Senior Companion Program is to provide services to home bound
individuals who might not otherwise receive persona1 care. Such services include
shopping for groceries, serving meals, and providing l;ips to the physician' s office. As
recipients of the services of this program, many elderly adults avoid premature
institutionalization. Additionally, by receiving visits by their companions, they are less
prone to the level of depression that could lead to fai ling health, thus institutionalization.
The program also benefits the seniors that serve as cr,mpanions, as they too are at risk
individuals. By maintaining social activity within tlc ~ community and being of service to
the homebound, the program also prevents prematm , institutionalization for these
individuals.
In closing, we hope that you will consider funding th:s important program.
Sincerely,
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Mary Sawicki, Director
Aging and Adult Services Department
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