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HomeMy Public PortalAbout2022.04.01 STB Packet final SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING APRIL 1, 2022 4:52 PM AGENDA 03-31-2022 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL ITEM FOR BOARD ACTION 3STB2022-1 Resolution Awarding Grant Funding to Irondequoit Community Cupboard, Inc. Resolution No. 2022 - ________ EXTRACT OF MINUTES OF MEETING OF THE TOWN BOARD ADOPTING A RESOLUTION AWARDING GRANT FUNDING TO IRONDEQUOIT COMMUNITY CUPBOARD, INC. At the special meeting of the Town Board of the Town of Irondequoit, Monroe County, New York held at the Town Hall, 1280 Titus Avenue, in said Town of Irondequoit, on the 1st day of April, 2022 at 4:52 P.M. local time; there were: PRESENT: Rory Fitzpatrick Town Supervisor John Perticone Town Board Member Patrina Freeman Town Board Member Kimie Romeo Town Board Member Peter Wehner Town Board Member Harter Secrest & Emery LLP Attorney for the Town Town Board Member______________________offered the following resolution and moved its adoption: WHEREAS, in 2020, the Town of Irondequoit received supplemental funding through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act, through the Town’s Community Development Block Grant (“CDBG”), for activities relating to preventing, preparing for, or responding to coronavirus, from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development; and WHEREAS, pursuant to resolution 2020-155, the Town Board authorized an amendment to Irondequoit’s 2019-20 Community Development Block Grant (“CDBG”) Annual Plan to allocate the supplemental CARES ACT funding to the Revitalizing Irondequoit Small Business Economy (“RISE”) grant program and to the COVID-19 Community Action Fund to assist not-for-profit entities helping residents affected by COVID-19; and WHEREAS, the Irondequoit Community Cupboard, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance to Irondequoit residents with dignity, kindness, and without prejudice, and holds the vision of combatting the impacts of hunger and poverty by sharing resources, particularly meals, to help ensure that residents’ basis needs are met in times of limited resources and food scarcity; and WHEREAS, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Irondequoit Community Cupboard provided 166,220 meals to residents, conducted a weekly backpack program at Irondequoit elementary schools, and provided food and gift cards to middle- and high-schools to place food pantries onsite; and WHEREAS, the Irondequoit Community Cupboard is currently located at 4275 Culver Road, but its location is small—consisting of only 1,200 square feet—and the organization has been increasingly confined in the pursuit of its charitable mission and vision, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the community’s food needs were sharply pronounced; and WHEREAS, the Irondequoit Community Cupboard has identified a new location, located at 2841 Culver Road, that is nearly triple the size of its current location and has many additional advantages, including an at-grade covered loading area with improved traffic circulation; and WHEREAS, the Irondequoit Community Cupboard will soon close on the purchase of its new building, and the Town Board wishes to allocate $411,145.59 in grant funding to enable the Irondequoit Community Cupboard’s purchase of the new location. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Town Board hereby determines that the Irondequoit Community Cupboard is performing a public purpose by providing food and other resources to help meet the basis needs of the public and schoolchildren, and further determines that the Irondequoit Community Cupboard was instrumental in responding to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, a period of high unemployment and food scarcity. AND, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Town Board wishes to assist the Irondequoit Community Cupboard in performing its public service, and in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, by awarding it grant funding for the purchase of its new building. AND, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Town Board awards $411,145.59 in grant funding to Irondequoit Community Cupboard, Inc., for the purchase of 2841 Culver Road, to be paid from account #001-1315-4360 and consisting of $375,109 in supplemental CDBG Cares Act funding and $36,036.59 of funds available in the RISE grant program. AND, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Town Board authorizes the Supervisor or Comptroller, as the case may be, to transfer the grant funding among those budget accounts necessary to accomplish the foregoing resolutions and to carry out the intent of the foregoing recitals. AND, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Town Supervisor and Comptroller be, and hereby is, authorized, empowered and directed to take all such further actions and to execute, deliver, certify and file all such further agreements, undertakings, certificates, instruments and documents, in the name of and on behalf of the Town, and to pay all such costs, fees and expenses as the Town Supervisor shall approve as necessary or advisable to carry out the intent and accomplish the purposes of the foregoing recitals and resolutions and the transactions contemplated thereby, the taking of such actions and the execution, delivery, certification and filing of such documents to be conclusive evidence of such approval. AND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that that any and all actions taken by the Town Supervisor and Comptroller prior to the date of adoption of the foregoing resolutions which would have been authorized by the foregoing resolutions but for the fact that such actions were taken prior to such date, be, and each hereby is, ratified, approved, confirmed and adopted as a duly authorized act of the Town in all respects and for all purposes. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption. Seconded by Town Board Member __________________________and duly put to vote, which resulted as follows: Town Board Member Wehner voting _______ Town Board Member Romeo voting _______ Town Board Member Freeman voting _______ Town Board Member Perticone voting _______ Town Supervisor Fitzpatrick voting _______