Action Alert
ACTION ALERT
Dec 19, 2008
ADVOCACY WORKS!!!
THE SENIOR CENTER RFP HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN!
DFTA is Now Working to Get Out City Council
and Borough President Funds!
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City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs announced the withdrawal of the senior center rfp today at a City Hall press conference. Also present were Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo, Chair, Committee on Aging, and Councilman James Vacca, Chair, Subcommittee on Senior Centers as well as the new DFTA commissioner, Lilliam Barrios Paoli (see attached press release).
- It is our understanding that DFTA is working to amend City Council funds for meals and transportation along with Borough President funds into your budgets. This funding will return to the way it had been for FY2009 and FY2010.
CSCS is proud of the ongoing advocacy its members did over this past year on the senior center rfp. The seniors spoke strongly through the 19,000 letters they signed.. Thank you.
For further information, please contact Bobbie Sackman, (212) 398-6565, x226 or bsackman@cscs-ny.org - To stay in the loop, visit www.cscs-ny.org
CSCS - THE POWER OF AGING!