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Free Copy OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE HIGH POINT MODEL CITY COMMISSION May 19,1972
Commissioners Approve 10 Projects
In Second Reprogramming Cycle
Ten projects have been approved
by Model City Commissioners as part
of the second amendment to the Sec
ond Year Action Plan.
What this amendment means is
that ten projects are receiving a total
of approximately $186,000 in Model
Cities’ second reprogramming cycle
of its second fiscal year.
In reprogramming, the Model Cities
fiscal department examines the bud
gets of all existing projects, collects
their unspent funds, and determines
the amount which can be redistribut
ed among new or continuing projects.
Task forces, meanwhile, review pro
jects, their needs and priorities, and
determine which they want funded
for the remainder of this year, which
ends July 31. They submit proposals
to the Model City Executive Commit
tee, who in turn recommends them to
the entire Model City Commission for
approval.
The reprogramming process — find
ing the best ways to spend unspent
supplemental funds — is identical to
the process which produces the action
year plans. Task forces are called
upon to identify problems, suggest
solutions, and help plan programs to
deal with those problems.
The ten projects in this second re
programming cycle of the year re
present eight new supplemental fund
ed projects, one new non-supplemental
project (not directly funded by Model
Cities), and one continued supple
mental project whose budget is being
increased.
The package was presented to and
approved by the entire Commission
at their May meeting. At the same
time. Commissioners also approved
the Third Year Action Plan which
will be implemented August 1.
Money used in reprogramming can
become available in various ways.
Even with the most careful budget
planning, there are times when new
situations arise which alter a project
or which prevent a project from be
ginning on schedule. Budgets are de
signed to be as flexible as possible,
especially those of new projects never
tried before.
In reprogramming, the Model Cities
staff updates and revises all project
budgets when necessary with the con
sent of the agency directors. Where
there is excess money, the Model City
Commission takes it to be redistrib
uted among other projects.
The following projects have been
approved for funding in this second
and final reprogramming cycle of the
action year:
• Secondary Summer School is a
new project to assist 50 students from
junior and senior high in making up
courses failed during the regular
term. It will be administered through
the city school system by the Com
prehensive Community Child Care
(Fore-See) Agency, and will ofiFer
remedial courses in 12 subjects. The
entire budget of $2,500 is provided by
Model Cities.
• Community Mental Health is a
component of the Guilford County
Mental Health Authority’s Compre
hensive Community Mental Health
plan. It is designed to strengthen the
county’s mental health program with
additional staff who will provide pre
ventative services, education, treat
ment and rehabilitation services on
both in-patient and out-patient levels.
In High Point existing rehabilitation,
pre-care and after-care services will
be expanded by adding professionals
to the staffs of other agencies such as
Family Service Bureau, Alcohol Edu
cation Center and Drug Action Coun
cil.
One-fourth of the budget, approx
imately $25,000, is provided by Model
Cities, while the remainder, or $75,-
500, is provided by the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare-Na-
tional Institute of Mental Health.
• High Point College Summer
Recreation Program will provide one-
week camp experiences for 100 boys
in each of three age groups. They
will be instructed in basketball, soft
ball, track, swimming, archery, and
related fields of hygiene, drug edu
cation, and so forth. The total budget
of $11,955 is provided by Model
Cities.
• Bennett College Summer Pro
gram for Girls is similar to that being
held at High Point College. Three
hundred girls will be given a chance
to attend three two-week sessions on
the campus. Dance, aquatics, tumb
ling and gymnastics, team and in
dividual sports will be offered. Model
Cities provides the entire budget of
$26,712.
• Sandy Ridge Advancement Cen
ter’s Education program is aimed at
the inmates at the local male cor
rectional center who want to upgrade
their education. A learning lab will be
set up with a professional staff so that
inmates may study under supervision,
and transportation will be provided
to Guilford Technical Institute so
that those who wish may take courses
there. With the exception of a $500
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Try It This Way...
Lynette Massey, an instructor at
Cultural Arts, with Jerome McBee,
More photos, page 3.
Summer Recreation Program
for 300 Model Neighborhood Boys
and 300 Model Neighborhood Girls
Call the Model Cities office, 885-0817 or 885-9081,
for more information.
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— Reassures By Telephone
Vivian Is Lady Behind The Voice
VIVIAN LEE
“Hi! It’s Vivian.”
And with that, about 28 elderly per
sons in the Model Neighborhood start
their day.
The lady behind the voice is Vivian
Lee of Clara Cox Apartments. She
is one of six volunteers who make daily
calls to elderly persons who live alone.
Their project is called telephone re
assurance. Its purpose is to check on
these elderly people, find out their
needs, and relay the problems to Con
centrated Social Services or an appro
priate agency.
Telephone reassurance was organ
ized in July by Concentrated Social
Services, a Model Cities agency oper
ated by the Guilford County Depart
ment of Social Services. Ruth Foster
of the agency’s Daniel Brooks office
coordinates the project.
For two months a Neighborhood
Youth Corps worker, LaVerne Curtis,
was the only regular caller. When she
left in September, Mrs. Foster began
looking for volunteers. Vivian Lee was
the first to answer the call.
Now with six volunteers, nearly 120
elderly persons are reached every day.
Not only do the volunteers make calls,
but they also make personal visits, and
many times end up running errands
for their telephone friends themselves.
Mrs. Lee, for instance, made 25
visits and completed 341 telephone
calls last month alone.
The greatest service she renders, she
says, is just letting these elderly per
sons know there’s someone who cares.
“I try to call all of them every
morning,” says Vivian, “At first, when
I started calling back in September
I’d say This is Vivian Lee with tele
phone reassurance.’ Now they all know
me, and I just say ‘Hi! Vivian.’ That’s
all it takes. . . .
“Mostly I just ask if there’s any
thing I can do to help, and we get into
a general conversation. At first some
of them were sort of hesitant to talk,
but now they tell me all their prob
lems.”
If Vivian fails to contact any one
of her 28 wards for three or four days,
she either goes to the home herself or
sends Ruth Foster. When she’s needed,
she carries them to buy groceries, to
pick up surplus food, to the drug store,
or to the doctor’s office.
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