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NEW THIS WEEK: Turnpike Tolls Could Jump 500 Percent by 2044
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission will raise tolls six percent next year and could continue
that trend until 2044, resulting in a 500 percent total increase in fares and up to a $216
cost to travel across the state.
LancasterOnline made the projections after the Commission's action and report of future
financial impacts, including those associated with rebuilding and widening of 28 miles of
road from two to three lanes in each direction between Morgantown and Valley Forge by
2023.
Further information on the analysis is available at http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/tocross-pa-on-the-turnpike-it-s-possible-by/article_2d9be5d4-501c-11e6-81cc439e7e7ee217.html.
NEW THIS WEEK: Lancaster City to Receive Lead Based Paint Mitigation Funds;
Additional Monies to be Allocated to Chester and Montgomery Counties
City of Lancaster has been awarded $1,180,295 by the federal Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) to mitigate lead based paint hazard conditions in 100 homes in a
community target area. It also will receive $150,000 in supplemental Healthy Homes
funding.
In addition, Pennsylvania has been awarded $2.5 million in Lead Based Paint Hazard Control
funds, along with $400,000 in Healthy Homes Supplemental funds, part of which is being
allocated to the Chester and Montgomery Counties Health Departments.
Further information is available at http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?
src=/press/press_releases_media_advisories/2016/HUDNo_16-112.
UPDATED THIS WEEK: Free Zika Virus Prevention Kits Being Distributed in Area
Zika Prevention Kits for pregnant women are being distributed by the Pennsylvania
Department Health through 10 locations in our reporting area, included in the region of the
state identified as the most susceptible for transmissions of the virus.
In announcing the initiative, state Health Secretary Dr. Karen Murphy said that while Zika
is spread primarily by mosquitoes that are infected with the virus, it also can spread
through sexual contact with individuals who have the disease.
Because Zika poses serious health risks for babies born to women who contracted the virus
during pregnancy, the kits include health education materials and prevention tools to avoid
mosquito bites and sexual transmission of the disease to pregnant women. Using the
products in the Zika Prevention Kit can help protect you and your loved ones from the
virus," she said.
Additional information is available at
www.ahs.dep.pa.gov/NewsRoomPublic/articleviewer.aspx?id=21007&typeid=1, with a list of
distribution centers at www.health.pa.gov/My%20Health/Diseases%20and
%20Conditions/U-Z/Zikavirus/Pages/ZikaPreventionKits.aspx#.V4fq-6JYxLM.
An earlier report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that
shows counties in Pennsylvania that are most susceptible to having mosquitoes carrying the
disease, along with other Zika information, is available at
www.cdc.gov/chikungunya/resources/vector-control.html., with Pennsylvania's response
plan to the virus iat www.media.pa.gov/Pages/Health-Details.aspx?newsid=307.
NEW LAST WEEK: School Boards Association Says Most of State Education
Department Budget Increase Going to Retirement Costs, Not School Aid
Pennsylvania lawmakers have completed work on a state budget that provides an additional
$673 million to the Department of Education, but only $200 million, or 29%, will be going to
school districts for basic education fund, according to the Pennsylvania School Boards
Association (PSBA). Over half, or $345 million, will be allocated to school employees'
retirement.
In a budget analysis, PSBA says there also were gains of $20 million for special education,
to $1.096 billion; $345 million more for pension obligations ($2.064 billion total); $30
million for early childhood programs: Pre-K Counts (to $147 million) and Head Start
Supplemental Assistance (to $49 million); and $5.66 million for Community Colleges ($232
million total).
Wide variations in aid to school districts also were approved under a new formula adopted
for last year's budget that didn't receive legislative authorization until a few months ago.
The greatest increase in basic education funding in our five-county reporting area is Reading
with a $7,633,548, or 6.18 percent increase, along with a 11.21 percent increase to
neighboring Wyomissing Valley, the highest percentage in the region, although only
$153,906.
Avon Grove School District in Southern Chester County has the lowest percentage increase
at 1.99%, or $290,804, other than Bryn Athyn in Montgomery County that doesn't actually
have a school in its district due to contracting out education services to boarding schools
and other facililties. Three other districts in Montgomery County will receive less than a
$100,000 increase in basic education funding.
The PSBA public education analysis is available at www.psba.org/issue/budget-2015, the
new Pennsylvania Department of Education budget at www.psba.org/wpcontent/uploads/2016/02/2016-17-Ed-Budget-Breakdown-6-30.pdf, and basic education aid
numbers for all state school districts at www.psba.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/201617-BEF-Breakdown-6-29.pdf.
NEW LAST WEEK: Community Services Delivery Funding Focus Change Takes
Financial Hit
Changing community services delivery focus from individual organizations to collective
impact has taken an initial financial hit in Lancaster County, according to LancasterOnline.
It reports that donations to the United Way of Lancaster County, which changed is funding
paradigm, have fallen by 11 percent for various reasons, although the organization says it
will maintain its change in funding focus.
Under the initiative adopted for the past fiscal year, many long-time individual organization
funds recipients were dropped, replaced by community collaboratives focused on four
impact areas: getting every child ready for kindergarten, having every worker obtain a
post-secondary credential, connecting everyone to a doctor, and cutting the poverty rate in
half by 2025.
Further information on the activity is available at
www.lancasteronline.com/insider/donations-fall-percent-but-united-way-sticks-with-boldstrategy/article_7e15f91c-4ab5-11e6-a42b-c75ee84ec6d5.html.
NEW LAST WEEK: Poor Children Gain Financial Advantage Growing Up in This Area
It pays for a child to grow up in Chester and adjoining counties, according to a new study,
although Bucks County is the tops in the region.
The New York Times reports through an interactive map of work by Harvard University
researchers Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren, that a poor child spending his or her first 20
years in Chester County will add $2,240 in average adult income over national levels of
earnings. This is followed by Montgomery County at $2,050, Lancaster at $1,690, Berks at
$1,230, and Delaware at $550.
Over the border, in Cecil County, Md., the number is $560, with children in New Castle,
Del., at $2,290 less. Bucks County is at $3,470 more.
The story and map is at www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/03/upshot/the-best-andworst-places-to-grow-up-how-your-area-compares.html?
em_pos=medium&emc=edit_up_20160715&nl=upshot&nl_art=9&nlid=71879005&ref=head
line&te=1.
NEW LAST WEEK: Pokeman Go Users Need to Include Police and Dangers in
Virutual Game Focus
Royersford Borough Police in Montgomery County already have cited an individual for
playing the new Pokmon Go virtual game while driving last week, with the Monroe County
Sheriff's Department in Stroudsburg taking to expressway signs to warn drivers.
Royersford also is providing cautions to Borough residents about using the game within
municipal boundaries and elsewhere at
www.facebook.com/RoyersfordBoroughPoliceDepartment/posts/1033270653417957, with
Pennsylvania State Police issuing a Community Awareness Bulletin in regard to safe use:
www.facebook.com/TransformationIni/photos/a.635705349828053.1073741828.62331760
4400161/1090475764351007/?type=3&theater.
Nearly 250 Percent More Money Goes to Pennsylvania Prisons Than To Education
Pennsylvania spends 247 percent more on state and local prisons that it does on Pre-K to
12th grade education, says a U.S. Department of Education report, with the gap listed as
being the highest among neighboring states and the 21st highest in the nation.
Delaware is 24th nationally at 239 percent, Maryland 38th at 150 percent, New Jersey 40th
at 148 percent and New York, 48th at 88 percent or less for prisons than for education.
The full federal report is available at www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/other/expenditurescorrections-education/brief.pdf.
Incomes Growing, But Top One Percent at Nearly Twice the Rest
The bottom 99 percent of income earners registered the best real income growth, after
factoring in inflation, in 17 years in 2015, but the top one percent did nearly twice as good.
Washington Center for Equitable Growth says that Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data
shows that incomes for the bottom 99 percent of families grew last year by 3.9 percent over
2014 levels, the best annual growth rate since 1998, but incomes for the top one percent of
earners grew at 7.7 percent.
The analysis is available at www.equitablegrowth.org/research-analysis/u-s-top-onepercent-of-income-earners-hit-new-high-in-2015-amid-strong-economic-growth.
The funds, for dozens of area projects among the 418 approved throughout Pennsylvania,
are included in packages involving Alternative and Clean Energy (ACE), Building PA,
Business in Our Sites, Local Share Account, and Multimodal Transportation Fund allocations.
Lists of approved projects are available at www.newpa.com/library/?
wpdmc=approved_projects.
NEW LAST WEEK: State PUC to Use Smart Hearing Process for 717 Area Code
Tuesday, August 9
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) will use a "Smart Hearing" process to solicit
public comment on how to overcome an upcoming issue of the 717 area code for Lancaster
County west running out of telephone numbers.
Hearings will be held at both 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Tuesday, August 9, in Hearing Room 1 at
the Commonwealth Keystone Building, 400 North Street, Harrisburg.
They will be broadcast live, however, on the PUC website, allowing residents throughout the
717 area code geographic region, which covers all or part of 16 counties in Central
Pennsylvania, to see and hear testimony being offered without the need to attend the
hearings in person.
Witnesses will be able to offer their comments by telephone from their homes or other
locations.
The telecommunications industry is recommending the PUC allow an overlay of a new area
code throughout the existing 717 area code which would require all customers to dial 10
digits for every call. An alternative would be to geographically split the current 717 area
code, which would require some half of region residents and businesses to receive a new
area code.
Further information, including testimony requirements, is available at
www.puc.pa.gov/about_puc/press_releases.aspx?ShowPR=3722.
to develop additional faith community nurses, also known as parish nurses. Further
information is available from Joan Holliday at dochollisv@aol.com or (610) 717-2180.
Kennett Area Bridging the Community meets at 7 p.m. on the second Wednesdays of
January, March, May, July, September and November at various community locations with
any interested individual or organization welcome to attend and share information on
resources and needs that can build "bridges" toward a more integrated Kennett area
community. Additional information is available from Joan Holliday at dochollisv@aol.com or
(610) 717-2180. Minutes from prior meetings are available at
www.bridgingcommunity.com/bridging.php.
Coatesville Area Resource Network (CARN) meets from 9:30 to 11 a.m. on the third
Wednesday of the month, except August and December, in the fourth floor conference room
at Brandywine Health Center at 744 East Lincoln Highway, Coatesville. Representatives of
community organizations hear presentations from various services providers, discuss ways
to develop effective systems of care, help identify solutions to specific issues, and exchange
information about current and upcoming activities. Further information is available from
Kathryn Spurlock at ccch@comcast.net or at (610) 380-7111 x16.
Communities That Care (CTC) groups in several Chester County school districts provide
networking opportunities for community organizations and individuals that use a planning
and mobilization model to promote healthy youth development and prevent and reduce
negative youth health and behavior issues that may include substance abuse, delinquency,
teen pregnancy, school drop-out, and violence.
West Chester CTC meets from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., on the second Thursday of each
month of the school year at the West Chester Area School District Spellman
Administrative Building, 829 Paoli Pike, West Chester. Lunch is provided by reserving at
rsvp@wcctc.org or (610) 359-5817.
Downingtown Area CTC meets from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of the
month from September through May. Further information and registration are available
at dtownctc@umly.org or (610) 458-9090 x2827.
Coatesville CTC Community Prevention Board, a body coterminous with the Coatesville
Youth Initiative Steering Committee, meets periodically in the fourth floor Community
Room, Brandywine Health Foundation, 744 East Lincoln Highway, Coatesville. Further
information and requested lunch reservations are available from Jarvis Berry, CTC
community mobilizer, at Jarvis@coatesvilleyouthinitiative.org or (610) 380-0200.
Malvern Penn State Great Valleys Alumni Association and My Career Transitions
(MCT), an all-volunteer job counseling group, meets from 9:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
the second Saturday of the month, except August and December, in 130 Main
Building, Penn State Great Valley, 30 East Swedesford Road, Malvern, preceded by a
new member orientation at 8:30 a.m. Further information and required registration
are available at http://mycareertransitions.com/new/?q=upcoming-meetings.
West Chester Unemployment support group meets bi-weekly from 5:45 p.m. to
7:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 130 West Miner Street, West Chester, to
learn tips and techniques related to job searches. Further information is available
from Elisabeth Hartwell at ehartwell@firstpreswc.com, at (610) 696-0554.
West Chester BarnabasWC group meets from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. Mondays,
except holidays, in the Community Room, Providence Church, 430 Hannum Avenue,
West Chester. Further information is available at www.barnabaswc.org or
info@barnabaswc.org.
300 State Road, West Grove. Further information is available from John Colgan at
johnfcolgan@gmail.com.
Additional information on all St. Josephs People chapters is available at
www.josephspeople.org.
The federal Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition program, Summer Food
Rocks, funds free meals and snacks for ages 18 and under and persons with disabilities over
18 who participate in school programs for people who are mentally or physically disabled.
USDA says the program is important because children who miss school breakfast and lunch
are more likely to be sick, absent or tardy, disruptive in class, and inattentive. They also
score lower on achievement tests. Good nutrition is essential for learning in school. SFSP
provides an opportunity to continue a child's physical and social development while
providing nutritious meals during long vacation periods from school. It helps children return
to school ready to learn.
Information about SFSP is available at www.fns.usda.gov/sfsp/frequently-asked-questions?
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