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To: Municipality of Anchorage Assembly Members
Please help fund these Revive Alaska Projects that are Important to us
I am a concerned citizen, and I am urging the assembly members to please act now by funding the revised 2nd round ARPA grant applications for Revive Alaska Community Services projects. These projects are important to me and many other Anchorage residents.
1. The Comfort Homes Project: Revive Alaska has purchased ten TBK fourplexes, and four office buildings. Seven of the fourplexes will be used to construct a facility on the 4.37-acre lot they have already purchased. Out of the $7.6M dollar budget, they are now asking for $1.6M only, for the completion of this project before winter 2022.
2. The RACS Food Pantry Project: Revive Alaska has purchased a facility with the help of the first ARPA fund and other funding sources to relocate the only food pantry serving South Anchorage and Midtown. Revive Alaska is now asking for $750,000.00 out of a $2.85M budget for the completion of code upgrades, renovation, and finishing to open the new pantry this summer 2022.
Why is this important?
The Comfort Homes project is fully supported by the Anchorage community, the VA, the Federal Surplus program, AmVets, ACEH, HHND, Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, and several Legion Posts in Anchorage as a housing project for veterans and other seniors who have served our nation the best they could in their prime but need our help now. Most of these are on a fixed income and could use a little help given the aftermath of COVID-19 and the continuing inflation. Housing these struggling seniors and Veterans should be a top priority for Anchorage which has the highest number of veterans per capita in the USA.
The Revive Alaska Food Pantry is the only permanent food pantry serving South and soon Midtown Anchorage in collaboration with the Food Bank of Alaska (AFB). Also, RACS Food Pantry is the only major outlet in South Anchorage for the Food Bank of Alaska to distribute the federal TEFAP (The Emergency Food Assistance Program for low-income Americans) as well as the federal CSFP Commodity Supplemental Food Program for low-income seniors.
Currently, RACS and AFB in negotiations for the expansion of the RACS Food Pantry to a major AFB Agency Partner this 2022 summer to meet the increasing needs of Anchorage residents in South and Midtown Anchorage. This newly relocated and expanded RACS Food Pantry will help put food on the table of many anchorage residents suffering from the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rising inflation.
How it will be delivered
We will email the signatures to the Assembly Members.