The largest such project overseen by CEDC was in Fillmore where last year 17 residences were improved for Neighborworks.June 9 CEDC will “bring community to the communities we work in” noted Alex Garcia of CEDC by the neighborhood volunteer effort to spruce up and clean Santa Ana Street, location of the new CEDC farmworker apartment complex.“Since the opening” of the complex CEDC has worked with property owners and residents and “decided this year to have a neighborhood revitalization project,” said Garcia.The project will include five homes and a vacant lot: “We’ll be painting the houses, landscaping, fencing and trash removal,” the latter a key component of the effort.Garcia noted that the city “was gracious enough” to provide trash pickup for the Sycamore Street project and asked that the Council consider a similar donation.Garcia also urged that volunteers join in the effort.Mayor Ray Luna asked if the request for in-kind city services would have to be brought back for Council approval and City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz said that the request would be taken care of on the staff level.
CEDC to sponsor Neighborworks beautification project
June 08, 2007
Santa Paula City Council
Another Santa Paula neighborhood is about to undergo beautification when the Cabrillo Economic Development Corporation heads a volunteer effort on Santa Ana Street to celebrate Neighborworks Week, the City Council learned at the May 21 meeting.
By Peggy KellySanta Paula TimesAnother Santa Paula neighborhood is about to undergo beautification when the Cabrillo Economic Development Corporation heads a volunteer effort on Santa Ana Street to celebrate Neighborworks Week, the City Council learned at the May 21 meeting.Catherine Benner of Cabrillo, a Santa Paula resident, told the Council she is a “community builder” who is working with Alex Garcia on the project.It is not the first for CEDC: four years ago the affordable housing builder tackled revitalization on Sycamore Street.“Cabrillo is very well known as a housing agency” creating and managing affordable properties but “not as well known for their efforts in community work” and coalition building throughout Ventura County.Neighborworks is a volunteer project that CEDC has participated in with projects as diverse as an Oxnard church to a home in Ojai occupied by a woman with disabilities noted Benner.The Santa Paula project had involved a family with an ill child whose home needed attention.
