New occupants and program to be located on St. Martha's Church property on Trent Blvd.

[Dani]

Good evening, Tatesbrook Neighborhood Association!

Tuesday evening, January 24, the officers of the neighborhood
association met with District 8 Councilman, George Myers, to discuss
details of a new program that is being placed by the state near our
community.

The Bluegrass Area Development District is going to place a
residential training program on the property at St. Martha's Church.
"Kentucky's counties are grouped into 15 regions known as Area
Development Districts, or ADDs. Although they are public bodies under
Kentucky law, the ADD's are not State agencies nor are they another
level of government. Instead, the ADD's should be thought of as
partnerships of local units of government. Locally-elected officials
and citizen members comprise the ADD boards of directors. The ADD
staffs are made up of professionals with a wide range of backgrounds
in such areas as economic development, human services, management, and
planning. By sharing the expertise found on the ADD staffs, local
governments are collectively able to afford the professional staff
that many counties and cities could not afford by
themselves." (http://www.bgadd.org/about.htm)

According to Mr. Lenny Stoltz, who will be the director of the program
being placed at St. Martha's, the program will be for men who have
defaulted on child support or have completed a period of incarceration
and are selected to receive training in trades that will help them
find gainful employment. This is not a half-way house. The
individuals in the program will be either fully paroled or referred to
the program in place of incarceration (i.e. fathers having defaulted
on child support).

Those considered for this program will be completely non-violent.
Their offense and incarceration must be completely violence-free for
entry in this program (if they were incarcerated). In addition to the
non-violence, there will be a zero tolerance policy with drugs and
alcohol. Use of either, whether on-premises or off, will be immediate
expulsion from the program.

Right now, with the remodeling of the facility, the program could
house 100 individuals, but it is my understanding that the program
would start with approximately 40 people.

This Tuesday, January 31, 2012, at 6:30 p.m., the Tatesbrook
Neighborhood Association will be hosting the director, Mr. Lenny
Stoltz, to meet with the neighborhood and answer any questions that
you may have about the facility and the work they will be doing. The
meeting will be held in the basement of the Church at Tatesbrook,
located on Appian Way.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you on Tuesday.

Sincerely,
Dani Petermann
VP TBNA