Bay Aging receives Grant from Southeast RCAP

Bay Aging received Grant from Southeast RCAP for Water and Sewer Connection on their Tartan Village Phase II project.

From left to right:


• Allyn Gemerek, President BA
• Joe Curry, Lancaster Board Member
• Jimmy Carter, Lancaster Board Member
• Albert Pollard, State Delegate
• Vincent Smith, VP Property Development BA
• Hope Cupit, President/CEO Southeast RCAP
• James Norman, Program Manager Southeast RCAP

Bay Aging received a grant award from Southeast Rural Community Assistance Project (Southeast RCAP) for $100,835 for the connection of public water and sewer to nineteen affordable apartments for individuals 62 years of age and older in Kilmarnock. This is the second grant Bay Aging received from Southeast RCAP for the Tartan Village Development. In 2003 Bay Aging received a $73,500 grant for water and sewer connection for the first phase of development. Southeast RCAP's mission is to promote the development of affordable water and wastewater facilities, activities, and resources to improve the quality of life for low income rural residents. This creates a perfect partnership with Bay Aging's' mission to eliminate substandard housing among the elderly residing in the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula and to provide them with safe and affordable housing alternatives.

The apartments were funded by a grant recently awarded to Bay Aging by the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for $2,321,100. Construction of the nineteen one bedroom apartments, adjacent to the existing twenty-two unit Tartan Village Phase One, began in October of 2009 and is scheduled to be completed in September 2010.

At move-in, applicants' annual income cannot exceed $20,550 for a single person household and $23,500 for a couple. No household will be required to pay more than thirty percent of its monthly income as rent. Residents will also receive a monthly utility allowance. Individuals interested in the apartments may call Dianne Hughes at 804-758-1260 ext. 105, or send an email dhughes@bayaging.org to request their name be placed on an interest list with no obligations.