Group Organization History
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March 2004 Updated
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Current Group Members It is anticipated that more members, functions, and Partners will be added to the Group as we go along. |
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February 11/2001 At the annual Church Congregational meeting, on behalf of the Senior Citizens Housing Work Group, a motion was tabled by Ove Andersen and seconded by Nancy Heinmiller to seek the support of the Congregation, as follows: that a St. Andrew's Senior Citizens
Housing After some questions and discussion of the group activities and limitations in financial decisions with the permission of the congregation, the motion was passed carrying full congregational support with no votes against. Invitations were extended to people to join the work group. |
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January 29/2001 The organization of the tasks to be performed was initially divided into 4 major groups. Since then the structure has been further developed to the current
lay-out as shown in the chart below.
During the further development of the structure, it has been decided that the model as developed by Jim Murphy at the Halton Regional Office, will serve as the group's directional project guidelines. |
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January
22/2001 December 18th 2000 at 17:30, a group of concerned St. Andrew's Members held the first meeting, sparked by an article in the newspaper concerning affordable housing in Halton Hills. The meeting subject was in reference to: "An apparent shortage of affordable housing for moderate to low income families as well as singles and Seniors" in Halton Hills. Also to discuss in what capacity, if any, the Church may participate in addressing these concerns. The commonly accepted standard of affordability, as used by the Region of Halton, is that housing cost should not exceed 30 per cent of a household's gross income In attendance were Rev. Ross Leckie, Read & Bev Whatmough, Nancy Heinmiller, Bill McMaster, and Ove Andersen. Also invited and attending was Mr. John Day, Halton Regional Councilor for Ward 3 & 4. The meeting subject was an article in the Independent newspaper December 8/2000 with comments by John Day, concerning affordable housing, in reference to availability now and in the future. (For article content, see Appendix I.) The following data is extracted from the article, and are approximate figures Survey Subject Description "Halton Region / Halton Hills"
As the regional survey was being released, the Halton Social Planning Council also released its report card on child poverty in the region, which is kind of related to the affordable housing issues although perhaps not as much for senior citizens. Different subjects and scenarios as pertaining to affordable housing for medium to low-income People and seniors in Halton Hills, was discussed by the group in reference to the individual group members interests. Also John Day gave a brief over his activities in the different committees he was and are serving on concerning these issues. John also indicated that it is of the outmost importance to get the communities involved in an effort to solve these problems, and he welcomed the initiative by the members of St. Andrew's United Church. During the group discussions, on the subject that of affordable housing, it became clear that there are more issues in many different directions, than can even be attempted to be solved by one group. Consequently it has become important to narrow the scope for our group, and it was mentioned that we should concentrate on Senior Citizen's affordable Housing only, at this time. Further to the statistics in the table above, the Region of Halton has issued more detailed statistics pertaining specially to Senior Citizens, in their report of November 2000. Below is an extract from that report, named "Halton Region Assisted Housing Survey Report" 4.5% (5,317) of all households are seniors households earning less than $30,000 per year. 47.5% of these seniors are over 75.
14,530 units of assisted housing ( not for seniors alone ) are required over the next 10 years to fill the current need and to anticipate population growth. At this time it is not at all clear as to which role St. Andrew's United Church can play, if any at all, in these concerns and issues. It is however a desire on the part of this Study Group, that we may have the approval of St. Andrew's Official Board to continue the work we have started, and from time to time report back to the Official Board when milestones have been reached. For a more detailed listing of the Group activities, as of to date, (please contact Ove Andersen) Ove S. Andersen |
