HARTFORD RECEIVES MORE THAN $6 MILLION

 IN FEDERAL GRANTS FOR LEAD PREVENTION

 

---NEWS ADVISORY---

 

 

WHEN:                       Tuesday, October 3, 2006 at 10:30 a.m.

 

WHERE:                    43-45 May Street

(Across from Sigourney Park in Asylum Hill neighborhood)

 

Mayor Eddie A. Perez is proud that the City of Hartford has received two large grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) totaling $6.4 million for lead prevention.  Hartford is the only city in Connecticut to directly receive these monies and is also the recipient of the second largest grant, after St. Louis, Missouri.  These grants are the result of a lot of study and hard work by a special task force, convened by Mayor Perez.

 

The announcement will take place in front of a two-family home that is now lead safe.  This new grant money will be used to remediate more than 600 housing units in Hartford during the next three years.

 

Joining Mayor Perez at this news conference will be Ramon Rojano, Director of Hartford’s Department of Health and Human Services, Carrie Saxon-Perry, head of the Mayor’s Lead Task Force and Amy McLean Salls, Project Coordinator of the Lead Action for Medicaid Primary Prevention (LAMPP). 

 

 

For more information on the Mayor’s role, please contact Sarah Barr, Director of Communications, at (860) 522-4888 x6217 or Ramon Espinoza, Media Liaison, at x6208.