Mayor William Flanagan and various directors of programs funded by the City's Community Development Block Grant gathered at the corner of Bank and 7th Street on April 1, 2013 to mark National Community Development Week. This annual campaign is designed to focus local as well as national attention on the outstanding accomplishments over the past 39 years of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program and over the past 22 years of the HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) Program. State legislators Paul Schmid, Alan Silvia and David Sullivan joined U.S. Congressman William Keating representatives from Community Developmen agencies for the event. National Community Development Week is celebrated by local community development agencies across America during the first week of April. Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds made available by HUD provide programs such as job training for the unemployed, senior citizen programs and services provided for persons with disabilities and children of low-income families. Click here for a twelve-minute video of the announcement. For more information, contact CDA Executive Director Michael Dion at 508-679-0131.

(Top row) City officials including Health and Human Services Director Dr. Henry Vaillancourt, Tobacco Control Coordinator Marilyn Edge, State Representative Dvid Sullivan, Police Chief Dan Racine and U.S. Congressman William Keating, gather on the sidewalk on 7th Street across from a house that was rehabilitated wiht Community Develoopment funds. (Row two) Julianna and Sylvie Dufresne sit on the stoop of the house before their mother, Aime, speaks with Pamela Marting of Fall River Government television. (Row three) Mayor Flanagan greets Representative Sullivan and then Sylvie Dufresne and her father, Gary, before stepping to the podium. (Row four) Neighborhood Coordinator Perry Long steps to the podium to introduce the Mayor. (Bottom row) Dr. Vaillancourt is joined by building inspector Joe Biscko and inspector Lisa Golden as they listen to the Mayor.