WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT: The Tarrytown Community Opportunity Center is multi-purpose community service program is dedicated to serving low-income residents of both Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown. The TOC Center offers a wide range of interactive assistance, including but not limited to the below list of programs that provide both immediate relief as well as long-term support by instilling the knowledge and value of self-sustenance. However as of late, The Center has been facing serious budgetary constraints due to a lack of sufficient and proper funding from The Village of Sleepy Hollow who’s residents make up (TKTK) percent of the attendees and recipients of the services The Tarrytown COC offers. Therefore, this Petition is to The Center has Food Pantry Service bi-weekly food pantry for residents of the surrounding area. Ninety to one hundred households take advantage of these programs, as well as their emergency pantry services. The number of recipients continues to grow exponentially each month. Additionally, the Tarrytown COC holds bi-monthly senior dinners. The Tarrytown COC offers a program called The Madres Project The Madres/Mothers Program which is meant to help integrate women of the Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown communities. Meetings are held every six weeks for area mothers and women, are facilitated in both English and Spanish, and have a regular attendance of thirty five women.. Services include an emergency food bank, eviction prevention and a weekly soup kitchen. The Center provides Employment & Training Activities. Their on-site Job Developer currently sees between 10 and 20 individuals per week for job related services and is currently working with several young adults on a Youth Employment program, where local individuals ranging in age from 19-24 will be assisted in being placed in unsubsidized seasonal employment. The Housing Advocacy & Home Energy Assistance Program at The Tarrytown Opportunity Center is extremely affective. ( TKTK SOMETHING ABOUT TERRY WORKING WITH THE VETERANS TKTK) The strains of a down economy and limited Section 8 vouchers have amplified the necessity for housing related services. The Housing Advocate assists clients in rental arrears, eviction prevention and mortgage related issues. Tarrytown COC works closely with Westchester Residential Opportunities (WRO), local housing authorities and The Department of Social Services to resolve client issues that could ultimately result in homelessness. WHY ARE PEOPLE SIGNING?: SHALL THE ANNUAL CONTRIBUTON OF NAME OF MUNICIPALITY FOR THE OPERATING BUDGET OF NAME OF LIBRARY BE INCREASED BY DOLLAR AMOUNT ($ XXX) TO THE SUM OF DOLLAR AMOUNT ($ XXX) ANNUALLY DATE, SIGNATURE, RESIDENCE ADDRESS ,WARD (IF ANY) OR ELECTION/TOWN/ASSEMBLY DISTRICT (IN NASSAU AND SUFFOLK) DISTRICT CITY _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Additional signature lines, etc. (Print the following statement at the bottom of each Petition sheet.) I, NAME OF WITNESS, state: I am a duly qualified voter of the State of New York and I am also duly qualified to sign the petition. I now reside at RESIDENCE ADDRESS AND POST OFFICE ADDRESS (if not identical) which is in the ELECTION DISTRICT (fill in district), of the WARD/ASSEMBLY DISTRICT (fill in Ward. if any. and/or Assembly District in Counties of Nassau and Suffolk in the NAME OF MUNICIPALITY in the County of NAME OF COUNTY. Each of the individuals whose names are subscribed to this petition sheet containing FILL IN NUMBER signatures, subscribed the same in my presence on the dates indicated and identified himself or herself to be the individual who signed this sheet. I understand that this statement will be accepted for all purposes as the equivalent of an affidavit and, if it contains a material false statement, shall subject me to the same penalties as if I had been duly sworn. Date: ________________________ Signature of Witness CHECK WITH YOUR LOCAL BOARD OF ELECTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL RULES REGARDING PAGE NUMBERING AND COVER SHEETS.