Summer Youth Employment

The City of Albany is currently accepting applications for the Mayor's 2011 Summer Youth Employment Program. If you are between the ages of 14 and 18, you are eligible to work in this program. This program will commence on Monday, July 11th, 2011 through Friday, August 5th, 2011. Applications must be postmarked by April 1, 2011. For more information, please click here.

Mayor Gerald D. Jennings and the City of Albany’s Office of Equal Employment Opportunity are proud to announce the CADET Program.

Applicants that apply for the Summer Youth Employment Program and are age 16 and 17 years old by July 1, 2011, may also apply for the CADET Program with the Albany Police Department or the Department of Fire, Emergency & Building Services. To download an application or for more information, please click here.

http://www.albanyny.org/newsarticles/11-02-28/mayor_s_2011_summer_youth_employment_program.aspx


Mayor Gerald D. Jennings and the City of Albany’s Office of Equal
Employment Opportunity is proud to announce the CADET
program. Participants for the City of Albany Departmental
Experiential Training program will have training in the Albany
Police Department or the Department of Fire, Emergency &
Building Services.

For Additional information, please call 518-434-5296.
CADET Program
City of Albany


Eligibility/ Requirements
Participants for this program are required to meet the following qualifications:
♦ Age 16-17 by July 1, 2011
♦ Working Papers
♦ Birth Certificate
♦ Social Security Card
♦ City of Albany Resident

Individuals participating in this program will gain the following experience:
DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, EMERGENCY & BUILDING SERVICES
♦ Ride-a-long on EMS calls.
♦ CPR Training
♦ Drills Training
♦ Fire House Living
♦ Fire Equipment Maintenance
ALBANY POLICE DEPARTMENT
♦ Ride-a-long on Police Patrols
♦ CPR Training
♦ Forensics
♦ Communications
♦ Criminal Investigations Unit
♦ Mounted Unit
♦ Fingerprinting
♦ Court Procedures
♦ Traffic Safety
CITY OF ALBANY
OFFICE OF EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
ALBANY FIRE, EMERGENCY AND BUILDING SERVICES AND POLICE
DEPARTMENT EXPERIENTIAL
FOR SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
If you are interested in being considered for the City’s Summer Youth Employment Experiential
Training Program in the Albany Police Department or the Department of Fire, Emergency &
Building Services, please provide the following information:
Name: ________________________________________
Address: ________________________________________
City/State/Zip: ________________________________________
Telephone: ________________________________________
Parent’s Telephone: ________________________________________
Date of Birth: ________________________________________
Age: ________________________________________
SS# (last 4 digits): XXX-XX-________________________________
Please indicate choice of Experiential:
_____ Albany Police Department
_____ Department of Fire, Emergency & Building Services
In 100 words or less, please explain why you are interested in participating in this program and
what you feel you will gain from the opportunity (attach additional sheets if necessary):
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The deadline for submitting your application is Wednesday, April 13, 2011. If you have any
questions, contact Office of Equal Employment Opportunity at 434-5296. Mail completed
applications to:
City of Albany
Administrative Services; Rm 301
Office of Equal Employment Opportunity
Albany, New York 12207
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March 2011 Agenda

Neighborhood Association Meeting

Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

LOCATION: John A. Howe Library
Lage Meeting Room on Lower Level
(Please use Broad Street entrance if you arrive after 6:00 pm)
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Open Meeting

Earth Day Event Planning
National Night Out
Questions / Issues
(6:00 - 6:30)

Updates from SENA Partners
(6:30-6:45)

Introduction for Neighborhood Watch
(6:45-8:00)

UPCOMING EVENTS
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Jobs - Housing - Education



How to GET A JOB
in the
Construction Business

FREE
WORKSHOP

Attend this FREE WORKSHOP and get
ANSWERS to your questions and ADVICE from
construction company leaders & union representatives
Do you want a construction job?
How do you find job openings?
What skills do you need?

How do you get training?


March 14 Mon
5-7 p.m.
Arbor Hill/West Hill Branch
148 Henry Johnson Boulevard

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TIRED OF SUB-STANDARD HOUSING?

DO YOU WANT TO OWN YOUR OWN HOME?

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
IS LOOKING FOR YOU!!!!!!

Come to the Orientation Session listed below, and learn how you and your family can own a new, energy-efficient home in Albany’s Historic South End.

ORIENTATION SESSION

Saturday, March 12, 2011
Giffen Elementary School
274 South Pearl Street, Albany
Registration: 9:30am to 10:00am
Presentation: 10:00am to 11:00am
Question/Answer Sessions: 11:00am to Noon

DAY CARE PROVIDED BY CAPITAL CITY RESCUE MISSION ON GIFFEN ELEMENTARY PREMISES: Children 4 years of age and older.

You MUST attend this orientation session in order to receive an application. There is no other way to become eligible for a Habitat home.

Capital District Habitat for Humanity 454 N. Pearl St. Albany, NY 12204
518.462.2993

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Reshaping Our (Failing) High School


CALLING ALL PARENTS, STUDENTS, AND CONCERNED CITIZENS
IF YOU CARE ABOUT OUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE
Please join us for a forum on
The Restructuring of Albany High School
A Presentation by Dr. David McCalla and the Restructuring Team
Question and Answer Period will follow
Tuesday, March 15 - 6:30 PM
Union Baptist Church – Three Morton Avenue
Sponsored by Christian Education Ministry of Union Baptist Church
Co-Sponsored by: Albany NAACP
and
Albany Family Education Alliance
Babysitting Available – Refreshments will be served
Anne Pope Director of Christian Education Rev. Victor E. Covington Pastor

Times Union Articles Related to CDTA Bus Route

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A Morton Avenue bus will roll in the South End
Neighborhood group's persistence pays off; CDTA to launch route in August


By PAUL GRONDAHL Staff Writer
Updated 08:28 p.m., Thursday, February 24, 2011
. Lori Van Buren / Times Union

Willie White, executive director of a Village at Trinity Institution, talks about a petition for getting bus service on Morton Avenue on October 27, 2010. (Lori Van Buren) Lori Van Buren / Times Union Willie White, executive director of a.....

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ALBANY -- After two years of leaflets, petitions, neighborhood meetings, lobbying politicians and twice crashing CDTA's board meeting, residents of the South End have been assured that they'll get their long-awaited Morton Avenue bus.

"We've been on Cloud 9 since we got word. We're going to have a party," said Willie White, executive director of AVillage Inc.

"We're definitely going to put a bus on Morton Avenue," said CDTA spokeswoman Margo Janack. "They put forward a very strong, consolidated effort."

White and his grass-roots neighborhood organization led a full-court press to add bus service on the steep, milelong hill from South Pearl Street past Lincoln Park and up to Delaware Avenue and Albany Medical Center Hospital.

Longtime residents of Morton Avenue have complained in a sporadic and disorganized way for two decades about not having a bus in a low-income neighborhood where car ownership is low. People have resorted to stitching together a three- or four-transfer patchwork of bus routes across downtown that can take more than one hour to traverse the daunting hill up to Albany Med.

Mostly, South Enders have suffered in silence, grumbling among themselves about the byproduct of being poor and disenfranchised, as they trudged up the steep grade laden with groceries, pushing strollers or wheelchairs over snowbanks and through inclement weather in all seasons.

"The bus has been needed for a long time," said Benna Eldridge, director of the family and neighborhood resource center of Trinity Alliance of the Capital Region. "I heard a lot of people saying they couldn't get to their treatments at Albany Med or couldn't get to jobs because we don't have a bus."

The culmination of the group's quest came on Tuesday, when White and his colleagues camped out once again at the offices of the Capital District Transportation Authority. "You've got your bus," executive director Carm Basile told them, worn down by their relentless pressure.

While White had hoped that bus service would start in the spring, it likely will not begin until August when the first phase of a county-wide restructuring of bus routes is put in place, Janack said.

"We've done ridership analysis and surveyed customers and we found strong support for a Morton Avenue bus," Janack said. "The issue now is taking time to make sure it connects with our system as a whole."

"This took a lot of effort by a lot of people, but we stood up for something we believed in," White said. "This is a victory for the South End. When we join forces as a community, the sky's the limit."

Reach Paul Grondahl at 454-5623 or pgrondahl@timesunion.com.


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South End residents seek a lift
Community asks CDTA for a bus route on Morton Avenue


By PAUL GRONDAHL Staff Writer
Published 12:00 a.m., Friday, October 29, 2010


Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/South-End-residents-seek-a-lift-735643.php#ixzz1Fumyk9O0

ALBANY -- For the poor, elderly and infirm residents of the South End, the long, steep grade of Morton Avenue is their heartbreak hill.

No regular bus transports them up the beast they call simply "the hill." The incline continues to climb in a heart-pounding ascent along the length of Lincoln Park all the way up to Delaware Avenue before leveling out.

Many folks in this low-income neighborhood don't own a car, lack the strength to walk the hill or can't afford a $15 cab fare to take them to and from Albany Medical Center Hospital, Stratton VA Medical Center and St. Peter's Hospital for doctor's visits or employment.

More than 1,300 South End residents signed a petition calling for bus service up Morton Avenue. The effort was organized by AVillage, Inc., a South End grass-roots organization. Residents have met with officials of the Capital District Transportation Authority and are increasing pressure in the hopes of finally getting a bus.

"We've been asking for a bus up Morton Avenue for 20 years and all we've gotten is lip service from CDTA," said Willie White, executive director of AVillage, Inc. and a 40-year resident of Morton Avenue. "This time, we're not going to give up. We'll keep fighting until we get that bus."

Bessie E. Thompson, 74, a diabetic who had surgeries on a gangrenous leg and foot, lives in a Morton Avenue apartment tower and uses a motorized wheelchair.

"It's really horrible trying to get up that hill," she said. She described having to take her chances riding in the street between moving vehicles and parked cars with her electric wheelchair because she can't make it up and down curbs and the sidewalk is heaved, broken and impassable in places.

In winter, the retired home health aide is a virtual prisoner of her apartment because plows push the snow into high banks and often the sidewalk has not been cleared.

"Many of us desperately need a bus on Morton Avenue," said Thompson, who regularly rides the bus. But without a Morton Avenue route, she's forced to try to cobble together a convoluted three-transfer patchwork of available buses that could take more than 90 minutes each way to traverse the 1.3 miles to Albany Med.

"We hear them loud and clear and we've been working with them," said CDTA spokeswoman Margo Janack. Any new bus route has to fit into a comprehensive restructuring that will take at least until spring after public meetings, analysis and number-crunching.

A bus route that covered a portion of Morton Avenue several years ago was tried briefly, but ridership was low and it was discontinued, Janack said.

"From the outside, it looks like Morton Avenue service might make sense," Janack said. "We've seen strong support for a bus route up Morton Avenue, but we want to make sure we put in a service that meets the community's needs and fits into the larger system."

"I've been to 11 presentations we've made to CDTA, they've always said no and it's gotten very frustrating," said Benna Eldridge, director of the family and neighborhood resource center of Trinity Alliance of the Capital Region, formerly Trinity Institution.

She hears a stream of hardship cases from South End folks who can't get up Morton Avenue and can't bear the thought of winter coming without a resolution. "We've done enough talking about this problem," she said. "We need a bus up the hill for these people."

South End residents praised CDTA for listening to their concerns and extending the No. 7 bus route a few years ago so it travels to and from South Pearl Street to the Glenmont Wal-Mart. Both sides agree that route has been successful, but when neighbors return laden with bags, the bus stops on South Pearl Street and they must face the hill on foot.

"Why couldn't the No. 7 bus or even the No. 8 just turn up Morton and go up the hill? It seems so simple," said Patricia Johnson, 54, of Green Street. A herniated disc and spine surgery left her needing the use of an electric scooter.

"We need that bus now. We can't wait another winter," she said.

"That hill is so steep, I go up a block and have to stop because I can't breathe," said Tammy Easter, 47, of Morton Avenue, who is asthmatic. She worked in medical billing and is currently unemployed. She has no car and can't afford cab fare for medical treatment. She traverses several blocks off Morton, like an urban mountain climber, adding several blocks to her long trek in search of flatter terrain.

"I wish I knew why they won't give us a bus up the hill," she said. "We're tired of being silent about the problem."

Ardra Wilson, 32, an unemployed construction worker, lives off North Pearl Street and often accompanies her 16-year-old son to doctor's visits up the hill. "I'm like a lot of people who can't find work and I don't have $15 for cab fare," she said. "I'm younger and can walk it if I have to, but watching the senior citizens struggling up the hill taking their grandkids to and from school is terrible."

Clara Phillips, 67, a diabetic who lives on Delaware Street, prefers to walk alongside Thompson, her wheelchair-bound friend, to run interference with traffic.

"I start up the hill, have to stop to rest and set down my bags every few minutes," said Phillips, a retired Albany Med dietary aide. "And then I'm trying to watch out for Miss Bessie in her wheelchair out in the road with cars whizzing by. I'm praying for that bus. I don't think the good Lord will let us down."


Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/South-End-residents-seek-a-lift-735643.php#ixzz1FumYUNfT

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http://www.timesunion.com/news/media/Bus-up-Morton-Ave-hill-urged-4330.php

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http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/CDTA-route-would-serve-South-End-639937.php


CDTA route would serve South End
Published 12:00 a.m., Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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The Aug. 26 story, "South End pleads for CDTA route" reported that South End residents implored the Capital District Transportation Authority to offer bus service up Morton Avenue to Albany Medical Center and other nearby medical facilities.

While the story related compelling anecdotes, it is important for the community to know that this request is backed by solid evidence that the route would be well used.

AVillage, Inc., joined by Westminster Presbyterian Church, Trinity Institution-Homer Perkins Center, Inc., and Grand Street Community Arts, presented the CDTA board not only with a petition signed by more than 1,200 people, but also with the results of a transportation questionnaire.

Our transportation consultant, Monique Wahba, a former Albany city planner, gave the CDTA staff a breakdown of the survey. It showed that: 1. There is a large demand for this bus route, not only from South End residents but also from residents of other neighborhoods and outlying communities. 2. The bus would be used for a variety of purposes, including jobs, medical appointments, shopping and transfers to other buses. 3. It would be used frequently, the majority of respondents indicating two to five times a week.

Further, the group presented 14 support letters from prominent individuals and organizations, including Albany Medical Center, Common Council members, the Albany Housing Authority, neighborhood associations, not-for-profits, businesses, and churches.

We are pleased to receive CDTA's commitment to work on this issue and expect meetings to begin shortly.

Willie White

President

AVillage, Inc.

Albany

avillage5@aol.com



Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/CDTA-route-would-serve-South-End-639937.php#ixzz1FuprMUZH


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http://blog.timesunion.com/gettingthere/what-cdta-routes-should-be-added-cut/1035/


What CDTA routes should be added, cut?August 26, 2010 at 2:16 pm by Tim O'Brien

South End residents came to the Capital District Transportation Authority Wednesday to plead for a bus up Morton Avenue.

You can read the story here.

Carm Basile, the leader of the CDTA, said the agency is in the midst of studying all its routes in Albany and could make changes.

Where would you like to see buses added? What bus routes do you think are underused and could be cut?

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