Bobby Gibson

I am proud to announce funding for the Age in Place Program, which is designed to help seniors in Bloomfield and surrounding towns with minor home repairs to ensure they can remain in their homes.
 
The Age in Place Program will receive $150,000 in FY24 through the biennial budget signed into law earlier this month. Through this grant, the program will support funding for materials and labor for home construction projects. The program will also provide seniors with resources from Bloomfield Senior Services.

The Age in Place Program was created in partnership with the Minority Construction Council (MCC), a non-profit membership organization that advocates, supports, and creates development opportunities for minority contractors throughout Connecticut.
 
The Minority Construction Council has done incredible work to provide contractors from marginalized groups a seat at the table and has provided construction cpportunities, technical assistance, and development programing to over 225 Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) construction companies in Connecticut.

I thank Jennifer Little-Greer, Executive Director of the Minority Construction Council, and Town Councilwoman Suzette DeBeatham-Brown for their leadership on this great initiative. Councilwoman DeBeatham-Brown’s collaboration played a tremendous part in securing the funding.

"We have been working on this idea from a Seniors Resources Discussion that Rep. Gibson hosted on September 28, 2022. At the end of the meeting, I talked with Rep. Gibson about finding a way to help our seniors be able to "age in place" safely. We discussed how we could make that happen. I introduced Rep. Gibson to the MCC; now we have the financing. I am overjoyed about this program for our seniors here in Bloomfield. Thank you, Rep. Gibson, for your collaboration and persistence in getting the funding. I know the value of each of our seniors, our most vulnerable asset, and now we will be able to make a meaningful impact on their golden years," said Bloomfield Town Councilwoman Suzette DeBeatham-Brown. 
 
“This program will utilize local MBE contractors to perform the repairs on the senior homes so they can age in place gracefully," said Jennifer Little-Greer, Executive Director of the Minority Construction Council.