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• • r- --o 2.0 BCDI PURPOSE AND HISTORY Bayshore Com<rnznity Development Corporation, incorporated May 8, 1970, represents a not for profit comrninity-based, anti-poverty organization dele- gated by the governing body of C~il.f Coast Community Services Association (GCCSA). The Economic Opportunity Act authorized the establishment of ContYni pity-Based Organizations to ccu~ibat poverty-related neighborhood conditions and to provide a wide range of services focused on the needs and concerns of low-income and elderly residents. '" The BCDI Program Service Area includes the primary population centers of La Porte, Baytown, TAIitaX, Seabrook, Shore Acres and Morgan's Point -all locat- ed in the far southeastern quadrant of Harris County. From its inception, BCDI has sponsored many programs addressing the concerns of the elderly and the needy poor, more recently in providing a Transportation Services Project in the Bayshore Area. This Transportation Services Project increased transportation mobility primarily for the elderly, handicapped and lou,~inccane residents frcgm July - September 1982, under a $50,000 Special Initiative Grant, a~rarded by the then- existing Federal Agency, the Community Services Administration. The Project transported a ridership of 1,835 during the three-month period, for approximate- ly 6,500 linear miles per month. The primary sources of trip generation were medical facilities, social services (entitlement programs) pharmaceutical faci- lities and shopping areas. Cost incurred for the Project included aone-time $25,000 purchase cost of two (2) fifteen (15) passenger vans. This Proposal represents a potential funding request for the continuation of that project and possible expanded services for a larger ridership. ~~~