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Chamber of Commerce. It is intended as a ' welcome to prospective new businesses, Report of the includes an introduction to Town departments Human Services Department and attempts to guide applicants through the local permitting processes. To the Honorable Board of Selectman and the ✓Prepared a Job Description for a Mashpee Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: j EDIC Executive Director. ✓ It is my pleasure to submit to you my annual While this past year has seen the Mashpee EDIC move forward,we are anticipating 2014 report for 2013. to be a year of action. The EDIC Board The mission of the Human Services Department j anticipates the following progress in 2014: is to connect Mashpee residents with the resources and ✓Successful completion of the sale of the solutions during times of need with the goal of building property at 117 Industrial Drive a strong and integrated community. In Support of its' mission,Mashpee Human Services plays an active role v/Hiring a Mashpee EDIC Executive Director in regional groups and coalitions, including: ✓Working with the new Executive Director to Barnstable County Health&Human Services Advisory actively engage the existing business Council;Cape&Islands Suicide Prevention Coalition; community and to successfully market the Mashpee Hoarding Task Force and Mashpee Human Town of Mashpee as a desirable location for Services Council. both commercial and industrial business. This was an exciting year for the Department as ✓Continuing to work with surrounding the first Mashpee Human Services Needs Assessment communities on regional partnership was started. This was conducted by Virginia Thomas opportunities to attract good paying jobs to the with Collaborative Research, a community and public Upper Cape. health consulting firm. The goal was to assess the ✓Continuing to streamline the process for current human services and develop an action plan that starting a new company or bringing an existing will assess short and long term needs of Mashpee company to Mashpee. residents. This process consisted of individual interviews focus group discussions and a survey that van was sent to Mashpee residents. The results of the Needs Assessment was presented to the Selectman and the community in May, 2013. The Human Services Mas. p e' Committee has begun to address the short term goals. First to increase visibility for the Human Services Department. In September,2013,an updated brochure 2 was completed and distributed to the local agencies. Also, the Department began a monthly column in the .nsing procef r,introduction to ro�pive businesses Mashpee -r s pees permitand Ilcenh ee Enterprise. Some of the topics of the column ss pio"e�gtrpm pyx have included Fuel Assistance and St.Vincent de Paul �o Society. r. r v: Mashpa Edonomic1De elopment This year was an extremely stressful one for and Indus nal C'JMorabon My,3042 Mashpee residents. There were many calls for financial assistance,fuel assistance and individuals in desperate Respectfully Submitted, situations. The lack of affordable housing was a Carol Sherman, Chair predominant theme,with individuals either losing their LeClair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer home to foreclosure or not making enough money to MaryMary Cook,Secretary afford to rent or buy a home. There were long waiting Terrie Robyn Simmons lists for housing with few options. St.Vincent de Paul Robert Cobuzzi helped these families pay rent for a motel or toward Dino Mitrokostas Vacant 150