Local veterans center misses out on $2.1M

By S. Alexander Geroul

The Central New York Veterans Outreach Center is hoping the second time will be the charm.

Center officials recently found out they did not receive $2.1 million from the state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance’s Homeless Housing and Assistance Program to convert the third and fourth floors of the former YMCA building at 726 Washington St. into 19 housing units for homeless veterans and their families.

“We’re not giving up,” said Vincent Scalise, the center’s executive director and founder. “We do have a couple other options that we’re working on as well, a couple other grants that we’re putting together this month (for) more funding for the project.”

Scalise said the state will provide technical assistance and will tell the center what “the shortcomings of the application were and then we’ll have time to correct them and then resubmit.”

“We’re going to go back to the drawing board and correct what the state felt was wrong and resubmit as fast as (we) can.”

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