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HUD ANOUNCES 2006 SUPER NOFA
The US Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) has announced the 2006 "Super" Notice of
Funding Availability (NOFA) for its Section 811 program,
Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities. Applicants will
be required to apply electronically to HUD by Friday, May 26,
2006. Copies of the NOFA and all information required to prepare
an application can be requested from the NOFA Information Center
at 1-800-HUD-8929 or 1-800-HUD-2209 (TTY) or may be downloaded
from the Grants.gov website at
http://apply.grants.gov/agency/UpdateOffer?id=3156 or
http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/nofa06/grpsec811.cfm.
HUD will be conducting web cast
based training on Thursday, March 30th from 11:00 a.m. – 1:30
p.m.. Contact person to register for the web cast is Frank
Tolliver, who can be reached at 202-708-2866, ext. 3821. More
information regarding the web casts is also available on the HUD
website.
If you plan to submit a grant
application to HUD, an agency must have a letter of support from
OMRDD included in the packet. Requests for OMRDD letters of
support must be submitted by DDSOs/NYCRO to Capital Financing
Services by Friday, May 12th. DDSO/NYCRO staff will conduct
preliminary local reviews of provider agency proposals based on;
Population to be served; Prior capital commitments; Source of
operating funding; Project type; and Relationship to NYS OPTS
proposal(s). If you have any questions, please feel free to call
Earl Costello from OMRDD’s central Office at 518-474-8214.
MEDICARE PART D FORMULARY
COMPARISON
Posted on the NYSACRA website at:
www.nysacra.org/nysacra/pdp_drug_coverage_3-16-06.pdf is an
updated Prescription Drug Plan formulary comparison chart sent to
us by OMRDD developed by Chem Rx. Many of the medications used by
our cognitively impaired individuals are compared across NYS
benchmark plan formularies. It may be helpful to you. In
addition, don’t forget that the grace period for people enrolled
in Part D in January, February and March for plans to make
transition fills, of drugs not on their formulary or in higher
tiers, expires at the end of this month. To continue transition
fills for prescriptions will require the filing of timely
exception requests with the plans. CMS offers a link to their web
tool materials at
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/partnerships/18_transition.asp. It
contains a host of information about transition fills, individual
rights, exception and appeals process, working with doctors and
pharmacists, etc. You may find these useful.
Pre-NYSACRA Conference Golf at
the Sagamore
We have again arranged for a
special price for golf at the nationally acclaimed Sagamore Golf
Course for the Tuesday preceding our annual conference.
Conference participants will be charged $70 for greens fees for
Tuesday. Unfortunately, there is a tournament scheduled for
Tuesday morning and the earliest we will be able to get on the
course is 1:30. Please contact Jim Kosakoski at NYSACRA if you
are interested in taking advantage of this discounted rate.
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION REMINDER
If you have registered for a hotel
for the conference you still need to register for the conference
with NYSACRA. Hotel registration and conference registration are
two separate and distinct items. You need to register directly
with the hotel for accommodations and directly with NYSACRA for
the conference. A copy of the NYSACRA registration form is on our
website at
www.nysacra.org/nysacra/regform06.pdf. |
