17.     REPORT, Committee on Veterans Affairs, Elderly, Youth, Health and Housing and Disability Issues, recommending to the City Council to take “NO FURTHER ACTION” on a WRITTEN MOTION, Council President Alves, asking that the Committee on Appointments and Briefings meet with Kathy Splinter of the “Welcome Home Veteran Housing Program” to learn more about, and better understand, the program’s goals, as well as to discuss how the City Council and the City of New Bedford can assist their efforts to provide housing to our current and returning Veterans; and further, that the City’s Veteran Agent, representatives of the Federal Veterans Center at 468 North Front Street, and from the Veterans Transition House on Willis Street be invited to said meeting.

17a.     WRITTEN MOTION, Councillor Alves, asking that the Committee on Appointments and Briefings meet with Kathy Splinter of the “Welcome Home Veteran Housing Program” to learn more about, and better understand, the program’s goals, as well as to discuss how the City Council and the City of New Bedford can assist their efforts to provide housing to our current and returning Veterans; and further, that the City’s Veteran Agent, representatives of the Federal Veterans Center at 468 North Front Street, and from the Veterans Transition House on Willis Street be invited to said meeting. (Referred to the Committees on Appointments and Briefings and Veterans Affairs, Elderly, Health, Housing and Disability Issues - May 11, 2006.)