Rossi Names Committee To Oversee West Haven's ARPA Funds

West Haven CT

21 January, 2022

4:44 PM

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Written by Michael P. Walsh WEST HAVEN, Jan. 21, 2022 — Mayor Nancy R. Rossi has established a committee to oversee the city's allocation of funding from the U.S. Treasury Department's American Rescue Plan Act. Rossi will hold an organizational meeting of the ARPA Committee at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 25, in the Harriet C. North Community Room on the second floor of City Hall, 355 Main St. Rossi will call the meeting to order and take a roll call of the nine mayoral-appointed committee members. City Clerk Patricia C. Horvath will then swear in members Christopher Barstein, Kenneth Carney, Neil C. Cavallaro, Iris Diaz, Kenneth Ferris, Dwight Knowles, Michael P. Last, Gary M. Perdo and Rohan Smith. The meeting will include the nomination and election of officers and approval of the meeting schedule. Barstein is the executive director at Benchmark Senior Living and was a hospitality industry professional and educator for more than 35 years; Carney is the chairman of the West Haven High School Building Committee and the West Haven Building Oversight Committee; and Cavallaro is the city's superintendent of schools. Diaz is the chairwoman of the Board of Fire Commissioners of the City of West Haven Fire Department Allingtown and was the vice chair of the city's Charter Revision Commission; Ferris is a former two-term city treasurer and was a member of the city's Inland Wetlands Watercourse Agency; and Knowles is the clerk of the high school Building Committee. Last is the city treasurer and a member of the board of directors of the West Haven Community House; Perdo is a member of the high school Building Committee and the Washington School Building Committee; and Smith is an accountant at the West Haven VA Medical Center and was a member of the Charter Revision Commission. This press release was produced by the City of West Haven. The views expressed here are the author's own.