Mr. Larry Cox

Office of Senator Mitch McConnell

601 W Broadway, Suite 630

Louisville, KY 40202

Subject: Homeless & Sen. McConnell’s Support

Dear Mr. Cox:

Enclosed please find our Supplemental Application that Senator McConnell encouraged us to make on behalf of the homeless in our area. Attached for your background information is our letter of appeal to the Senator, dated April 26, 2006, and the Senator’s kind reply to us, dated June 29, 2006. I missed you last week while you were out of the office.

The application is made under the McKinney-Vento Act to benefit the homeless in the Metro-Louisville region using title V under-utilized and surplus federal properties. Our application is made under a local 501c3, Rock Cosmopolitan Church, Inc, Rev. David Pitts, and with the support of the University of Kentucky, School of Agriculture, Chair Steven Bullard, and The Coalition for the Homeless, Inc, Executive Director Ms. Marlene Gordon; the latter knows and speaks highly of you and your office.

Our hope is that with the Senator’s encouragement that the Department of Health & Human Services will feel more inclined to support the application; in lieu of looking for a reason to say, ‘no’ because it is outside their comfort zone. I believe that it is apparent in hind sight that Congress erred thirty years ago when making HHS responsible for screening McKinney-Vento applications. HHS is a social services agency, more comfortable developing bird flu policies than administering physical and economic development programs involving title V federal properties. Billions of critically needed dollars in unwanted title V properties are denied their use to assist the homeless by the acts of HHS, merely because HHS lacks the expertise to administer their economic development for the benefit of the homeless.

The Senator could accomplish a great step for mankind were he to fix the McKinney-Vento log jam at HHS by giving the work to another agency capable of performing the task. The Senator could accomplish a great step for the homeless in our community, within the current system, by encouraging HHS to approve our application. After all, it is supported by some of the best in the Commonwealth; The Coalition for the Homeless and the University of Kentucky. If these service providers are again deemed inadequate by HHS, it is apparent that HHS is thwarting every purpose of the McKinney-Vento Act to assist the homeless.

We are submitting the Supplemental Application to HHS under separate cover. Additionally, we are providing a copy to Senator McConnell’s D.C. office for their use. We request of you to kindly assist us to coordinate our effort with your D.C. office. We truly appreciate the generous support of the kind Senator and his staff in our regard.