Announcements

The Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission will open the regional Urgent Needs Food Voucher Waiting List to assist low- and moderate-income households from February 13, 2023 until February 28, 2023. Applications will be available at the A-NPDC office and regional partners including Eastern Shore Area Agency on Aging, the Town of Tangier, and other agencies. Applications will be assessed for income eligibility and other program requirements, and will be ordered first come-first served according to the time and date received by A-NPDC. Applications will be accepted beginning 9 AM on February 13, 2023 at the Peninsula Enterprise Building, 23372 Front Street in Accomac, Virginia. No applications will be accepted after 5 PM on February 28, 2023. Assistance will be in the form of food vouchers and will be distributed only while funding is available.

The Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission has been the Eastern Shore of Virginia’s regional planning organization since 1970. A-NPDC staff the Accomack-Northampton Regional Housing Authority and Eastern Shore of Virginia Housing Alliance. A-NPDC is seeking for a full-time Administrative Assistant with 2+ years of experience. This position will provide administrative support to the
agency by answering phones, assisting in-person contacts, assisting a team of project managers with correspondences, bid documents and applications, and performing other administrative tasks as needed.

The hiring range is $35,000 – $40,000 depending on qual- ifications. Benefit package includes the VRS Retirement System, Vacation & Sick Leave, Health, Vision & Dental Insurance.

The Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission (Commission) invites the submittal of responses to this Request for Proposals (RFP) from qualified Markets interested in selling gift certificates. The Commission intends to consider Markets who possess the capabilities to provide the scope of services detailed below. The gift certificates will be purchased by Accomack County to satisfy the requirements of the COVID19 Urgent Needs CDBG grant. Eligible Low and Moderate Income families will receive the gift certificates.

This training is free and offered by the Coastal Virginia (CoVA) Adaptation & Resilience Consortium in conjunction with the Accomack-Northampton PDC and the Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce.

The Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission (A-NPDC) selected consultants to develop this Regional Facilitation Services and Housing Needs Analysis between July 2021 and March 2022. This report serves to provide the region, local units of government, housing developers, and the community with a meaningful sense of the bi-county housing market in order to formulate affordable housing priorities and detail actions for the foreseeable future.