Additional

Community Policy and Management Team (CPMT)

Purpose
Suffolk Community Policy and Management Team, also known as the "Suffolk Interagency Team", acts as the community policy and management team for the City in cooperative effort to serve the needs of troubled and at-risk youth and their families, and to maximize the use of state and community resources in that effort.

Members

• Lucianne Warren, Mental Health Supervisor, Western Tidewater CSB
• James E. Gordon, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Services Unit
• Nancy Cisco, Nurse Supervisor, Department of Health
• Cynthia Lewis, Foster Care Unit, Department of Social Services
• Janice Holland, Supervisor of Pupil Personnel, Suffolk City Schools
• Linda Filippi, Tidewater Regional Group Home Commission
• Leonard Horton, Ex-Officio Member, Director of Social Services
• Michelle Clark, City of Suffolk
• Jewel Goodman, Parent Representative

Liason
Rachel Lewis, CSA Coordinator, Department of Social Services
(757) 514-7335

Eastern Virginia Health Systems Agency

Purpose
Under State law, the Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into five health planning areas, each of which is served by a small regional health planning agency. The primary mission of each of those agencies is to review Certificate of Public Need requests for new services, facilities and equipment that are submitted to the state's Commissioner of Health. This agency advises the Commissioner as to whether he should approve or deny a particular application.

Members

• Leonard Horton

Liason
Michael Burns, Executive Director, EVHSA
(757) 461-4834

Economic Development Authority of the City of Suffolk

Purpose
To manage Wilroy Industrial Park and to promote the development of other industrial sites, both public and private.

Members

• Fritz Skeeter, Cypress
• Stacy Lewis, Holy Neck
• Dwight A. Nixon, Nansemond
• Art Collins, Sleepy Hole
• Cynthia Ferguson, Suffolk
• James Harrell Faulk, Whaleyville
• John D. Eure, Jr., at-large
• Oliver D. Creekmore, Chuckatuck

Liason
Kevin Hughes, Director of Economic Development
(757) 514-4085

Southeastern Public Service Authority (SPSA)

Purpose
To coordinate the regional trash system for eight cities and two counties.

Members

• James C. Adams II (Governor's appointee)
• Selena Cuffee-Glenn (Ex-Officio Member)
• Eric Nielsen (Ex-Officio Alternate)

Southeastern Tidewater Opportunity Project (STOP)

Purpose
Non-profit organization, created in 1965 to provide self-help human services to economically disadvantaged residents of the South Hampton Roads area. STOP provides multiple services in this arena to include Headstart, Indoor Plumbing and Rehab Program, Weatherization Program and Nurses Aid Training Program, to name a few.

Members

• Sylvester Jones
• Lillian Jones
• Leonard Horton

Liason
Leonard Horton, Director, Social Services
(757) 514-7450

Southeastern Virginia Areawide Model Program, Inc.

Purpose
To develop programming and alcohol service delivery mechanisms that will serve to substantially reduce the number of highway accidents resulting from the consumption of alcohol. Serves the courts of Portsmouth, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Franklin, Smithfield, Isle of Wight and Southampton.

Members

• Joice Whitehorn
• Elliot Drew
• Hattie West
• Helen Flynn
• Kitty Manlove

Liason
Maxine Scott, Senior Services of Southeastern Virginia Representative
(757) 222-4509

Substance Abuse and Youth Concil (CADRE)

Purpose
To educate citizens in the community, especially the youth, concerning the effects of drug abuse of every kind and nature upon the physical and mental well being of the user and to suggest and provided, as far as possible, alternative activities.

Members

• Laurna A. Taylor
• Vanessa Savage
• Reverend Howard Skeeter
• LeOtis Williams
• Louvenia Milteer
• Renyatta Banks
• Ethel F. Brown
• Costellar Ledbetter
• Angela Myrick (Social Services Rep)
• Jennifer Branham (Parks & Rec Rep)
• Lt. Timothy Duncan (Police Rep)
• Vanessa T. Greene (Probation & Parole Rep)
• Betty Swain (School System Rep)
• Vacant
• Anita Morris (Western Tidewater Community Services Board Rep)

Suffolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority

Purpose
To promote housing opportunities, preservation and redevelopment activities.

Members

• M. Caroline Martin
• Mary Peele Herndon
• Roy Waller
• Clarence R. Lee, Sr.
• Theresa Provost
• Beverly Bredemeyer
• Eleanor Clark
• Regina Hall
• Branch Lawson

Website
www.suffolkrha.org

Liason
Clarissa McAdoo, Executive Director Suffolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority
(757) 539-2100

Western Tidewater Regional Jail (WTRJ) Authority

Purpose
Created in November 1990, the Authority oversees the operations for the adult correctional needs of the Cities of Suffolk and Franklin and Isle of Wight County.

Members

• Raystine Johnson
• Joseph J. Scislowicz
• Charles D. Parr, Sr.
• Robert C. Claud, Sr.
• Charles W. Phelps
• H. Woodrow Crook, Jr.
• Stan D. Clark
• Leroy Bennett
• Raleigh H. Isaacs
• Vernie M. Francis
• Jeffrey L. Newton

Alternates

• W. Douglas Caskey
• Anne Seward
• June Fleming

Western Tidewater Water Authority

Purpose
The Authority was formed for the purpose of acquiring, financing, constructing, leasing, operating and maintaining facilities for the production, impoundment, treatment and transmission of potable water.

Members

• Stan D. Clark
• W. Douglas Caskey
• Tom Wright
• Michael D. Duman
• Selena Cuffee-Glenn
• Jeffrey L. Gardy

Alternates

• Vacant
• Mark Popovich