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Boca Helping Hands Needs Help

Providing More Thanksgiving Dinners Than Ever Before

Boca Helping Hands is seeking help from the organization expands
community for its 2020 Thanksgiving Box Brigade access to affordable
program, which provides turkeys and a box filled medical, dental and
with everything a family needs to prepare a holiday behavioral care through
meal. Members of the community can fill a box with its partnership with
Thanksgiving dinner essentials or host a Fall Food Drive Genesis Community
to benefit Boca Helping Hands. Alternatively, the cost Health, serving clients
of a box this year is $27.20, and that can be donated at at clinics in Boca Raton
BocaHelpingHands.org/Thanksgiving. All filled boxes and Boynton Beach.
must be received at Boca Helping Hands by Monday, BHH sends weekend
Nov. 16. meals home with food-
Each year, Boca Helping Hands normally distributes insecure elementary
2,000 turkeys and Thanksgiving meal boxes. This year, school students via offers free English as a Second Language (ESOL)
having expanded to four locations and with the additional the BHH Backpacks classes and courses in nutrition and other life skills.
families that have registered for food assistance due to Program and assists Staff and volunteer mentors counsel the unemployed and
COVID-19, the organization estimates it will need 2,500 working families with underemployed in basic workplace skills and help them
turkeys and filled boxes. the rising cost of childcare through the Children’s polish resumes and search for jobs.
Boca Helping Hands will have empty boxes available, Assistance Program (CAP). Charity Navigator named Boca Helping Hands a
which can be reserved now for pickups starting the first With an increased focus on client self-sufficiency, BHH four-star charity for the 14th consecutive year. Boca
week of October. Each 10” x 10” x 10” box must contain: awards scholarships for qualified candidates to attend Helping Hands is located at 1500 N.W. First Court, Boca
• 1 box (6 ounces) Stove Top stuffing mix accredited vocational training classes that prepare them Raton, FL 33432. For more information, please visit
• 1 container (10.5 ounces, no glass) canned gravy for careers in the healthcare, information technology, bocahelpinghands.org. 
• 1 container (1.56 ounces) powdered drink mix transportation, and hospitality industries. BHH also
• 4 cans (15 ounces) vegetables
• 2 cans (15 ounces) canned fruit or fruit cocktail Council Corner: All The More Reason
• 1 containers (4 ounces) instant mashed potatoes mix
• 1 can (29 ounces) canned yams
• 1 can (14 ounces) cranberry sauce To Be Happy About Living In Boca!
• 1 can (15 ounces) pie filling
• 1 9-inch ready-made graham cracker pie crust (non-
perishable) By Boca Raton City - Property values in the city went up 4.75 percent
“We are so grateful to the community each year for Councilman Andy overall this year. The total taxable value of all the property
their food drives and Thanksgiving box donations,” said Thomson, who was first in Boca Raton (our “tax base”) is a staggering $25 billion.
executive director Greg Hazle. “Their generosity means elected during the special - Boca Raton has a significantly lower property tax
that people who would not otherwise be able to sit down City Council election rate than our neighbors. In comparison to Boca Raton’s
for a holiday meal can enjoy one with their family.” in 2018, and re-elected millage rate of 3.68 mills, West Palm Beach charges
This year, Boca Helping Hands will distribute without opposition to the 8.47 mills, Boynton Beach charges 7.90 mills, Delray
Thanksgiving boxes to current clients at all four of its council. Beach charges 6.85 mills, and Deerfield Beach charges
food distribution locations. To participate, clients must 6.36 mills. Despite our substantially lower tax rate, the
register between Oct. 1 and 31. At our meeting on Sept. services provided by the City of Boca Raton remain
The Saturday before Thanksgiving (Nov. 21), a drive- 21, the City Council passed excellent.
through distribution will take place at the West Boca the city’s budget for 2020- - The city retains healthy reserves to protect us in the
and Lantana locations. The Sunday before Thanksgiving 2021. Here are some highlights: event of an emergency or natural disaster.
(Nov. 22), drive-through distribution will happen at Boca - Boca Raton’s millage rate (the tax rate that property - The city’s overall budget is $772 million. The
Helping Hands main East Boca location and its Boynton owners pay) went down slightly, from 3.6787 mills to operating budget is $503 million.
Beach location. 3.786 mills. A home in the city with a taxable value of Overall, we are pleased that, despite the economic
For more information, please contact Suzan Javizian $300,000, for example, will pay $1,103.58 in property downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, our
at Suzan@BocaHelpingHands.org or (561) 417-0913 Ext. taxes to the City of Boca Raton. city remains on strong financial footing while keeping
204. - Of the total property taxes paid by residents, the property taxes low (in fact, lower than last year).
About Boca Helping Hands City of Boca Raton receives only about 20 percent. The Please let me know if you have any questions about
Boca Helping Hands (BHH) is a community-based School District of Palm Beach County receives about 39 this year’s budget or anything related to our beautiful
nonprofit that provides food, medical and financial percent, while Palm Beach County receives 27 percent. city. I’m here to help. 
assistance to meet basic human needs as well as
education, job training and guidance to create self-
sufficiency.
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