(left to right) David Fisher, executive director of NETWorks; DeKalb County Commissioner Lorraine Cochran-Johnson; Jim Rodeghiero, special events coordinator, and Kirk Fordham, director of community services, Rotary Club of Tucker, accepting the check.

DeKalb County has approved in $25,000 Super District 7 American Rescue Plan (ARP) funding appropriation from Commissioner Lorraine Cochran-Johnson for the Rotary Club of Tucker to support mortgage and rent assistance and purchase and distribute school supplies to eligible residents of the Tucker-Northlake-Embry Hills community still dealing with the financial impact from COVID.

The club will partner with NETWorks Cooperative Ministry to handle distribution of the funds and supplies. “I am extremely proud of the work the Rotary Club of Tucker does in the community,” said Cochran-Johnson. “I count it a privilege to have the ability to help them further their mission of providing rental assistance, diminishing food insecurities and providing educational supplies to those who have a need.”

Cochran-Johnson presented the check during the club’s monthly #ThirdThursday social event at Smoke Rise Country Club in July. Kirk Fordham, Rotary Club of Tucker director of community services, expressed the club’s gratitude to Cochran-Johnson for her continuing support of the club’s commitment to its community. “As people of action, Rotary members want to find ways to respond to COVID-19, and to help people still being affected by it. We are grateful that the Commissioner listened to our needs and offered to help us make a transformative impact in our community.”