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May 13, 2009 <br />To The Redevelopment Commission: <br />First I would like to say good morning. My name is Wallace Williams I'm a student <br />of Project Impact Job Readiness Program. I am writing you to you about this wonderful <br />program. Project Impact is a program for people or at risk that have fallen through the <br />cracks and are now trying to pick them self's up but are finding it difficult because of their <br />barriers in there way. With no hope they'll find themselves back in the same position they <br />were in before. That's were Project Impact Job Readiness Program come into play. <br />They now have a program like no other that not only talk the talk but walk the <br />~C ~~~ walk. When I first came to Project Impact I was looking for a job but I received more than a <br />y ~ ~ job. I'm sure you the fish story give a man a fish he'll eat for a day teach a man to fish he'll <br />~ eat for an life time. Well that's exactly what Project Impact is doing training there students <br />to become B.E.E.T.s (Best Employee Ever Trained). Had they given me a job when I first <br />came through their doors I would just have been another employee and seeing that they are people at risk to complete a job. <br />We have to become better and compete at a higher level than the next applicant. Project Impact has given us the tools were we <br />can compete with others. <br />My main reason for writing this is to make sure this needed program stay <br />in our community and not sweep it under the table because it would be detrimental to the hope of those that need it for a <br />second chance in society to prove that they can be productive citizen as well as those with risk. But most importantly to make <br />these people productive people in our community. I know just like any other (community) city, county, state, township act... <br />That we are in an economic crisis of budget restraints of what projects to fund eliminate or reduce. Well I know we need grant <br />money to build and fix up our community. But by building any thing in life you have to start with the foundation. Which the <br />foundation is our people in the community none because without jobs and skills to get jobs and a chance to show they can be <br />productive and do the jobs and a chance to show that they can be productive and do the job. These people that were not <br />investing in will remain in our community tears down the community we have invested in. Know too many times we invest <br />money in projects and don't know where it's going or how it is spent and that is bad management. So I'm not just asking you to <br />keep to keep investing and not seeing the fruits. I'm asking you to see our community dollars at work. See the progress in <br />people you thought would never be worth investing in. I believe when you see our community with people building families, <br />buying homes, crime rates going down and the money we were going to spend building our community coming naturally from <br />productive citizen. The commissioner and the community will say money well spent. Know I've just told you about what Project <br />Impact does and stand for. Know let me tell you what it's done for me personally. It' has transformed the way I feel and think. <br />It's changed my bad habits and behavior to good ones. It has stretched my thinking further than shallow thoughts I used to <br />have. I've always had great ideals to be successful. But what I got from Project Impact was the motivation and desire that I was <br />lacking. I know now how to set goals and give them a time table. I know now that if you don't change things they will remain <br />the same. And also to keep focused. There are two major components I have learned in Project Impact one being the 7 Habits <br />of Highly Defective People. I won't get into all of them but my favorite is sought first to understand them to be under stood <br />probably because that one was a part of me already. But the other I was using the major one was the four Quadrants <br />1-Urgent and Important. <br />2 -Not urgent but important. <br />3-Urgent but not important. <br />4- Not urgent and not important. <br />Know you may say that some of these things are common since and people should know. But a lot of these things are not <br />taught you can go years without knowing how to put them into perspective. Well thank you for taking the time to let me tell <br />you about the success of Project Impact and what it's done for me. <br />May God bless you to continue blessing this program (Project Impact?) <br />Sincerely, <br />Wallace L. Williams <br />