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South Bend Redevelopment Commission Regular Meeting –March 5, 2010 be able to help Project Impact. Now, you need to have goals. Once you get goals, you need a plan for how you are going to achieve those goals. We as a community have ex- convicts and felons. What is your goal for these people when they are in your community? They are going to be in your community. I’ll use the example of wildlife. As you’ve noticed, we have more deer and skunks and wild animals in our community than we’ve ever had before. That’s because we are taking away their habitat. They have to go somewhere. These people that are coming out of prison with felonies. A lot of them have done bad things. That doesn’t mean they are bad people. They’ve done something bad. They are trying to get their lives back on track. If they go out and do everything that they need to do…they’ve got goals and a plan to get back on track…what is the community going to do to help them get back on track? There needs to be programs to help them. I’ve seen several different programs. But you haven’t seen one like Project Impact. Trust me, you haven’t seen one. Now I know Project Impact is here asking for funds. No one, as a businessman, gives out funds without checking on their investment. So we ask you to come to Project Impact and see the impact that they are making. They’re making an impact in the community, and without them you are going to have people coming into South Bend, Indiana, St. Joseph County, and they are going to have nowhere to go and nothing to do. If you have nowhere to go and nothing to do, trust me, you’re going to go somewhere and going to do something and it’s most likely going to be the wrong thing. Now, what I would like to see a community do… Now, if you’re like Ralph, a sex offender, he still needs to be employed to be 7