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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting –March 5, 2010 <br /> <br />6. NEW BUSINESS <br /> <br />D. Airport Economic Development Area <br /> <br />(3) continued… <br /> <br />goes for no support, dollars, for individuals <br />in the program. <br /> <br />Mr. Blake: I understand what you are <br />saying. I don’t have a problem with that. <br />But what I do have a problem with is this: <br />you would evaluate us. You look at the glass <br />and it’s half full or half empty. Pretty much <br />what we’ve gotten is a half empty glass from <br />you. You evaluate us from the part that’s <br />missing rather than from the part that’s there: <br />what we are doing. We’re doing it in the <br />way that we know how to do it. Now, I <br />understand. But, if you decide that you want <br />to get a carpenter to work in your house, are <br />you going to get one that’s the cheapest one <br />you can find? Or are you going to get one <br />that knows what they are doing? I’m trying <br />to be as real as I can be. If that costs us not <br />getting funded, that’s fine. But I’m going to <br />be real. We have done this over and over <br />again. We (the Commission) try to give <br />certain organizations the least that we can <br />give them. Dave, when you say, “You guys <br />got to go find some money somewhere else.” <br />Why don’t you help us find some? You’re <br />not concerned about helping us find any <br />money. You just want to make sure that we <br />don’t use any more than what’s in the pot. I <br />just heard you switch money from one pot to <br />another pot to achieve whatever you want to <br />do with Coveleski or something. You switch <br />and you find money, you flip it around, but <br />when it comes to us (Project Impact and <br />other organizations like it), especially when <br />we focus on the inner city, low income, no <br /> 46 <br /> <br />