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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 />make these people productive people in our <br />community. I know just like any other <br />(community) city, county, state, township <br />act... That we are in an economic crisis of <br />budget restraints of what projects to fund <br />eliminate or reduce. Well I know we need <br />grant money to build and fix up our <br />community. But by building any thing in life <br />you have to start with the foundation. Which <br />the foundation is our people in the <br />community none because without jobs and <br />skills to get jobs and a chance to show they <br />can be productive and do the jobs and a <br />chance to show that they can be productive <br />and do the job. These people that were not <br />investing in will remain in our community <br />tears down the community we have invested <br />in. Know too many times we invest money in <br />projects and don’t know where it’s going or <br />how it is spent and that is bad management. <br />So I’m not just asking you to keep to keep <br />investing and not seeing the fruits. I’m <br />asking you to see our community dollars at <br />work. See the progress in people you thought <br />would never be worth investing in. I believe <br />when you see our community with people <br />building families, buying homes, crime rates <br />going down and the money we were going to <br />spend building our community coming <br />naturally from productive citizen. The <br />commissioner and the community will say <br />money well spent. Know I’ve just told you <br />about what Project Impact does and stand <br />for. Know let me tell you what it’s done for <br />me personally. It’ has transformed the way I <br />feel and think. It’s changed my bad habits <br /> 63 <br /> <br />