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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting –March 5, 2010 <br /> <br />6. NEW BUSINESS <br /> <br />A. Public Hearing <br /> <br />(1) continued… <br /> <br />people like them around to give us all a <br />chance in society, when society really <br />doesn’t want to give us that chance. I want <br />to say, “thank you very much.” <br /> <br />MR. WALLACE WILLIAMS 12 4 St. <br />Paul’s Place. I’ve been involved in Project <br />Impact since the beginning. I don’t know if <br />the Commission thinks Project Impact is a <br />program to get you a job, but before they <br />even try to get you a job, they try to get you <br />job-ready. They try to transform your mind <br />and your thinking about how you are going <br />to be an employee out on the job. Everything <br />that these two gentlemen before me said is <br />Project Impact. But even more, I’d like to <br />speak on redevelopment and how you might <br />be able to help Project Impact. Now, you <br />need to have goals. Once you get goals, you <br />need a plan for how you are going to achieve <br />those goals. We as a community have ex- <br />convicts and felons. What is your goal for <br />these people when they are in your <br />community? They are going to be in your <br />community. I’ll use the example of wildlife. <br />As you’ve noticed, we have more deer and <br />skunks and wild animals in our community <br />than we’ve ever had before. That’s because <br />we are taking away their habitat. They have <br />to go somewhere. These people that are <br />coming out of prison with felonies. A lot of <br />them have done bad things. That doesn’t <br />mean they are bad people. They’ve done <br />something bad. They are trying to get their <br />lives back on track. If they go out and do <br />everything that they need to do…they’ve got <br /> 7 <br /> <br />