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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Rescheduled Regular Meeting -August 25, 2006 <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) <br />A. Public Hearing <br />() continued... <br />pass it. I may be a preacher, but I ain't <br />stupid. Sometimes you get that impression, <br />though. <br />Here's some commentary that I would like to <br />say, what my position is. Infrastructure is <br />what TIF is to be used for. Brick and mortar <br />infrastructure has not fixed the problems of <br />the inner city. The drugs, crime, violence, <br />poverty cannot be fixed by brick and mortar. <br />The true infrastructure is the people, that is <br />people infrastructure: heart, mind, soul and <br />spirit of the people. The old way of <br />infrastructure thinking is new wine in old <br />wine skins. We must not continue to <br />conform to the old wine skins and the old <br />world thinking. But we have to transform <br />through the renewing of the mind. Not just <br />being conformed to the old way of thinking. <br />And I say as far as poverty and the `hood is <br />concerned, and economic development for <br />the poor....because the poor people are not <br />going out there to Prairie, Portage Prairie. <br />So, I'm saying economic development for the <br />poor...that's part of what we're talking about <br />when we talk about the LaSalle. We're <br />talking about economic development for poor <br />people. Inner city, low and no income. <br />That's part of the issue that we must address. <br />And this is the time to do it as well. Portage <br />Prairie has given us a platform to talk about <br />that. Thank you, John, I appreciate it. And <br />we need that sort of platform to be able to <br />talk about it. The City has come to accept <br />poverty as just a fact of life, and accepting <br />poverty as a fact of life, but at the same time <br />49 <br />
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