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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 />we expect to eliminate drugs, crime, and <br />violence, and it ain't going to happen. That <br />just does not work, when you try to do both <br />of those things. I believe we should have a <br />City Plan. We've got one, but I'm saying to <br />eliminate poverty in the entire City of South <br />Bend. It is radical to suggest that, but it is <br />not impossible. ~Ue can create a plan with <br />the specific purpose of not only diminishing, <br />but eliminating poverty in South Bend. It <br />will change the level of thinking if we think <br />about that. And we will find new solutions <br />to old problems if we do not believe that we <br />can do that, then we won't even think about <br />trying to do it. And so our level of thinking <br />remains the same. <br />Another commentary that I'd like to make is <br />this. Resources generated from TIF and all <br />taxes, if properly developed, should generate <br />wealth transference to all succeeding <br />generations, but time and time again urban <br />inner city, poor communities, are left without <br />any meaningful transformation, despite the <br />hundreds of millions of dollars, as you were <br />saying, Don, the hundreds of millions of <br />dollars directed toward various government <br />driven programs, because the implementation <br />of each program has been wholly without any <br />coordinated model, based on the needed <br />capacity to deliver the services and the ability <br />to sustain the ultimate bottom line. If and <br />when achieved, the poor are often left behind <br />to defend for themselves without the benefit <br />of city planners who really care about the <br />poor'styell-being. America's public and <br />50 <br />