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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting -October 20, 2006 <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) <br />E. Airport Economic Development Area <br />continue ... <br />MS. GREENE: When you are talking about <br />an economic development area or a <br />redevelopment area, one of the findings that <br />the Commission makes, with respect to either <br />one, is that you are doing something that is <br />going to benefit the welfare of the <br />community. To the extent that you are <br />talking actual wealth creation, perhaps that's <br />a component of it. That's part of your <br />findings as you go forward. Is what is <br />proposed to the Commission as a project, <br />will it be a viable project that will ultimately <br />result in a benefit to human welfare. <br />MR. BLAKE: Welfare tends to relate to a <br />`hand out' rather than a `hand up,' so if we <br />leave people at the same level, and this is <br />what I am thinking we need to do, is to go <br />beyond poverty and just beyond welfare but <br />self care. We need to bring them up to a <br />different level. That needs to be intentional. <br />If it is not intentional, just like the intentional <br />things like redevelopment, intentional in <br />regard to economic development, I am <br />saying, intentional regarding self care and <br />civil welfare, `hand up' instead of `hand out.' <br />The process, the thinking, the focus, and <br />again, I don't how the city will do that, how <br />the city participates in this. It may not be <br />able, but if these things that it is doing, the <br />thinking process needs to go beyond that <br />because it doesn't seem to have resolved the <br />problems over the multitude of years. The <br />process that has been taking place, and then <br />poverty gets worse rather than better, that <br />means somehow, somewhere, we have to <br />31 <br />