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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting -December 7, 2007 <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) <br />A. Public Hearing <br />(1) continued... <br />Public Hearing Resolution No. 2398 <br />Square. As a citizen who was begging, <br />pleading, working with city officials through <br />the years before the Community Forum for <br />Economic Development came onboard to <br />assist us, and as a member of Community <br />Forum for Economic Development, I was <br />involved in the process to get LaSalle <br />Square, to plead our case for inclusion in the <br />Airport TIF. So, I hope that this Commission <br />will follow up and honor the City Council's <br />preference which is to focus on LaSalle <br />Square first. I don't want to see five million <br />dollars here, a million here, half a million <br />here going out of that TIF. It's already been <br />earmarked for LaSalle Square. I don't want <br />to see the TIF being nickel and dimed to the <br />point where LaSalle Square is bypassed. I <br />want the focus to be LaSalle Square. That's <br />right next to the gateway to the city. We <br />need to fix that area up. My other concern is, <br />well not really a concern, but Mr. Gibney has <br />been very good working with us. We look <br />forward to more meetings with them where <br />the neighborhood associations can get <br />involved with the planning process. I think <br />Mr. Gibney outlined the process to us in a <br />meeting a couple of months ago. We were <br />very receptive. We look forward to that and <br />we hope that with the combination of the city <br />and (the Commission) and the City Council <br />we can get something good in LaSalle Square <br />that everybody's going to be happy with. <br />But a word of caution. I don't want to see all <br />this money start flying out of the Airport TIF <br />13 <br />