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SOUTH BEND REDEVELOPMENT TRUS'T'EES <br />REGULAR ANNUAL MEETING <br />December 1965 <br />2:30 P.M. 120 W. LaSalle Avenue <br />South Bend, Indiana <br />Presiding Officer: Dean J. Wilhelm, President <br />I. ROLL CALL <br />Present: <br />Dean J. Wilhelm, President <br />Mrs. J. M Curtis, Secretary <br />Roy B. Root <br />Byron W. Sheets <br />Curtis R. Ileckaman <br />Also Present: Mrs.. B. Gene Skeldon LPA Secretary <br />II. APP OVAL OF MINUTES <br />Minutes of the regular annual meeting of December 7, 1964, were read and <br />unanimously approved. <br />III. COMMUNICATIONS <br />a. Individual trustees have received the Urban League letter dated <br />December , 1965, which requested that the Redevelopment Trustees consider <br />seating a Negro Commissioner, and that a Community Renewal Program be <br />developed. Mrs. Curtis is to draft a letter from the Trustees to the <br />Urban League in which reasons are given why this request cannot be granted <br />at this tim , and state that a Community Renewal Program is already on <br />the way an was initiated before the receipt of the letter of October 29, 1965. <br />b, IV. rs. Curtis recommended that a letter be sent to the Commissioners <br />expressing the Trustees appreciation for their untiring efforts, for their <br />accomplishments in the year 1965, and to notify them of their reappointment. <br />IV. ELECTION OF OFFICERS <br />Mr. Hecka an nominated Dean J. Wilhelm, President; Byron W. Sheets, <br />Vice President; Mrs. Josephine M. Curtis, Secretary; for the officers <br />of the Redevelopment Trustees for the year 1966. Mr. Root seconded <br />the nomination and a unanimous ballot was cast. <br />V. APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONERS <br />The Board of Trustees .commended the Commissioners for the outstanding <br />performance they did in 1965, and recommended the reappointment of the <br />-1- <br />