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5. OLDI BUSINESS a. Report on consideration of bid received from the St. Joseph REPORT ON River Bend Development Corporation on Disposition Parcel No. BID RECEIVED 6 -1, Project Indiana R -66: Mr. C. Wayne Brownell, Executive ON DISPOSITION Director, gave the following report: PARCEL NO. 6 -1, R -66 As you will recall, a part of this bid involves two acres for Section 8, Elderly Housing, and there were three bidders who were bidding on Section 8 housing, who wanted to use two acres of Block 6 for that pur- pose. They were the Oxford Development Corporation; Crenshaw, Gresham & Smith of Atlanta, Georgia and Nashville, Tennessee; and the International Construc- tors Company locally represented by Mr. Gordon Medlock. HUD official, Mr. Fritz Poffenberger, told me on the telephone that all three had successfully passed the initial processing, and would'be among those submitted to the State Budget Committee and the Area Plan Commis- sion, and they allow 35 days for this investigation and report, so that no additional information will be available until about August 20th or 22nd. He also stated that there were 7 or 8 other bids made from the South Bend area, but did not tell me who they were. This is a part of the negotiation with these bidders that Mr. Butler and I are trying to carry on, per your authorization, and indicates that we will not know until the latter part of August how Section 8 is coming out. In the meantime, we are trying to work with them on the other parts of the problem, and we are progressing. I have a tentative date arranged with Mr. Taylor and with Mr. Medlock, for this coming week, to meet with them again. Mr. Gene Evans, Executive Secretary, South Bend Civic Planning Association, said while the Commission is on this subject- - perhaps he missed something - -but "You talked about the special investigation of the Section 8 bidders, but what about the bid by the River Bend Development Corporation? Has there been any further progress ?" President Nimtz advised that Mr. Brownell just said that this is involved in those negotiations and they have been meeting with Mr. Taylor and a further meeting is sche- duled for this next week, with both Mr. Taylor and Mr. Medlock. Mr. Evans further asked, "Will the negotiations with the St. Joseph River Bend Development Corporation be delayed by HUD Section 8 bidders? Mr. Brownell advised, "I don't see how it cannot be. You can't accept the bid to use two acres for elderly housing unless you know who is going to get the bid on Section 8 from HUD, because the bid might go to some other - 4 -