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8. PUOLIC COMMENTS (Cont'd Ms. Derbeck said the letter brings up some interesting points, and that Mr. Miller is questioning some things, which, she, personally, has already questioned; e.g., the procedure in which you are handling these bids,,and "he brings up also the fact that he believes you haven't made an effort on a national level -- national advertising - -to get developers for Block 6." President Nimtz again said he didn't think it appropriate to get into the thing this morning without the full knowledge, but "I will say this, the Mayor has kept me advised all through the winter and spring as to the contacts he had made throughout the nation concern- ing possible developers and people he has been meeting with to inter- est them in Block 6 that he could, but with the status of the economy no one that he had contacted was interested in expanding or developing at that time. It has been my experience in my law practice, in cer- tain ventures in which I am involved in, that this has been the situa- tion not only here but in other places in the country that anybody who has been thinking of building has postponed the thing." "Whether you want us to know about the deals or not, I am sure you could say," Ms. Derbeck said, "he says, 'without benefit of any kind of national sales or promotional campaign' - -I am sure - -he means advertising—national advertising. For Block 6, you could say whether you had national advertising campaign to get bidders for Block 6." Mr. Allen E. Schrager said, "Obviously, they did not; unless they put it in some newspapers no one ever reads. Mr. Kagel directed his statement to the Chair, "Mr. President, this letter has apparently been printed in huge quantities because the signature is even a printed signature, so apparently there is some- thing that doesn't meet the surface of this particular letter. I think this man had been, at one time, an employee of this Commission. Rather than dealing in innuendo, or high and sky -type thing, I think it would have been most appropriate that if he has this expertise, that he should at least have been rather specific about it. He hasn't been specific. I am only thinking in terms of a lay person. You know it is very easy to verbiage, but let's get down to the nitty - gritty specifics that he has in mind. I think we discussed this several weeks ago that the availability of Indiana R -66 land in the nation was made to the developers around the country. I am not an expert in this, but, as I recall, all urban renewal projects in the country are in some type of a legal document which is released by the Federal government, so I think he should be more specific in what he has in mind on specifics." In response, Mr. Schrager stated, "Mr. Nimtz, the only comment I am making is: I think that is sort of ridiculous! I think the point he is making is that when you advertise for bids that it should be put in, e.g., the Wall Street Journal, or the Chicago Tribune, or some national -type of advertising, so that maybe we could get some other bidders." Mr. Kagel said he has a point there, but... Mr. Schrager interrupted... "It isn't my point, but it is a point that he made in his letter, and I don't see what the fact that the R -66 is registered with the Federal Government, what that would have to do with the bids. How would anyone know that there was going to be - 10 -