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a Retention and Development Committee: Mr. John R. Kagel, RETENTION Executive Director, Downtown South Bend Council, advised AND DEVELOP - he had nothing to report other than some of the members MENT COMMITTEE of the Retention and Development Committee have noted the conflict of the time of their meetings and the Redevelop- ment Commission meetings, and their Chairman has been requested to see if they can change their meetings to another time, as some of their people would like to attend both meetings. Public Notice to confirm a Contract for Sale of Land for PUBLIC NOTICE, Redevelopment by a Public Body, Project IN A -10, Model CONTRACT FOR Neighborhood Area No. 1: Mr. Brownell advised in connection SALE OF LAND, with the A -10 Project, MN #1, he has signed the claim for A -10, MN #1 $9,550 and presented it to the City of South Bend, and we have put a Notice in The South Bend Tribune effective for the next Commission meeting, so that on November 21 we can close the sale of the land on which the Fire Station stands on the west side of town. This item will be on the Agenda for the next Commission meeting. Introduction of Mr. Newstell Dowdell: Mr. Brownell intro- MR. NEWSTELL duced Mr. Newstell Dowdell, from Atlanta Department of Labor, DOWDELL, who is with us this morning. He is with Community Development ATLANTA DE- here. Mr. Dowdell is a federal fellow studying with us to PARTMENT OF see if he can take back to the federal bureaucracy some feel- LABOR ings for some of the problems that we run into in dealing with bureaucracy. Mr. Dowdell thanked the Commission for the opportunity to at- tend this Commission meeting and he hoped he may be able to attend another one in the future, as he will be here until the 2nd week in December. Mr. Dowdell said this is strictly a learning process for the federal establishment in trying to see what goes on at the local level. They are trying to see if they can -- hopefully in the future - -it may not affect South Bend, but hopefully it will affect some other unit development along the line, and "we can become more sensitive to some of the problems that you do have here in City government. I am kind of floating across the board, and in all departments, and hope that I can learn and know I will learn something of what is going on at the local level and be able to communicate that back effectively to the federal bureaucracy." St. Joseph River Bend Development Corporation: Various questions ST. JOSEPH were raised on this item and discussions followed, specifically RIVER BEND on the two (2) acres, whether or not it is included in the con- DEVELOP - tract and the payment and sale of that portion. MENT CORP. - 12 -