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6. NEW BUSINESS (Cont'd Mrs. Allen asked, "In spending the urban redevelopment funds, under the stature or whatever it was, Urban Redevelopment would pay the City a certain amount - -a percentage - -in lieu of the taxes that the City lost from the properties that were torn down, have you, at any time, ever paid the City any of these ?" Mr. Brownell answered, "As far as I know, we have not. We have, however, allowed the City to use our land for parking purposes and other purposes and let them collect the fees and keep the fees. It is not the same thing at all; it is probably an off - set." Commissioner Wiggins added that as a result of the acti- vities of this Department, the amount of taxable base that has been generated within this community, has far more than offset whatever loss there was in terms of taxes on the property pre - viously. Had it not been for the proposed redevelopment of the downtown, the developers of the downtown buildings would not have made that investment. Mrs. Allen said what she is really asking is if the rules set down in the Urban Renewal Plan in the first place, if those rules are being followed, or have been followed? Mr. Lloyd S. Taylor, asked the Chair if he may respond to that as he is aware of what Mrs. Allen is referring to, (as a former Executive Director of the Department of Redevelopment), and that Mrs. Allen is referring to the R -66 plan and he does not know of any real deviations from the basic plan. Maybe the basic plan kind of painted a higher density development of the downtown then ultimately what we are going to see, but that he thinks that is just a change of our economic situation. Commissioner Wiggins stated, "Frankly, what the downtown of South Bend needs are boosters and positive attitudes. We have been deluved and beset for years with all kinds of complaints and 'knitpicking' that have created more problems then they have solved and we have all the problems we need." Mrs. Allen said she just wanted to bring this up before Urban Redevelopment is completely phased out. b. Quit -Claim Deed, Southeast Neighborhood No. 1, NDP Project A -10 Authorization was requested for the President and Secretary to execute the Quit -Claim Deed, in which the City of South Bend, Indiana, Department of Redevelopment, releases and quit - claims to the City of South Bend, a Municipal Corporation of the State of Indiana, for the use and benefit of its Board of Park Com- missioners, for and in consideration of $37,564.28, for the real estate as stated on Exhibit A. Mr. Brownell advised we had previously deeded by Quit -Claim Deed, this property to the City for the Park Department, and the reason for another deed is that some of the titles were not complete at that time and the Quit -Claim Deed didn't furnish all of the titles of the real estate in order to make that correction and we had another Quit -Claim Deed prepared, and are requesting authorization for execution of that now. QUIT -CLAIM DEED, SE #1, NDP PROJECT A -10