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6. NEW BUSINESS, Continued- UDAG application. Be ore Mr. Ellison gave his report, Mr. Nimtz commended him for the fine jo he did in speaking to the Kiwanis Club on Thursday - explaining th situation. Proceed Mr. Ellison. Mr. Ellison: The (UDAG) application was submitted on the 31st (January) that being the greatest ordeal..as you may know the project sort of fell together on the 10th of last month and the regulations for the UDAG program finally became final at that time so every city, including us, had to move full steam ahead in order to get an application sub- mitted. Unfortunately we had the snow and some other localities did not, and this caused us to lose three days in the process, which is why we had a frantic finish, but we did make it with submission by virtue of delivery by airplane on Tuesday (January 31), to Indianapolis. Yesterday the Mayor and Chris Murphy went to Chicago at the invitation of HUD; Dave Dresser, who you might say is the person in Washington who handles the UDAG program, along with some of his staff members, convened the meeting with all interested Indiana cities submitting their develop- ment action grants at that time. The and cou get al the In any c Grant is ground. Mr. Wigg involved Mr. Elli have the Center d an Indus his size industri Mayor and Chris Murphy had one hour in which to brief Mr. Dresser staff on our Project. I'm not sure what his reaction was - of ,se if he listened to the cities all day, I'm not sure you would much reaction on the spot to the various propositions. Hereafter, )t of things will occur but basically, three things can happen in next sixty days (one of three things)- 1. HUD could decide to approve the Grant. 2. HUD could decide to keep the Grant pending, that is they could determine that they are interested in our project but they don't wish to fund it during the first quarter of the program. 3. HUD could reject the application. ise, we will know something within the next sixty days. Assuming the approved, things would probably start by July, that is digging up ins: To your knowledge, how many other Indiana cities and towns are in this? ;on: Only two others in our category, Gary and Evansville. I don't details but I understand Gary wants about $15,000,000 for A Civic )wntown, a revitalization kind of project and Evansville is after ;rial Park..they apparently have an employer who wishes to triple so they want to clear some land and establish something like an it park. Mr. Robinson: What is the size of their application? Mr. Ellison: Somewhere in the $700,000 range. l