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South Bend ?development Commission Special Mee ing - July 25, 1980 The Chair r cognized Honorable Roger 0. Parent who was present to discuss qn item on the agenda which was listed as 6h. under New Businessi as follows: 6. NEW h. Comnkissioh discussion and decision the lr6ciu6st to hermit its Executive to of ve Director on an inter basis. Mayor Parent: As you are aware, there has been considerable discussion recently about the Hous,ing.Authority and its director. The Housing Authority Commissioners have asked the adminis- tration to help during the interim period before a new Housing Authority Director is hired. Discussions began as to who the interim director would be. It very quickly came down to Mr. Ellison who has a lot of experience and knowledge about housing and the rules, regulations, etc. Mr. Ellison and I discussed the situation and he is agreeable to serve as interim director. Mr. Nimtz and I also talked and he is agreeable to this arrangement. We had anticipated rec iving a request from the Housing Authority Commissioners to appoint Mr. Ellison as interim director. This morning I am here to make official the request that was made to allow Mr. Ellison to serve at the Housing Authority for a period of no more than 60 days for approximately 75% of his time. I would like to preface this request with just a brief discussion of what we have been doing in the area of economic dev lopment and how we have organized it zdministratively. Since the beginning of the year Mr. Ellison and I have talked often about how to handle the increasing workload for economic development. It is very difficult for me to make visible to you the very large workload we have generated. In order to share this workload I have divided responsibility for economic developrnent projects among members of the administration.