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South Bend evelopment Commission Regular Meeting - May 10, 1991 6. NEW BUSMESS (Cont.) a. continued... property goes, I guess the meeting here, I'm set aside from that to a certain t, except that instead of the Historical Society continuing this fight, whith is really not a fight, like I said, frcmi point blank, they didn't work with me at all. As a matter of fact, for them to have offered me a hundred dollars for my property from day one, that was bad enough. My point is that they are no lorxfer going to spend their money to take me an, so they are going to let the City do t. And I don't think it's fair because the City didn't come to me. No one from the City came to me to find out why they couldn't acquire my property. But the minute they needed the City behind them, they wanted the City to purctkise the property so the City can around and sell it back to them. I don t think that's fair at all. And, l I said, no one had come to me to exp -ain to me what was going on. I went to meeting at the Historical Society. The r made me an offer. They didn't even wan me to come. They wanted me to take the offer. I didn't think that was fair. I walked out of the meeting and I said, "When you can talk to me like I shoiLld be talked to..." I don't know all this legal stuff. My job doesn't consist of that. I'm a construction worker. I kna,7 my job, as far as that goes. Anytiing beyond that, I don't know an ing about. But I thought if I paid tax on a property, then I think the property is mine. But I realize one thing in life, it's a lie. You don't own anyllAng. You own it until somebody else n it. When they need it, you have to get up off of it. Whether you want to or not Like I explained to them, I didn't want to sell my property. I still don't want to sell my property. I went down there and I told them before I left, I said, "Let me explain something to you. Before you put another brick up on this -10-