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e <br />J <br />HOME IMPROVEMENT AREA WOULD PRESENT A CONTROL PROBLEM, AND IT WOULD BE <br />NECESSARY TO HAVE A COMMITTEE AND, IN ADDITION, HAVE IT ALL REVIEWED BY THE <br />COMMISSIONERS IN ORDER TO KEEP A TIGHT CONTROL TO KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THE <br />MONEY WILL BE GOING, HE STATED THAT HE FELT ADMINISTRATOR JENNINGS HAD DONE <br />A VERY GOOD JOB ON THE LIST OF OBJECTIVES SET UP LAST YEAR, <br />ADMINISTRATOR JENNINGS INFORMED THE BOARD THAT WE WERE ONE OF THE <br />TWO COUNTIES RECEIVING THE LARGEST AMOUNTS OF MONEY LAST YEAR, AND IT IS <br />POSSIBLE WE MAY NOT GET AS MUCH THIS YEAR. HE CONTINUED THAT THE PROARAM <br />HAS BEEN EXPANDED INTO POSSIBLY PURCHASING SOME RECREATION PROPERTY, WHICH <br />WAS NOT INCLUDED LAST YEAR, AND WE WILL ALSO TEAR DOWN SOME OLD, UNIN4ARITED <br />STRUCTURES THAT CANNOT BE REHABILITATED. HE NOTED THAT CHANGES CAN BE MADE <br />IN CERTAIN CATEGORIES,.BUT WE ARE GEARING THIS APPLICATION TO GET THE MOST <br />MONEY WE CAN GET AND CAN WORRY ABOUT -THE DETAILS OF THE PROGRAM AFTERWARDS, <br />THE ADMINISTRATOR EXPLAINED THAT WE WILL TRY TO ACCOMPLISH AS <br />MUCH AS WE CAN IN THE NEXT 39 DAYS SO WE CAN GET AS MANY POINTS AS POSSIBLE <br />FOR WHAT HAS BEEN DONE WITH THIS YEAR'S MONEY AS YOU ARE ACTUALLY COMPETING <br />AGAINST OTHER AREAS THAT ARE ALSO GOING AFTER THIS MONEY, <br />CHAIRMAN SIEBERT ASKED IF ANY MEMBERS OF THE CITIZENS ADVISORY <br />COMMITTEE WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK, <br />RALPH LUNDY OF 4520 39TH AVE., GIFFORD, TOOK THE FLOOR AND SAID <br />HE WOULD LIKE TO STATE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PRESS, THAT THE AMOUNT OF <br />MONEY ASKED FOR FOR HOUSE IMPROVEMENTS WILL NOT ALL BE SPENT FOR DEMOLISHING <br />HOUSES. IN THE FIRST PLACE, THERE ARE NOT THAT MANY HOUSES TO DEMOLISH, AND <br />SOME MONEY WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE USED FOR ADDITIONS TO HOUSING OR RENOVATING <br />HOUSING IN HARDSHIP CASES, <br />SIR. BRENNAN CONFIRMED THIS STATEMENT AND NOTED THAT SOME OF THE <br />MONEY CAN BE SHIFTED AROUND AS WE ARE NOT "LOCKED -IN," <br />.JERRY CUMMINGS OF WABASSO-STATED THAT HE WISHED TO MAKE IT CLEAR <br />THAT THE MONEY WILL NOT BE USED FOR IMPROVING HOUSING IF THE OWNER IS NOT <br />LIVING IN THE HOUSE NOR WILL IT APPLY WHERE A HOUSE IS BEING RENTED. <br />J. BLAYNE JENNINGS, ATTORNEY, APPEARED AND DISCUSSED THE POINT <br />SYSTEM. HE QUESTIONED WHETHER H.U.D. WOULD TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE AMOUNT <br />OF TIME THAT HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO DO THIS WORK AS THERE HASN'T ACTUALLY BEEN . <br />THAT MUCH TIME AND ALSO WHETHER THE APPLICATION WOULD BE JEOPARDIZED BECAUSE <br />THE NEEDS IN GIFFORD ARE NOT NECESSARILY FOR HOUSING. <br />3e <br />r; <br />PIAN 291976 y,. <br />goo( 25 AG,r un3 <br />