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%40 <br /> <br />individual existing businesses and staff recozmnends that $5,000 <br />be allocated to that particular activity,and the goal would be <br />for 20 businesses to be involved; 2. assistance to existing <br />businesses, basic intent ~f this activity will be actual <br />implementation measures to help the existing businesses and they <br />recommend an allocation of $5,000 or $1,000 per business; 3. <br />new business activity, ~mich will be to provide assistance to <br />new businesses in locating in the project area and it is <br />recommended that $8,000 be allocated to this activity~ 4. is <br />a feasibilitH ~tudy which will concentrate on identification of <br />and justification for specific potentially feasible economic <br />activitieS for the neighborhood and $3~000 is allocated for that <br />activity. He stated that these recommendations total $21,000, <br />which leave~ approximately $9,000 for possible chang~a~in budget <br />or activities for the period ending October 31, 1980. He stated <br />that the budget as presented in the CVCD proposal is in excess of <br />the amount of money that w~s originally planned for this activity. <br />He stated that the Community Development Department needs any <br />ideas from Council in terms of being able to sit down with <br />C~CD to see if a specific program can be worked out and then <br />brought back to Council for final approval. <br /> <br /> Mr. Bill Cooper addressed the Council and stated that this <br /> is a new area to the staff and also to the City and from the <br /> proposal the staff feels that generally most of the activities <br /> which were requested in the RFP are answered in a general way. <br /> However, the staff feels uncomfortable with the fact that there <br /> are no measurable objectives listed in the proposal and the staff <br /> has no idea what we will get for the money. He stated the staff <br /> would like to get the Council's reaction on the issue taking <br /> into consideration the four recommendations, and go back and <br /> negotiate with Central Virginia Development Corporation to see <br /> if some agreement could be worked out with respect to the budget <br /> constraints. He stated the staff could not feel at ease in <br /> recommending the allocation for the proposal as presented by the <br /> Central Virginia Development Corporation. <br /> <br /> Mrs. O'Brien asked Mr. Cooper if these concerns had been <br /> expressed to the Central Virginia Group. <br /> <br /> Mr. Cooper responded that the staff had met with the <br /> Central Virginia Group a couple of months ago and then reported <br /> to the Sta~ Hill Revitalization Committee the results of that <br /> meeting. <br /> <br /> Mr. Albro asked Mr. Cooper how much time he thinks it will <br /> take for implementation. <br /> <br /> Mr. Cooper answered he thought possibly one or two meetings <br /> with the Central Virginia Group and then come back to Council for <br /> approval and he thinks the Central Virginia Group is ready to <br /> proceed if we can come to some agreement. <br /> <br /> Dr. Alex Williams addressed the Council and stated that <br /> members of his board had met with the staff of the Community <br /> <br /> <br />