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Staff Report: Grant Application for Elderly Hi-Rise Development Department in A~§ust to discuss the proposal and at the end of the meeting they were advised the staff would be in touch with them, but to date no communication has been received. He stated he was a little surprised at the report to Council tonight since he expected the staff to clarify the points~ discussed before reporting to Council, He stated the figures in the report are not workable figures and now the staff is asking Council to approve those figures so the staff can negotiate witm CVDC, but when Council adopts the figures there will be no room for negotiation. CVDC will either have to accept the figures or that is the end of it, Mrs. O'Brien stated she could deal with the proposal if it were more specific, but in the form it is in at present she can not deal with it. She asked Dr. Williams if he thought he could develop something more specific so that it could be understood a little better. He answered that they could develop a program and expound on it. Mr. Buck remarked that there seemed to be some communication problems and he thinks everyone should sit down and try to work out the problems. He stated he also feels that because this is such a major effort it is integral to the Small Cities Revitalization Project and it is extremely important to the whole economic develqpment program of the City and he would like to suggest that after the meeting is held with CVDC, the Council hold a work session between the Community Development staff, the CVDC Board and the City Council to try to develop the confidence needed to work together. Mr. Albro remarked that what appeared to him was a failure to communicate and he would prefer to tell the Community Develop- menn Department to sit down with C~DC and try to work out a solution and if fundamental differences remain then that would be the appropriate time to come back to Council. Mr. Buck agreed with Mr. Albro's suggestion and hoped the staff could work out the difference and then come back to Council. The Mayor asked that the Con,unity Development staff and CVDC get together and try to work out the differences and report back to Council. The City Manager advised the Council that HUD is making available, to about 150 public housing agencies throughout the Country, funds to provide services to people in the buildings like the High Rise for the Elderly. The program provides services which allow people to stay in the High Rise rather than have to be placed in some sort of custodial care because of not being able to function on their own and this program would allow tmem