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Show wajS&tm HMtaMSi Meetings and Special Get Events With A A community Christmas party will be given by the People's Freeway Board. Watch the Model Neighborhood News for date, time and place. A People's Freeway Resident's meeting will be held on Monday, December 4, at 7:30 p.m. at the People's Freeway Center, 568 South 200 West. Residents Will Be Involved in Evaluations Involved Model Cities Task Force. Call "Why should we support Coordinating Council met on other projects when ours have been ignored?" she asked. Holbrook then asked for a verbal report from each task force representative to determine if they were satisfied with their projects. A vote was taken to appiove all proposed piojects for November 16 to discuss several items of business. Chairman Stan Holbrook introduced Jeanne Herstad, Model Cities Chief of Projects, who gave a brief presentation on the monitoring and evaluation program for projects funded by Model Cities. She said evaluation will begin in Faron Ith at The Model Cities January and told Council 467-941- 6 members, "we want all the resident input we can get." Each task force, she said, would a Northwest Council Plans Christmas appoint project representative for each project funded under that task force. It will be up to those representatives to involve as many other task foice members as possible, she advised. Model Cities agency staff will also submit reports on each project. Northwest Community Council set the date for its announce the event. He said community Christmas party for Wednesday, December 20. In a joint meeting of the Northwest busing for senior citizens will be arranged and some surprises for the children have been planned. Tom Sessions, Chairman of Counicl and the Northwest the Northwest Community Center Advisory of complete community Council, stated he received a letter from Dr. Monson of the Utah State Board of Education, in which each council is invited to involvement in the holiday affair. elect and send Multi-purpos- e Board, the decision was unanimous to promote the idea Cathy Hoskins was appointed chairman of a committee to arrange refreshments and check costs for the event. Jack Kelly spoke for the Advisory Board and the Recreation Department in asking for volunteer help, suggestions and ideas for funds, food and entertainment. The program will start at 4:00 p.m. and continue until 9:00 p.m. as a combined House at Christmas Party-Open the Northwest representative to monthly advisory board meetings of the committee for the Skill a Center program at Utah Technical College. The advisory board will have the power to advise and even override decisions of the Skill Center committee if it deems such action necessary, the letter advised. Representatives from the councils will be paid $16.00 per meeting for attending. Other state, federal and community Center. There will be food and games and entertainment will be agencies will also be represented on the advisory board, according to Monson's letter. Inez Gatlin provided by the High was elected as the representative Chorale, a singing group from Jackson Community School, a drama group organized by the County Recreation Department for the Northwest Council. Gary Bowman reported that his Housing Committee is putting and rock band, "Joyous Famine. Included on the agenda will be a tour of the Northwest facility for those new to the center and a farewell tribute to Bennett to tour problem housing areas in the model neighborhood, in order to try to put more weight behind proposals to HUD to Commissioner Philip Blomquist who has been guiding the Salt housing construction. Multi-purpos- e West a Lake County Social Services Department. The combined festivities will also mark the second anniversary of the center, which officially opened on December 5, 1970. The Northwest Center is planning to issue a newsletter on December 1, Kelly said, which will be mailed to 2,000 families in the area to Multi-purpos- e pressure on Senator insure good guality Wallace low-co- st "I have seen disgraceful t housing construction failures in too many areas of the low-cos- United States," declared Bowman. "In Washington, D. C., where you'd expect to see the best quality housing anywhere in the country, new high rise units were boarded up because the conditions were so poor and the construction so shoddy no one would live there." recommendations from the residents to the Joint Board of Commissioners. They are Bonnie Hartley, Tom Duggar and Mignon Richmond. "It's out of line for the Model Cities director or any staff member to make resident recommendations to the Commisioners," Ms. Hartley said. She emphasized that the followed the next item on the Coordinating Council should act as a liason between residents and agenda, that of approving by Laura Briggs Holbrook to present lengthy di scussion A Celebration funding. Three representatives were selected to go with Chairman projects for the third action year. Council members were advised that all projects would have to be approved by December 20. Bonnie Hartley, Social Services task force representative, questioned why the Council should give a blanket approval of projects without studying each project and without a careful review of the administrative and citizen participation budgets. "HUD guidelines allow for adequate time for the Coordinating Council to review and study projects," she said. She blamed the Model Cities agency for not allowing more time and for not providing more information to the residents. the Joint Board of Commissioners. The people do have the right to rearrange the priorities, she said. Two additional members, Bonnie Hartley, Social Services task force and Tom Duggar, Government task force, were selected to serve on the Coordinating Council Executive Committee. Present members include Stan Holbrook, Social Services; Don funds for continuing to maintain this office were just about gone. The Community Action Program had provided monies for the first six months of operation. His request was for $8,500 which would allow operation for another six months. The Council approved an emeigency grant of $1,500 from slippage funds and advised him to appear before the Social Services task force for approval of additional funding. Austin, Government; Coral Coffey and Florence Lawrence, both repiesenting the Education task force. Following regularly scheduled Council business, Selma Jacobsen said the David Hill, director of the United Council of Urban Indian Affairs Government task force, which she represents, had not received any consideration for its projects and recommendations. presented a request for interim funding of his agency. He said several proposals were out for funding of an Indian Center but Communications Service Center Provides Print Broadcast and Photography Services For Agencies, Residents, Neighborhood Councils. Call 467-801- 4 |