[Mpls] "Feeling less than empowered in the zone"

[Michellehill64 at aol.com]

Respectfully Anne, you missed the whole point. My point is not about the 
struggle of the two businesses you named, my point is the fact the the funds were 
not equally distributed and did not generate the economic stability it was 
intended to do, nor did it empowered those that it was intended for. Yopu can not 
expect people to spend money if they have no jobs. Businesses + jobs = 
Economic stability.

Giving Barbara's Beauty Salon $5,000.00 of the $15,000.00 she requested, out 
of a $25 million dollar grant is still appalling, but that is not the point 
being raised. It is the Urban Leagues fault that the coffee shop is struggling? 
I missed your point on that one.

The point, in the Empowerment Zone funding, is that those who the grant money 
was intended for did not received the money.

The issue of who a landlord is, and what their responsibilities are, has 
nothing to do with the Empowerment Zone funding. 




Michelle Hill


Cleveland