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wizardmarks wrote:
> Matthew Dufresne wrote:
>
> > FYI:
> >
> > I spoke to Robert Miller and Robert Cooper, of NRP's Citizen
> > Participation office, and was told that CNIA's funds were once again
> > being frozen (or already had been as of last Friday?), due in part to
> > ongoing inconsistencies and the latest claim by the current CNIA board
> > that $110,000 of funds had gone missing.
>
> If any funds went missing, they were very, very small--two or three digits at
> most. There is a $110,000 liability on the books. I cannot remember what it
> was about, but I'm sure someone does. Were it me, I'd check with Richard
> Barrett at Hennepin County. He may remember what that was about.
> Liabilities
> are not missing funds.Here is the situation vis-a-vis funds: The $1.9K for
> housing contract has been signed and the money turned over to Southside N Housing.
>They will
> execute the comp block piece of the NRP Phase I funding. Any other
> espenditures that were voted on are being funded through NRP. Because the NRP
> Phase I monies were not spent down (source of Miller's holding of funds), there is
>no way to apply for
> second phase
> funding. The neighborhood turned down a CNIA board request to shift NRP funding from
> programming plans to administrative costs.
> Ergo, there is no money to run CNIA--pay rent, pay staff, phones, etc. Any
> unallocated funds are being held by NRP.
> Matt, we have been here before. We have worked our way out of it by finding
> people who have the diplomacy and skills base to be board members, someone with the
>skills to
> chair, the skills for the treasurer's functions, and all of us demanding
> civility of ourselves and each other. Both sides press each others buttons and
> go round and round and round about what has happened in the past. (The day
> before the meeting also counts as the past, by the way.)
> To break out of the pattern, everyone has to cool their jets. Everyone has to
> stop the blame game, everyone has to look at the present situation and the
> nearness of an election, and think how they and their neighbors can use their
> noggins to untangle ourselves.
> The reason we keep coming back to this spot is so that we never have to face
> untangling the mess and we can keep the resentment going and going and going like
> the energizer bunny.
> At this point we may be coming back from the dead, but with help--and listening
> to those who have a vested interest in helping us--we can do this. If we don't
> do it, it's nobody's fault but our own.
> WizardMarks, Central
>
> > Matthew Dufresne
> > Central
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