African American Businesses and non-profit organizations cannot afford to miss this meeting.
Meeting will be held at the Minneapolis Urban League Monday April 5 at 6:30 pm. During this meeting we will be handing out and filling out applications for Empowerment Zone funding. I know many of you have contacted me regarding the fact that you are unable to access an application on-line due to the fact that the city has removed it from its website. Not to worry we have enough applications to go around. We are in the process of filing a formal complaint with H.U.D to get the ball rolling on legal action. It�s important that you attend this meeting if you plan on applying for Empowerment Zone Funds or if you have applied for Empowerment Zone funds in the past and were turned down. Or if you recently called the Empowerment Zone office and were told that your plan didn�t meet Empowerment Zone guidelines by Mr. Havey or one of his staff members. It is important that we document all these incidents. I have attached a copy of the audit that the Federal government conducted on the Minneapolis Empowerment Zone. In it you will see that the city has a serious problem with its culture of denial. I encourage you to read it. The Star Tribune has declined to write about the Minneapolis Empowerment Zone because �It�s to complicated� as their reporter put it earlier last week, but you can read about it in a four part series being done in the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.
www.spokesman-recorder.com
http://www.hud.gov/oig/ig351007.pdf
Booker T Hodges North side
Booker T Hodges North side
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