Meeting, August 1967

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Thu Lirat Job assgnod to in w vs to suloct and invibo the ccrrnitteo
mc:nUOrt. It waus &CU i JA to u a wortirg commrittee, and wo have all
had onough e:oorienoo \th voLvary oraiz ationsL o kno- th;t
rocuiros as small a committee as possible. however, it also had to
bo largo enough to be able to mobilizo the total resources of the
community. I think this coumittue moets both requirements. If any
of you fool there is someone else without whom we cannot function
effectively, I would like to discuss it with you immediately after
this meting. Gthosi'sei-'i-li-c sider --comni-piete.
Now, I would like to report to you on everything that has been done
to this point, and why it has been done.
As I mentioned, our assignment from the Mayor and the Governor is to
mobilize and help coordinato eol of the resources available to find
solutions to our many community problems. It seems to me this step
alono, is real progress. Too many of us have been willing in the
past to leave the job to governmont, the social workers or a nice
convenient financial contribution. We have now had terrible proof
that it just won't work to expect somoone else to do the real job.
If wo don't agreo on anything else, I certainly hope we will agree
that this job requires TOTAL PRiiOWAL INVOLVEICENT from every one of
us. And let me make clear that my understanding of our job includes
human reconstruction as even more important than physical alone.
To get things started constructively, the Mayor designated Dick
3trichartz and red Romoriff as his personal representatives to
manage the total rocurocs of thu City government for this purpose.