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<br />- <br /> <br />influence the amount of allocation for rehabilitation at a later time? <br />2) In the event of non-payment, the City Attorney's office would have <br />to try to recoup that money. Thus both City staff and members of the <br />Board might be placed in an uncomfortable position. 3) The most serious <br />consideration should be given to appearance of impropriety, which Council <br />may wish to avoid. 4) If guidelines were not set out, the City Attorney's <br />office would be involved in each request to determine a conflict of <br />interest. Thus, more time and money would be spent. <br /> <br />Mr. Delay wondered if the conflict of interest would also apply to someone <br />who, in the past, had taken out a loan through COC, and then subsequently <br />had become a member of the committee. Mr. Laird said ther'e would probably <br />be no conflict with HUO, but there could be a potential conflict regarding <br />recouping the money in case of nonpayment. <br /> <br />Ms. Smith expressed personal concern that people who are serving on <br />committees and want to apply for funding should resign their positions. <br />She felt there were many interested people in the community to serve on <br />the committees, thus alleviating the possible problem of lack of members. <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />Mr. Osborn noted for Council that if it were determined a person serving <br />on COC did have a conflict, the present language agreement with HUO <br />states the conflict would exist for one year after resigning from the <br />committee. He felt Council should know when it's making appointments to <br />the committees if the persons have participated in the program in the <br />past. <br /> <br />Mr. Lieuallen felt there was a shift in staff's presentation from the <br />materials received by Council Friday and the presentations made today. He <br />said it seemed the written materials indicated there was a problem that <br />could be dealt with, whereas today, he was hearing that those same prob- <br />lems existed and could not be dealt with so easily. He questioned whether <br />something had changed. Mr. Osborn said in reviewing the materials, the <br />Council cannot issue a blanket waiver for all COC members. However, <br />Council may determine who is not eligible. The alternative would be, each <br />time a request comes from a COC member, to determine if there is a conflict <br />of interest on an individual case-by-case basis. Another alternative <br />would be to decide ahead of time whether applications should be received <br />from those serving on the COC committee. <br /> <br />Mr. Lieuallen said to disallow those persons from participating in the <br />program would discourage people who live in the very neighborhoods trying <br />to deal with the problems for which the program is set up. He felt one <br />of the good aspects of the program was that those very people had been <br />involved. He said now this would be punishing them because they are <br />wanting to be involved. He did not feel there would be that many cases to <br />be decided by Council. <br /> <br />Mayor Keller cautioned Council about the image it might be setting. He <br />said if Councilors were to have a conflict and had to forfeit their <br />positions, would it be unfair to ask other persons to live under the same <br />guidelines? He felt the key issue was whether Council should allow a <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />2/28/79--9 <br /> <br />131 <br />