[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Ingleside (TX) reuse authority membership

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Federal official tells LRA it must resolve membership dispute

By Fanny S. Chirinos
Corpus Christi Caller Times (TX)
August 10, 2009

CORPUS CHRISTI - INGLESIDE - A federal official on Monday told members 
of the Ingleside Local Redevelopment Authority they must resolve 
complaints about the makeup of its board before it can get federal 
recognition.

The American GI Forum's Johnny Canales International Chapter in Robstown 
mailed letters three weeks ago to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and 
Patrick O’Brien, the executive director of the Office of Economic 
Adjustment, the federal agency established to assist communities 
affected by base closure or realignment.

Chapter members said in the letter that Hispanics were underrepresented 
in the 11-member implementation Ingleside Local Redevelopment Authority, 
the group charged with redeveloping 155 surplus acres of base land when 
then Navy leaves. Naval Station Ingleside is scheduled to close on April 
30 as a result of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure round.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.caller.com/news/2009/aug/10/federal-official-tells-lra-it-must-resolve/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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