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$25,000 for TF A, hich was to
go to people's utility bills. ot
o e TF A pplication taken.
That money was spent on rent or
hatever e e the management
spent it on. That's a dis-al-
10 ceo You got to pay that
b ! Yo canno pend money
out of its category," he dded,
Yelorda said, it obvious
th t a lot of oney was
"pumped into the office sup­
_ pli store, ( ain Street- Office
Supplies, Benton Harbor), on
the prediction that the office
upplies store s going to
m e money and be able to pay
it bac
Yelorda said he met with Syl­
vester Tutt, executive director
of BACAA, several times
"strongly urging him" to
ep rate the office supplies
s ore from th gency business.
"The board should be able to
kno hat the store vas doing
from month to month" he said.
Willie Aske v, Chairman of
the Board of BACAA, said the
board asked for Tun's resigna­
tion Tuesday, J nuary 31.
"If this gency, this board,
ants to stay in ex" tance, you
r, must put together a rep yment
----------- plan that is acecptabl to the
State office.
"If the board i talking about
ta . ng 8 or 9 years to pay the
money back it ill not be ac-
eepu ble," Ycl rd ide
Other options for example,
he aid, w uld for th bo rd
to put together a debt recovery
plan that makes. en e and put
management structure in place
that makes sen e, then the state
office will work ith them and
as lenient as they possible
can. But the board will probab­
ly he on a three months contract
care going to watch you ex­
lremely close if that was to
occur", he said.
He said other options are
ban cruptcy. If the agency
closed d '\ n an d go into
banckruptcy and b dissolved,
then the state would have to
\��rk with the community,
ciuzcns and local officials to sec
if it would put some other type
of CAA or AA's to help. "TIle
tate's main concern is to get
ervices delivered to the low in­
come-people in the community."
. elorda told the board, You I
JU t \ ent thr ugh th· s three I
ye rs go".
A repre entative for one of I
the contr ct r that did some
ve therization vor k for
B CAA ked about getting
p ide Yelord informed them I
th t, money was sen to the ,
geney to pay the; contractors I
for eathcrization vor that
d ne through BACAA. He
s id th t their camp ny and
her contr ctor . pr b b
end up uin the ney for the
n y. I
A e id the b rd ill
meet ith all contr ctor m­
spections nd employees nd
try to or omething out, I
eal's
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