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It's a great deal of pleasure that I bring greetings to you. People who in my opinion, are the most overworked and underpaid the segment of our society today. I think in light of what you and local governments are doing, the contributions you are making. Well, as

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I indicated this program and the entire concept of moving ahead calls for local government to not only have more responsibility. I'm relating that to the relationship between federal and local government, but that it also must be more responsive and relevant to the needs of its citizens.

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So we don't, in any sense of the word indicate that there is not the need for this close working relationship of local government working with its citizens. As I indicated in my talks, shoulder to shoulder to to make meaningful progress. Is there going to be an

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insistence by the federal government, the citizens be brought into the decision making progress. Absolutely. This. This is still a requirement. We, we do not intend to remove that requirement. It's an essential ingredient in the Model Cities program. Yes, I'm

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not sure that that's an accurate reflection of Mr Moynihan's statement. I think that what he was probably suggesting to the american people is that there would not be a massive source of revenue available, there will be some, you know, and don't get over optimistic fellows is

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really what he was saying. I think that all of us would anticipate that if our foreign commitments were entered Viet in Vietnam or some other program, there would be some additional moneys, but not to the extent that a lot of people are anticipating the problems facing

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the city officials who are attending this three day conference are probably best summarized in this annual report and recommendations from the Committee on the future, which reads in part, the quality of our life is in the balance and irreversible decisions or non decisions are being made,

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which will affect our state for decades to come. The problems of the year 2000 will be the result of our mistakes today. Do the people of California have the will to reduce these mistakes to a minimum rollin post for eyewitness news in San Francisco?