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-3- • 3.. The City Manager be directed to provide in the budget an appropriation of approximately $2 ,000 which.. could be spent on support of the Counselor/Coordinator position and/or the T.A.H'.C. . program as recommended by the C.A.I .C. 4 . The T.A.H.C. program and Councelor/Coordinator position be evaluated as to their .ability to .reach established objectives at least once a year. 5. The Counselor/.Coordinator positionbe not limited to the school district. chemical use/abuse-problems but that it be community-wide in orientation.. Motion carried unanimously. Peter Jarvis and Bill Weber of B.R.W. , Inc: were present to duscuss their firm' s proposal for providing community development consulting services for the City. During his discussion. of how -the proposals made by his firm in the Comprehensive Plan regarding the renovation of the St. Anthony Shopping- Center might' be implemented, Mr. Jarvis emphasized what he saw .as a duty of the Council to provide the impetus for any redevelopment- of that area as nothing will happen down there unless you will make .it happen. He also cited the variety . of circumstances under which other- metropolitan- rebuilding projects his firm has been associated with had been accomplished. Mayor Haik told the B.R.W..., Inc. representatives that. the Council will probably make some decision regarding the need for a consultant as well as which firm will be retained sometime in July. The meeting was recessed from- 9:15 P.M. to 9 :20 P.M. Ted Zinner, Jr. ., Vice President and General Counsel for the C. G. Rein Co.., managing agent for Apache Plaza, Ltd. , was present to request- Apache be permitted to sell Industrial Redevelopment Revenue Bonds to finance improvements to Apache Plaza.. He had detailed the proposed additions and repairsto the shopping mall in his letter of May 21,. 1980. The proposal, which must be prepared. by Apache for application for the bonds , will specify the projects and assure the quality of the work done. Because 38 of the 62 leases for Apache. are up for renewal next year, the , Rein: counsel said his firm wants .to proceed with the renovation of the center as .soon as possible to demonstrate. to those. tenants that Apache intends to make any improvements- necessary to maintain .a viable center .and to encourage them to make their own improvements. Only improvements to the main mall and not -to the .satellite building on 39th Avenue N.E. will be financed with the bonds, he added. Mr. Zinner also discussed the existing leases -.saying because the .original leases 20 years ago didn' t take .into consideration the possibility of inflation, in many instances Apache has been. subsidizing those tenants. The City Manager and Attorney had advised the Council as