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-6- Councilman Makowske indicatedshe was very interested in giving the • cities an opportunity of selecting the Metro Council members and would like to see the Metro Chair selected in the same manner. Mayor Sundland reported the A.M.M. had lobbied hard for this legislation and Councilman Marks indicated he perceived the new selection procedure would be better because the elected officials are the ones who work with the Metropolitan Council in more instances . At 8: 15 P.M. the Mayor opened the public hearing on the Year X CDBG funding allocations for which there was no Commission- recommendation since that body had deferred such action until their April 3rd meeting. The Council hearing had been set up to follow after the Planning Commission consideration and a notice to that effect had been pub- lished in the Bulletin, March 8th. 'The_ Manage_r had-been-re ' uested b Y' y the Commission to contact Hennepin; County staff to ascertain the feasibility of various options the Commission members had offered for allocating the City ' s share of Year X CDBG funds , amounting to $34 , 819 . In his March 23rd memorandum, Mr. Childs had advised that none of the Commission suggestions appeared to meet the criteria set for these funds because it would be very difficult to prove exclusive benefit to City residents with low or moderate incomes. Since the Commission hearing, the Manager reported meeting with representatives of the Walker Methodist Homes who had been selected by Arkell to sponsor the Kenzie Terrace 20.2 elderly rental housing project and they had requested $29 , 600 of the CDBG funds be allocated • to a no-interest loan to them which would aid them in providing the amenities in the proposed building which the 202 funding would pro- bably never cover, but which would be necessary, if that building is to meet the standards for housing set for St. Anthony and the rest of the Kenzie Project. Under staff' s new proposal for CDBG funding, the programs requested by the Community Services would be retained but. the housing rehabili- tation could be undertaken another year, the Manager told Councilman Makowske. One of the projects proposed by Commissioner Bjorklund had been the allocation of CDBG funds to rewrite the Know Your City directory for the City and the Mayor suggested that might be a project which the revitalized St. Anthony Chamber of Commerce would underwrite. Councilman Enrooth said he perceived' there would be no problem with having advertisements in the booklet this time around, since one of the functions of such a directory would be to acquaint the residents with the products and services offered in the City . Councilman Makowske indicated she had left a copy of the booklet St. Paul distributes in City Hall. She acknowledged that, although that particular booklet would probably be too expensive for St. Anthony, she perceived it contains many useful ideas which -could be adopted for the City booklet.