TO: RURAL RENEWAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS FROM: BRUCE S. REYNOLDS MISSISSIPPI RURAL RC CoRA

SUBJECT: INFORMAL DISCUSSION

By way of introduction, my agency orchestrated and has been named as the CoRA for the Mississippi Rural Renewal Community. This designation will go far in helping the economic situation in each of our designated areas. With this being a new program there are many unanswered questions, and each of us have similar challenges and questions.

With that in mind I would like to invite you and your fellow Rural RC CoRA counterparts to join CMPDD on Sunday May 19, at 4:00p.m. at the Marriot Crystal City Hotel Restaurant or Cocktail Lounge, depending on the response, for an informal discussion. Items of discussion may include:

1. Your efforts to date regarding organizing your Rural RC. 2. How you envision your Rural RC functioning. 3. How you are paying for administration. 4. Your plans to ensure that business/industry take full advantage of this program. 5. Success stories 6. Problems / Challenges

While this will be held in conjunction with the HUD Community Renewal Implementation Conference, this is an independent effort on our part to initiate dialogue and address issues common to Rural RC’s. We are not affiliated with nor sanctioned by H.U.D. Please fill out and fax or e-mail back your RSVP in regard to this meeting.

I look forward to meeting each of you in Washington!