Message-ID: <9806128976.AA897669954@hudsmtphq.hud.gov> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:37:54 -0500 From: mailto:michael_o._patterson@HUD.GOV Subject: No subject given To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
--simple boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitAs we look at development efforts, they are really part of the larger "chunk" of community health.
Attached is a somewhat modified Memorandum of Understanding that might be of interest in that regard. It is rare to see this kind of wholistic approach, in development work, but perhaps that should change.
No endorsement of any contractor is implied, and the citation of any entity is solely as an example, not necessarily representative of their position or policy.
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POSSIBLE MODEL: PLEASE TAILOR IT TO YOUR SITUATION BE SURE YOU HAVE AT LEAST ONE NONPROFIT INVOLVED
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING between Heavenly Management Paradise Apartments 232 Divine Way Naples, Florida and The United Way
and other parties joining by letter
Table of Contents
I. SUBJECT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 II. BACKGROUND. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 III. STRATEGIC MISSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 OUR MISSION:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 BASIC PRINCIPLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 RESPECT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 COOPERATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 DEVELOPMENT IS FROM THE INSIDE OUT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 ALL ACTION IS VISION DRIVEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A PLACE AND TASK FOR EVERYONE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 SYSTEMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 WORK WITH WHAT WE HAVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 COMMUNICATION IS HEALTHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 BALANCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 GROWTH AND GOALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 EMPHASIZE THE POSITIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 WE BECOME THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 IV. OBJECTIVES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 CHILDREN AND YOUTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 PEOPLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 ELDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 FAMILIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 ECONOMY, EDUCATION, AND GOVERNANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 GOALS CONCERNING DRUG-RELATED ACTIVITY: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 OTHER POINTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 V. MANAGEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 VI. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 VII. RELATED AGREEMENTS, AND DETAILS OF THIS AGREEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 VIII. EFFECTIVE DATE AND REVISION OR TERMINATION.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 IX. THE COORDINATORS FOR THIS AGREEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
I. SUBJECT This Memorandum of Understanding, hereafter referred to as the "Memorandum" or "Agreement", will document information concerning a coalition focused on Community Revitalization for the neighborhood surrounding Paradise Apartments, including Divine Gardens, and Heavenly Terrace. This coalition will work on creating innovative community services to address our community's issues.
II. BACKGROUND
Introduction.
This agreement is part of a comprehensive, proactive, networking and "mutual interest-based" long term plan that reaches out into the community to greatly reduce drug-related crime and promote community health in and near the project, with a description of tangible benefits for the community and target population. It includes "win-win", mutual benefit approaches, and synergistic relationships, to solve several problems at once, cheaply, efficiently, and effectively, for the long term.
Leveraging, collaboration, and partnerships are important parts of proactive community building. "Healthy community" is a bigger tent than just "Drug Elimination" or "violence prevention". "Drug Elimination" is a negative goal. Health is not just the absence of disease, nor is Community Health the mere absence of crime and drug-related activity. Proactive, long-term, permanent elimination of drug-related activity requires a positive goal: creating a healthy, entrepreneurial teaching/learning community that takes care of most of its own problems while they are still small, that naturally resists drug-related activity, where persons and organizations can focus on long term positive goals instead of "putting out fires", where people take care of each other, like they used to.
No one person or group can solve all the problems of a community. It must be a team effort, of as many players as possible, working together towards goals that benefit all. A community is not merely a bunch of buildings, it is a network of relationships. Like the Internet, the relationships between the objects are more important than the objects- the whole community is more than the sum of its parts. A relationship IS communication, and anything that improves communication improves the community. This agreement documents and supports improved communication in the community.
There are more than enough resources to address the problems- the challenge is obtaining grant funds, building local community "capacity" to address problems, connecting people's interest with resources, connecting people who have common interests, and "selling" good ideas. Grant funds will be used to "leverage" resources and community capacity into place. The center of the circle of community, its heart, is respect. Cooperation is its pulse, and generosity and "feeding interest" its lifeblood. A community has a place for everyone- if not, it's only a faction. Some in the legal profession say the best legal solution is one where no-one is happy. That is no way to run a society. Manitonquat, the Wampanoag nation elder and storyteller, says the creator put fun on the earth to mark out correct solutions to problems. Proactive solutions that really solve problems are fun, at least in part. We expect that this effort will, at least in part, be enjoyable for those participating.
All parties to this Agreement support the long-term Community Revitalization and Drug Elimination Program for Paradise Apartments and the surrounding neighborhood. Law Enforcement entities will generally recognize this program as part of the strategic, Community Policing side, the "Seed" side of "Weed and Seed", of their own Crime Prevention programs. Nonprofit participants will see support for this as part of their Community Service. Residents will see this program as a framework in which to improve the quality of life in their community. Owners and managers of properties will recognize the human side of their resident population, and see their property values maintained and enhanced.
A. Owners of assisted housing face unprecedented challenges to create amenities in their developments to make their housing competitive in the marketplace, even before consideration of the effects of drug related crime. Residents also face economic challenges as a result of reduced resources, especially those affected by welfare reform, and will need to increase their personal income to become more self-sufficient. Community Service agencies face major challenges. All parties must work together, in an aligned way, so address these issues.
B. The parties recognize that computer literacy and access are prerequisites for economic opportunity in the information age, especially for residents of assisted housing. Fostering computer literacy and access is critical to the economic health of assisted housing, in that affects resident income.
The Computer Center program described at http://www.hud.gov/nnw/nnwindex.html, takes a bottom-up, individualized approach to community development. Property owners, housing residents, and other organizations form partnerships with members of their community to develop and sustain a center that best suits their own needs. The types of programs and services offered at a Neighborhood Networks Center could include the following: typing, word processing, and computer training, general education and job training, access to job data banks, information on health and community resources, and potential collaborators and clients in the development of microenterprises; social awareness and integration, and participation in online civic and government forums
C. Successful community revitalization uses every resource available. Local support is vital. To ensure success, local businesses, government, educational institutions, private foundations, and other community organizations and corporations will be brought into this partnership. Grant funds will be used for appropriate activities, as will other funds and resources, "leveraged" together to create a proactive solution tailored to the development and neighborhood.
D. Agencies recognize the importance of the issue of Welfare Reform. For example, the Department of Labor (DoL) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) has received a $3 Billion allocation to cover the next two years. These funds are to be focused on the welfare recipients who will be the hardest to place- of whom some are in assisted housing. Most of these funds will be provided through the typical DoL channels to the local SDA/Private Industry Councils [PIC's] and/or Workforce Development Boards. The local PIC's will decide how these funds will be spent.
$700 million over two years is also being made available for direct competitive grants to outside organizations as well as PIC's and local governments. Community Development Corporations, community-based organizations, community action agencies and other non-profits and private organizations including for-profit organizations can apply for these funds, but they must do so in conjunction with a PIC or local government.
DoL is looking for innovative ways to assist those who are the least job-ready. They are looking for a full range of supportive services, including job retention services where needed, to go along with job training and placement help. These funds can also pay for child care, transportation, or drug abuse assistance if other resources are not available. They want to see the services customized to meet the needs of the specific individuals in the program. An interim planning guide, and NOFA, is available from DoL, at http://www.doleta.gov. We will apply for such funds, and all related grant funds, as resources allow.
E. To the maximum extent possible, law enforcement entities will use the Community policing concept, defined generally as a method of providing law enforcement services that stresses partnership among residents, police, government services, and the private sector to prevent crime by addressing the conditions and problems that lead to criminal activity and the fear of this type of activity.
This method of policing involves a philosophy of proactive measures, such as foot patrols, bicycle patrols, and citizen contacts. This concept empowers police officers at the beat/zone level and residents in neighborhoods in an effort to: reduce crime and fear of crime; assure the maintenance of order, provide referrals of residents, victims, and the homeless to social services and governmental agencies; assure feedback of police actions to victims of crime; and promote a law enforcement value system that focuses on the needs and rights of residents.
Community policing is similar in concept to preventive medicine or risk management. It embodies a commitment to the proactive approach to reducing crime and other forms of disorder or, at a minimum, maintaining current levels. It recognizes the symptoms of incipient crime increases and promotes a community-wide response.
E. Primary responsibility and points of contact for most activities associated with this agreement will be with the management of Paradise Apartments. Compliance with governmental requirements of grants awarded to any complex will be the sole responsibility of the owner and management of that complex.
III. STRATEGIC MISSION
OUR MISSION:
Creating a healthy, entrepreneurial teaching/learning community of opportunity that takes care of most of its own problems while they are still small, that naturally resists drug-related activity, where persons and organizations can focus on long term positive goals instead of "putting out fires", where people take care of each other, like they used to, where everyone can pursue their mission and interests in life, developing "leaders of leaders", with "win-win" mutual support.
BASIC PRINCIPLES
These principles are the guides for healing and developing individuals and community relationships at their five levels: mental, emotional/ social, vocational, physical, and spiritual. Speaking as one community, which seeks to heal itself, we seek a new way of living, from a new awareness, that will heal our problems, and allow us to sustain and enhance our community. We recognize that our problems are growth opportunities.
RESPECT
Respect is the center of the circle of community. It is the right of every person. Since what we concentrate on grows, we respect and honor all positive activity and achievements in our community.
COOPERATION
Cooperation is how humans survive. Even a football game, an icon of competition, is 98% cooperation: to build the stadium, to get fans in their seats, to train the teams, &c.
DEVELOPMENT IS FROM THE INSIDE OUT.
All individual and community healing flows from within to the outside. Developing local "capacity" and sustainable activity is absolutely essential to effective use of outside resources.
ALL ACTION IS VISION DRIVEN
Vision is the seed around which all positive efforts crystallize. Where there is no vision, nothing positive occurs.
A PLACE AND TASK FOR EVERYONE
A community has a place for everyone, or it is only a faction. All people must be actively involved, using their unique talents. We work to involve everyone.
SYSTEMS
There is a path of balance at the center of each individual and community, which can be found and followed. The community is more than the sum of its parts. Accurate moral and ethical boundaries serve the community and individual. Addictions are a direct result of imbalanced communities and lives. Each person has a Mission in life, and they are happiest when they are following that mission. We seek solutions that solve many problems at once, synergistically, in a "win-win" fashion that benefits all.
WORK WITH WHAT WE HAVE
We use what we have, first, effectively. Diversity is a sign of health in nature and in communities. We seek sustainable processes and activities.
COMMUNICATION IS HEALTHY
A community is a web of relationships which is more than the sum of its parts. A relationship IS communication. Anything that improves communication improves the community. Friction is how diamonds are polished, and it is essential to community growth.
BALANCE
We consider the ramifications of our actions, and work to balance our lives. The center of life is spiritual. Spirituality and meaning in life are the same thing. Heart-centered approaches tell us what to do, and the "head" tells us how to do it.
GROWTH AND GOALS
Humans and communities are goal-oriented, and are happiest when they are working towards positive goals. The creator put fun on the earth to mark out correct solutions.
EMPHASIZE THE POSITIVE
Since what we concentrate on grows, we emphasize the positive at every opportunity, building on what we have.
WE BECOME THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE
We become living models of the truths we want in our lives, for all to see. IV. OBJECTIVES
This Memorandum of Understanding, or Agreement, is intended to document a relationship to serve mutual goals between Paradise Apartments, nonprofit organizations, and other interested parties, to take on tasks that no one organization could do by itself.
This Memorandum of Understanding establishes a relationship between Paradise Apartments and entity X, a 501(c)(3) non-profit or educational institution, and other entities joining by letter of intent, to more efficiently foster the creation and growth of a healthy community in and near Paradise Apartments, and to serve the mission of Agency X and other parties to the agreement.
COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES:
CHILDREN AND YOUTH
We seek to create a drug-free, vibrant, healthy community where:
Children feel supported, grounded, with opportunity and hope in a positive future
Children have positive growth opportunities, and responsibilities
Children have positive guidance and secure environments
Children are honored, esteemed, and respected as human beings, by themselves and others
Children learn tools to address pain and anger, their range of emotions are respected, and they have ways to express emotions healthily
Children's physical, emotional, spiritual, and vocational needs are addressed, in addition to their mental needs, and they enjoy balanced health in all areas
Children are challenged to the extent they should be, learning essential life skills like discipline, trust, respect, and problem solving
Inter-generational ties are strong, parenting skills are commonly practiced, and role models are in evidence
Adult issues are addressed without trauma to children
The responsibility of raising children is joyfully returned to parents, grandparents and community, rather than leaving it by default to formal institutions and the media
The community welcomes its responsibility for raising children
Shortcomings are accepted, and people work openly to overcome them, without stigma
Children grow healthily, and are allowed to be children
Healthy relationships with elders and others occur
People recognize the effect of their actions on children, and choose positive activities
Family and community traditions, such as ritual and bonding processes, and rites of passage are practiced
Parents are more involved with their children
People learn from children and youth
Youth are respected and respectful
Abuse is consigned to the history books
Peer mentors work well
PEOPLE
We seek to create a drug-free, vibrant, healthy community where people:
are respected and esteemed by others and themselves have supportive, healthy, loving relationships have opportunity, security, education, autonomy, employment, opportunities for expression, and support have opportunities to grow and express themselves in relationships, family, community life and all other spheres of life. have community support, encouragement and acceptance for their growth, transformation and self improvement know who they are, and have so many positive opportunities have opportunities to contribute to family and community are so involved in positive activities that feed their interests they have no time or energy for negative pursuits or addictions are spiritually healthy, free from addiction and a need to abuse, empowered with a healthy sense of self-esteem, respected and loved as members of their families and communities and positive role models for children. have their basic needs met, from within the community wherever possible, using outside resources in an integrated way
ELDERS
We seek to create a drug-free, vibrant, healthy community where:
Elders express a mental, physical, emotional/social, spiritual, and even vocational wholeness which inspires all members of the community Elders live in health, in support, free from dysfunctional patterns, providing guidance to youth, and sharing the journey of healing and growth with the younger generation.
FAMILIES
We seek to create a drug-free, vibrant, healthy community where:
Families are secure, save havens, in mental, emotional/social, vocational, physical and spiritual balance Families operate at an optimum level, where each member's needs are met, free of addiction and abuse, supportive of the continued growth and development of everyone in the community Useful community values, such as kindness, respect, love, honesty, generosity, unity, responsibility, caring, empathy, sharing, discipline, commitment, nurturing and humility are modelled and practiced Families have internal and external mutual support, that reinforce positive activities
ECONOMY, EDUCATION, AND GOVERNANCE
We seek to create a healthy, vibrant, drug-free community, where:
Everyone has useful, meaningful work government assistance is used to create self-sufficient people and employment Cooperative coalitions of leaders with vision, and clearly defined short and long term goals, produce a healthy economic condition in the community Leaders are constantly developed. Leaders are role models Resources to create opportunities for all are constantly gathered and used efficiently a healthy, sustainable economy promotes financial self-reliance and moral and ethical accountability people become contributing citizens, living up to the American ideal
Generally, this Agreement formalizes a mutual interest, "win-win" relationship, among diverse people, organizations, and agencies working together towards common goals. No requirements of any party, beyond their capacity and/or willingness to provide resources, can be made. As a "win-win" agreement, any party may of course drop out at any time by written notice.
The goal is fostering programs which foster interrelationships among the residents, the housing owner and management, the local law enforcement agencies, and other community groups. Resident participation in the determination of programs and activities to be undertaken, working jointly with community groups, the neighborhood law enforcement precinct, and residents of adjacent properties and the community as a whole, is strongly encouraged. GOALS CONCERNING DRUG-RELATED ACTIVITY:
All grants are "force multipliers" to local capacity. All activity will occur in a framework of increasing local capacity, to ensure efficient use of grant funds and other resources.
OTHER POINTS
A. Property management will establish, in concert with other partners, jointly agreed upon performance goals to define the results expected to be achieved by all major grant activities proposed in grant applications. Goals will be expressed in an objective, quantifiable, and measurable form. The goals will be outcome or result-oriented and not output related. Outcomes include accomplishments, results, impact and the ultimate effects of the program on the drug or crime problem in the target/project area, and other efforts directed at creating a healthy community. This will include a Baseline of both problems and positive community activity, with goals for improvement, and standards with with to measure improvement. Other parties to the agreement will contribute as interest and resource allow, and will not be held to any performance standard under the terms of this agreement. The former governor of Maryland noted that Community Health could be measured by the number of flowers planted. This is one good measure. The presence of Community Gardens, and other resident plantings, is another. Resident initiated social activities is another. The major "outcome" we seek is a healthy community with healthy community activities.
B. Programs will include, wherever possible, but not be limited to, Safe Neighborhood Action Program components such as community policing, crime watch programs, tenant selection policies, leadership training, individual development/job skills training, expansion of youth activities, police tip line or form, community centers, anti-gang initiatives, police training for security officers, environmental improvements, needs assessment survey to determine community needs and interests, and AmeriCorps/ VISTA involvement [(202) 606-5000] Positive "seed" programs will balance the "weed" programs, including at least resident plantings, community gardens, resident-initiated and run social activities, and where possible, Resident Cooperatives for groceries and other necessities. Job training and services coordinator support will be sought out. One long term goal will be transitioning some residents into homeownership.
C. Information on solutions and outcomes will be shared with other governmental agencies, and any other interested party, including copies of any written agreements in place or that will be put in place. Submission of material will also be made to HUD's Best Practices website [c/o HUD, 451 7th St, SW, WDC 20410], and www.bestpractices.org, and via press release of success stories.
D. Elimination of crime in the neighborhood will expand fair housing choice greatly, and will affirmatively further fair housing.
E. The coalition will participate in the community's Consolidated Planning process (including the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice) established to identify and address a need/problem that is related to the activities undertaken. If there is no Consolidated Plan for the city, participation in the Regional Consolidated Plan will occur.
F. Linkages will be developed to coordinate comprehensive solutions through meetings, information networks, planning processes or other mechanisms with other HUD-funded projects/activities outside the scope of those covered by the Consolidated Plan; and other Federal, State, or locally funded activities, including those proposed or on-going in the community.
QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED IN OUR COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROCESS:
Questions are very powerful, because they focus awareness. What we concentrate on grows. If you don't like some aspect of your situation, it is time to ask new questions. We ask the following new questions.
* If our community were perfect, what would it be like? What's missing from the way it is now? How can we work together, and have fun creating a bit of that right now? What's stopping us? [Virginia Satir's story in the book Chicken Soup for the Soul, is a good reference on this.]
* How can all players have more fun, healing our communities, through our work? What other people can we cooperate with, to do the job better, and to do things no one agent could do alone? How can we make it "Win-Win"? How can we serve more people in a better way that is more fun? More effortlessly?
* What are resident interests? How could we have fun locating resources to feed those interests? How can we give our residents more hope? How can we work with resident leaders better? How can we grow leaders of leaders?
* In looking at goals, how would we describe them for an elf who had no concept of adjectives? How could we make them so specific a child could understand them? How could we make an exciting picture of our goals, perhaps as a collage or treasure map?
* What available resources could we put to better use? How?
* How can we celebrate small victories better? How can we reward positive behavior better?
* How can we introduce more beauty into our housing?
* How can we turn apparent enemies into allies?
* Who doesn't fit into our community? How can we reweave them into it, so they can have fun expressing their unique gifts?
* How could we speak to the ideal person inside everyone we meet, so they would sometimes act in an ideal way?
* How can we so fascinate people with community building efforts, how can we help them have so much fun, that they forget about TV and the other time wasters they engage in, and just pitch in and create a healthy community?
* How can we find great fascination in learning to use our attention, and respect, to bring a new, healthy community into being? How can we work together to fascinate and inspire people, with better stories, respectful attention, and other tools, so that they laugh, play, and enjoy life, and abandon all the negative things they do, because they just weren't interesting any more? How could our programs be so powerful, so fascinating, so enticing, that even violent and immature people recognized that it was just a lot more fun to mature, and work with others cooperatively?
* How could we create a local economic system so compelling, so fascinating, so inspiring, that everyone pitches in to make it sustainable, and we employ everyone in useful work?
* How could we create that same economic system, in the next 5 years, so that everyone has a job, some residents are transitioned into homeownership, and everyone is incorporated into a healthy community where their needs are met, and interests fed, with the opportunity to pursue happiness and their mission in life?
* It is a known maxim in community development that more than enough resources exist to solve all problems. How can we reconnect community systems so that every nightmare people live now becomes a forgotten memory, preserved only in dusty archives?
* Since beauty is food for the soul, how can we add more beauty in our community?
* How could we help every resident realize their heart-felt dreams, effortlessly, joyfully, and lovingly, as we realize our own?
V. MANAGEMENT. In order to enable close collaboration, it is agreed that Paradise Apartments and all partners will each identify a coordinator to implement the terms of this Memorandum. These coordinators will meet as necessary to review policy changes, training coordination, news concerning resource availability, new regulations, as well as to seek to resolve any issues or disputes concerning the Memorandum. It is further noted that once the Memorandum is signed, that any other entity may become a party to the Memorandum by sending a letter of intent to any party cited in the Memorandum.
VI. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Entity X, and any other signatory, agree to follow current regulations concerning governmental programs they will be involved in.
VII. EFFECTIVE DATE AND REVISION OR TERMINATION.
This Agreement is effective upon the date of authorized signatures representing the parties, and shall remain in effect indefinitely. This Agreement may be extended or amended by written agreement of the parties at any time. Any person or organization wishing to be a part of it may join by addressing a letter of intent accordingly to the management of Paradise Apartments. That letter will generally be appended to the master copy of the agreement for documentation purposes. Participation in this Agreement by any one party may be terminated at any time upon 5 days written notice by that party, or by unanimous vote of all other parties to the agreement. It is noted that there are no side verbal agreements not stated in this Memorandum.
VIII. THE COORDINATORS FOR THIS AGREEMENT ARE:
x
(Name/Title)
x (Educational Institution or Nonprofit Organization)
x (Address) (Telephone Number)
x (Name/Title of Liaisons)
x (Telephone Number)
and as cited in the appended letters.
Agreed, this day of June , 1998.
Name Name
Organization Organization
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