To my knowledge there were never any citizens on the commitee.  It was made up of council members and employees of the city.  Citizens could come to the meetings and make comments, but were not on the committee itself.  There was at one time they did not set the date for the next months meeting and the citizens that were attending the meeting had to keep calling to find out when the next one was.  At that point it was felt that some individuals did not want the public there to make any comments.  There were several questions brought about demolition, what wards were most effected and what would happen to the vacant properties after the house was gone - they would not at that time admit they had a list, nor would they say what they would do with the vacant land.  It was also mentioned several times that why would the city want to rehab homes and sell them.  That it would hurt the other homes in the neighborhood because they would be sold under value. 

The housing sub committee had at one time asked the Consolidated Committee (CDBG committee) to review the proposals.  When it came out that this committee was not agreeing with what the city manager was wanting she brought about her own committee and asked for 3 members of the Consolidated committee to sit on her committee to review the proposals.  She would only allow 3 because she would then have the majority of votes on what she wanted.  That committee at that time presented their proposal to the entire counsel.  But it was not the Housing Sub Committee that actually decided reviewed the proposals.