Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
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going to specifically address what we're doing new<br />
in these four areas. In terms <strong>of</strong> sales and<br />
marketing property, there hasn't been a real<br />
widespread distribution <strong>of</strong> information about what is<br />
for sale, not only in the <strong>State</strong> <strong>Department</strong>, but<br />
throughout the U.S. government. So we looked at how<br />
to address that.<br />
There are issues with site selection where<br />
we would be way down the road on the process <strong>of</strong><br />
acquiring a site and something would happen and we<br />
would lost that site, we'd have to start all over<br />
again or security issues would be discovered very<br />
late in the process that would create difficulties<br />
for us.<br />
In terms <strong>of</strong> site evaluation, we had a very<br />
outdated 20 year old or so scoring tool and we<br />
revamped that. And in terms <strong>of</strong> site development, we<br />
were finding that some <strong>of</strong> the sites we were buying<br />
were just not ready to build. And I'll talk about<br />
how we have addressed each one <strong>of</strong> these issues<br />
briefly.<br />
So earlier this year, the government in<br />
general was working on a new public interface for<br />
all property that is for sale by the U.S.<br />
government, meaning confiscated cars to houses and<br />
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