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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outdated 20 year old or so scoring tool and we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 />

Free <strong>State</strong> Reporting, Inc.<br />

1378 Cape St. Claire Road<br />

Annapolis, MD 21409<br />

(410) 974-0947<br />

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