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Show INTERVIE\v: Cuellar ' Page 16 program can operate. It was OEO and DOL combined. By 1969 we were operating on a five million dollar budget with thirteen projects, five of them in Texas, four of them in California, the other ones scattered in Albuquerque, in Colorado, and Arizona. GC Do you know what part of each state they were lmcated in? RC Yes we had Denver, Colorado; we had Albuquerque, New Mexico; we had Phoenix Arizona; and then the ones that were in _California were in San Jose, San Diego, Venice, and Norwalk; and· in Texas they were El Paso, Houston, San Antonio, and Corpus Christi. GC How about in Austin, did they have one? RC No, Austin was not open yet. I have to give you a listing on that later. GC Was there a Santa Monica in California then? RC That was Venice . So at any rate, in '69 we operated on a five million dollar project, but ironically enough, the money was still filter~d through these state agencies, vocational education to the emplo~nent services. It was very unsatisfactory to us because we had no control on local projects operating, we, more or less, when I say we, I say the national office of SER operated as a technical assistance group. GC Technical assistant to the local projects? RC To the local projects. GC And who ran th~ local projects? Who was responsible for those? |
