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Show I.TER\IE Cuellar Page 21 of Labor and it is used for national programs and discretionary funds bv the Secretary of Labor. So, therefore, they are able to earmar~ a certain amount of money for SER and SER was funded for five million dollars, a total package, but we still continue to get tle funds through the same system, that is, the state system, the employment service and the educational service. In 1970 we got refunded for the same amount of money but something very significant happened in 1970 in that the organization· grew and not only that, but the Department of Labor officials: I think, at that time determined that they were going to place SER under closer sur eillance for whatever reasons and they decided to evaluate SER totally, comprehensively and in depth so they assigned a team under a man that I think we work, who we are very close with, Chuck Green. He came in and did a three - month evaluation of the organization, at which time I think he concluded that SER was overall a good organization that it had some nepotism, that it suffered from some mismanagement, that the board of directors throughout the country was not really that grassroot or relevant to the community. So the Department of Labor interpreted the evaluation Jery negatively which w~s, I think, unfair. Several things happened. And the reason that I am emphasizing this is because it is very significant in making SER what it is today and making SER an institution too, which we talked about earlier |
