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Tourism is offering me five to seven thousand dollars  for the project.    I feel bad for, and sensitive about, such a small offer.    What about some of the billions of dollars that the State of Maryland has, not just in budget surplus, but also in sunny day budgets and rainy day   budgets?
There exist several reports that I would like to make the Task Force aware of.    In October  1998, there was a paper that I presented to the Maryland Children Governance Board.     It was a twenty-page paper with two pages of recommendations.    Years have passed and nothing has  come of the recommendations.     This report was the  fifth one that I have completed since  1992.    Lawanda Jenkins and Dr. Ron Shatner reported in   1995  at the White House  Conference on Travel and Tourism.    The State did its own report, and then I did one in 1998.    Also, a thesis paper entitled "Black Historic Preservation Increases  Awareness  and  Involvement  among  African  Americans  in Baltimore" by Starr Burton I would like to tell the Task Force about. On page 89, Ms. Burton states the purpose of this thesis was to illustrate that there was a lack of African American cultural preservation  and  representation  in the  City  of Baltimore.