Black presen
quality people on them and that's
what we try to do."
When a vacancy exists or is
about to exist on a board, Corpening
says the vacancy is announced
through legal advertisements
in newspapers. Interested
residents are encouraged
to send a letter of application, he
says, which are taken into consideration
before any appointments
are recommended to the
aldermen.
But sometimes, Corpening
says, he personally contacts a
potential appointee to persuade
him to take the post.
"Sometimes you have to call
up and ask them to serve," he
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ington, he says, 44we had to have
a little prayer meeting with him to
get him to do it."
Corpening says there hasn't
been any deliberate attempt to
keep qualified blacks off those
boards considered to be the most
powerful, such as the Zoning
Board of Adjustment, which has
30.6 percent black representation.
"Again, this is another on
money," he said. 4<It costs us
$100,000 a year in the red.
44I'm not saying blacks are
dumb," he says, "but you need
someone who can handle
money."
As for the way the appointment
process works now, he says,
"It's about as good as you can
do. I don't see how we could better
it."
Black East Ward Alderman
Virginia Newell says one problem
the city faces is a shortage of
qualified, experienced blacks
who have the time to serve or
those boards exercising the most
influence.
44I see that as a problem,'* she
says. 44When we think aboul
those powerful commissions, w<
just don't have the blacks whe
can afford to come on those
boards. We have just felt that we
didn't have the black manpowei
to serve on those commissions."
Another problem is that, orici
the city decides to properh
balance black and white represen
tation on these boards, it take
V time.
44Basically, you can't put peo
pie off who are on there," Newel
says, "and some of them havi
two terms. 1 think that as far a
we are able to put blacks an<
women on there, we have don
well."
Newell said Corpening ha<
made a "good faith" effort t<
make black appointments.
Black Northeast Ward Alder
man Vivian Burke says th
boards are "not as balanced as
feel they should be," but says th
situation has improved cor
siderably since 1978, when th
black aldermen teamed up wit]
Republican Aldermen Jac
Cavanagh and Robert Nor
thington Jr. to press for mor
black and Republican appoint
ments to the boards.
In 1978, Burke says, th
aldermen passed a resolutio
making it city policy to appoir
more minorities to the boards.
Still, there have been problem
and she cites the Insurance A?
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visory Commission as an exarr
pie.
"From the time I First looke
at that particular board, I wj
told at that time we don't ha\
any minorities which can fill thi
bill," she says.
"Thwp'c a lot of tallr ahont th
expert, but I feel the board coul
have better representation. I'i
sure we have black people wh
work for insurance compani<
who are qualified."
As for the Tourism Develo]
ment Authority, she says si
moved for a "no consideration
vote when Corpening present*
the aldermen with his list <
recommended appointments.
"I said, without any hesit
tion, that there are credible pe<
pie who can serve on these boar<
and commissions among black
females and other minorities."
The basic problem, she say
isn't the appointment process
much as the lack of will to rig]
the situation.
"I have always felt that in ai
situation, ... (the difficulty) is tl
c
y i.uai
ice lags F,om,
will to do it."
Black North Ward Alderman
Larry Little says, "I don't know
of any area where 1 think the
black number is what it ought to
be."
But, he adds, "I'm not just
concerned with having black
faces on a board if they aren't going
to do something."
He says there have been some
instances where the mayor proposed
appointing blacks and he
opposed the appointments.
"I think that black is a state of
mind," h^jsaid. "There are some
'Negroes' on these boards. I'm
not hungup on black faces, I'm
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we've put some people on there
who are not doing the job, black 1
and white." i
Little says the city is afflicted '
by what he calls the "revolving <
Negro syndrome," where the
same black people serve on ]
various boards - city and private
? and that as a result, these black
board members are stretched too
thinly and don't accomplish i
much. <
Simply appointing blacks will <
not solve the problems facing the
city's black and white communities,
he says.
"There have been some in- <
, stances where 1 feel the white
representatives have been more
concerned about the needs of
black people than the blacks
have."
He says the problem of black
underrepresentation on city
boards isn't simply Corpening's
i fault.
Black aldermen should look
for qualified black appointees
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not just their own wards. "I
don't think all blacks should
J come from the East Ward or the
t North Ward," he said. "There
' needs to be some geographical
> balance."
* He cautions that appointing
5 blacks to the various boards
r won't solve some problems,
either. "The boards are legally
e advisory bodies," he says, "not
y final arbiters of power. The
Board of Aldermen are the final
s arbiters."
Similarly, Newell says the
mayor knows what the aldermen
1 will allow and won't allow,
e "If the mayor hasn't done
s what we wanted him to do, we
J haven't approved his appointe
ment," she says. "Now, the
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nayor will generally use some
nethod to get blacks. After we let
lim know that we meant
msiness, he has been pretty fair
ibout getting blacks on these
>oards.
"I don't think he had much
:hoice," she says. "1 think it
refusing to approve his appointnents)
has happened about twice
iince we have been down there,
le's not going to let it happen
TUlCh."
The basic solution to the problem
of low representation, she
>ays, is two-fold. First, the city
leeds to make a greater effort tc
use the pool of black expertise
which already is available.
Second, she says, is that the
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more economic opportunities
which would bring highly
qualified blacks into Winston
Salem ? increasing the pool oi
potential black appointees.
"It's on those commissions
where you gain expertise," sh<
says, "and if you don't serve or
those commissions, you don't ge
expertise to bring to the blac)
community."
Blacks have always been con
sumers, she notes, but they hav<
sufficient resources now to pro
duce and market goods and ser
vices, as well. She says the cit]
needs a black savings and loan in
stitution to help lure some of th<
nation's best trained an<
educated blacks to the area
When that happens, findini
qualified blacks with the time t<
serve on city boards should b
less difficult.
"I think the problems we a
blacks face, we have to initial
the solutions ourselves. I don'
think we should look to whites U
solve our problems for us."
Listed below are the city
appointed boards and commis
sions, their total number o
members in parentheses and thei
percentage of black represents
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members) ? 33.3 percent., . >1,
Firemen's Relief Fund ^
members) ? 20 percent.
Cable Advisory Committt
(15 members) -- 40 percent.
Citizens' Budget Advisor
Committee (9 members) -- 33.
percent.
City-County Planning Boar
(9 members, city appointed 5, ir
eluding 1 black) - 22.2 percent.
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Commission (11 members) ? 27.1
percent.
Fairgrounds Commission (9
members) ? 22.2 percent.
City-County Emergency
Management Advisory Council
(12 members, city appointed six,
including two black males) ? 25
percent.
Tourism Development
i Authority (9 members) - 22.2
percent.
Historic District Commission
* (5 members) ? 0.0 percent.
Historic Properties Commis
sion (9 members) ? 22.2 percent.
J Housing Task Force (12
members) -- 50 percent.
J Insurance Advisory Commit5
tee (8 members) ? 8.3 percent.
? Recreation and Parks Commission
(10 members) ? 30 percent.
f Sports Commission (7
members) ? 42.7 percent.
5 City-County Utility Commis
5 sion (11 members) ? 18 percent.
\ Development Advisory Comt
mission (7 members) - 28.4 perc
cent.
City Retirement Commission
(10 members, city appointed 2
? white males and 1 black male) 10
percent.
Winston-Salem Transit
y Authority (8 members) ? 25 percent.
e City-County Transportation
J Advisory Committee (12 v
members, city appointed 1 black
I female, 1 white male and 1 white
3 female) -- 16.6 percent,
e Zoning Board of Adjustments
(13 members) - 30.6 percent
s . black.
e Human Relations Commission
t (21 members, including 7 white
3 males, 3 black males, 5 white
females, 5 black females and 1
Greek male) ? 38 percent.
- Citizens' Budget Advisory
i- Committee (9 members) ? 33.3
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