East Winston CDC opens apartment complex
By SAMANTHA McKENZIE
Chroaide Staff Writer
After one year of long hard
work and dedication, the Thirty-Six
East Multi-Family Housing Devel
opment held its dedication ceremo
ny to celebrate its grand opening
Wednesday.
The Thirty-Six East Multi
Family Housing Development is an
umbrella project of the East Win
ston Community Development Cor
poration which began renovating
the delapidated apartments located
at 1821 Cleveland Avenue.
Twelve of the 36 two-bedroom
apartments were opened yesterday
and the remaining units are sched
uled to be finished by July 31,
according to Project Manager and
Director Lynda P. McNeil.
"I'm glad it's a reality," said
McNeil.
The $1.2 million rehabilitation
project is the CDC's first housing
project as part of the groups mission
to revitalize the East Winston com
munity.
'This has been a lot of hard
work and dedication from all who
participated. I'm just glad we can
actually start moving people in," ,
said McNeil, who credits the com
munity and the city for making the
development a reality.
According to McNeil, Glendale
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Photo by Mike Cunningham
Pro)ect manager and director of the Thirty-Six East Multi-Family Housing Development, Lynda P.
McNeil takes a look at the newly renovated apartments before the grand opening on Wednesday.
Reed, a handicapped resident will on the development of the residents "Not only will this develop
be the first person to occupy one of through a Resident Education Pro- ment improve the appearance of the
the units. gram. community, it will give the people a
The two-bedroom apartments McNeil said she was also happy sense of pride. It just makes me feel
were designed to house low-income that the ievitalization has improved good that we were able to do some
people and will be rented at $270 the outlook on Cleveland Avenue thing (for the community)," she
per unit The project will also focus and enhanced community spirit added.
Budget puts
lose their jobs. We already have a
lot of people not working and we
know minorities will be more
effected by these cuts more than
anyone else." At least 50 people,
including teachers with picket signs
and children from the Special Chil
dren's School, crammed the board
room to see how they would be
affected by the board's decision.
"I'm just' in shock. I can't
believe they can sit there at look in
the faces of those children and still
vote to cut funds for them," said
Parmon, referring to the disabled
children from the Special Children's
School that attended the meeting.
"How can we be so pennywise
and dollar foolish. l ean t support a .
budget that is saying we are going
backwards in education and laying
people off," Parmon said.
Reynolds Health Center Direc
tor Dennis Macgovem said it will
be hard to decide what positions
will be cut after losing 14 positions
with last year's budget. "It's really
frustrating for us. We don't know
what's actually going to occur.
We're trying not to cut any positions
that provide a direct patient-care
service," said Macgovern, anticipat
ing that seven positions will need to
be eliminated. Macgovem said that
more than likely physicians, nurses
and licensed practical nurses are
positions they will try to preserve.
County Commissioner John
Holleman, who worked with Par
mon and Woodruff to design two
budget proposals ? both which
were rejected ? said increasing
fees and the tax-rate clearly offered
an alternative to eliminating jobs.
"I'm strongly opposed to any
further cuts to the staff," said Holle
man. Holleman's plan restored the
original 38 positions recommended
to be cut by the county manager's
office. It also restored monies for
health services, education and out
side agencies. Linville's plan cut
$500,000 from schools, and some
social service agencies.
But earnest cries from Holle
man, Woodruff and Parmon fell on
deaf ears. Woodruff told the board
t^ft if jobs were eliminated the
county would pay for it eventually.
"It's pay me now or pay me
. That's what the citizens of this
community are saying now. If we
begin to lay people off, eventually
we are going to see them some
where else on our tax roll. We're
just cutting off our noses to spite
our faces," said Woodruff.
Some critized the board's adop
tion of the property tax-rate at 71.25
cents on each $100 of assessed
value. Linville and his supporters
said he received many phone calls
from citizens who did not support a
tax-rate increase. The current rate is
70 cents. ?The 1.25 cent increase,
which will be effective July 1, will
increase the property rate of a home
valued at $100,000 by $12.50 per
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year. At the 2.8 cent increase, the
same homeowner would pay an
increased property rate of $28. The
county manager's office proposed
the 2.8 cent increase which was
supported by Holleman, Woodruff
and Parmon.
Parmon and Woodruff both
said they would rather have citizens
pay the 2.8 cent increase than elimi
nate jobs and services to those who
are more needy. "I only received
two calls from citizens who didn't
support a property tax increase.
Many citizens realized that if we
wanted to save jobs and services,
that the cost would have to come
from somewhere," said Parmon.
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