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and reinstating a police
cadet program at Forsyth
Technical' Community
College.
City Council Member
lames Taylor, who chairs
the public safety commit
tee, said that there was a
community . roundtable
held recently to address the
increased violence. As a
result of participants' sug
ty value, contains a 2 per
cent supplemental raise
next January for firefighter
and police officers.
The re're additional raises
for police officers with five
to 15 years of service to
address attrition issues.
All other employees
receive a 3 percent market
adjustment. Thera're also
merit-pay raises of 15 per
"1 don't believe that as a
city we can talk about
dealing with issues of
poverty if we don't take the
first steps."
-Darwin Montgomery, City Council Member
gestions, the city increased
its funding of the Urban
League Summer Youth
Employment Program and
Successful Outcomes After
Release (SOAR) grants.
The two "no" votes on
the budget were City
Council Members Robert
Clark and Jeff Macintosh.
Clark felt the budget tried
to do too much by hiring
30 new positions while
raising pay. It tried to do
everything while not
accomplishing those things
as well as it should, he
said.
Macintosh said that he
was "very happy" with
"long overdue" pay
increases for employees.
But he said he felt the final
budget, which eliminated
new two data analyst posi
tions, emphasized "bodies
over technology," which
makes the city less com
petitive.
The other City Council
members were supportive
of the budget, but said it
was the first in a series of
steps to deal with city
worker pay. Among its pro
visions, it increases the
minimum city employee
wage to $11 an hour. The
budget also contains a
three-year study on city
compensation and increas
ing the minimum wage to
$15 within five years.
"I don't believe that as
a city we can talk about
dealing with issues of
poverty if we don't take the
first steps," said City
Council Member Derwin
Montgomery.
The budget, which
? increases property taxes by
2 cents per $100 of proper
cent to 3 percent for all city
employees. The city will
also be initiating a 401(a)
supplemental retirement
plan with a 2 percent con
tribution by the city.
Among the new posi
tions in the budget is the
first of three fire safety
inspectors to be hired over
the next three years that
will eliminate the need for
firefighters to do fire code
inspections. The budget
provides money for
increased demand for
TransAid and Stormwater
Management services,
funds the change in
Winston-Salem Transit
Authority bus routes and
provides money for major
Recreation and Parks
maintenance.
It provides more than
$2 million in grants for
nonprofits like The
Shepherd's Center,
Experiment in Self
Reliance, HARRY
Veterans Services,
SciWorks, National Black
Theatre Festival and the
Arts Council.
During the public
comment session, several
residents expressed con
cerns about whether East
Winston would get an
equitable amount of the
budget, saying they felt the
area has been neglected in
economic development
and in its recreation cen
ters. A representative of
Whole Man Ministries also
appealed to the city for
funding. The nonprofit,
which houses homeless
veterans with its Homes 4
Our Heroes program, was
denied its $25,000 grant
request in this budget.
Federal appellate court questions 2013 voter ID
BY CASH MICHAELS
FOR THE CHRONICLE
While a federal judge in
Winston-Salem last April
decided that that there was
nothing about North
Carolina's 2013 voter ID
law that should keep
African-Americans or oth
ers from lawfully casting
their ballots, a three-judge
federal panel Tuesday was
n't so sure
Based on remarks and
questions coming from that
panel of the U.S. Fourth
Circuit of Appeals, attor
neys for the N.C. NAACP
"... feel very good about
our case and the evidence
which we presented," attor
ney Irving Joyner, chair
man of the N.C. NAACP's
Legal Redress Committee
says. "We clearly hope that
the Fourth Circuit will
reverse the District Court's
[April 25th] decision ...
From there, it is on to the
[U.S.] Supreme Court, no
matter what the outcome
is."
Attorneys for the state
claim chat the 2013 voting
restrictions were necessary
to stop voting fraud.
The N.C. NAACP and
other plaintiffs appealed to
the US. Fourth Circuit to
fast-track a stay of a federal
judge's April 25th ruling
dismissing their lawsuit
against Gov. Pat McCrory
and the Republican-led
N.C. General Assembly for
their passage of the 2013
voter ID law until all other
appeals have been exhaust
ed. The original suit
charged that the 2013 law
violated the constitutional
rights of black voters. The
appeal sought to "... keep
in place this Court's prior
injunction forbidding
Defendants from eliminat
ing same-day registration
and refusing to count out
of-precihct provisional bal
lots" in addition to keeping
in place the portion of the
law that reduced the early
voting period by a week.
The voter photo identi
fication requirement began
in earnest during the March
15 primary. Unless the fed
era] appellate court rules
otherwise, the voter ID pro
vision will be in force for
the Nov. 8 general election
as well.
Based on the evidence
presented, members of the
three-judge panel openly
questioned the timing of
the Legislature passing the
2013 voter ID law, with
one judge, Henry F. Floyd,
saying that the intent to
suppress the votes of peo
ple of color "... looks pret
ty bad to me."
Another appellate court
judge, James A. Wynn,
questioned why certain
types of government-issued
photo identification, like
public university or public
assistance ID cards, were
disallowed. Judge Wynn
once served on the N.C.
Court of Appeals.
There was no word on
when the three-judge panel
would issue its decision,
even though it could, per
the petition of the N.C.
NAACP, the League of
Women Voters and other
plaintiffs, order that the
voter photo ID requirement
not be implemented for the
November 8 general elec
tion.
"... Plaintiffs believe
they have a likelihood of
success on the merits on
this claim and that voters
will be irreparably harmed
if the photo ID requirement
is in effect in the November
2016 presidential election,"
the appeal reads. "Plaintiffs
believe that if and when
they prevail on the photo
ID claim, implementation
of the Court's order will be
straightforward and simple:
the requirement will simply
fall away and voters will no
longer be asked to show
photo ID at the polls in
order to vote."
However, as attorney
Joyner noted, there's little
doubt that attorneys for
Gov. McCrory and the
Legislature would appeal
such a ruling to the U.S.
Supreme Court, seeking an
injunction to halt any dis
ruption of the 2013 law.
The Winston-Salem Police Department has released the
following information on the 14 homicide victims so far in
2016. The information appears in this order: order of
homicide, date of homicide, name of victim, race, age
and status of case.
1. 02-06-16 Victim: Robert Bradford Hall, white male,
34 years of age. Cleared by arrest on 02-11 -2016.
2. 03-30-16 Victim: Jackie Wayne Cross, white male,
58 years of age. Cleared by arrest on 06-02-2016.
3. 04-02-16 Victim: Jonathan Kyron Williams,
black male, 25 years of age. Cleared as self- defense.
4. 04-07-16 Victim Nakia Laurence Paupaw, black
male, 40 years of age. Cleared by arrest on 04-07-16.
5. 04-13-16 Victim: Doris Lovell Caldwell, black fe
male, 53 years of age. Cleared as self-defense.
6. 04-16-16 Victim: Jeremy Aslaih Johnson, black
male, 25 years of age. Cleared by arrest on 04-20-16.
7. 04-30-16 Victim: Joshua Bernard Brown, black
male, 27 years of age. Cleared by arrest on 06-09-16.
8. 05-25-16 Victim: Eric Jermane Pegues, black male,
41 years of age. Cleared by arrest on 05*29-16.
9. 05-26-16 Victim: Jonathan Russell McCravey,
black male, 28 years of age. Open Investigation.
10.06-07-16 Victim: Kedrlck Leonard White, black
male, 44 years of age. Open Investigation.
11.06-10-26 Victim: Vierl Levan Banks Jr., black
male, 44 years of age. Cleared by arrest on 06-11 -16.
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12. 06-15-16 Victim: lyrone Smith, black male, 58
years of age. Cleared by arrest on 06-15-16.
13. 06-17-16 Victim: Steven Richard Salsman, white
male, 37 years of age. Open Investigation.
14. 06-17-16 Victim: Meghann Rae Stubbs, white fe
male, 34 years of age. Cleared by arrest on 06-17-16.
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