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ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER CECIL BROVVN, gJJf JW"l UOmtfftml ,ml Clears Way For Road :'' ;' it.'';'1' ' mmmii ' m iVi UNDER THE CITY'S PLAN, most of this community will be rehabilitated and protected from the construction of the East-West Expressway that was one time slated to cut through this community, destroying it. PfcalM ky Wm Ma;rkM nrougn NeignDornooa By Milton Jordan The Crest Street Com munity has been saved. Maybe. Recently," local government, officials and the residents of the Crest Street community work ed out a tentative plan that will move more than fifty. : residents of the community from the new load's pathway to new Expressway do the same thing to us it had done to Hayti." . . r . To stop the highway construction from I destroying . - their, neighborhood, and fore- ing residents ton be? relocated all over the d-; Jty, Crest Street people resort housing program that means homeowners can get the difference between thc value of theirr, house,' and' the market value i of a com parable . house, v Under mumty, within the com income and market rent for up to four years. , Tn Hpvptnn fhe nld Hkkstown School, cur Milton Jordan any way he wants, rently owned by Duke J North Carolina's Over the next three University and used for educational, human :,$fcrK! weeks, vNorth Carolina storage, for elderly hbus- ves1- and community citizens get a chance to this ! program, '-iHMA ' 'i- aeve'opment programs suggest ways that tne homeowner will have toiv The city has also pro-mut Sliced now from money should be spent pay higher mortgage ymised to develop a park tnsamcoasic poi i uunng sra i puwk nestings on mc Diaii Orants question. . Block Grant Hearings SetFor Maleigh March 25 wentiocourUTheyjsk ed to be moved as a con-i currently paying. An0,;; realign, ' streets! provide f Pr? , $. Jf jne home The v relatively -'.new .Breakthrough, or the ci arid rehabilitated homesn grantrogranva wvthjtheMde-crf-h community. . ( vM .40':: .aVOlfl completely ..yjtltc program,;'? The program;- f, is destroying the communi-"'f The. lasso'ihdvnicpmhiinHy r ,- a i ,f iwial 4 T . w',.. ... !nwrlnl ' ktt.fia' mr ' unntc ti hoar what ACCClf si ':f?i: estimated to cost about tyU They won the courtprogram : IsO; ' - gives if-Cementation of the, renters .'in air lerencev nm;, ..k-.. is nrn?riim flne ? between 25 of their.het iComiriucd bri ?iit:2rA lMWS!!f. $3.7 million ith the state's Department of Transportation ; paying about 65V of the cost, and the City of Durham paying about 35V. , And though the so called "mitigation" con cept 1 the " idea of relocating people as an intact community recently received City Council approval, there , are several key elements of the plan that are not firm. , ' According to Assistant City Manager Cecil Brown, at least two ma jor features of the com prehensive, unique and rather complex reloca tion plan must still be! worked out. "The developer of the Section 8 housing units in the project must work out the permanent finan cing for these units," Brown said, "and we stilt must find ; a developer and secure financing , for these units," Brown said, "and we still must find a developer and secure financing. for renovation of the, old Hickstown School into elderly hous ing." 'V - ,' -i , . And, "according to Willie Patterson, presi dent of the Crest Street Community Council, the city and the state must complete the community relocation ' . , and rehabilitation -- . plan within three years, or the community . will , take them back to court, ' : The Crest Street pro posal dissolves a logger; jam that stopped the East-West Expressway in its tracks more than four .years . ago..' .The-1 Ex pressway r a type ? of case in 1978, and the last four years have been spent trying to work out a plan that both sides can buy. ' ; The proposed plan as it 'rfow stands sets the following goals: To move houses that can be rehabilitated out of the expressway right of-way to r the western side of the . project, rehabilitate them and move residents in. To build 45 apart ' ments in the community -that can then be rented to residents under the federal Section 8 pro- gram. The Section 8 pro gram limits a resident's rental payments to 25 Vq of net income, and sub sidizes the difference bet ween lhat and the actual price xf the unit. For ex ample, if a resident's 257 is $150, and the apartment rents for $300, the Section 8 pro gram pays , $150 per month., ' - v To put the communi ty' under the federal last man) j.hnivVi.nr. mHaij v v &nd fttf GWcrnaru with" Legislative approval, can almost; tii :', jf " ft i V i V ML O Jh few' "' ' - ' very important oecause in ., some programs the state's governor-has,. a great deal of leeway in "ffft , -s.-r. : .... -f1 . .''' have to register between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the school. The hear ing will include a general session, and four smaller sessions on each of the four programs covered by block grants. The areas are: human resources, education. ty.. or county, govern-- community aeveiopmeni ments:. A State Otttaat anq uuminisirHuvc. prw- nor wants to hear what -Accoruing iu - nc citizens r think , before Raleigh spokesman, the makinir decisions in - hearings will continue as "determining how that money is spent. For ex ample, in most . com munity development grants, the governor can decide if the money will go to a non-profit agen cy, such as Durham's. Ope ration those areas where he has leeway. The public hearing for this area will be held at 7:30- p.m., Thursday, March 25, at the Leroy Martin, Junior High. School, 1701 Ridge Road, Raleigh, Accor ding to a spokesman for the Governor's Commit tee on Citizens Affairs, who is coordinating the public . bearing series, Leroy Martin Jr. High is near the corner of Ridge ; Road : and Lake Boone Trail, less than a half mile from the Raleigh ' Beltline. " If you want to speak at the public hearing, you lona as people wanr to discuss the issue, within reason. The spokesman said state officials expect by the ' time the hearings begin to have a firmer picture of ! how much money the state will get in federal block grants during the next fiscal year, beginning October 1. This year, the state took an across-the-board 25Vo cut in ' federal money under the new block grant law. (. For more information about the hearings, con tact the Governor's Committee on Citizen Affairs, (919) 733-2391. City Affirmative Action Plan To Be 1 Un veiled April . y ; James Odom (left) and Ace Artis kelp with the unloading of nearly 30.CC0 Unloading ChCCSC pounds of government snrplnt, cheese for Durham County this week at the' Durham County Social Services Department. ntosaMwfkM Operation BrGakthrough Sauod For Nrjw , By Donald Alderman j O p c r a t i o n : Breakthrough will live ; another year because the agency recently , got $500,000 from the new state block grant , pro gram. The grant saves the agency from bankruptcy.- '! "We'd , have had to shut this agency down," said Fred McNeill, Jr.. executive director, "had we not hurried to com inner-city loop designed , plcte our proposal.',' to relieve most or the traffic congestion in West Durham, and to, , move traffic across town ; without !, having to go ; through dpwntowa, rip ped through Hayti and; was -; poised .to - knife 'through the Crest Street community. - " The residents rebelled. "We didn't oppose the Knowing that the agency's funding would be reduced, the problem 1 wasn't funding " itself, McNeill said, but when the money was going to arrive. ' Funding uncertainty arose partly because of the tranMton from direct federal funding to fun ding, through the State prove budget -appropriations for fiscal year 1982. The , federal fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30. Recently, . however, Congress v approved a $348 million national, block grant program that3 reflected a 25V across-the-board : cut inr that type Of funding, accor ding to a spokesman in the Office of Manage ment and Budget. V With that funding ap-, proved,' North Carolina McNeill said when he received notice from the state .budget office February 8 that $557,633 had been made available, only ten days separated the agency from survival or bankruptcy. "Wc had until February 18 to prepare, submit and get approved a spending approval,' McNeill said, "or close the doors." : The . agency's ad- ministraiivc personnel hurried to put together a funding proposal. The signed Breakthrough. ' All programs, McNeill said, that arc authorized under thc: community services state block grant its progress couldn't be effectively monitored. Through eighteen neighborhood councils, the program was a forum By Donald Alderman By the time the City Council gets the city's 1981 Affirmative Action progress report , it 'will be two months late. . , City Manager Barry L. Del Cast ilho said Tues day that the report is usually submitted to the council in January. It is late this year because of a backlog of work, in cluding such projects as ; the CrestStreet negotia lions, night, bus service. Downtown, and Hayti becomes a habit, the council may , have . to change the reporting process. : '' "It's been an unusual . year in terms of several major issues that have taken much of the city manager's time," said Councilman Paul ,Vick. "But if it becomes a con tinual kind of thing, then we need to look at possi ble changes." Councilman Chester Jenkins said: "It (the report) should not take arc hew with the exeep- for, community residents lions of Crisis Interven- to discuss development development and capital second place to any other tion, an energy assistance program, and the cannery, a service that, helps residents pro cess and can fruits and vegetables. The new programs arc Consumer Education, Adult Employment of neighborhood-based libraries, day care centers and nutrition projects. The Head Start pro , gram serves about 300 pre-school children ages . 3-5, ottering educational ' inform citizens on , and emotional develop- progress ' the city expressway per sc.- said Block Cirant program, Patterson, "but we and because it took so didn't want to see the i long for Congress to ap- Kot its money from the federal government, and, contract , was. Operation Breakthrough. February 19. got its money from the . Although the anti state. - poverty agency ' 'which When fiscal '8 i erided serves .about 20.000 September 30, McNeill Durham . County said, the agency operated residents annually has from unexpended the ' money to survive balances and a $70,000 another , year, it will transition grant made operate from less money, available by the CSA therefore, the communi before its "programs were . ty will get reduced ser transferred to the states. - vices from Skills ' and Youth mcnt . to children from Tutorial. v 1 ' low-income :. homes. Operation ' ' Special programs for Breakthrough also pro- children that are emdr vides a weatherization; tionally and - physically , program funded by the handicapped are also of- Department or Energy fered improvement plans. A final draft is being prepared now, Del Castilho said, and he ex pects to have it ready to give to the council's com mil tee-of-t he-whole at its meeting April 1 . ; The annual report is to. the ad ministration is making on reaching the city s af- issue. the public should know even if it means delegating .. ' respon sibilities to other person nel." '. .' ' Cojuncilmen Maceo Sloan and Vick said twelve months is" a reasonable amount of time to prepare the report, r? - '' " Until 1979, the affir-" mative action ad- firmative action goals ministrator prepared the pursuant to the amr- progress report. But that mative action policy year's report was given adopted by ' the City , to the press the same day Council in 1977, Accor- it was given to the citv The weatherization ding to the 1979 and the. manager, which raised program, designed to 1 980 report s that werei the city manager's reduce home heal loss, .-; submitted in : JanuaryJ brows. When ? Del and . therefore reduce the city has achieved Castilho took office in electric bills, includes in- .limited w success in, 1980, replacing Dearr sulating attics and walls,' .reaching those goals, Hunter, he decided that. Neighborhood Develop-.and replacing broken -; Several . councilman the city manager Should ment program becausei (Continued on Page 2).r ;said if a late report j ' (Continued on page 2) and a Head Start pro gram funded by ; the Department of ; Health and Human Services. 1 McNeill said the state wouldn't approve OBl's it
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