Powell Says Freeze Ma On Thursday, Augat 24, expect from 12 to as many City Manager OrviUe H, as 100 complaints dependPowell visited the Chronicle in8 on what kinds of things office* for Q&A Interview. we have happening. The Powell has been city ma- last couple of weeks have nager for five years. been kind of slow. 1 don't know whether it's because Q. Give as an overview of People are on vacation or what the citizens can expect vvhat,>ut I thought maybe from city government da- my phones been out of Ing the balance of the fiscal orderyear? 0? anY given day, especially following any major A. Ws've got a pretty rimsinn, I'll hrar frnni t Inl ??naive praarsm of swiese Q* this year. As far as the can almost always on any normal services citizens ex- maj?r decision count on a -JufSBIzmSZin- In- a--job *hose who are in favor; you fra a | inct Uoi>a v"" ?U 11 y m || we S B V C J 11B T W LU AddUlll^ Ul^l V $200,000 and depending on a? some folks who are in where the vacancies occur, agreement with that. that might cause some service levels to drop, but I Q- How many black* do you doubt if it will be too aee In a week'a time? noticeable. That job freeze will have A. It s hard to say. to last at least six months and probably the full year. Q* y?u f??' that you and IThe first month, it saved your top administrator* get $18.000. whiph is not gwjutto Inpot from the enough. If we don't do black community? better than that we won't be able to meet the payroll A. Well, I think the black come the end of May or community is a better judge june of that than we are. If I We going to have to hold though we didn't, we'd try _ more positions open. Yet anc* something about it. that's tough because a lot ?ut y?u n?ver know for of the postions we have are sure- I think our black emergency positions, ftldcimcn will certainly lrt= We've got to keep opirSZTl,llknow ^ they think I'm tions like Ihe water plant na^getting- proper input. ^and the sewage treatment ?ut? again, unless someopen. They've got to have thing is bothering folks at a operators. If you have va- particular time, you norcancies there, you've got to ma^y don * hear from fill them. " them. If you touch their You've got to keep a pocketbook or something certain level of fire and like that* y?u're 8oin8 t0 police protection. So it's hear plenty. going to be tough to save the $200,000 but we've got Q? ^ aldermen have to do it. made some pretty strong Of course the community "tatemenU about yon. At development program will one point, It wm reported not be affected. None of ^ aaked you to resign, your federally-funded pro- W*1** |? the basis of that? grams, which really make up most of the city's bud- * Quite frankly don't get will. It's only those know- ^ came as a surprise operations funded by the because jus* a week or so general - property tax. bef?rc?-they had expressed That's basically your tradi- satisfaction when j?wastional ones-fire, police, ^nsideringjhfrFort^Woithsanitation and streets. i?b anc* ^ey ^ave als? expressed to me that the Q. Describe for us a typical article cast a different light day In the office for Orvllle than what they meant, they Powell? weren't so upset that they really wanted me to resign. A. Really, there's not such a-thing-as-a-typical day^-Q*-^^ didn't they come IThat's what makes the job right out and say that? pretty interesting. Since we have so many different A. Well, they came out and kinds of operations, you sa^ ^ anc* ^en Mrs. never reallv auite know IBurke said in a newspaper what's going to go wrong ar*icle, "Did I really say on any given day. But you that. Mrs. Newell has can almost always count on ^certainly indicated that something going astray. s^e didn't mean that. So, I In a tvnical dav. I can ^on * know. LWhen you t: ,, 1 Or/ EXISTING ! JQffl I:-*:#::::::::- i ^/v.'v: , . A PROPOSED , v | | EXPANSION | | t X?yi - -?T g CC LiJ -J _J 21 v|| a '"** 4~ !?!? ? --n -n^"? frn een changed as tor, which was a position of this date. recommended by the citi ' zen's committee on public Q. How are you dealing safety. with the promotion of A1 Beaty as assistant dty Q. So, In this case, you've manager although he's also lost positions but you Mwyln nn? Mm nlH haven't lost the people. ln~ penoimej director? A. That's the situation until M , we get through this job I I I / iv' freeze. A1 Beaty has the ' - ' same position I had when I A I was assistant city manager, K I in charge of all staff operations. , Byr 1Q. How do you explain that In terms of other promotions that have been made- This world in which we If a position held by a black ijVe is never static...new Is not going to be filled, ideas, new methods, new then why were some other items come thick and fast, positions filled? To learn to live gracefully with changes, to examine, A. Any staff function will ponder, weed out the good be frozen. That's the kind from the bad, to move with of thing we can get along the times is vital if we are to without as opposed to make living - a -success, tors or water plaint^operas changes, and initiaTF them tors or sanitation workers, as well. That trash has got to get picked up. IWe can double ^ is too easy to stay up on staff functions for a w^hin our own small ruts, ^whfle' doing the same things, seeing the same paople, Q. How do you explain the 8oin8the same places. This three -promotion* you re- *rend of life demands nocently made? thin8 from us? asking only that we accept and make A. Reassignments. changes for progress, and of course progress brings Q. Realignments. problems. Change demands much A. The story never really of us' but if we are t0 got out on that as much as improve, to grow, to mawe tried to get it out. I ture' we must meet its actually 1o?t nncitmnc in demands, no matter how : - * ? difficult they may seem at W Street Proje f Block West Beginning Sept. 5, work will begin to improve the city's busiest intersection-Five. Points West--where First Street, Miller Street, Country Club Road and North and South Stratford roads converge. Motorists are requested to avoid the intersection by seeking alternate routes whenever possible while work is in progress. Regular work on the project will be Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m.- 5:30 p.m. Icrews will also do some lSaturday v work the same hours. Motorists sometimes will experience delays of sever...' aJ minutes and one-way \ > traffir dnrino nnn-nnh hours, 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. ^ Delays will be most prevalent as dirt is hauled on trucks from the south side * of South Stratford Road across the intersection to fill in the east side of North 1 .V". " 1 ' ' ' ? * * ?? r " T" > ative Actic the case of a black, you've that savings. got the position but you've That's the kind of bind, lost a body. Instead of the kind of thing we tried to having four blacks in top explain to the aldermen, level positions, you now I've abeen losing positions, have three. * You can't lose positions on a very steady workforce, we A. It's pure economics. I've have very little turnover OAA ns\r\ ? ? * gui mvc jzw.uw or noi ana expect to dot much. make the payroll. Some I've asked for training positions have to be frozen, positions, where we could And just because a black bring people along. But of held a position doesn't course, you can't do that mean that position is a witnaur Q. So you're between a rock Q. Bat In view of the * hard place. I woTij -di^^h>'-ih\i-ttTt^tiappeiv to You see, I've got a me* Why didn't this hap-~ number of things working P611 before I became maagainst me. I've been in a nager? I don't know how job freeze--I was in a job lasting lthis feeling of refreeze for 18 months. We duced governmental exgot out for six months and penditures is going to be. It they put me right back into could have an effect where a job freeze. . I can't hire I'd lose even more jobs. , people and save money by When you have a very keeping positions open. Of s*able work force like we the two, which is the more ^ave and you've got to have important. - an expanding workforce to Well,, to me, the more do much in the way of important is to insure that I affirmative action, or the meet the payroll come May positions just aren't there and June for the employes otherwise. we've got on board. lUntil we get $200,000 saved, I'm Q- Another complaint we not sure I can meet that 8e* regarding affirmative payroll. So, I've got to hold la that moat of the vacant every position I can blacka employed in dty hrYM varflnT Unfit u/a opt ei IIIIIHIll Alt 1ft tfc? de? ceptance M hange C^L ^aomiC. McLean Business Writer the time. And, in return, tice of the everyday qualities we will learn to live as which are considered. Step people should..honestly, by step we can accept open-mindedly, bravely- changes, and step by step, and joyously. we can initiate them. The person who is hard to The growth of a business satisfy moves foreward, is a sign of progress, and and ready for changes, progress always brings The person who sits back changes. It's up to the comfortably and is contentexecutive who wants - tQ_Led?with what he has aesucceed^ to- adapt_ him^or- complished moves backherself to new methods, -ward, and he doesn't want new circumstances, new to think about changes, people. How you accept therefore he doe^y't con?L them is a measure of your tinue progressing. stature as a person, reali- We are all progressing or zing a self-confident execu- retrogressing all the time. tive or person generally To progress, we have to be speaking accepts changes discontented with what we as a challenge and a chance are now doing and the way to grow. The real fact, we are doing it. REalizing change is the order of the we are discontented, we day and the one thing we begin thinking about know very well about to- changes we want to make morrow, next month and for growth and progress. It next year, all will be dif- is then we think of new ferent. ideas and methods to enBeneath all changes lies' able us to live gracefully in the force of character an a world which is never understanding and a prac- static. ct To End Traffic LStratford Road. " By Mrs. Dan Gerber From about Sept. 20 to Many health experts are Oct. -20, North Stratford concerned about tooth decay ? . r ~ , in young children. To protect Road from Country Club your baby's teeth, avoid using Road to Runnymeade Road a bottle as a pacifier at nap or will be closed completely to bedtime. Prolonged contact ? of baby teeth with juice (or trarric. formula) can promote dental caries. If the bottle remains in the From about Dec. 1 to baby's mouth, the saliva canDec. 15. traffic will be not neutralize juice acidity, detoured around the part of ean harm tooth South Stratford Road that Let me reassure you there is approaches the intersec- * Plac* for juice in a baby's - diet, uerber strained juices tlOITr~, are an important source of "The major part of the vitamin C and are naturallywork "that will slow down sweet. After the child is 6 to . 8 weeks old, juices may be traffic should be finished by fe(j from a bottle or trainChristmas, and the whole ing cup Remember that project is scheduled to be y?ur child should be .n an uPr J ,, right position when eating or completed by June, 1979, drinking said A1 Ray of the city's r??? Engineering Division. I |P r ?l . Compare! Drlstan* Tablets ^Jq Wdllt tO do H relieve more colds i miseries than Comae Of Asoirin rn?;?t?:?n ' West 3rd. Winston-Sa ui Hojiiim. Omia- Conuc A$0>"r ?. ^ ^ICLS.,,. / \ A Thfuway Shopping Cem ~i^T, 1 / I / 1 * P?"?w?y Plaza . Parkv, ! | / ' ! / 1 * Kerneravllle ? Boone /* >n Difficult S> A Orville Howell. pertinents that are federal- most of the blacks are ly funded? falling Into you federal category? A. Well, I don't know. I don't have a break out like A. Because that's where that. your job, your personnel expansion has been. We Q. For instance, Hainan adding there. But in your Services.,. f\ traditional areas, where y you don't have much turnWelt, HuimurServices is over and you don't have primarily black. We treat much expansion, you don't _ federally funded employes have much room. different th*n most Umm ?We bring them in ay pen ?u ?.?? ? ITUVU tfMMI WW ?Wf HHM manent employes. We get yon mIiaed M opportunity our money from so many to promote another black different ways that if we w|thln dty governstarted setting up and sli- -mW|* cing off and saying 'Well now, we pay out of Powell A j didn.t think x had Bill funds from the stateL so another black in this oryou re a state employe . ganization this high who We bring all the reve- was rea(jy for a promotion. nues in and put them in a i don>t think l do anybody pool and fund our opera- any good if Heel they really tions from them and we ean>t hand,e , job You\e don't classify people as got the person's dissatisstate employes or federal factionD you've got the employes. organization's dissatisfaction and I'll guarantee Q. 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