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Enabling legislation deserves
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The Twin City’s Award-Winning Weekly
Kaplan proposes change
in enabling legislation
Suggested wording change includes 'employees'
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Related article below.
Not much is being said these days between For
syth’s County’s Democratic and Republican
legislators concerning the city’s otherwise much-
discussed request for “enabling” legislation.
Instead, says state House Rep. Annie Brown
Kennedy, the Democrats discuss it among
themselves, and she thinks the Republicans are do
ing likewise.
But state Sen. Ted Kaplan said Tuesday he has a
proposal that he hopes may change all that.
Adding the word “employees” to the bill may be
enough to calm its Republican opponents, Kaplan
said. In addition, he said, the change might satisfy
majority contractors who also oppose the bill.
The original “enabling” legislation, which would
give the city’s aldermen the right to refuse a low bid
on any publicly financed city contract or purchase
agreement if the bidder doesn’t involve certain
numbers of minority or women subcontractors on
the project, only addresses subcontractors.
Adding the word “employees” gives the bidder
the option to hire a certain number of minorities or
women to fulfill the goals, said Kaplan, thus
creating jobs.
One reason the Republicans say they don’t sup
port the bill is that there aren’t enough local
minority- and women-owned businesses to choose
from. Jobs instead would go to minority- and
women-owned businesses from outside the city,
they say.
His way, local people would still benefit, said
Kaplan.
“I don’t know for sure if this (adding the word
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k aldermen split on coliseum bonds
“I don’t really want to comment on the,
coliseum,” Little said. “Blacks should get a piece
of the action. One group of developers shouldn’t
benefit all the time.”
The legislation Little referred to has been propos
ed in both the state House and the Senate but has
encountered opposition from Republican legislators
and the business community.
Southeast Ward Alderman Larry W. Womble
said in a telephone interview Tuesday that he
couldn’t support the coliseum bonds because of the
possibility of a potential tax increase, the size of the
proposed building and the influence of $4 million
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Little: He’s not surprised
Hunt was denied release
Larry Womble
New YMCA director wastes little time
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
He’s barely had time to recover from jet lag, but
Norman Joyner, the new executive director of the
Patterson Avenue YMCA, soon to become the new
Winston Lake YMCA, is already on the j-o-b.
iJoyner, who came to Winston-Salem from Los
Angeles, started work Monday morning. Sitting in
his neatly organized office on the first day of work,
Joyner talked to the Chronicle about his coming to
Winston-Salem.
“It’s a challenge for me,” said Joyner, the
former associate executive director of the Winegart
Urban Center YMCA of the YMCA of
Metropolitan Los Angeles. “This job provides me
the opportunity to be in an administrative position
and to direct a branch. It provides me with a
challenge to fit my experience with the job.”
Joyner’s first big task will be making the physical
rcfove from the old Patterson Avenue branch to the
new Waterworks Road facility. But Joyner, who
Jias past experience in opening a new branch, hopes
the change will be smooth.
“I’ve had experience in opening a new building in
L.A. and that gives one the experience and con-
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By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
A Superior Court judge has
decreed that murder defendant
Darryl Eugene Hunt will remain
where he has been since early fall
- the Forsyth County Jail.
Hunt’s release into the custody
of Alderman Larry Little would
have involved “substantial risks”
for the state and community, said
Resident Superior Court Judge
Judson DeRamus Jr., as he read
a motion denying the 20-year-old
Hunt’s pre-trial release.
Attorneys Gordon Jenkins and
Mark Rabil had made a motion
last week to have Hunt, charged
with the first-degree murder of
newspaper copy editor Deborah
Sykes, released into Little’s
custody.
After a week’s deliberation,
DeRamus denied the request. In
reading his decision in court on
Tuesday morning, DeRamus
cited Little’s inexperience in
handling situations of this
nature. District Attorney Donald
Tisdale’s scheduling of the case
to be heard within 30 days, the
severity of the crime and the
possibility that Hunt would not
show in court as reasons for de
nying Hunt’s release. Releases of
this type, requiring no monetary
bond, but a defendant’s release
into the custody of another per
son, should be used “in less
serious trials or circumstances,”
said DeRamus.
Tisdale agreed.
“I’m against releases prior to
trial in capital cases,” he said,
, adding that he does support non
monetary bond releases in some
instances.
After DeRamus read his deci
sion, mumblings of “Amen”
were heard from Sykes’ family
sitting on the second row of court
pews behind the defense table.
Hunt, making no expression as
DeRamus read his decision, has
been in jail since his arrest for the
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on any contract the city awards, even if it means not
accepting the lowest bid.
Winston-Salem’s city attorney drafted such a bill
at the request of Alderman Virginia Newell and sent
it to the Forsyth County legislative delegation with
the blessings of five of the eight aldermen.
While the fate of Winston-Salem’s bill remains
uncertain, Durham has already implemented its or
dinance. How successful has the still-young
Durham law been?
Julian Brown, executive vice president of the
Durham Business and Professional Chain, an
organization of minority businesses that monitors
the city’s compliance with the ordinance, says there
already have been some positive results.
“Some minority businesses have expanded and
have been able to survive because of the program,”
says Brown. “Some contractors have established
contacts with banks and bonding companies. There
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To THE FINISHER GO THE SPOILS; In this case, S-year-old Shannon Shore, who celebrates
the end of last weekend’s TeamWalk Piedmont with a slice of pizza (photo by James Parker).