Aldermen's 5-3 Vote Kills Malloy's Plan
By TRAVIS MITCHELL
Chrorucle Staff Writer
On Monday, the Board of
Aldermen voted to approve the
city's realignment proposal and nix
a counter proposal that would have
bolstered the number of black vot
ers in the four wards represented by
black aldermen.
North Ward Alderman Nelson
Malloy must now resign himself to
a black constituency that's reduced
about 4 percent points to 57 percent
He had proposed a realignment plan
giving him a 65 percent black popu
lation there.
Northeast Ward Alderman
Vivian Burke expressed concern
that Malloy 's option would cut too
deeply into her ward, so she and
Malloy developed a compromise
option.
The board voted down the M al
loy-Burke option by a 5-3 vote and
approved the staff's proposal 6-2.
The option would have given Mal
loy a 61 percent black constituency.
By law, the ward lines have to
be redrawn after every U.S. Census
Bureau count. The census counted
160,000 residents in Winston
Salem, which means each ward
must reflect a population of 20,000.
Black officials have said that in
order to keep the traditional strong^
holds in the North, Northeast, East
and Southeast wards, black popula
tion percentages must hover around
60 percent.
? In October, Alderman held a
public hearing on realignment to
review the city's proposal and des
ignated Nov. 3 as the date to
approve it. However, between that
hearing and Monday, North Ward
Alderman Nelson Malloy developed
a counter proposal. Currently Mal
loy 's ward is 62 percent black.
Last week, Malloy told the
Chronicle that his proposal boosted
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the black population in his ward to
65 percent, instead of 57 percent
under the city's proposal. Malloy's
proposal was not even reviewed
Monday. The only two that were
brought to the floor were the staffs
original proposal and the Malloy
Burke option.
Robert Northington, West
Ward; Hugh Wright, South Ward;
Nancy Pleasants, Northwest Ward;
Lynne Harpe, Southwest Ward; and
Virginia Newell, East Ward, voted
against the Malloy-Burke Plan.
M alloy, Burke and Southeast Ward
Alderman Larry Womble all sup
ported the measure.
Burke joined Newell and others
in support of the staff's proposal,
while Malloy and Womble opposed.
Burke said, "In the long run I
had thoroughly looked at the staffs
plan and felt it was the best for the
Northeast Ward.'* She said that she
had previously agreed to give Mal
loy 4 percent of her ward, but that
his proposal took 8 percent. She
said that the compromise was done
too late to adequately be reviewed.
Afterwards, reaction was
mixed.
"He did not have the votes/'
said East Ward Alderman Virginia
Newell. She said that Malloy's pro
posal was not presented early
enough to gamer the majority vote.
Newell said that she voted in favor
of the staffs proposal so that the
board would not be divided along
racial lines.
"In my three years on the board
this is one of the biggest disappoint
ments that I have experienced/' said
Malloy. "African- American Alder
men have not been able to vote on
issues together that affect the
African- American community."
Malloy said that he had been
informing other aldermen on the
process since the spring. He was
most upset at the loss of the Martin
Luther King, Jr. precinct, which
went to Burke's ward.
"We had people work very
hard in those precincts and it is a
travesty to lose it," he said.
"I did not support the city's
plan because 1 thought it concen
trated too many people in certain
sections of the city," said Womble.
His ward realized a black popula
tion increase from 39 percent -to 48
percent.
"I thought that Malloy 's option
was a little more equitaWeT'^
Womble said that he thought that
Malloy had done a good job in
preparing his option.
The new ward lines will be
enforced during the 1993 Board of
Aldermen elections.
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