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Scarborough Looks To Future
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one Democrat, and that's Roy
Matthews," she said. "That's the
most biased, partisan mayor I've
^er seen."
Housing has been one of Scar
borough's main points of focus
on council. She said the city
should commit more money for
new housing while rehabilitat
ing existing units. Although
snubbed for a seat on the hous
ing committee, Scarborough at
tends Its meetings.
"We have housing, but It needs
to be revitalized," she said. 'We
need to upgrade the present
housing stock."
The city has been slow In
meeting Its housing needs for
lower-income families while
other projects are quickly Im
plemented through bond refe-
rendums.
"If we can spend $15 million
for a performing arts center and
$9 million for Discovery Place,
why should we cry about $9 mil
lion for housing?," she asked.
"It's not right."
Scarborough stood by her de
fense of the $100 million road
bonds package passed last year.
Although westslde opposition to
the bonds may have been war
ranted, those concerns should
have been brought to council
earlier, she said.
"It should have been brought
up In the budgetary process,"
she said.
Scarborough plans to run for
another two-year term, she said,
to help the city map out Its long-
range planning. With the experi
ence of one term In office, Scar
borough said she can now turn
^er attention to the future.
"In the past year or so, I've
been putting out fires," she said.
"I plan to get out of the putting
out fires mode and get into more
strategic planning."
As the city grows, new services
will be required, Scarborough
said, and new revenues will te
needed to pay for them. Char
lotte’s challenge Is to balance
the two without raising property
taxes. Scarborough supports a
seat tax at public-owned facili
ties such as the Charlotte Coli
seum and raising the guest tax
for the city's hotels and motels.
"It's real critical that we plan
well," she said of the city's future
needs. "We've got a lot on our
plate, but we can't bite and di
gest It all without getting some
heartburn."
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had not focused on the Issue of
how to get more black participa
tion."
For that reason, Patterson
said she believes It was good that
the situation with Mason oc
curred this year. "It was bad that
It had to happen," Patterson re
lated. "But it's good that Mason
said, 'wait a minute' and forced
Springfest to focus on the prob
lem.
Mason has reapplied for a ven
dor position with Springfest '89
and Is hopeful she will be in
cluded. She’s glad the organiza
tion has gone back to the origi
nal policy of multiple vendors.
She believes the Springfest festi
val is better served by having
more than one balloon vendor.
"Competition (among the ven
dors) brings out the best quali
ty," said Mason.
She Is heartened by the re
sponse elicited from Springfest
since last week. Mason
said "I'm pleased that we have
gotten to the point when the
lines of communication are
open and minds are open.
"Springfest Is a good festival.
It's good for the city, locally and
on the national scope. But It
needed to be opened up so we all
could share In it. "
"I guess It just took this effort
to make a good thing better."
"Bigger than that particular Is
sue, this situation has caused
the leadership of Springfest to
realize this would not have hap
pened If It had broader partici
pation," said Patterson.
According to Kaufman and
Patterson, the Springfest organ
ization Is now working to get
more African-Americans In
volved. Plans now are to have
meetings with representatives of
the black community.
Mason, at this point, has
!'mlxed emotions" atwut having
been the catalyst behind this sit
uation. "I never thought I'd have
to go through something like
this. But I believe It Is good for
the community. People see a
better Springfest (because of
this)."
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