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NEWS/ The Charlotte Post March 28, 1996 YMCA drops out Continued from page 1A YMCA on Davidson Street. The McCrorey YMCA, north of 1-85, is too far from the area, according to Judy Mooney of the YMCA. That agreement reportedly called for a $1 per year lease and payment of operating expenses approxi mating $90,000 per year for five years, with a declining payment in subsequent years. With the YMCA proposal off the table and Greenville resi dents on hand, coimcil decided to institute an evaluation of how Greenville and Belmont center are used now and to use focus groups to find out what residents want to be in the center. “They decided to develop a process for submitting propos als, including the homeowners association,” Sadler said. “We did express an interest in operating that center our selves. “The YMCA said they would not want to be in competition with the community at all,” Sadler said. Lynne Jones Doblin of the neighborhood redevelopment department said the study process will use a survey of the centers as currently oper ated by staff and with the help of a consultant and a series of focus groups with those who use the center to determine the desired mix of services. “Then if its appropriate, we will develop a proposal for how the centers are to be managed,” Doblin said. “The staff will bring back a recom mendation to council through the City Within a City com mittee. “The best guess is we will complete the review process by end of this fiscal year and come back to council in the summer.” “We may take a look next year at the other two centers (Amay James and Alexander Street),” Doblin said. ‘We are trying to be open to other ways of doing business,” she explained. “It’s an issue of asset management - are these facilities providing the great est benefit to the citizens they can. It is an issue we have been looking at for several months.” Commifnity input is the key, Sadler said. “I think we they are not much out of they could, neighborhood Right now we can rest assured going to get as (the centers) as as long as the is not involved, have an interest in developing and running program in our own communi ty center.” “If the city decides to keep it and run it themselves, they need to put some human ser vices programs back in the center. ” Howell “indomitable” Continued from page 1A One of her biggest achieve ments has been establishing uniformity in the minority achievement effort. “Schools were doing every thing and calling it minority achievement. But I wanted something else. I wanted our children learning how to cope with being children of color in this society and how to over come any barriers that would be placed in their way because of that unchangeable fact,” Howell said. “We have designed a ‘standard opera tions procedure’ manual. We call it the White Notebook. For every level, elementary, middle and high school, it shows what to do for children. Everything has to be tied to building them up in the class room, improving academic achievement. Making minority achieve ment viable hasn’t been easy, Howell said. There’s too little staffing and money is always tight. Still, she presses on. “It has been a struggle. We have limited resources. I solic it volunteer help from corpora tions. I solicit donations,” she said. “And I solicit them for partnerships with schools, in order to extend the financial and human resources of my office. I am the only profes sional staff person in my department. “Some limitations are by design, but I have worked hard to overcome those. That means I work day and night. This award tells me it is all worthwhile. “It has taken a toll on me physically, emotionally and spirituallly. Many times I have not had the support of my superiors. Just the exis tence of the program tells the school system something it does not want to hear. That’s why the school system has not given the program more sup port for staff resources. “I have not received a lot of recognition. But my director, since the latter part of‘95. has been very supportive. I feel like she is out there fighting for us. It sounds if with this lady’s leadership we will have some progress. The new director is now Anne Udall, daughter of for mer U.S. Secretary of Labor Morris Udall. Udall is coordi nating director of gifted and curriculum programs. “It is hard to continue the battle. Parents and children would never know how I had to fight when I got back to the office. Howell is a Durham native who came to the school system after working at Johnson C. Smith University in the sociol ogy and urban studies depart ments, a job she took after a series of positions in Charlotte. Despite several dispointing job losses and failure to pass the N.C. bar exam, she has presevered and feels she is where the Lord wants her to be, Howell said. She came to Charlotte after graduating from UNC Chapel Hill’s law school. Her under graduate studies were at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla. She majored in Afro-American Studies and Spanish at Eckerd. “I came to Charlotte to prac tice law and worked with Legal Services of the Southern Piedmont. But after two tries, I didn’t pass bar exam and loss my job with legal services. Then I became a housing counselor with Family Housing Services. Then they cut Family Housing’s funding. Last hired, first fired. I was out of a job again. When you are terminated it hurts. “That really made me go back to the drawing board. I asked Lord why is this hap pening to me? After a series of temporary jobs, I met Rev. William White at Little Rock AME Zion Church. He hired me to run day to day activities of the church. 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