366 20 10383 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/98d8b928795c0265b4cd57b76ce1aea4.pdf e96af9da015c2726cf7c5457c0418634 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. OMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION ESTABLISHED BY THE MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, NOVEMBER, 1988 1f03 CITY HALL, ATLANTA GEORGIA 30303 MR. IRVING K. KALER, TELEPHONE 5U-U83 EXT. 433 Chairman THE HONORABLE SAM MASSELL, JR., Ex-Officio President, Boa.rd of Aldermen May 4, 1967 COMMISSION MEMBERS MR. T. M. ALEXANDER, SR. MR. R. BYRON ATTRIDGE MRS. SARA BAKER MISS HELEN BULLARD MR. R. J. BUTLER MR. ROBERT DOBBS MR. HAMILTON DOUGLAS, JR, MR. C. G. EZZARD MOS T REVEREND PAUL J. HALLINAN Archbishop of Atlanta, MR. JOS EPH HAAS MR. AL KUETTNER DR. ROBERT E . LEE Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. City Hall Atlanta , Georgia MR. ROLLAND MAXWELL Mn. F . W.'PATTERSON RABBI JACOB M. ROTHSCHILD Mn. M. Dear May or Allen: 0. "Buzz" RYAN MR. JACK SELLS MRS. MARY STEPHENS THE REVEREND SAMUEL WILLIAMS K. p ASCHALL, E xecutive Director Mns. ELIZA Than k yo u for arrangi n g f or Mr. Kaler and me to meet with the Department Heads. With the d emands on eve r ybody's time we particularly appreciate havin g had this o pportunity, and i t wa s a pl eas u re for me to see ma ny old fr i e nd s a nd meet ma ny p e opl e I ha v e ha d c on tact wi t h bu t ha ve no t ha d t he pleasure of meeting before. Sinc e rel y , ( 1i ( Mrs .) ~ - Pa sc h a ll Exe cutiv e Direc t or EK P/ mt cc : Mr . Earl La nders Mro I r vi n g K. Ka l er � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document OMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION ESTABLISHED BY THE MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, NOVEMBER, 1968 1203 CITY HALL, ATLANTA GEORGIA $0308 TELEPHONE §22-4463 EXT. 433 Mr. Irvine K. Kacer, Chairman THE HONORABLE SAM MASsSELL, JR., Ex-Officio President, Board of Aldermen May 4, 1967 COMMISSION MEMBERS Mr. T. M. ALEXANDER, SR. Mr. R. Byron ATTRIDGE Mrs. SARA BAKER Miss HELEN BULLARD Mr. R. J. BUTLER Mr. Rosert Donss Mr. Hamitton Douctas, JR. Mr. C. G. Ezzarp Most REVEREND PauL J. HALLINAN Archbishop of Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. Mr. JosepH HAAS * Mr. AL KUETTNER City Hall : Dr. Ropert EB. Lee Atlanta, Georgia Mr. RoLLAND MAXWELL Mr. F. W. Patterson Rasst Jacos M, RoTHsScHILD Mr. M. O. “Buzz" Rran Dear Mayor Allen: Mr. Jack SELLS i 4 Mrs, Mary STEPHENS Thank you for arranging for Mr. Kaler and me to meet with THE REVEREND SAMUEL WILLIAMS the Department Heads. With the demands on everybody's time Mrs. Euiza K, PAScHALt, we particularly appreciate having had this opportunity, and Executive Director it was a pleasure for me to see many old friends and meet many people I have had contact with but have not had the pleasure of meeting before. Sincerely, (Mrs. ) Vy. Paschall Executive Director EKP/mt cco: Mr. Earl Landers Mr. Irving K. Kaler  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 41 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/b32c3830e68cc0881a0ea24386a678cd.pdf 5a5ffe2774a6637a876ed9daca3655a4 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. OMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION ESTABLISHED BY THE MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, NOVEMBER, 1968 1209 CITY HALL, ATLANTA GEORGIA 90303 TELEPHONE 5U-4,f63 EXT. 433 MR. IRVING K. KALER, Chairman. THE HON ORABLE SAM MASSELL, JR., Ex-Officio President , Board of Aldermen. Ma y 5, 1967 COMMISSION MEMBERS MR. T. M. ALEXANDER, SR. MR. R. BYRON ATTRIDGE MRS. SARA B AKER MIS S HELEN BULLARD MR. R. J. BUTLER MR. ROBERT DOBBS MR. HAMILTON DOUGLAS, JR. MR. C. G. EZZARD MOS T REVEREND PAUL J . HALLINAN A r chbishop of Atlanta MR. J OSEPH HAAS MR. AL KUETTNER DR. ROBERT E . L EE MR. ROLLA ND M AXWELL MR. F . W .' PATTERSON Ma y o r Iva n Allen, Jr. Ci ty o f Atl a nta Ci ty Ha ll At l a n ta , Ge o rg i a RABBI JACOB M. ROTHSCHILD MR. M. 0. "Buzz" RYAN MR. JACK SELLS Dear Mayor Allen: MRS. MARY STEPHENS THE REVEREND SAMUEL WILLIAMS MRS . ELIZA K. PASCHALL, Executive Director Mr . I rvi n g K. Ka l er , c h a i r ma n o f the Communi ty Rel at ions Comm i ss ion has asked me t o write on be h a l f o f t h e Commission t o accept th e resoluti o n c o ncerning the "H ebrew Benevol ent Congregatio n Award ", and t o express a p preciation f o r t he op p o rt unity t o act on b ehal f o f t he ci ty . Th e chairman will name a c ommi ttee t o wo rk o ut pla n s f o r i mplement i ng the res olu t ion , and I a m s u re th o se p ers on s wil l be i n t ou ch wit h you as s o on as t h ey are named . S in cerel y , ~M(!}~/~-K. ~~l Exec u tive Director EKP/mt cc: Mr. I rv i ng K. Ka l er � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document OMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION ESTABLISHED BY THE MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, NOVEMBER, 1966 1203 CITY HALL, ATLANTA GEORGIA $0303 TELEPHONE 522-5468 EXT. 433 Mr. Irvine K. Kater, Chairman THE HONORABLE SAM MASSELL, JR., Ex-Officio President, Board of Aldermen May 5, 1967 COMMISSION MEMBERS Mr. T. M. ALEXANDER, SR. Mr. R. BYRON ATTRIDGE Mrs. Sarna BAKER Miss HELEN BULLARD Mr. R. J. BUTLER Mr. Rosert Dosss Mr. HAMILTON Douc.as, JR. Mr. C. G. Ezzarp Most REVEREND Paut J. HALLINAN Archbishop of Atlanta Mr. JoserpH Haas Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. Mr. AL KuetrNer City of Atlanta Dr. Rosert E. Lee * Mr. RoLLAND MAXWELL City Hall Mr. F. W.’ PATTERSON Atlanta, Georgia Rast JAcos M. RoTHSCHILD Mr. M. O. “Buzz” Rvan Mr. Jack SELLS Dear Mayor Allen: Mrs. Mary STEPHENS THE REVEREND SAMUEL WILLIAMS . . : - . Mr. Irving K. Kaler, chairman of the Community Relations Commission has asked me to write on behalf of the Commission to accept the resolution concerning the "Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Award", and to express appreciation for the opportunity to act on behalf of the city. Mas. Eviza K. PASCHALL, Executive Director The chairman will name a committee to work out plans for implementing the resolution, and I am sure those persons will be in touch with you as soon as they are named. Sincerely, [;. a (C. Pyame (Mrs.) Eliza K. Paschall Executive Director EKP/mt cc: Mr, Irving K. Kaler  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 40 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/33fb8fcaf58b86c8a8fe340b0cc4a818.pdf 462ca0b3e0f38f78913ae122b92b9c6d Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. - -1 I I OMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION ESTABLISHED BY THE MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, NOVEMBER, 1966 1£03 CITY HALL, ATLANTA GEORGIA 30303 TELEPHONE 511-4,l63 EXT. 433 ay 9 , 1967 r . Sterrs Johnson For the past to years or s0 0 I have been familiar 1th r . Sterrs Johnson ' s efforts to obtain employment in the Civil Defense OJ;'ganization of Met ropol i t an Atl anta . When I orked as ecut ive Direct or of the Council on Human Relations of Greater Atlanta , r . Johnson asked for our assistance . Mr . Johnson ha ~ documen s from his Commanding Officers in the Army Reserves attesting to his training and experiences in Civil Defense , and recommending him highly for work in this area . Mr . Johnson states that upon his early reques t s bout e ployment hews not notified th t such ppl i c tions should b sub itted to th St te Merit System, he then took the Merit System ex min tion nd passed it . He th n preced d 1th the hel p of the Council office to cont ct , in turn t he Dep rtment of the N vy , Equ 1 Opportunit y tl nta , the Dep rt ent of Defense , the qu 1 Employment Opportunity Co ission and the city of Atl nt • He · s tol d in ach case th t the gency involved did not h v jurisdiction over this . Th Dep rtment of Defense ckno led that the Atl nt Metropolit n Civil Def nse Org niz tion r c iv s Fed r 1 on y , but dvis d him that e ployment is through the St te M rit yst m, which put hi b c here be st rtod . the St t M rit Sy t m r 1st r had xpir d nd it r . Johnson tot ke the ex in tion gin . ving und r consid r bl about this tter , llr . Johnson did not p s the ex ination th t ti but shortly th r ft r took it ag in nd did pass it . (Mr . Johnson point out th t th r ppears to be no N gro x min r t th t orit Syst m and th th kno of no way to find out if t he r ports o f th x in rs r ithout pr judic) In Febru ry upon the tablish ent of this Co 1ss1on, r . Johnson gin a k d for h lp in hi effort to oot in plo ent in th Civil Def n Org niz tion . Gen r 1 Wood rd ur d us th t ploye r 1 cted ithout r gard to rac ltbough w kno of no ro ploy s in th prof ion 1 or oftic st ff of th c ntral Civil Def Organi• zation . Th n Mr . Johnson r qu about hi th t hi po ition r ind d that thi e xamination and cc: Mr. Eugen t I inquir th ev r 1 No . 1 on the r any tia if so on th n Kr . Johnson . tt rson , Atl nta Constitution rit Syst told th t t I r, but I was 1 took th � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document -JOMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION ESTABLISHED BY THE MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, NOVEMBER, 1966 1203 CITY HALL, ATLANTA GEORGIA so0sos TELEPHONE 582-4468 EXT. 433 May 9, 1967 Mr. Sterrs Johnson For the past two years or so, I have been familiar with Mr. Sterrs Johnsen's efforts to obtain employment in the Civil Defense Organization of Metropolitan Atlanta. When I worked as Executive Director of the y Council on Human Relations of Greater Atlanta, Mr. Johnson asked for our assistance. Mr. Johnson hage documents from his Commanding Officers in the Army Reserves attesting to his training and experiences in Civil Defense, and recommending him highly for work in this area. Mr. Johnson states that upon his early requests about employment he was not notified that such applications should be submitted to the State Merit System, he then took the Merit System examination and passed it. He then preceded with the help of the Council office to contact, in turn the Department of the Navy, Equal Opportunity Atlanta, the Department of Defense, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the city of Atlanta. He was told in each case that the agency involved did not have jurisdiction over this. The Department of Defense acknow- ledge that the Atlanta Metropolitan Civil Defense Organization receives Federal money, but advised him that employment is through the State Merit System, which put him back where he started, By this time, the State Merit System register had expired and it was necessary for Mr. Johnson to take the examination again. Having been ill and being under considerable pressure about this matter, Mr. Johnson did not pass the examination that time but shortly thereafter took it again and did pass it. (Mr. Johnson points out that there appears to be no Negrooexaminers at the Gtaté Merit System and that he knows of no way to find out if the reports of the examiners are without prejudice) In February upon the establishment of this Commission, Mr. Johnson again asked for help in his efforts to odtain employment in the Civil Defense Organization. General Woodward assured us that employees are selected without regard to race although we know of no Negro employees in the professional or office staff of the central Civil Defense Organi- zation. Then Mr. Johnson requested that I inquire of the State Merit System about his position on the register several weeks ago. I was told that that his position at that time was No. 1 on the register, but I was reminded that this might change at any time if someone else took the examination and made a higher grade than Mr. Johnson. cc: Mr. Eugene Patterson, Atlanta Constitution  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 39 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/3d5fc10056555c4b0e04edbf75ced50b.pdf 34bc1b70e455e5009dfec9d358751704 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. OMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION·._ \ ESTABLISHED BY THE MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, NOVEMBER, 1966 1f03 CITY HALL, ATLANTA GEORGIA 30303 ' TELEPHONE 5l1l1·4463 EXT. 433 lay 11 , 1967 anger Hof 'br u Restaurant 2581 Piedmont Rod Atl nt , Georgia Dear Sir : ~h s b en reported to this office th t sever 1 Negroes who went to your rest ur nt last eek s denied service bee use of r ce . I t lephoned the Bof _'br u Tuesd y around noon nd eked to peak to the person in ch rge , I did not get his n me . hen I report d this incident , I w s told "yes , th tis right we do not serve Negroes" . en I tried to continu the conversation , I s told "I h ven ' t tie tot lk bout this" . eh v check d ith the office of tb u • • District Attorney nd it h s been confir ed that such o refu al of service would constitute viol tion of the Civil Right ct. e c 11 this to your attention in the hops th t no on in the futur would be r fused s rvic in viol tion of th Civil Rights Act , with its ccompanying unpleas ntn ss . Slncer ly , ( rs.) Eliz K. sch 11 x cutiv Director lCP : t cc: F d r 1 Bur au of Inv tig tion Mayor l v n Allen ~ Chi f rb rt T. J nk1n Mr. Irving K. X 1 r u• • D p rt nt of Ju tioe � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document -JOMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION ESTABLISHED BY THE MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, NOVEMBER, 1966 1203 CITY HALL, ATLANTA GEORGIA soso TELEPHONE 528-5468 EXT. 483 May 11, 1967 Manager Hofcbrau Restaurant 2581 Piedmont Road Atlanta, Georgia Dear Sir: EK has been reported to this office that several Negroes who went to your restaurant last week was denied service because of race. I telephoned the Hof*brau Tuesday around noon and asked to speak to the person in charge, I did not get his name. When I reported this incident, I was told “yes, that is right we do not serve Negroes". When I tried to continue the con- versation, I was told "I haven't time to talk about this". We have checked with the office of the U. S. District Attorney and it has been confirmed that such a refuSal of service would constitute a violation of the Civil Rights Act. We call this to your attention in the hopes that no one in the future would be refused service in violation of the Civil Rights Act, with its accompanying unpleasantness, Sincerely, (Mrs.) Eliza K. Paschall Executive Director EKP :mt cc: Federal Bureau of Investigation U. 8. Department of Justice Mayor Ivan Allen Chief Herbert T. Jenkins Mr. Irving K. Kaler  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 38 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/6827cbca845d0b236c940143b8bf418c.pdf 8fe95fb0c2adcd10b21aeb066a1ca65e Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. OMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION ESTABLISHED BY THE MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, NOVEMBER, 1968 TELEPHONE 5!!-4463 EXT. 433 1203 CITY HALL, ATLANTA GEORGIA 30303 DY 11 , 197 r .• Herbert Jenki ns Chief of Police 165 Decatur Street , S . E~ Atlant ,. Georgia Der Chief J enkins : I hesit te even to repo t to you~ situation of which I m sure you are well aware . I do feel nn oblig3 t ion , ho· ver , to have it on the record th tat each Neighborhood Hearing which we have 1eld , there have been requests for incre sed police prot ction . The co™ion complaint is , when police i s needed , by the timo the call is put in and tho police arrives it is almost too late to do any good . Ther ere also gener 1 statements about the need for regul r patroling throu bout t h night . lam ware of the gre t shortage of personnel in the Police Dep rtment , but I felt sure that you ould w nt to have tbi report d to you . The res in which we h ve.hald meetings includes , Edg wood , Kirkw od , um erbill ; oplesto n ; Vine City , Li btning , eeh nicsville ., Pittsburgh , Dixie Hills , Bolton Bills , P rr Ho es , Scott C ossing , C nter Hill , Corey P rk , Grov rk , Bo en Ho s , Hunter 11111 , Almond Park , nd Simpson-Troy Str t. W ould be gl d to provide you with the namos of th individu 1 r sidents who presented these requests if this vould b of ny b"elp to you . inc roly , ( rs ,) Eliz K. xecutive Dir ctor KP : co ~ : yor Ivan All n / Mr . Irving K. Kaler , Ch ir ich rd r n , Ch ir Mr . n n of Polle sch 11 Co itt � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document OMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION ESTABLISHED BY THE MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, NOVEMBER, 1966 1208 CITY HALL, ATLANTA GEORGIA 30308 TELEPHONE 522-5468 EXT. 483 May 11, 1967 Mr. Herbert Jenkins Chief of Police 165 Decatur Street, S. E, Atlanta, Georgia Dear Chief Jenkins: I hesitate even to report to you a situation of which I am Sure you are well aware. I do feel an obligation, however, to have it on the record that at each Neighborhood Hearing which we have held, there have been requests for increased police protection. The comaon complaint is, when police is needed, by the time the call is put in and the police arrives it is almost too late to do any good. There were also general statements about the need for regular patroling throughout the I am aware of the great shortage of personnel in the Police Department, but I felt sure that you would want to have this reported to you. The areas in which we have held meetings includes, Edgewood, Kirkwood, Stimmerhill, Peoplestown, Vine City, Lightning, Mechanicsville, Pittsburgh, Dixie Hills, Bolton Hills, Perry Homes, Scott Cfossing, Center Hill, Carey Park, Grove Park Bowen Homes, Hunter Hills, Almond Park, and Simpson=-Troy Street. We would be glad to provide you with the names of the individual: residents who presented these requests if this would be of any help to you. Sincerely, (Mys.) Eliza K. Paschall Executive Director EKP smt cc: Mayor Ivan Allen Mr. Irving K. Kaler, Chairman Mr. Richard Freeman, Chairman of Police Committee  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 37 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/f744b29b9398e0480e4083f268c1715a.pdf b3b0837173ea25b64de5505ad5fa8b93 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. -IDR YOUR INFORMATIOll COMMUNITY RELAT I ONS COMMISS ION 1203 CITY HALL ATLANTA, GEORGIA Report on Meeting with Staff of Bethle hem Ce nter (located near Carver School) and Wesley House Centers (Southea s t and Southwest): on April 24, 1967 The sta f f who work with young people in these areas expressed the following conce r ns: II That Police don I t come" when you call them , or take so l _ong that they are too late to help wh e n they do a r r ive. Th a t Police need special training to h a ndle young people. Th a t there s hould be some r e gis tra tion a nd/o r re g ulat i o ns concerning the possession of firearms and weapons. They spoke' of increasing inc i dences of use of knives' etc. That laws r e lating to the sale of whiskey to minors should be mo re stri n g ently enforced. Th at n o more l i quor licen ses b e appro v e d f o r t he area c lo se t o Bethlehem Center. They h a ve opposed it at hearings wh ich they known about, but wonder wher e the he a rin g s a re advertised. Th at more r e ha bili ta tiv e wo r k b e do ne th r o u g h t he Ju ven i le Co u r t . Te n den c y to se nd clie n ts home wi t ho u t muc h wo r k - either at ti t ude that n ot h i n g is wrong o r tha t n ot h i n g c a n b e d one . That peop le in the nei g hborhood are afr aid to report some of t h e old er yo u t h , , fo r fea r o f r ep ri sa ls - bo t h adults a nd yo un g e r p e ople . a r e a f ra i d . Th ey ha v e ma de v a rio u s cont act s with Pol ice Depa rt me n t, Juv e nile Court, etc . They are still worried a bout wha t th ey fee l to be a gro wing "law l es sness" and u se of weapons, wh ich they fee l to be a problem of " Co mmu n i t y Rela tio n s", Ho w c a n commun i ty p rotec t its elf against peop l e who i n t im i d ate b y t hreats, which are not ba sis e nou g h fo r l ega l action or pe o ple who h a v e reside n t s scared t o swea r out warra n t agai n st them? ·' � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document FOR YOUR INFORMATION COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION 1203 CITY HALL ATLANTA, GEORGIA Report on Meeting with Staff of Bethlehem Center (located near Carver School) and Wesley House Centers (Southeast and Southwest): on, April 24, 1967 The staff who work with young people in these areas expressed the following concerns: " That Police don't come" when you call them, or take so long that they are too late to help when they do arrive. That Police need special training to handle young people. That there should be some registration and/or regulations concerning the possession of firearms and weapons, They spoke of increasing incidences of use of knives, etc. That laws relating to the sale of whiskey to minors should be more stringently enforced, That no more liquor licenses be approved for the area close to Bethlehem Center. They have opposed it at hearings which they known about, but wonder where the hearings are advertised, That more rehabilitative work be done through the Juvenile Court. Tendency to send clients home without much work - either attitude that nothing is wrong or that nothing can be done. That people in the neighborhood are afraid to report some of the older youth,.for fear of reprisals - both adults and younger people. are afraid. They have made various contacts with Police Department, Juvenile Court, etc. They are still worried about what they feel to be a growing "lawlessness" and use of weapons, which they feel to be a problem of "Community Relations", How can community protect itself against people who intimidate by threats, which are not basis enough for legal action or people who have residents scared to swear out warrant against them?  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 36 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/35f916a6758517c946d1140f4d789e0b.pdf a4206d6b42cea5dd06c948e763c290a2 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. Edgewood-Kirkwood A ea Our suggestions ere h at 1 six residents of t he Comm those per sons who e appoint ru--1 ityo dv::...,o:..~y Cormni·::.te - , c ITI;)osed f e's c coir.2 i t tce ~r.3,. ers t o be p i eke from ttended t he me ting on .,. ,E:b ., 1 . Also, it is suggested that the E ' :rei:-:rood team rnake arrangements with Hr o . Long and Mro Yota to take us on a guided tour of the area o \,\ .... \\·., ', . \ "\ � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Edgewood-Kirkwood Area Recommendation of Sub-~Cormitte Qur suggestions ere that we appoine an Advisory Committees, composed of six residents of the Community. These committee members to be picked from those persons who attended the meeting on Feb. 1h. Also, it is suggested that the Edgewood team make arrangements with ifr. . Long and Mr. Yota to take us on a guided tour of the area. \ \ Rs hy hy ‘i my Atay ss ie ws . bal ‘ yo \  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 35 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/2875a7c57d444df214bbfe9097788aa4.pdf 2c35035c1c50e6b5c2c9c904ba1343c9 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. - - - - - - -- - - - - -- ·there ~ ere approxi1n.atcly 150 pe)op e .."""""' ,..,~ Co""-.-"ssion ,.,._, be.,.• j "~'r 0 C 1.:,-1.l. ' - . (t Approximotaly lG persons t --- ·csent r,;,~ ..... ~.-:; ~ ;., '-" . . ~<;.'...L.-y ':'·1."' i "' 6-- -~ . . , __ ·oy. ,·'-._ ...,'-'_..,."-'--' ~,,_ 1-~ •.',"-'~ ' -- ·r ;e,,-:: ... -< rJ,.,. . '. 'fC! ,~ _ spoke of the I'- oole!ns in their com::,u.n tieso address' ruid specific ~robler1s re r corde '...~a . .,. . . r-1n ,,r1 ..-," . ~~- .1tl!:les ~ by ?(rs . Thorr:tis, sec eti;.T}l'" and are on record in the Com::1i ssion office .. i"ncilitic.:;, t~ . :::..cr Giir oet- The proble'1".S related indllde the need for rec, oatio lighting and resurfaci ng, pol i ce protection,. rubbis.. collection., co o nfo cJ2~nt a.11d low coot housing. SevercJl p- rrons <>poke of the problem e!lcou.ntered by U:. ir area being in the City of .Atlanta., yet in D kalb County. Hr .. Dou~lan., on behalf of the Co;ll!ll.,sion prol:lised our h lp in referring these co::iplainta to the proper city depart.!l~nt. Mrs. Ba!-:er sueE;ested thnt the telll.l ta ~e a gddcd tour of tl:e ar-so. . the civic leaders present offerred mll be worked out later~ -zhcnever to work up mi itinerary .. S ieral of' Plans for this our e can determine a ::mtu.:ill7 convenient tir.:e,. ¥.r. Ezzard spoke to the group asro? bled on t.ryinr; to esta l:!.sh good reln.tio "hips with the white ~ sidents rell"'.aining in the cor--.r.unity to onco'.lragc the., to rcr..nin.. told of the work t.be.t hnd been dooo in his own cor;,:,rmnity in this lineo .. . --/.2, • , ~ . , c , ( ~ This meeting chowotl that r!oSt of these proble!r.>$ arc tr.e rceult 0.1.. 14ck He 1-.,, ~A,":t. or comprehension on what_!! e.nd is not city respon~ibility and lac~ of know-hew as to -what city depart?r.ent to contact -whe:i-e or the need for city ucrvices erises. ·:e see here n ooed for our services in better infornrl.nb and clem-ing up this 1.:onf 1sion. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document SPOADM KATY Ps oat ow ta ey eA Aas REPORT OF BOGULOGNeKTRRUGOD PRAM The first neighborhood meeting of the Edgewood teom was held on February lhtne- there were approximately 150 people present. Panel menbsrs present wore Mr. Hamilton Douglas, fir. "Bugs" Ryan, Mrs. Sara Saker and irs. Nery Sticphense-also In ettendance was Comaission member, Hr. C. Ge. Engsard. The mecting wos presided over by Mrs Douglas. Approximately 16 persons spoke of the problems in their communities. Names, address' and specific problems were recorded by Mrs. Thomas, secretary and are on record inthe Commission office. The problems related indide the need for recreation fscilities, boltcr street= lighting ond resurfacing, police protection, ruboish collection, code enforcement and low cost housing. Several persons spoke of the problems encountered by their area being in the City of Atlanta, yet in Dekalb County. Mr. Douglas, om behalf of the Comaission promised our help in referring these complaints to the proper city department. Mrs. Baker suggested that the tean take a gvided tour of the arsa. Soverai of the civic leaders present offerred to work up an itinerary. Plans for this tour will be worked out later, whenever we can determine a mutually convenient tine. Mr. Ezzard spoke to the group assembled on trying to establish good relationships with the white residents remaining in the community to encourage them to remain. He told of the work that had been done in his own community in this line. .,. This meeting showed that most of these problems are the result of lack of comprehension on what is and is not city respensibility and lack of know-how as to wnat city department to contact when-ever the need for city services erises. We see here a need for our services in better informing and clearing up this confusions Hary ‘tephens . Ch » Hdgewood-xirsweod Team  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 34 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/573addb8066d29206036ed229508dece.pdf 8c84b806e421771d0ed4a5bb8084c8a3 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. API'IL 23 , 9G"' The Commun i ty Re lat ions Com:11 · ss ·· on r.:c · 0·1 ":lx-:_oay , Ap::.· · - SJ , 1 9G7 i Com.li tt ee Room .;,2 o .,, City } '"' '"'h.:: ··ollo·;;i ng rne ·:.11 eI· .S r,n ,:e : :;:-esent: rnr . Ir ving r- . Ka ·· r, Ci.1~ ..:.ri:· 3 ·:1. Mis s r ele BullEr , Seco 1d v ·c e ici143.215.248.55n L ·s . Eliza K. Pa se a 1 , Dtecutive Di r ctor Mr . T . M. Alexand~r r,,i-· . · Byro n Att idge Mrs. Sara Baker Mr . R . J . Butler Mr . Rob ert Dobbs M:· . C . G. Ezz ar Mr . Joseph Ha s !i'Ir . Al Kuettne r Dr . Robert E . Lee Rabbi Jac ob Ro ths c hild Mr . M. 0 . :Rya n Mr . · Ja c k Sells Mr s. Mary Stevens Vis itors, Mr . Pnul An-t-hony , Ex cut..:. ve Di~e ctor of the Southern ~-- Ed Shu-~ ·af t oi .!es··- E::1d . Regiona l Counci l , Mr . Irving Kaler , cha i- .an presiding . I:I Lautes of tl:'- I.:cn·ch 2 , r .et; ·_,J.g were adopted as circulated . _ port of thG d Hoc Ccr,:1~, i .J.:;-·- ee . Mr . Joseph Haas , cha irna n o f the Ad r-:cc Co11~r.-1i tte ..., repoi~·ted that the comm1t~ee feel s ~he most e ffecti ve ;ork of t he Coa,iss ion wi_l be i n preventive effor ts . Once a1y d isttirbance a ctually brea~s out, it i s a police function. If the comm itt e e is a s ked to co ...2 in and · elp, it wo uld respond. In the eve nt of an y disturbance the Cc~ui·tee ~o~ld be convened and wo uld be expanded to include the Teat from t he ar a in question. Othe r memb ers of the ComE1i ttee are ,. a bi Jacoo R.ot _1schild , Archbishop Paul I-Ial linan, Rev. Samue l Hilliams and }.Ir. :i:obe1·t Dobbs . Mr . Kale r called on c hair~en of the Neighbor~ood ?ea~s "o = r e or ts as iollO\vS: Mrs . Stephens, Edpewood-Kirkwood : Report nttache • r.::::-. C. G. Ezzard, Summeriiill Peoolestoym : Reported t~_2 t ·..aj o:·i ty of problems brought up at meet ing on Mar c h 2 3 concerned street, etc. and housing , includi ng code enforcement , st adiuc par~ing and mod el neigh borh ood program . He then called on hlr . Eaas, a membe· of ~he Team, to reo ort on the meating on Housing on April 25 . Kr. ~aa s reported that at the meeting several serious p~obleas Dere brc~zht out - lending agencies are reluctant to len in k" . is area because of uncertainties; insurance co~panies will not insure 2 house under $8,000; individuals are told by the Inspection D2part~ent to mn:e �Conm i ss ion Lli~u~ cs ' tl1ey ai·.e unce:.. --' a i. . aoou·t.. '" :;:~ u:..ur.__ ,.. .,.,. repairs wnen 1. 2. 3. .., -,"'. 'S • ~., _ c.~1 1 ~. t: P."'co·t·.r ..·.,:,r ,,·.·.1.· e·. _"' - "__r'-' ~ - 1.·0·1c:: ~ Ne\'iSp ~pers pr int pL... tt o:.i: .:odc l E2 i ghbo1·.wod -:- rcn s . City co nsider neighb or: ood off ic e~ w~c· e cit~zc us c& n rnn Ke c onpla i n~s a b out inspec ti on notic e s, e ~c. It is hard to ~et o~f worh in t ime to g et to Ci°t'tJ rall , ·c . ~=~vi..e; c o-.:1eo:1e t ~1c would make i t easier and sho 'i t h~ t th0 cit·, ca ed -:. ::! ~C · --s it easie r. Board of Alder~en s houl d be as.ed to rev·a ~ poli J ies to ~ ~e s ur e t ha t there i s k h e leas~ dif 0 iculty i o~ peop _e in this a-e • There must be as s u:-cance t ha t if the p L,nn i nG; g·· z.rrt ::.s given f a_ ;... 1e ,:ode Neighborhood Pr o ira n., befo1·e t h e f i r-al prog; ' aE is adopted there '.'till be publ ic hear i ngs and those in the area s ~i l l be allowed part i- o cipate . At the Apr il 2 5 r.1eeting , M1· . .icha rd s n oi t.1e St;::aiurn Aut h or· ty said t h at they must add 3 ,8 0 parki1 g spac es b y 1 9 7 9, l:,u·i: t '..:.:::. t t l:cy .,ave no power of condemnation . The re is a d iff e1·e ce of 9 Pii. · on bout ·,_r;~ et ~ e mo re parking should g o up or out o City services s hould b e k ept at absolute op timum in ~his are . -liss He len Bu lla : d , Me c hanc isvj_ I:!. 0 , - ::;i:!_t tsb:1::'.'11 : 16 pa~e repo··t on t he meeting ; most anxiety a b o· ~ J o ' el F eig~b or h ood a~d p o~icie s about public h ousing, partic ularly t ~e one .ont h l e ~se a nd ab i!i ty o 1 Lanager to evict witho ut giving reaso n . hliss Bu lard 1oted t~a t th i s is ~0 1 be i ng litigated. Mr . T . M. Al exander, Vine City- ightnLng : ··t ~sj been i~porJa 1t at Zearing to est ab lish fact tha t tl.le Conrnittee h 2d not come to cove_ up f o:r the cit y . There is a :fe'e li n:;; that tha e is a po icy of 11 p 1·otective cus todyn given to slumlords . In the Vine City area , where t here are ~a ny t en~n~ occ up i ed h ouses, complaints are about la c k o f code enfo~c mant, ~ier e2s ~n a~eas of home ow n erships there are comp laints about too str i n~ent code enforceaant It should be determined if there are two standards of ins pection and enforcement . Complaints about public housing , of 1ot be ing 1p to standard and the power and manner o f the manager. The ac~ion o f t h Board of Education i n the school site selection ~ives v ~~idity to the contention o f protective t reatme nt o f slur:1lords . Need more j o· opportunities . T'1is is fertile · grou~d for those who would · c reate te nsion o Mr . :~ober t Dobbs, Northwest Area : T~lis mee t ine; was 8 r1·"'n 6 ed by the EOA committees for that area and E:;..· . Dobbs said they s:_01.:-' be c oi::11 ended for the fine way in wh ic h tLey planned t he mee ting . The:e ·;-ier-2 two ( 2) basic issues - the extended day in t he schools and pLblic. usi,g policies . The ext ended school da y will be h ard not only for the c hi d ~en but on working parents. Those present stated t ha t they would ~uch prefer or t ab le units at the scho ols with a full day t han double sess · ou with presc~t facilities . The .. ,onthly lease, t he annual income rev iew ~ and the dispa:ity between chaT~es at the v arious projects are primary. concerns of public ·.ousing tenants . Rabbi Rothschild , a aember of the Tea1 said there ~ere complaints abo2t the school transfer method j that by t he time notice t hat transfer req~cst cannot be approved is received , it is too late to ~ake another request. He was ~impressed with the reasonableness of t·1e people in reg&rd to schools, they made the ~equest that if t~e school condit:ous req~ ire double session , supervised recreation should be a vailable ; used ! 0 cc able to tell when children were seen walking the streets that they �Cor.uniss ion i.U1.u·'·es 1 s h ould be in sc h ool O 1•ow -: hey mish t oe v. t he r;ay to o:.. :::1·or.1 ,::;c.1001 . " Mr . Kaler then asked for action o n t~e following recommendations, e a c h of which was adopted: 1. It should be s uggested L,O LJ:1° . \:01 -~o:;:- d , Di:i.:ec·~o:;::· of "'.:h - ""r~s ·)e c.,_ io 1.1 Depa rtment, tlrn t -'-here · e es tab · 3"wcl - i·t~1e::.~ n2ic;.1b or:10od of :.'::'ic s o r a schedu e si::1 il~r ·'" o voti·1~ _·ezis"',.; Tn -~ion sc'12 ~ule) vi ·.eTeby questions can be brought after t 1e regular office hours . Llr . Wofford and ot hers attending the :ryril meeti.g s~ould receive e xpressions o f appreciation f o r their willingness to attend. 2. q In schedul ine; Cor.:.r,1 ·· ssion meetings 'i · ·'·i.·1 d8LX.1--'.:: :·,1cnt and agency :.eads, the fi rst one should be on manaGement - ten&nt relations in public housing . (M- s. Stephens emphas i z e d t he differe .ce between the cooperation of the tw o tenant selection off:c e s. Ne ed t o find out if there are diffe:rent standards of i ,s nectio·· for different arens was n oted ). 3. Second meeting to b e with Board o f Educ ati o n representative; third Inspection and Code Enf o - ceme~t. 4. Board of Education to be called o_ t o see t ~~ t p ~ovisions are mad f or recreation at extended sess ·· o. sc h oo ls , co rm unicatio-ri to be ca rried to Superintendent's of"ice oy z corara ittee ~ron Cor~issiono 5. Residents of the area be included in po icy ~a~ing b o ,y for ~odel Neighbor hood program . 6. Commission should point out any discrep~ncies in se?vices in the several areas. Mr. Ezzard pointed out that t here are compl a: ~ts 2bo 1 t ~aings ot her tha n inspection. hlr . Kaler suggested that the Con~u~ity ~elat ions Commission and the l\Iayor 's office might ri o:;._·k o ut 2 j o :::.. n t pr o gram . The matter of duplicating EOA services was br o uG,_t u~) . ~-~r. Dobbs, a member of the EOA Boa rd, said it may or ·,iay not; it woul de end on how it was wo~k~d - out nass Bullard moved tha t a ·1ight meeting of t he full co .._nission be c alled to assemble the Commission's recommendat ions to the Board of Aldermen . Passed . Mr . Kaler c alle d on Mr. Ed Shukraft, who had requested ti·:1e to spealc about conditions in West End . He s aid they need new h o· sing, new developraent in the area , which provides an -opport· nity to set a fine example of people living together . Mr. Kaler called on Mr . Paul Anthony, Executive Director of tl..c Southern Regional Counci l , whom he had invited to speal;;: 0 ·1 the role of the Commission, etc •• Mr o Antho ny emphasized the communic 2tion function of the Comnission; the need for coordina tion of the Commission's activities through the staff ; thi importance of keeping an attitude of �Co .m1ission _..: inutes agreement amo ng L:.c r.1e,:1be:. s of t:1e Con;;:~ss iOi.1. ~:e cor.1::-•lir..2 _tee} t he Commission 0 11 hav .:.n;- c;ott e n ofi -·- o 8 r · go:-::-oi.lS s··-2 :.:· t ; ci ·:;:, .j ;:is ·c::e most i mport and duties as folloDs - ~elJ t~e Joor Dn d d is adva~ta ged , encourage se 1se of self- help ; i 1lter pre ··- fo n nd c Jncate r!l1it e middle cla ss about problems. n en nsh:d ;:i b 01r i:; 11 s m:L1er t roubl0 11 , he s a i d t h ere is a small gr oup of p eep e in ~lmost every ci ty who wo u ld wclco~e vi olence, but we must all wo _· ,;: o n ·n · eve1 t · vc ,1eas ur0s . There was additional discussion ab o ut Pes t E,-::.u . .~r . Tom ~:;:ma :rd, editoI' o f The We e kl y Star , sai peo~ le are gettin g ·1scour&~ed, signs of interest from the larger corn,unity would h elp , als o iu Qor ma~ion D)out ~~at is go ing on o ut t here i n the metro press wo uld hel~ . Jrs . p 3sc :2 - 1 re~ort ed on several meetings with t est Ed r eside n ts .and ·eal estate re pres e ntatives. Mr. Butler said would help to ,rge t ~he U:. b a n Ran Gal prog ram off the gr ound . " Mr . Kaler p oi nted o ut t i e Commission c annot deal wit h the economic fa c tors o f new b·· s iness , etc. 1E:r . O;{nai·d sa icJ t her e is nnot hing special the Commission c an d o. Seve ·211 1. ont hs ago h e Vi ent to r.1et1·0p olit an papers and urged repof t b ut t ~ey would n ot do it . r ews cedia must report it •• unt o residents to vio:r·-: o ut i ndiv id ual relat · ons ' _ipso" Mr . Kuettner mo ved t :.at a committee o e ap~6intecJ t o work with residents. Passe d. The Cha i rman appoi.ted the following : Mr . n. J . Butler, c_airnan Illr . Al Kuett ne : Dr . Robert E o Lee Mr . Clarenc e G. Ezzard Miss 1·e1en Bull ard Mr . Ha as noted that o ne solution to t he proolens of this area is to o p e n up other areas . Th e meeting was ad journed at 4 : 00 p . m. ~espectfully su-~itted, (Mrs . ) Fred J . P tterson ( In the absence of ~rs . Patterson the minutes wefre tal en by the Executive Director . ) � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document sexeruncreer: caemmbesaee eee warn COMMUNITY RELATIONS CCMMISSICN The Community Relations Commission met on Friday, April 28, 1967 in Committee Room #2 of City Hall. The following members were present: r Mr. Irving K. Kaler, Chairman Miss Helen Bullard, “Secon ae Vice Chairman Mrs. Eliza K. Paschall, Executive Director Mr. T. M. Alexander Mir. Byron Attridge hirs. Sara Baker Mr. R. J. Butler Mr. Robert Dobbs ir. C. G. Ezgard Miz. Joseph Haas Mr. Al Kuettner Dr. Robert H. Lee Rabbi Jacob Rothschild Mr. M. G. Ryan Mr. Jack Sells Mrs. Mary Stevens or OF the Southern Visitors, Mr. Paul Anthony, Executive Direc az ad. Regional Council, Mr. Id Si Mr. Irving Kaler, chairman presiding. Min were adopted as circulated. Report of th 2 Mr. Joseph Haas, chairman of the Ad Hec Committee reported that the committee LTeels the most eriective worl of the Commission will be in preventive efforts. Once any disturbance actually breaks out, it is a police function. If the committee is asked to come in and help, it would respond. In the event of any disturbance the Committee would be convened and would be expanded to include the Team from the area in Question. Other members of the Committee are Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, Archbishop Paul Hallinan, Rev. Samuel Williams and Mr. Robert Dobbs. Mr. Ealer called on chairmen of the Neighborhood Teams for reports as follows; Mrs. Stephens, iideewood-Kirkwood: Report attached. Mr. C. G. Ezzard, Summerhill Peoplestoyn: Reported that majority of robiens brought up at meeting on March 28 concerned street, etc. and housing, including code enforcement, stadium parking and model neigh- h e borhood program. He then called on Kr. Haas, a member of the Team, to report on the meeting on Housing on April 25, Mr. Haas reported that at the meeting several serious problems were brought out - lending agencies are reluctant to lend in this area because of uncertainties; insurance companies will not insure a house os under $8,000; individuals are told by the Inspection Department to make Commission Minuves Pare 2 repairs when they are uncertain about future plans. Recommendations were: 1. Newspapers print platt of Modei Neighborhood areas. 2. City consider neighborhood offices where citizens can make complaings 2.2 about inspection notices, etc. It is hard to get off grom work in time to get to City Hall, etc. Uaving someone in the neighborhood would make it easier and show that the city cared about making it easier. 83. Board of Aldermen should be asked to review policies to make sure that there is the least difficulty for people in this erea, There must be assurance that if the planning grant is given for the Nodel Neighborhood Program, before the final program is adopted there will be public hearings and those in the areas will be allowed to parti- cipate. At the April 25 meeting, Mr. Rich that they must add 3,600 parking power of condemnation. There is more parking should go up or out. dson oz the Stadium Authority said ar Spaces by 1979, but that they have no a difference of opinion about whether City services should be kept at absolute optimum in this area. ort on the bout public manager to evict is now being litigated. Miss Helen Bullard, Mechancisville.-Pittsburh: 6 meeting; most anxiety abou liodel Neighborhood and bh Mr. T. M. Alexander, Vine City-Lightnine: It had been important at Hearing to establish fact that the Committee had not come to cover up for the city. There is a feeling thet there is a policy of “protective custody" given to slumlords. In the Vine City area, where there are many tenant occupied houses, complaints are about lack of code enforcement, whereas in areas of home ownerships there are complaints about too stringent code enforcenant It should be determined if there are two standards of inspection and enforcement. Complaints about public housine, of not being up to standard and the power and manner of the manager. The action of the Board of Education in the school site selection gives validity to the contention of protective treatment of slumlords. Need more job opportunities. This is fertile grougd for those who would-cteate tension. Mr. Robert Dobbs, Northwest Area: This meeting was arranced by the EOA committees for that area and My. Dobbs said they should be commended for the fine way in which they planned the meeting. There were two (2) basic issues - the extended day in the schools and public housing policies. he extended school day will be hard not only for the children but on Working parents. Those present stated that they would much prefer por- table units at the schools with a full day than double session with presont facilities. The uonthily lease, the annual income review, and the disparity between charges at the various projects are primary concerns of public housing tenants. Rabbi Rothschild, a member of the Team said there were complaints about the school transfer method, that by the time notice that transfer request cannot be approved is received, it is too late to make another request. He was “impressed with the reasonableness of the people in regard to schools, they made the request that if the school conditions require double session, supervised recreation should be available; used to be able to tell when children were seen walking the streets that they =< ™ oo. *. Conmission Minutes Paze 3 Should be in School. Now they might be on the way to or from school.” Mir. Kaler then asked for action on the following recommendations, each of which was adopted: Ll. t should be aneeesee to ir. Wotftord, Director of the Inspection Department, that there be established either neishborhood offices or a schedule (winlar to voting registration schedule) whereby Questions can be brought after the regular office hours. Ur. Wofford and others attending the April meeting should receive expressions of appreciation for their willingness to attend. 2. In scheduling Commission meetings with Gepartment and agency heads, q the first one should be on management-tenant relations in public housing. (Mrs. Stephens emphasized the difference between the coope~ ration of the two tenant selection offices. Need to find out if there are different Standards of inspection for different areas was noted). 3. Second meeting to be with Board of Education representative; third Inspection and Code Enforcement. 4. Board of Education to be called on to see that wrovisions are made for recreation at extended session schools, communication to be carried to Superintendent's office by 2 committee from Commission. 5. Residents of the area be included in policy making body for Model Neighborhood program. 6. Commission should point out any discrepancies in services in the several areas. nings other Kir. Ezzard pointed out that there are complaints about t than inspection. Mr. Kaler suggested that the Community Relations Commission and the Mayor's office might work out a joint program. The matter of duplicating EOA services was brought up. Mr. Bobbs, a member of the EOA Board, said it may or may not; it would depend on how ht was workéd~ out ission be tne Board of iiss Bullard moved that a night meeting of the full Com called to assemble the Commission's recommendations to Aldermen. Passed. Mr. Kaler called on tir. Ed Shukraft, who had requested time to speak about conditions in West End. He said they need new housing, new cevelopment in the area, which provides an apportunity to t a fine example of people living together, oo wy - or ¢ Mv. Kaler called on Mr. Paul Anthony, Executive Director of the Southern Regional Council, whom he had invited to speak oa the role of the Commission, etc.. Mr. Anthony emphasized the communication function of the Commission; the need for coordination of the Commission's activities through the staff; the importance of keeping an attitude of Commission Minutes page 4 agreement among the members of the Commission. He complimented the Commission on having gotten off to a vigorous Start; citcd as the most importand duties as follows - help the poor and disadvantaced, encourage sense of self-help; interpret for and educate waite middle class about problems. When asked about “summer trouble", he said there is a small group of people in almost every city who would welcome violence, but we must all work on preventive measures. There was additional discussion about West End. lir. Tom Gunard, editor of The Weekly Star, said people are getting discouraged, Signs of interest from the larger community would help, aiso information about what is going on out there in the metro press would help. Mrs. Pascheail reported on several meetings with West End residents and real estate representatives. Mr. Butler said would help to “set the Urban Renewal program off the ground." Mr. Kaler pointed out the Commission cannot deal with the economic factors of new business, etc. iix. Oxnard said there is “nothing Special the Commission can do. Several months ago he went to metro- politan papers and urged report but they would not do it. WNews uedia must report it.. up to residents to work out individual relationships." Mr. Kuettner moved that a committee be appointed to work with residents. Passda. The Chairman appointed the following: Mr. R. J. Butler, Chairman Mr. Al Kuettner Dr. Robert EH. Lee Mr. Clarence G. Ezzard Miss Helen Bullard Mr. Haas noted that one solution to the problems of this area is to open up other areas. , The meeting was adjourned at 4:90 p.m. Respectfully submitted, 4 (lirs.) Fred W. Patterson (In the absence of Nrs. Patterson the minutes wére taken by the Executive Director.)  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 33 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/bd317c18fbbe77ed064a4b159b9f97d7.pdf 0c066ed85747182289c8e015c7d750b0 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. OMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION ESTABLISHED BY THE MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, NOVEMBER, 1966 1209 CITY HALL, ATLANTA GEORGIA 90309 TELEPHONE 51!!-4463 EXT. 433 May 16 , 1967 Mr. Benny T. Smith 209 Archcrest Drive Hapeville, G orgia Dear Mr. Smith: I ilffl very disappointed to learn from Mr. McEvoy on Police Community R lations has no mo space participants . It wa my understanding that the for such a person as ~e would r commend. I did tim of r gistering was that important . that the Conf ranc to accomodot odditiona space would b h ld not re liz that the The new director of th ACLU also will be unabl to be cco dated . Perhap wh nth two polic offic r who will attend the Conf r nc return· , w con join with th ACLU end oth r int rooted groups in inviting the to k g ner l report of th finding of the Conf r nc . Siner ly, (Mr e ) Eliza K. Pa chall Dir ctor Ex cutiv EKP t CCC Hr. Irving K. Kal r / yor Ivan All n, Jr. v Polic Chi f H ~b rt J nkin r . T d fr ad n � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document OMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION ESTABLISHED BY THE MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, NOVEMBER, 1966 1203 CITY HALL, ATLANTA GEORGIA 80303 TELEPHONE 522-4468 EXT. 433 May 16, 1967 Mr. Benny T. Smith 209 Archerest Drive Hapeville, Georgia Dear Mr. Smith: I am very disappointed to learn from Mr. McEvay that the Conference on Police Community Relations has no more space to accomodate additionaj participants. It was my understanding that the space would be held for such a person as we would recommend. I did not realize that the time of registering was that important, The new directer of the ACLU also will be unable to be accomodated. Perhaps when the two police officers whe will attend the Conference return, we can join with the ACLU and other interested groups in inviting them to make a general report of the findings of the Conference. Sincerely, (Mre.) Eliza K. Paschall Executive Director EKPgmt ccs Mr. Irving K. Kaler Mayor Ivan Allen, da Police Chief Herbert Jenkins Mz. Ted Freedmen  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 32 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/59245922ad565d4012496933a86c60bd.pdf 229d854effab6b060b2978a124163265 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. f OR YOUR fNfORMATION COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION 1203 CITY HALL ATLANTA, GEORGIA Report on Meeting with Staff of Bethlehem Center (located near Carver School) and Wesley House Centers (Southea s t and Southwest): on April 24, 1967 The staff who work with young people in these areas expressed . the following concerns: 11 That Police don't come 11 when you call them, or take so long that they are too late to help when they do ar r ive. That Police need special training to handle young people, That there should be some r e gistration and/or regulations concerning the possession of firearms and weapons. They spoke of increasing incidences of use of knives, etc. That laws r e lating to the sale of whiskey to minors should be more stringently enforced. That no more l i quor license s be a pproved for the area close to Bethlehem Center. They have opposed it at he a rings which they known about, but wonder where the he a rings are advertised. That mo re reh ab ilitative work be don e through the Juvenile Court. Te ndency to send clients home wi t hout much work - either a tti t ud e th a t nothing is wrong or th a t nothin g c a n be don e . Th a t people in the nei g hborhood are afra id to report som e o f t h e old e r yo u th, for fear of repri s als - both a dults a nd younger pe o p l e . a r e afra id. They h a ve ma d e v a r io u s cont a c t s with Police De pa rtm e nt, Juv e nile Court , etc . Th e y are still worried a bou t wh a t th ey fee l to b e a g ro wi n g "la wl es sness" and u s e of weapons, which they feel to be a pro b lem o f 11 Commun i t y Relation s ", How can community protect itself a ga inst peo p l e who in timid a te by threa ts, which a re not basis e nough for leg a l a ctio n or people who h a ve residents scared to swear out warrant against th e m? � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document AO Met Crm FOR YOUR INFORMATION COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION 1203 CITY HALL ATLANTA, GEORGIA Report on Meeting with Staff of Bethlehem Center (located near Carver School) and Wesley House Centers (Southeast and Southwest): op April 24, 1967 The staff who work with young people in these areas expressed the following concerns: w" That Police don't come" when you call them, or take so long that they are too late to help when they do arrive. That Police need special training to handle young people. That there should be some registration and/or regulations concerning the possession of firearms and weapons. They spoke of increasing incidences of use of knives, etc. That laws relating to the sale of whiskey to minors should be more stringently enforced, That no more liquor licenses be approved for the area close to Bethlehem Center. They have opposed it at hearings which they known about, but wonder where the hearings are advertised. That more rehabilitative work be done through the Juvenile Court. Tendency to send clients home without much work = either attitude that nothing is wrong or that nothing can be done. That people in the neighborhood are afraid to report some of the older youth, for fear of reprisals - both adults and younger people. are afraid. They have made various contacts with Police Department, Juvenile Court, etc. They are still worried about what they feel to be a growing "lawlessness" and use of weapons, which they feel to be a problem of "Community Relations", How can community protect itself against people who intimidate by threats, which are not basis enough for legal action or people who have residents scared to swear out warrant against them?  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 31 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/cd1b991028bfef7063aca388d9c8adcf.pdf 1e64c7a3ce6a66a78461b5eef47de517 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. Ap ril Bv 1967 The Georgi a State Advi s ory Commi ttee o~ t he U.S . Commi ss io n on Civil Righ t s met a t 9 :30 on Saturday , Apri l 8 , i n t he Old Post- Offi ce Buildi ng . Nine or te n s pe ctat ors we r e pr esent wi t h f our t een me~bers of the Council s i t ti ng . Re v . Os ca r McCloud a ct ed as Chairman in the a bs enc e of Dr. Vivian Hende r s on, Pr es~de nt of Cl a rk College, who was i nvestigat i ng a "s l eep out' 1 a t h is s chool. It se lf;m.i, t b :J s tudents of Clark College pro testi ng t he abs enc e of adequate police pro t e c ~i on decided to sl:ep on Cla r k College's l awn 1 :3ayi ng i t wa s s a fer the r e . First pane l: Rev . Andrew Young--S.C. L. C. ; fil:r. Jae Hend r i cks-- Ge orgj.a Co1.rnr:::i. l on Huma n Re l a tions ; Rev . Amos Holme s--N. A. A.C . P.; Mr s . Clayt on--- Di rector of Hous i ng for American Fr iends Se r vic e Coiur.li ttee; Mr. Co l l i nson--[~ pl oyment, Americ an Fri end s Se rvic e Commi tte e . Tes ti mony--Rev. Andrew Young- - Ghet to and dens i ty a re synorwmous v there are s epa rate application offices f or , Negro and whi te appl i ca nts f or public hous ing i n Atlanta . There is s ubtl e dis cri mi nat ion. He urged fa i r hous ing and open oc cupancy . Te s ti mony--Mr. J oe Hendric ks --Urged true.des egr egation of public ho us i ng , easing of harsh regulations t ha t i mpede t he pooro i n new hous i ng . There is de-fa c t o s egr egation White housing i s cheape r, in (Negr o) Col l ier Heigh ts a $20,000 home would be 816, 000 or $17 ,000 in Buc khead . Negr oe s pay a lar ge r pro por t i on of t heir inc ome f or rent t han whit e s. Test i mony--Rev . Amos Holmes , Vice President, Atlan t a N. A. A. C. P . --There are 5o% of Negroes living on $3000 incomes . t o house displa c ed Negroes. of the land . 9, 800 housing uni t s a re ne eded by De cember 43% of the tota l populati on i s Negr o , us i ng only 2ff~ The N. A. A.C.P. has a sui t pending to withhold funds t o model c it ies until people in affected areas are or there is an abse'n ce of di scrimination . planning board and c onsulted on plans, and �Page Two Testimony--Tfrs. Clayton- - The myt h i s be ing exploded t ha t property val11e :3 go down when Negroes move in. lrs. Clay ton test i fied tha t i n the Cas cade (SW) area an attempt is being made to educate and change att itud es. She found that the re is a dual ma rket, white realto rs, wanting to se ll only to Negroes, put their "ans " in Negro papers. conveni ent housing. Jobs are limited because of failure to obtai n Ad vocate s open hous ing , open occupancy. Test imony- - Mr. Collinson, Re creation-- Urged open housing, open occupancy , Appli cants f or jobs in Doraville , Chamb l ee, e tc. have rea l difficulty get ting t o jobs. Planned recreat ion is difficul t because of prejud ice especial l y in swim.ming . Rev. Andrew Young of Southern Christ i an Leader ship Conference asked t o be heard on Model Cities he testified: In Summe:.- Hill Model cities he co ns i dered that there was no ciitiz ens' participation because no poli cy makers on t he board are area pe ople . Hi gh class mot els and hotels are replacing re s idential areas i.e. Marriot Hotel, etc. There should be a humane pat tern of re-location. exists segregation by class. model ci t ies. There Conc erned citizens can not get information about 221-D-3 housing should be non-profit. Mrs. Stanley of Greater Atlanta Council . on Human Re lations--Testimony. Urged open housing--fai r housing. Told Decatur, Georgia story . Decatur, Negroes are be ing driven out by urban renewal. Said that in In De catur and East Lake because of realtors having sold property i n transitional areas to Negroes signs "For Sale" are prohibited in yards. This ·i s an area of extreme ghetto housing. Rev. Holmes of N. A. A. C.P.--Testimony--Asked to speak agai n, urged citizen participation at policy level by law. An injunctive procedure see if it is di s- criminatory. Mr . Stanton, Housing Dept.--Testimony--One property owner tried to get easement for sewers, una ble to get_ it to improve property because she was Negro. time, whites in like situati ons were _able to do s o, without difficulty. At same �l i Page Three 1. Nor ths i de Drive nea r Ar den Dri ve--Hegroes own property here but the re is concerted attempt to s queeze t hem out because it being of desirable location f or whites. 2. In Capi t ol Homes there i s ove r - cha r ge on rent f rom $50.00 to 370. 00 t o $87 .00, tenant t old t hat because he di d not a ccur a tely report income, he will be evicted in one week. When asked about moving to another hous i ng project nearer to his work tenant told that the only t wo ways a re phys ical condition, and s ize of family. Mr. Edward Moody--Mechanicsville Community leade r asked to be heard. -Tr . Willmore s a id that agenda was filled, but aft er much discuss ion , Mr. Moody was given an appointment at 1:30 P. M. Mr . Samples of the Grass Roots Counci l" als o asked to be heard but later agreed to s ubmit hi s findings in writing for the record. Pa nelt Real Esta t e fr . Bickers ] Mr. Callaway ] both absent Panel--Mrs . Marshall J. Mantler and Dr . Wi t.,_ens t ein of t he American JewL ,h Committee . Mrs . Mantler who is a lic ensed Atlanta realtor t es'":if".ed tlia .. J',:Jw~i a r e excluded f rom s i x sub-divisions in Northwest Atlant a . She said that the r e are subtle ways of exclus ion such a s a c lub syste i n which homes are s old in a c ertain area t o peopl e belonging t o .the c lub. There are restric t ive c lau;es written into deeds . l aw- s uits . 3. 2. These are un- constitutional but most buyers shy away from Another r estr iction on sal e of homes t o Jews i s a n a greement by realtors t o a l low only ten per cent of the homes to be purchas~d by Jews . Dr. Wittenstein-- Testimony--Most of his testimony c orroborated Mrs. Mantler's . Dr . Cothran of the Committee asked Dr. Wittenstein what would happen if a Negro tried to buy a home in a Jewish Community. Drg Wittenstein had to confess that the Jew would move out , the Jews are jqst as prejudiced as the other whites and �Page Four did not de s ire Negro ne i ghbors . Bot. these panelist:~ UY.'i~r::d thr t ,.:r10 Com;~:i. t tEi i~ he l p t o esta bli s h a progr am to a l leviate the J ewish si tua tion (not hi ng was aa · d about the Negr o one) . Mr . Willmore of the Committee was int erested i n k:'.1.owi ng whether any of these l oc ati ons we r e unde r F. H. A. Tol d that they were not, (they were all (nearly a ll) i n the luxury c lass , above F. H. A. Mr. Wat son of t he Communicable Di seases Health Cent er --Tes timony- - He te s tified t hat no Negroes ( staff members ) have been abl e t o get homes or apartments in the area . Negr oes . The r e a re apartme nts on 1orth Decatur Roa d, bu t wi ll not rent t o M~. Wil l more sugges t ed that situatio n and s ee what wi ll ha ppen. tlanta Feder a l Hous i ng be a l erted t o t his He r eminded list eners that any F.H . A. guaranteed l oan a cc ep t ance prohibits di s cr i mination and many of the s e owners refusi ng Negr o leases are cl early i n vio l a tion of the law, under t itle 1 , of the Civi l Ri ght s Ac t . Panel : Mrs. Holloway, Mr s . Caudy, Mr . Billings l ea . Mr s . Holl oway- -Owner i n a changi ne ne i ghborhood- -She lives i n a Southwest Atlanta homep had di ffi cul ty find i ng home, had a Negro realt or f i nnaly bought directly from owne r. Trans i t i ona l area homes a r e usua lly over-priced . There No contact with wlli te ne i ghbors . we r e no ,homes f or sale except hers when she moved in; now th r ee whi te persons have offe r ed t hei r homes f or sale . Mrs . Caudy--Experi enc e very similar; white children s hot B. B. guns :!int o glass door, but have ceased, one white girl tried to be f r iend l y to her daughter and was completely ostracized by .white neighbors. There is a new club going and it is hopeful that some Community spirit can be developed with white neighcors. Mr . Billings lea--A real estate broker testified that Negro real tors a:ren' t really block-busting, they are simply trying to fill a demand of Negroes for better housing and some times when they contact owners in neighborhood this is the only way they can do thiso Panel--Dr. Lee Shelton, Mr~ Haver 9 Mr . Buchwalter. �I I Page Five These three peopl e were living i n a trans·t:on area i n the S. W. sec~i on . Dr. Lee Shel ton--Negro physici an- -Te st imony---Te ~.tified h e simply wanted a nice house wi th room enough f or hi s chi l dren, fo und it only in Wes t Nanor, Audubon Forest in a whi te ne i ghborhood. He has had no trouble. Neighbors a r e f ri endly . Hr. Haver--a public s cho ol t eacher at South- We st High, lives next door to a. Negro. The first ni ght the Negro es moved in he and his wife wne t over t o welcome them, carried a pitcher of tea, said the regro nei ghbors were like them, they did not really know ,·That to expect but they have f ound they a re so alike in so many ways they have · become friends s ocial l y and otherwise. Mr. Buchwalter--a l s o lives in the West Manor area . purchase a hor;ie in a ne i ghborhood like this . f or O.E.O. i n CAP progr am . Dr. Shelton and He came to Atla nta to He has ha d no difficulty. 1 Works r. Haver said the only . regret they have is prejudice in kee ping their boys i n Wes t Manor out of the Little League . Of fici a l s have dropped Wes t anor be cause of the Negro boys ~~i ng in t he League . Recess : Resumed a t 1:30 Edward Moody--Mechanicsvi lle community leader--T1:i·st i mony---l . whe re color begi ns . based progr ams. 4. 3. 2. Righ t:3 end City planners are not consulting people in Atl anta Public housing i s not operated on a non- discriminatory bas i s . This, the Advi s ory Committee, is a good example of prejudice. They have in- vited all these profess ors and off ic ers of organizations, but no gra s s roots pe ople . Panel--Mr. \falte r Scott--Dekabl e real estate broker . 1. Mr. Sco tt said i n his native county, DeKalb, a \·Thi te realtor will not sell a Negro property in a whit e neighborhood. It was brought out that½ of his business is with federally financed F.H.A. home owners that prohibits discrimination. Mr. Scott doubts that DeKalb County would s upport open housing. �Page Si x: 2 : 40--Dr. Vi vi an Henderson arrived and took over the Chairmanshi p . Panel: Mr. Brown--Atlanta Federal Savings & Loan Assoc.p r epr esent i ng white l endi ng a gency. . Test ony--A conimi ttee member · asked Mr. Brm n what ,woul d happen if he, a Negro ~ . .i m . wanted to borrow money from hi s company to buy a home _in a whi te neighborhood . Mr . Brown repli ed that he would be relcutant to l~nd him the money be cause he would not '\'Tant t o upset the peace -. and tranquility of t h e white cornmuni ty . Mr s . Yancey of the Committee told him that suppos i ng the applicant for the l oan were an old custo~er of 20 year s had · an excellent credi t rating and could easily r epay hi s · company . He sai d he would still be r eluctant . Dr. Henderson of the Commi ttee then reminded Mr . Brown that this could also work against him i f the Negro Communi ty f ound out he would not lend the Negro es t he money, t hey woul d r e- a ct aga i nst him. Mr . Brown said in that c ase he woul d l end i t to them . He sai d he believed passage of open housing bill would stiffen the resistance. Hr . Staten--Lawyer--National Bank of Georg-ia-- Testimony--Said there is no policy of discrimination. col or at his bank. Mr . Wilmo r e asked i f they had any junior officers of He admit ted they did not, said there were clerical workers . Mr. Al Henry- -Council on Human Relations--!Iro Henry had contacted 27 realtors from newspaper ads of property in white neighborhoods: 19 out of 27 said they would not sell to Negroes , all the houses were on loans guaranteed by F . H. A. F .H. A. is either a silent or active partner in discrimination. Mr . Hartman--Deputy Director of Federal Hous-ing Authori t y--Testimony-- If we get a complaint we will see that the guilty person is put out of the program . Only one complaint in Georgia since 1962. are white. It was brought that most F.H.A. brokers (These are authorized people dealing with lists of re-sale property under F.H . A.) These are called real estate management brokers. Lists are made up after property has been sold it does n~t give a fair chanceto any outside sales person. There have been s ix sales in predominantly white areas to Neg~oes . �Page Seven Mr. :Moreland Smi th--Southern Regional Counc_:1--'.P.e::itimony--Open h ou ::1i::l.f): a,:J.·,rc:i.:: at ,~d.• , I Mr. Rutledge- - NEDH- -Legisla t ion needed for Comm:L ttee a.gai ns t disc:r:i.r.:i:i. i- at:i.on in hous i ng . Model cities discussed: 1. Havine; a demonstration city t at keeps people in ghetto i s not tlrn, wisest thing . 2. Mode l cities is not a progr am , it is a technique . 3. Segregated hous ing i s caused by 4. Urged real community participation. urban r ene ·ml. Mr. Bob 'I'hompson--Urban Development Dept .--Amidst talk of housing uni ts being built on west s ide exclusively because there is no space, name three possible sites: 1. Canter bury Road--North .of Lenox Road . 2. Railroad .Avenue--Opposite Lenox Squa re. 3. House Road in DeKalb County; could it be leased ? Mr . Persell, Mrs . Paschall, Mr. Cecil Al exander, Mr . Robins on 1. Mr. Cecil Alexander--Do we ' build in t he core or where? Difficult t o work in DeKalb County because they have no "workable " program . 2. Mr. Robinson--The need is for equal opportuni ty non-profi t housing . 3. Mr s . Pas cha ll--The residents of the community' use the term "stabili za t i on" I mean ~pen occupancy . 4. · 5. Mr . Persell--Need f or a total community fai r housing commission. Information should be collected and dis::iemi nated . 6. There should be a moderate income development office. 7. Find houg sand finanoa th -m. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document April 8, 1967 The Georgia State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights met at 9:30 on Saturday, April 8, in the 01d Post-~Office Building. Nine or ten spectators were present with fourteen members of the Council sitting. Rev. Oscar McCloud acted as Chairman in the absence of Dr. Vivian Eenderson, President of Clark College, who was investigating a "sleep out” at his school. It seems the students of Clark College protesting the absence of adequate police protection decided to sleep on Clark College's lawn, saying it was safer there. First panel: Rev. Andrew Young--S.C.L.C.; Hr. Jac Hendricks--Georgia Council _on Human Relations; Rev. Amos Holmes--N.A.A.C.P.; Mrs, Clayton--Director of Housing for American Friends Service Committee; Mr. Collinson~-Employment, American Friends Service Committee. | Testimony—-Rev. Andrew Young--Ghetto and density are synonomous, there are separate application offices for, Negro and white applicants for public housing in Atlanta. There is subtle discrimination. He urged fair housing and open occupancy. Testimony--Mr. Joe Hendricks--Urged true desegregation of public housing, easing of harsh regulations that impede the poor. There is de-facto segregation in new housing. White housing is cheaper, in (Negro) Collier Heights a 320,000 home would be $16,000 or $17,000 in Buckhead. Negroes pay a larger proportion of their income for rent than whites. Testimony--Rev. Amos Holmes, Vice President, Atlanta N.A.A.C.P.--There are 50% of Negroes living on $3000 incomes. 9,800 housing units are needed by December to house displaced Negroes. 43% of the total population is Negro, using only 20% of the land, The N.A.A.C.P. has a suit pending to withhold funds to model cities until people in affected areas are on planning board and consulted on plans, and there is an absence of discrimination. Page Two Testimony—-Mrs. Clayton-~ The myth is being exploded that property values go down when Negroes move in. Mrs. Clayton testified that in the Cascade (si) area an attempt is being made to educate and change attitudes. She found that there is a dual market, white realtors, wanting to sell only to Negroes, put _ their "ads" in Negro papers. Jobs are limited because of failure to obtain convenient housing. Advocates open housing, open occupancy. Testimony--Mr. Collinson, Recreation-- Urged open housing, open occupancy, Applicants for jobs in Doraville, Chamblee, etc. have real difficulty getting to jobs. Planned recreation is difficult because of prejudice especially in swimming. Rev. Andrew Young of Southern Christian Leadership Conference asked to be heard on Model Cities he testified: In Summer Hill Model cities he considered that there was no citizens' pasitiedbetion because no policy makers on the board are area people. High class motels and hotels are replacing residential areas i.e. Marriot Hotel, etc. There should be a humane pattern of re-location. There exists segregation by class. Concerned citizens can not get information about model cities. 221-D-3 housing should be non-profit, Mrs. Stanley of Greater Atlanta Council’ on Human Relations--Testimony. Urged open housing--fair housing. Told Decatur, Georgia story. Said that in Decatur, Negroes are being driven out by urban renewal. In Decatur and Hast Lake because of realtors having sold property in transitional areas to Negroes signs "For Sale" are prohibited in yards. This ‘is an area of extreme ghetto housing. Rev. Holmes of N.A.A.C.P.--Testimony—-Asked to speak again, urged citizen participation at policy level by law. An injunctive procedure see if it is dis- eriminatory. Mr. Stanton, Housing Dept.-~-Testimony~-One property owner tried to get easement for sewers, unable to get it to improve property because she was Negro. At same time, whites in like situations were able to do so, without difficulty. —, Fe ey Page Three 1. Northside Drive near Arden Drive--Negroes own property here but there is concerted attempt to squeeze them out because it being of desirable location for whites. 2. In Capitol Homes there is over-charge on rent from $50.00 to 370.00 to $87.00, tenant told that because he did not accurately report income, he will be evicted in one week. When asked about moving to another housing project nearer to his work tenant told that the only two ways are physical condition, and size of family. Mr, Edward Moody--Mechanicsville Community leader asked to be heard. Mr. Willmore said that agenda was filled, but after much discussion, Mr. Moody was given an appointment at 1:30 P.M. Mr. Samples of the "Grass Roots Council" also asked to be heard but later agreed to submit his findings in writing for the record. Panels Real Estate Mr. Bickers both absent Mr. Callaway Panel--Mrs. Marshall J. Mantler and Dr. Wittenstein of the American Jewish Committee. Mrs. Mantler who is a licensed Atlanta realtor testified that Jews are excluded from six sub-divisions in Northwest Atlanta. She said that there are subtle ways of exclusion such as a club system in which homes are sold in a certain area to people belonging to.the club. 2, There are rastrictive clauses written into deeds. These are un-constitutional but most buyers shy away from law-suits. 3. Another restriction on sale of homes to Jews is an agreement by realtors to allow only ten per cent of the homes to be purchased by Jews. Dr. Wittenstein--Testimony--Most of his testimony corroborated Mrs. Mantler's. Dr. Cothran of the Committee asked Dr. Wittenstein what would happen if a Negro tried to buy a home in a Jewish Community. Dr. Wittenstein had to confess that the Jew would move out, the Jews are just as prejudiced as the other whites and egg a oo a Page Four did not desire Negro neighbors. Both these panelists urged that the Committee help to establish a program to alleviate the Jewish situation (nothing was said about the Negro one). Mr. Willmore of the Committee was interested in knowing whether any of these locations were under F.H.A. Told that they were not, (they were all (nearly all) in the luxury class, above F.H.A. . Mr. Watson of the Communicable Diseases Health Center--Testimony-— He testi- fied that no Negroes (staff members ) have been able to get homes or apartments in the area. There are apartments on North Decatur Road, but will not rent to Negroes. Mr. Willmore suggested that Atlanta Federal Housing be alerted to this situation and see what will happen. He reminded listeners that any F.H.A. guaranteed loan acceptance prohibits discrimination and many of these owners refusing Negro leases are clearly in violation of the law, under title 1, of the Civil Rights Act. Panel: Mrs. Holloway, Mrs. Caudy, Mr. Billingslea. Mrs. Holloway--Owner in a changing neighborhood--She lives in a Southwest Atlanta home, had difficulty finding home, had a Negro realtor finnaly bought directly from owner. Transitional area homes are usually over=priced. No contact with white neighbors. There were no homes for sale except hers when she moved in; now three white persons have offered their homes for sale. racitswis aclteneus cues very similar; white children shot B.B. guns into glass door, but have ceased, one white girl tried to be friendly to her daughter and was completely ostracized by white neighbors. There is a new club going and it is hopeful that some Community spirit can be developed with white neighbors. Mr. Billingslea--A real estate broker testified that Negro realtors aren't really block-busting, they are simply trying to fill a demand of Negroes for better housing and some times when they contact owners in neighborhood this is the only way they can do this. Panel--Dr. Lee Shelton, Mr. Haver, Mr. Buchwalter. Page Five These three people were living in a transition avea in the S.W. section, Dr. Lee Shelton--Negro physician--Testimony——Testified ne simply wanted a nice house with room enough £62 Wis children, found it only in West Manor, Audubon Forest in a white neighborhood. He has had no trouble. Neighbors are friendly. Mr, Haver--a public school teacher at South-West High, Lives next door to a Negro. The first night the Negroes moved in he and his wife wnet over to welcome them, carried a pitcher of tea, said the Negro neighbors wend: 1008 them, they did not really know what to expect but they have found they are so alike in ate ways they have become friends socially and otherwise. Mr. Buchwalter--also lives in thie Weat Manor area, He came to Atlanta to purchase a home in a neighborhood like this. He has had no difficulty. Works for 0.E.0. in CAP program. Dr. Shelton and Mr. Haver said the only,regret they have is prejudice in keeping their boys in West Manor out of the Little League. Officials have dropped West Manor because of the Negro boys being in the League. Recess: Resumed at 1:30 Edward Moody--Mechanicsville community leader—~Testimony--l. Rights end where color begins, 2. City planners are not consulting people in Atlanta based programs, 3. Public housing is not operated on a non-discriminatory basis. 4. This, the Advisory Committee, is a good example of prejudice. They have in vited all these professors and officers of organizations, but no grass roots people. Panel--lMr. Walter Scott--Dekable real estate broker, 1. Mr. Scott said in his native county, DeKalb, a white realtor will not sell a Negro property in a white neighborhood, It was brought out that + of his business is with federally financed F.H.A. home owners that prohibits dis- crimination. Mr. Seott doubts that DeKalb County would support open housing. Page Six 2:40--Dr. Vivian Henderson arrived and took over the Chairmanship. Panel: Mr. Brown--Atlanta Federal Savings & Loan Assoc., representing white lending agency. Testimony--A committee member asked Mr. Brown what would happen if he, a Negro, wanted to borrow money from nis company to buy a home in a white neighborhood. Mr. Brown replied that he would be relcutant to lend him the money because he would not want to upset the peace.and tranquility of the white community. Mrs. Yancey of the Committee told him that supposing the applicant for the loan were an old customer of 20 years had an excellent credit rating and could easily repay his company. He said he would still be reluctant. Dr. Henderson of the Committee then reminded Nr. Brown that this could also work against him if the Negro Com- munity found out he would not lend the Negroes the money, they would re-act against him. Mr. Brown said in that case he would lend it to them. He said he believed passage of open housing bill would stiffen the resistance. Mr. Staten--Lawyer--National Bank of Georgia-~Testimony=--Said there is no policy of discrimination. Mr. Wilmore asked if they had any junior officers of color at his bank. He admitted they did not, said there were clerical workers. Mr. Al Henry--Council on Human Relations--lMr, Henry had contacted 27 realtors from newspaper ads of property in white neighborhoods: 19 out of 27 said they would not sell to Negroes, all the houses were on loans guaranteed by F.H.A. F.H.A. is either a silent or active partner in discrimination. Mr, Hartman--Deputy Director of Federal Housing Authority--Testimony-- If we get @ complaint we will see that the guilty person is put out of the program. Only one complaint in Georgia since 1962. It was brought that most F.H.A. brokers are white. (These are authorized people dealing with lists of re-sale property under F.H.A.) These are called real estate management brokers. Lists are made up after property has been sold it does not give a fair chanceto any outside sales person. There have been six sales in predominantly white areas to Negroes. Page Seven Mr. Moreland Smith--Southern Regional Council--Testimony--Open housing advocated, Mr. Rutledge--NEDH--Legislation needed for Committee against distrinineti onl in housing. Model cities discussed: 1, Having a demonstration city that keeps people in ghetto is not the wisest thing. : 2. Model cities is not a program, it is a technique. 3. Segregated housing is caused by urban renewal. 4. Urged real community participation. Mr. Bob Thompson--Urban Development Dept,—-Amidst talk of housing units being built on west side exclusively because there is no space, name three possible sites: 1. Canterbury Road--North of Lenox Road, 2. Railroad Avenue--Opposite Lenox Square. 3. House Road in Deal County; could it be leased? Mr. Persell, Mrs. Paschall, Mr. Cecil Alexander, Mr. Robinson 1. Mr. Cecil Alexander--Do we build in the core or where? Difficult to work in DeKalb County because they have no Nyvorkable" program. 2. Mr. Robinson--The need is for equal opportunity non—profit housing. 3. Mrs. Paschall--The residents of the community! use the term "stabilization" I mean open occupancy. 4. Mr. Persell--Need for a total community fair housing commission. 5. Information should be collected and disseminated, 6. There should be a moderate income development office. 7» Find houses and finance them.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 30 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/42a3f41619cb265257048bb5bbda0416.pdf 0d47963e356f664ee64058f40f190466 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. COMMWNITY RE LATIONS COMM1S5l0N .l20J . ClTt HaLL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. DILEl"lr','\ ~ OF THE CITY September, 1967 The Community Relati .__; 1::. Comm~SE",ion, since February, 1967 has. held 29 meetings and has heard from more than 350 private citizens and officials, including the Superintendent of schools, City Director of parks and Director of recreation, The Atlanta Housing Authority, and spokesman fo = the Indepe~dent Food Dea lerE, The President of the Atlanta branch of NAA CP, The Pre..,id e nc _f -z.:-u a ffj.li{Jtl!I of the SCLC. These meetings have been wel l re ported in the press and have resulted in some changes which were within the limits of autharity and resources of the officials. We find, however, that ma ny wrongs are beyond the legal and financial limits of present p~b lic 0cl icies and it is the dilemmas created by these limitations ~b2t th~ following reports illustrate. For convenience, they are divided in t o separ ~t e topics, but they illustrate the interplay of each on the ~thers and again and again point up that the unit of concern is a human being. Dilemmas iu. City Services: There is continuous call for more of all services --- streets µoved, sidewalks paved, trash picked up, garbage collected, police assigned to street beats, houses inspected-------. Trash and garba ge collections -- the sanitary <lepartment is about 100 workers short. Why? Some s~y the salary scale, beginning at $276 or 1300 a month is not a drd wing card for a family man. Another difficulty is that the pay period is ~wo weeks, (the first ch e ck sometimes takes longer to be processed) and a head of a family looking for work often cannot afford to wait t wo or three weeks to pay rent, buy food, clothes, bus tokens. He does bett e r standing on the corner of Decatur street and working by the day, doi ~0 th e same job at the same rate of pay. Irresponsible? Shiftlesa : But would we as citizens condone the sanitary department paying hi · two weeks wages in advance? Another problem for the sanitary depar tment is that many have listened and heeded lectures on self-resp e ct and ambition and are not content to collect trash as a permanent career. fringe benefits are not mJch inducement for city employment. The city civil service is not under social securit~, and under the city's plan of benefits, not until an employee has worked for 10 years is his family entitled to any pension provisions comparable to social security in case of his death. Another problem is the child labor laws, designed to prevent exploitation of child labor, but there are jobs which 14 to 18 year olds might like to do as a temporary measure which they are prohibited by law from doing. Streets: Priority is given by the Construction Department to thorofares, but this little help to people who have few streets in their neighborhoods that go through to those thorofares, particularly those dependent on public transportation. How would you set priority in a street construction program? Sewers: The building boom of ~ihich we are all so proud has increased the areas which are paved, which in turn has increased the need for storm sewers to the point it is estimated that it would cost jb).Q ,QQP.,.OQ.O to meet the needs. This is bad enough where cars drive though the water, but, again where where there are many residents who do not have cars and must walk to bus stops, where children must walk to school or rely on public transportation, the problem is intensified. How should we balance emergency and long-term systematic improvement? Parks & Recreation: Atlanta spends about ~6 per person per year on parks ;nd recreation, slightly lower than the Georgia State average. Dalton, Georgia and Statesboro, Georgia spend about ~8. per person. Parks and facilities of the city are used and enjoyed by residents of Metropoli tan Atla nta and beyond, who contribute nothing to their cost. A well equipped communit~ center, without the land, costs over ~1DQ,PQS! The Decatur-DeKalb YMCA in 1960 cost a total of ~656.000 plus j S0,000 for the land. For the past 2 summers, the city has r~7e.ived additional operating funds from OED and EDA. In both cases, the appropri..ations were not approved until June, and people were hired to start work on �Page 2 Dilemmas faith. Those pro yrams closed the end of August, with the opening of school. Given funds to spend, the Parks and Recreation department is confronted with a choice of buying land, developing land already owned, o'r hiring people to staff the developments. For example, to have a softball league of neighborhood teams in a community park, instead of 1 commuhity team as a part of a city league, requires more workers, either paid or volunteers, and in the areas that need volunteers most, there are fewer adults with free time and enerJ y to help. Same goes for Boy Scouts, Gray Y and the rest. Do we plan for what we can pay for? Do we count on volunteers? Do we re-think the jobs and hire younger people, instigate training programs? Who would pay for those? Police: Not enough police to prevent things from happening, too many wh ~n things do happen. That's the opinion most often expressed at CRC meetings. The success of officers assigned to the EDA Centers emphasizes the repeated requests for "a beat policeman, a person "who will know·us". Presently Atlanta police are assigned to large areas, to patrol in cars, which make the force more mobile. Charges of police brutality are taken up by the Police Committee of the Board of Aldermen, who some claim will " naturally" support the police. But isn't it natural for a department · to support its own staff? And yet how does the public protect itself against the mutual protection of mem ers of a bureauracy?, whether it be a police force, a school staff, a public housing staff or what? On the other hand, how can a single police officer, etc., be reassured of lac k of rep risal i f he r a ises questions? How do we get sympathy and understanding, pro tection and fairness on both sides? In all these cases, money may not cure all ills, but it seems necessary to cure any. The CRC is scheduling a meeting with the Fulton County legislative delegation to put before them the case of the need for additional sources of revenue for the city's general operating budget. ·:E-·• **·~* Dilemmas l!l Public Hou sing: lemmas in public housing. Four facts immediately contribute to di- 1. The Atlanta Housing Authority must obtain enough from rents t o opera te the proj ect s . The City & U. S. Governments participate in fihancing the building but there are no s ubsidies for operating the projects. 2. ~ rent must be paid by every tenant. Therefore those in need, who have no income whatsoever, cannot be served by public housing, unde r prese nt policies. 3. Publ i c housing i s no only s uc h resource in Atlanta t ak es individuals for a brief not house familie s together. c e nt er, men to a nother. r e s ource f or eme rgency hou s ing. The is the Salvation Army, which houses and time in extreme emergencies, but does Women and c l,ildren under 12 go to one 4. Hous in g po l i cies exclude s ome in greates t need for help, s uc h as fa mili es of prisone r s , s erving f elony sente nc e s a nd mothers wi th illegitimate child r en under l year old. Mi sconceptions about the s e on the part of the general public often res ul t in c ritic i s m of the Housing Authority Staff, who must opera te within these policie s . Other limiting pol ic ies a r e those r equ i ring "security de posit s " a nd a month's rent in adv ance a nd charges for repairs . Since rent is based on fa mi ly income, increa s e in income means increase in rent. This is pa r t icularly se l f- de f e a tin g whe n a n uw member of the family goes to work a nd his a dded income , oft e n s ou ght to pay for educa tion or other impro vements , res ul t s i n rent i nc reases . This refle ct s not th e opinion of the housing staff but a publi c po l icy. Another poli cy, whi ch is within the juris diction of the Atlanta Hous ing Au horit , is t hat of e xc lud i ng f rom public housing fami lies of prison inmates and women with illegit im te ch i ld ren und e r on e year old. Tha policy does not remo ve from the c omm n ity the probl ems of j lleg i t i ma cy �Page 3 c·1emmas or providing decent, s anitary housing for the persons involved. It does reflect a realistic concern for public opinion about public housing and what the community will stand for, If we do not agree with such restrictions on public housing, then it is up to us, the community to have them changed. But even with restrictions, in 1966 there was a back-log of 1500 applications for public housing in Atlanta, As of September 25, 1967 in all Atlanta Housing Authority projects there was a totul of 17 vacancies( and these must be filled by the proper size family for the size of the unit). Dilemmas .i!J. Non-oublic Housing: In spite of code requirements and inspections, in 1960, 163,405 (10% of all city housing units) were in the slum category. In the first place, inspections are part of; process. When inspectors find code violations, the owner is contacted and given time (30 days? 60 days?) to make repairs. If not, the case is rep orted to the Better Housing Commission and the Housing Court. The owner must make repairs with a stated time or pay a fine. What is "reasonable time to finJ a contractor, let the contract, m~ke repairs? What protection is there against an increase in rent when repairs are made? What protection is there as o inst eviction because of complaints? If repairs are not made and rent is withheld, the renter can ,be evicted. If repairs are not made and rent is paid, what protection does the renter have? Move. "He can move" is the usual answer. There is a shortage of low and middle cost hoLsi~g for sale and for rent in the city, and those avail~ble to Negroes are fewer than those available overall. It costs money to pay for moving. There are specialized restrictions on various property. Some places won't take children, some places won't take unmarried women, some places won't take divorcees, and some places won't take 9 children --- even for ~90.00 a month. So if you have 3 rooms for your 9 children for ~90.00 a month, you're likely to stay there even if they are cold and ratty. No steady job, no credit references, and on welfare. Husband in jail. There's little choice for such families, Race is an important factor still, no matter what the inccme. In one part of town, apartments close to a Negro neighborhood were asked if they would take Negroes as tenants, and none said yes. High rents .f.9£ substandard .housin11: This often turns out to be public housing in that the rent money in many cases comes from welfare allotments, so that we the µublic are subsidizing the slums. The Department of Family~ Children Services, whose clients, Dany of these clients are, cannot produce homes. The allotment for rent mµst come out of the total family allotment, the maximum for which is J l54.00 in Georgia, regardless of how man~ children the~e are. This is with no father at home. If he is present, the family is not eligible for Aid to dependant children, no matter how little he earns (unle5s he qualifies as physically disabled). The Georgia legislature could enact l~gislation to implement the Unemployed Parent provisions of the federal law. rhis would use primarily federal money but would require some additi~nal and county money. The State Board of family & Childrens Services, appointed by the Govenor, and the legislature would have to authorize the program and appropriate the money, which would permit men looking for work to stay at home with their families. The EDA has no money to pay moving costs and rent. Its resources are limited to existing public housing and other housing for rent from private owners. Why are people allowed to live in these substandard houses? Aren't the landlords and the tenants both vimlating the law? Some of the worst areas are in that sort of limbo between planning" and "having something done". The planning may be for urban renewal, model neighborhood, etc,, but these are long in~olved processes, and meanwhile things are left pretty much as they are, waiting, waiting and deteriorating. For example, in one slum area which has been approved by the City Planning Department and the Aldermanic Board for urban renewal, everybody is waiting now for the next phase, for the U. S, Department of HUD to approve the actual plans, appropriate the money, etc.------ Once this has been done, tenant-residents will receive grants for their property. So it appears to be to their advantage to wait. The Inspection Depa-rtment requires minimum complia nce since most of the buildings will be boug~t by the city and demolished. But UR office in the area says the earliest possibly for the Urban Renewal program to begin to move people out of - ... . ~. : . ' ~ - :, , �~age 4 Dile,nmas these slums will be 6 months. ~o they face another winter, with little heat, no hot wd~er, leaks, utterly miserable living conditions. If they move now, they do it on their own------- and where are there vacancies they can afford or where will they be accepted as tenants or buyers (because of income, family, race, etc,) ? Dilemmas i!l Evictions: Other families just a little higher in income face rents higher than their incomes warrant for new, cheaply constructed, poorly maintained apartments, where eviction is an automatic process when rents are not paid on time. few of these units (many with hundreds of families) have resident managers, and it is difficult to find someone to whom to make complaints or pay back-rent, Substandard conditions and lack of repairs are not legal gr?unds for withholding rent in Georgia. You complain, and nothing happens except that you maybe given notice to leave. The frustration of trying to deal with nameless, faceless landlords, often just a street address, adds to the overall despair. It takes energy, know-how, time and coura ge to pierce the anonymity of a corporation and someone who can speak and is wit:ing to speak, even to listen. Neiohborhood Stabilization: In efforts for "neighborhood stabilization", we are confronted with more dilemma s and paradoxes; By neighborhood stabilization we mean achieving and maintaining a via ble balance between white and Negro residen ts . So this means i f the neighborhood is all white or all Negro, some movi,ng sh'Juld t~ke p.}.ace, but at a certain point ( what point?) the moving and selling f.hould,stop. How do Negroes get "started" in a new neig hbor hood? What is the part of real estate dealers? At what point do we e1.caurage Negroes to move in and ~Jhat point do we discourage them? What does it take to make whites stay? (Reassurance about schools, as much as anything, we are told.) How do we relieve pressure on the area now "in transition"? It is evident that any area concerned cannot "save itself". It is also evident that it cannot be "saved" by isolated, localized action. If any area, and in this case, southwest Atlanta, is to become and remain racially integrated, there must be choices of comp a r a ble housing values in other areas available to Negroes, buyers and renters so they do not all end up in one spot. There is no l aw requiring segre aation but under present practices, Negroes are not fre~ to choose fro m the entire metro area as whites are. They have trouule finding a real estate agent to show them property outside pre s ent Neg ro neighborhoods. The real estate agent has trouble getting "whi~e" property to show. The Ne s ro buyer has trouble getting f inancing of such property. Some pre dict that open occupancy legislation for Atlanta ¼ould scare whites to move outside of the city li~its even faster than ~he~ are now. lJhat are the prospects of getting open occupancy legislaticn or practices in the metro area? What short of national legislation will help Atlanta from being a Negro city surrounded by white suburbs? What would be t ne results if it were? Dilemmas d!! ~ - Tr,:- in::.. Q...-2:. Emoloyment: Most discussions of urban problems end with a st~t emen t to the effect th a t "the important thing is jobs". Jobs keep peo ple busy. Jobs give people money. Jobs give people stability. Jobs keep families together, Jobs give people a stake in the community . How does Atlanta St anc : In the first place, it must be clearly understood that there are nu new public pr~grams designed primarily to put people to work. The new programs are designed either to train people or to give social services, so individuals can care for children, take jobs, etc., but once the training has been given and the social services have been provided, the fact of whether there is a job is up to the normal system of ongoing public and private programs which hire people. Either private ~ndustry or ongoing public pfrograms must produce the jobs. Many of the new public programs provide additional jobs, but mo:.:e for professional or skilled persons than for the "jobless". EDA cannot produce jobs, except for those employed by "the program". The Georgia State Employment Service cannot produce jobs, There is much talk about "job development", about the need for lowering professional standards, for giving on-the-job training, but the perso 11 ,:j 1r1ho advocate such changes seldom adopt them themseJ.ve&, ond there are few examples of success. How realistic are our admonitions (usually to others) to make the job One dilemma is that ~11 f i t tt?e person who is looking for employment. the. surveys and all comments by job counselors confirm the fact, that �A Pag~ 5 Di lemmas the majority of thuse lDokin a for work are female, t~e majorit~ of those ore Negro, either ver y young with no experienc8, or 30 or 4U, with perhaps a high schocl dif)loma but no "marketable skills". On the other hand, in sp ite of ftdcral l3WS against discrim~naticn based on sex, the great r,1ajority of job orJer3 are for males, ma .Les 1r.ith experience and males with skills. To what 8Xtent Negroes in Atlanta ~re denied jobs because they 2re Ner ro " :S needs to be determined, but it is a ·f act that a higher percc~~2 ge ~f those lookiQg for jobs Are Ne~ro, and that of th0se rerru~s with job b , a ~igher percenta ge of whites have good jobs (profess.i.'"r,a.:., ·1a nage ria l, e tc.). Years of discrir·j nation because of race have r es ul~ed in Negroes being less qualified accorcing to standards set by whites for whites. Jo we continue to apply qu~lificBtians which exclude Ne~roes (such ~s exp8rience which they have been unable to get) or do we hire "qualifiable" Negroes and give them a chance to qualify on the job? The August list of vacancies for the City of Atlanta Personnel department, for example, lists only 6 out of~ categories which require no experiencli. Are there enough hobs to go around? Are there more people than jobs or mare jobs than people? The Georgie State Employment Officies in Metro Atlanta as of July 31, 1967 had 649 job orders ("a slack season" a spokesman said). At the se~e time, there were ll,32~ "active applicants" (5,874 female). Negroes who are worki,g earn less than whites. When the head of the household , ma~e er female, makes a marginal salary, teenage children, or you,..,ger :::i,.::.l ~::.-en, must go to work to provide for themseLves and/or to contri ~ut ~ t2 the fa mily income. An increase in adult incomes might ease the ,~ce:i for tee:1age jobs. There are, for example, approximately 1000 fami lL£3 in one i\tlanta public housing project being supported by women who r 2:,._t1 their families' living at domestic service, for w.hich the average ra te is j 8.00 a day with no prospect of promotion, no future, no fringe berLfits , lucky if social security is pa~d. Employment to a teenage member of s.Jch a family becomes a necessity unless somehow the family income is increased. Men and women with families work for 1t.1s, the public, at full time, per~anent jobs at the "poverty" level (e,g., maids at Grady hospital at $1.08 an hour; male nursing assistants at $1.29 an hour, increas.es t-Ji thin the last fe1:J years). Further increases will require increpsed public funds. Whom do we encourage to take these jobs? Whom should we encourage to take these jobs? Dilemmas .!!l Training: l:Jhat about taining programs? Some cost; others pay t~ainees. Ho~ closely does tne vocational education program (as reflected in the new ~9,080,000 Atlanta Trade School) reflect present and future job markets? All courses there do not require high school education but they require apti tud,e tests and fees, though smell, and costs of materials, small enough if you nav,a it, ·but t'o a family i tt:i no margin, it might as well be ~1000. Some training programs are sµecifically for youn.g people. The Neighborhood Youth Corps gives "training jobs" both in and oot of school, but the record of post-NYC employment quanti)y-wise is not i~pressive. from October 1 66 through July '67 ,. of 62,0 out-of-school NYC trainees in Atlanta, 98 were placed in f~lltime jobs (most of which were training related). Often the job pays little more than the "training" ~id { i.,l. 50 an hour) • Furthermore, the trc;1ining allowclnce does not count on family income, et~., whereas "earned income" does. (A side effect of training allowance;;, , which give self-re-spect and dignity and independence to the young, is the resentmel"lt o.n the partof some adult y,1orkar such as custodians and cooks at seeing an NYC trainee "earn" about as much as they a re paid straight wages. This could de~troy rather than strengthen a family.) Again, the vocational education depar~ment nor the NYC can produce permanent jobs. How realistic is the training? What about the family? Should all young people be encouraged to work? Should all mothers be encouraged to work ? The MOTA programs also ha ve s uffered from lack of jobs into which trainees could mo ve . Here race plus se x has compounded the problbm again , with most jobs calling for ma l es with expeEience, and skills still uncommon among IJegroes. As of August, 1967, the Atlanta office G5£S had no f110TA training programs to which applicants coulrl ~ a<;;sioned. �. Page 6 Di l e mmas The new $4, ~70,7 93 ~ ti a ,ta Concentrated [mployment Program (ACEP) i s ano t her opportu~it) for training, re s trictea to low-income aieas of t he city. The first group of 252 began August 14, 1967. It is e xpected· to enroll l UU eve r :. 2 weeks for a training period of 8 - 16 weeks, To be eligible yo~ must live in one of the 5 areas (Price, Pittsburg, Summerhill-~echanicsville, Naih-Washington, or West·End), b~ 16 or older a nd presently "bHlow the poverty level". 98% of the f irst 200 are females. The living allowance for a head of · household is ~35.QO to ~56.0U a week and for a non-~e~d of house~bld, ,20.00 a week. Like other training programs it includes pre-voc~tiQnal, · ori entation, and other ~uppotting social services. · It · is ~~signed to train for exislin~ or new j6bs, but it cann~t guaraAtee a job or produce one, Dilemmas i!l Education: School buildings in one part of town converted to special programs as the school population moves out. School building s in other car ts of town i,Ji th double 'enrollment as the school population moves in. lffect on ~chool$ of zoning changes -- apartments bring · many new children for schciol. ~umbersome and lengthy piocess of bond issues to finance new buildings. Pre-kindergarten "he~d~tart" prog!ams with' low pupil-teacher ratio feeding pupils into sch~ol~ with large classes and double sessions. Double session, which ' me~n~ ½ schci61 . da'y, doing away with lunch. for . children to whom lunch is the bes t ~e-~ l of t~e da y a nd for many a free meal • . ½. day for some 8th graders ~n high school ( those ·c recii ts do , no·t f,igure . _in graduation requirements), but 13 and 14 year olds. can't work-- . it's agii~~t the law in many instances. (1.Jhe n ·s~hOo.l opened in Au;g~st · n:iorei than . 7000 pupils, all . of whom . are Negro, . .~.e r e on what is commonly de~cr.ibe.d· as "double· ses·sion". 4ith school day -cut in h~lf, what ·does a 1st grader, 2nd grader~ 7th grader, 8th grader, llth . gr~der -do t~e i~st of the day? There's no room at school t~ sta~ • . There . is likely to be littl~ room at home· and even less likely to be an adu'l t at home to supervise~ to chauffeur, to · pla.y; guide, to help wi.th studies, ..to encou:r.age:, to . li:sten. to f- .J<·* ***** *·* ***** These ar~ some of the Dilammas of the City. We cannot hold a welfare worker responsible for inadequate housing of welf~~e clients when we limit her resources t o $154.00 a month. We cannot hold a public housing manager responsible f or keeping tenan t s who cannot pay even minimum rent whe n we do not gi ve hi m public money to operat e on. We cannot hold t ra in i ng supervisors respons ible for lack of jobs. Agreed w~ need new innovative programs, but programs that spend more money, not .less and programs that provide actual economic opportunity, i.e., jobs. A few ba sic misconceptions stand in the way of innovative pr·o grams. One misconce ption is that our curren t social services, eve n with the a dditional "ne w pr ograms" a re adeq ua te. A second mis conc e ~tion is tha i whe n "even more mone y" has not s olveJ th~ . pr obl ems, that "mone y i s not t he answer". More money may not ins ure succe sses, but th e re.~s l ittle lik~lihood of success without it. The mosi effective ~ses of public money ma y be deba ted but the ne eds are e normous; . widespread and ur gent and can be met only by massive, similta neou s programs • . Teacners , doctor s , den tis t, recr~a tion-workers , pla nn_,e rs a nd the l i ke s pend mo ne y. If we are to ha ve . e noug h of t he kind s of s e.vices the y · provide~ we must be pre p6reci to spend more money, mucih more. Some of this ~ill c~eate job~ but ~~a t is not the prime purpose nor the criter ion of succe ss of .social service programs or.training programs~ The other misconce pti on i s tha t i ocia l servi~es. a ~~ ~ia iriing ~~a r a nt~~ j obs a nd i nc ome , a nd/ or guai~ntee a cc eis to c a pi t~l. ~ · Y~~ c a ~ ha ve · e verybody hea l t hy, a ll . t he .ba bies in a da y c are cen~ er; ~he ·would -:-b e wo.r ke r s traied ' bu·t unless th e re is a product:i.ve job ava ilabl_e ; none· . . of t his ~rings i n f a~ily in~ome. Anti-poverty ~rp~tam~ · toda~ train ·some people . .The y t a ke c a r e of s ome children. Tlie y tak~' some t .9 the hospita l, tb t he employment office . But the y .do not prdd~ce jobs .· ( nor ,d o they prod uce houses ). They do not pr odu·ce ·t h~ oppor~un i ty . to make a man , a woman , : a · youn g person se l f.:..s upportin g;· un.l ess he . is fortunate . eno ugh to be · hired as a sta f f me mber o f on~. of t he " piograms ". " They can ready him to ta ke adva nta ge of th,e oppor tun { ty;. bu,t .uo~il -t he _.cn,r'Tl~unity pro~i des i t, he wi ll ha ve t o wa~~ · The r e ~~re in ·A t~:~:a -J •I J' • ,l r •. J ,;,::.1. .'~1• ~ , . �· Page 7 Dilemmas during the month uf July n,ore than 11, DUO ~,,.,ai ting, registered far jobs with the Employment Services. Self-helping is not the same as self-generating. Self-help programs require something to start with, something to help. A credit union is not much help if each member needs to borrow fS0. 00 and can hardly put in is.oo (if you work by the day and miss two days and don't have money for rent and food, borrowing from a loan shark at high interest and "service" charges may not be good businessi but what is the alternative?) A civic association with no members who own property or have any margin of income cannot come up with "seed money", loans or fees for technical assistance, Indeed it is hard for them ta produce the minimum amount to get the help necessary to apply far grants, etd, Training, counsel, sympathy, recreation, social services all have their places but in our money economy, none of these is a substitute for money. Indeed a minimum income is necessary to take advantage even of "free" services. As has bee~ said, one has to have a boot before he can have a boot strap. Dozens of people with no beets still comes out no boot straps. Z.ero multiplied by "infinity" is still zero. AnQther notion which i s misleading is th2t the problems can be "taken one at a time". Chances are a child growing up in a good house in a good neighborhood will go to a good school and get a good job; chances are a poor house in a poor neighborhood will go to a poor school and get a poor job. House, school, neighbarho~d, family condit,ions, health are all parts of a whole, and the whole is a human being. · The decisions which result in school and houses and jobs, or no schools and no houses and no jobs are matters of public policy. The fact that the decisions are complex and difficult does not alter the fact that they must be made, and that we are all helping to make them, like it or not. The democratic process is still the same. The burden of responsible citizenship is not likely to become lighter, Detailed Reports of the meetings which have pointed up these dilemmas provide an interesting Diary of Atlanta. These, and other information such as questions and answers on Housing are available fEom the CRC office. The record from February, l96f , thr? ~gh August, 1967, is: Neighborhood Meetings Special at CitySpecial R~gular CRC "Hearings" Hall [RC Meetings CRC Meetings Number 11 7 4 7 299 Approx Attendance App. Spoke 1000 250 650 60 250 Vistors 1960 100 30 380 Approximately 800 requests have been processed through the office. Detailed minutes of all meetings a nd 10 Neighborhood Profiles ha ve been widely circula ted, plus specir.11 r e po.rts s uch a s Dixie Hills, Hous ing, e tc. �The Community Relations Commission uf the City of Atlanta, appointed by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, meets the 4th Friday of each month, at 1:30 P.M., in Committee Room #2, City Hall. The public is invited and citizens are urged to bring to the attention of the Commission matters pertaining to its functions and duties, which outlined in the Ordinance, include: "To foster mutual understanding, tolerance, and ~espect among all economic, social religious, and ethnic groups in the City. To help make it possible for each citizen, regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin or ancestry, to develop his talents, and'abilities ~tnouf ~imitation. To aid in permitting the City of Atlanta to benefit from the fullest realization of its human resources. To investigate, discourage anci seek to prevent discriminatory practices against any individual becau~e of race, color, creed, religion, national origin o.r c1n,c!_:lsi:ry. To attempt to act as conciliator in controversies involving human relations." In between meetin gs, individuals and groups are invited to visit or telephone the Commission office (522-4463, Ext 433) to . report .matters of interest and to obtain information and assistance on specific subjects. Community Relations Commission 1203 City Hall 68 Mitchell Street, SW Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Mr. R. Earl Landers Adm. Asst. to Mayor 68 Mitchell St., SW Atlanta, Ga. JOJOJ • Non - Profit Organization U. 5. Postage P A I D Atlanta, Georgia Permit No. 711 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document COMMUNITY RELATIONS CAMMISSJON .1203, CITY HALL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. DILEMMAS OF THE CITY September, 1967 The Community Relaticns Commission, since February, 1967 has held 29 meetings and has heard from more than 350 private citizens and officials, including the Superintendent of schools, City Director of parks and Director of recreation, The Atlanta Housing Authority, and spokesman for the Independent Food Dealerc, The President of the Atlanta branch of NAACP, The President of the affiliate of the SCLC. These meetings have been well reported in the press and have resulted in some changes which were within the limits of auth®rity and resources of the officials. We find, however, that many wrongs are beyond the legal and financial limits of present public sclicies and it is the dilemmas created by these limitations thst the following reports illustrate. For convenience, they are divided inlo separate topics, but they illustrate the interplay of each on the others and again and again point up that the unit of con- cern is a human being. Dilemmas in City Services: There is cantinuous call far more of all services --- streets paved, sidewalks paved, trash picked up, garbage collected, police assignec to street beats, houses inspected ------- 7 Trash and garbage collections -- the sanitary department is about 100 workers short. Why? Some say the salary scale, beginning at $276 or »jJ00 a month is not a drawing card for a family man. Another difficulty is that the pay period is two weeks, (the first check sometimes takes longer to be processed) and a head of a family looking for work often cannot afford to wait two or three weeks to pay rent, buy food, clothes, bus tokens. He does better standing on the corner of Decatur street and working by the day, doine the same job at the same rate of pay. Irresponsible? Shiftless. But would we as citizens condone the sani-~ tary department paying hi- two weeks wages in advance? Another problem for the sanitary department is that many have listened and heeded lectures on self-respect and ambition and are not content to collect trash as a permanent career. Fringe benefits are not much inducement for city employment. The city Civil service is not under social security, and under the city's plan of benefits, not until an employee has worked for 10 years is his family entitled to any pension provisions comparable to social security in case of his death. Another problem is the child labor laws, designed to prevent exploit- ation of child labor, but there are jobs which 14 to 18 year olds might like to do as a temporary measure which they are prohibited by law from doing. Streets: Priority is given by the Construction Department to thoro- fares, but this little help to people who have few streets in their neighborhoods that go through to those thorofares, particularly those dependent on public transportation. How would you set priority ina street construction program? Sewers: The building boom of which we are all so proud has increased the areas which are paved, which in turn has increased the need for storm sewers to the point it is estimated that it would cost $30,000,000 to meet the needs. This is bad enough where cars drive though the water, but, again where where there are many residents who do not have cars and must walk to bus staps, where children must walk to school or rely on public transportation, the problem is intensified. How should we balance emergency and long-term systematic improvement? Parks & Recreation: Atlanta spends about 6 per person per year on parks and recreation, slightly lower than the Georgia State average. Delton, Georgia and Statesboro, Georgia spend about ¥8, per person. Parks and facilities of the city are used and enjoyed by residents of Metropolitan Atlanta and beyond, who contribute nothing to their cost. A well equipped community center, without the land, costs over $200,000 The Decatur-DeKalb YMCA in 1960 cost a total of 656,000 plus $50,000 for the land. for the past 2 summers, the city hus received additional operating funds from O£0 and EQOA. In both cases, the appropriations were not approved until June, and people were hired to start work on Page 2 Dilemmas faith. Those programs closed the end of August, with the opening of school, Given funds to spend, the Parks and Recreation cepartment is confronted with a choice of buying land, developing land already owned, or hiring people ta staff the developments. For example, to have a softball league of neighborhood teams in a community park, instead of 1 community team as a part of a city league, requires more workers, either paid or volun- teers, and in the areas that need valunteers most, there are fewer adults with free time and energy to help. Same goes for Boy Scouts, Gray Y and the rest. Do we plan for what we can pay for? Do we count on volunteers? Bo we re-think the jobs and hire younger people, instigate training pro- grams? Who would pay for those? Police: Not enough police to prevent things from happening, too many when things do happen. That's the opinion most often expressed at CAC meetings. The success of officers assigned to the EQOA Centers emphasizes the repeated requests for "a beat policeman", a person "who will know’ us". Presently Atlanta police are assigned to large areas, to patrol in cars, which make the force more mobile. Charges of police brutality are taken up by the Police Committee of the Board of Aldermen, who some claim will "naturally" support the police. But isn't it natural for a department’ to support its own staff? And yet how does the public protect itself against the mutual protection of members of a bureauracy?, whether it be a police force, a school staff, a public housing staff or what? On the other hand, how can a single police officer, etc., be reassured of lack of reprisal if he raises questions? How do we get sympathy and understanding, protection and fairness on both sides? In all these cases, money may not cure all ills, but it seems necessary to cure any. The CRC is scheduling a meeting with the Fulton County legislative delegation to put before them the case of the need for add- itional sources of revenue for the city's general operating budget. HHKKPERE KEE BHT Dilemmas in Public Housing: Four facts immediately contribute to di- lemmas in public housing, 1. The Atlanta Housing Authority must obtain enough from rents to operate the projects. The City & U. S, Governments participate in fihancing the building but there are no subsidies for operating the projects. 2, Some rent must be paid by every tenant. Therefore those in need, who have no income whatsoever, cannot be served by public housing, under present policies, 3. Public housing is no resource for emergency housing. The only such resource in Atlanta is the Salvation Army, which houses and takes individuals for a brief time in extreme emergencies, but does not house families together. Women and children under 12 go tao one center, men to another. 4. Housing policies exclude same in greatest need for help, such as families of prisoners, serving felony sentences and mothers with illegitimate children under 1 year old. Misconceptions about these on the part of the general public often result in criticism of the Housing Authority Staff, who must operate within these policies. Other limiting policies are those requiring “security deposits" and a month's rent in advance and charges for repairs. Since rent is based on family income, increase in income means increase in rent. This is particularly self-defeating when a new member of the family goes to work and his added income, often sought to pay for education or other improvements, results in rent increases, This reflects not the opinion of the housing staff but a public policy. Another policy, which is within the jurisdiction of the Atlanta Housing Authority, is that of excluding from public housing families of prison inmates and women with illegitimate children under one year old. [he policy does not remove from the community the problems of illegitimacy Page 3 D:.lemmas or providing decent, sanitary housing for the persons involved. It does reflect a realistic concern for public opinion about public housing and what the community will stand for. If we do not agree with such restrictions on public housing, then it is up to us, the community to have them changed. But even with restrictions, in 1966 there was a back-log of 1500 applications for public housing in Atlanta. As of September 25, 1967 in a11 Atlanta Housing Authority projects there was a total of 17 vacancies( and these must be filled by the proper size family for the size of the unit), Dilemmas in Non-public Housing: In spite of code requirements and inspections, in 1960, 163,405 (10% of all city housing units) were in the slum category. In the first place, inspections are part of a process. When inspectors find code violations, the owner is contacted and given time (30 days? 60 days?) to make repairs. If not, the case is reported ta the Better Housing Commission and the Housing Court. The owner must make repairs with a stated time or pay a fine. What is “reasonable time” te find a contractor, let the contract, make repairs? What protection is there against an increase in rent when repairs are made? What protection is there against eviction because of complaints? If repairs are not made and rent is withheld, the renter can be evicted. If repairs are not made and rent is paid, what protection does the renter have? Move. "He can move" is the usual answer. There is a shortage of low and middle cost housing for sale and for rent in the city, and those available to Negroes are fewer than those available overall. It.costs money to pay for moving. There are specialized restrictions on various property. Some places won't take children, some places won't take un- married women, some places won't take divorcees, and some places won't take 9 children --- even for $90.00 a month. So if you have 3 rooms for your 9 children for 990.00 a month, you're likely to stay there even if they are cold and ratty. No steady job, no credit references, and on welfare. Husband in jail. There's little choice for such families. Race is an important factor still, no matter what the inccme. In one part of town, apartments close to a Negro neighborhood were asked if they would take Negroes as tenants, and none said yes. High rents for substandard housiny: This often turns out to be public housing in that the rent money in many cases comes from welfare allot-— ments, so that we the public are subsidizing the slums, The Department of Family & Children Services, whose clients, many of these clients are, cannot produce homes. The allotment for rent must come out of the total family allotment, the maximum for which is 0154.00 in Georgia, regardless of how many children there are. This is with no father at home. If he is present, the family is not eligible for Aid ta dependant children, mo matter how little he earns (unless he qualifies as physically disabled). The Georgia legislature could enact lagislation to implement the Unemployed Parent provisions of the federal law. This would use primarily federal money but would require some additianal and county money. The State Board of Family & Childrens Services, appointed by the Govenor, and the legislature would have to authorize the program and appropriate the money, which would permit men looking for work to stay at home with their families. The EGA has no money to pay moving costs and rent. Its resources are limited to existing public housing and other housing for rent from private owners. Why are people allowed ta live in these substandard houses? Aren't the landlords and the tenants both violating the law? Some of the worst areas are in that sort of limbo between "planning" and "having something done”. the planning may be for urban renewal, model neighborhood, etc,., but these are long involved processes, and meanwhile things are left pretty much as they are, waiting, waiting and deteriorating. For example, in one slum area which has been approved by the City Planning Department and the Aldermanic Board for urban renewal, everybody is wait~ ing now for the next phase, for the U. S. Department of HUD to approve the actual plans, appropriate the money, etc. -----~ Once this has been done, tenant-residents will receive grants for their property. So it appears to be to their advantage to wait. The Inspection Department requires minimum compliance since most of the buildings will be bought by the city and demolished. But UR office in the area says the earliest possibly for the Urban Renewal program to begin to move people out of ve ma: : ; oF y es . Ste : 4 3/2 Ww ie Serie iG an me Page 4 Dilemmas these slums will be 6 months. So they face another winter, with little heat, no hot waiter, leaks, utterly miserable living conditions. If they move now, they do it on their own ------- and where are there vacancies they can afford or where will they be accepted as tenants or buyers (because of income, family, race, etc.) ? Dilemmas in Evictions: Other families just a little higher in income face rents higher than their incomes warrant for new, cheaply Constructed, poorly maintained apartments, where eviction is an automatic process when rents are not paid on time. Few of these units (many with hundreds of families) have resident managers, and it is difficult to find someone to whom to make complaints or pay back-rent. Substandard conditions and lack of repairs are not legal grounds for withholding rent in Georgia. You complain, and nothing happens except that you maybe given notice to leave. The frustration of trying to deal with nameless, faceless landlords, often just a street address, adds to the overall despair. It takes energy, know-how, time and courage to pierce the anonymity of a corporation and someone who can speak and is wiliing to speak, even toa listen. Neighborhood Stabilization: In efferts for "neighborhood stabilization", we are conironted with more dilemmas and paradoxes. By neighborhood stabilization we mean achieving and maintaining a viable balance between white and Negro residents. So this means if the neighborhood is all white or all Negro, some moving should take place, but at a certain point (what point?) the moving and selling should stop. How do Negroes get "started" in 8 new neighborhood? What is the part of real estate dealeys? At what point do we eicourege Negroes ta move in and what point do we discourage them? What does it take to make whites stay? (Reassurance about schools, as much as anything, we are told.) How do we relieve pressure on the area now “in transition'? It is evident that any area concerned cannot "save itself". I+ is also evident that it cannot be “saved" by isolated, localized action. If any area, and in this case, southwest Atlanta, is ta become and remain racial- ly integrated, there must be choices of comparable housing values in other areas available to Negroes, buyers and renters so they do nat all end up in ane spot. There is no law requiring segregation but under present practices, Negroes are not free to choose from the entire metro area as whites are. They have trouvle finding a real estate agent to show them property outside present Negro neighborhoods. The real estate agent has trouble getting “white” property to show. The Negro buyer has trouble getting financing of such property. Some predict that open occupancy legislation for Atlanta would scare whites to move sutside of the city linits even faster than they are now. What are the prospects of getting Open occupancy legislatisn or practices in the metro area? What short of national legislation will help Atlanta from being a Negro city Surrounded by white suburbs? What would be tne results if it were? Dilemmas in Jobs - Treini.g & Employment: Most discussions of urban problems end with a statement to the erfect that "the important thing is jobs". Jobs keep people busy. Jobs give people money. Jobs give people stability. Jobs keep families together. Jobs give people a stake in the community. How does Atlanta Stand: In the first place, it must be clearly under- stood that there are no new public programs designed primarily to put people to work. The new programs ere designed either to train people ar to give social services, sa individuals can care for children, take jobs, etc., but once the training has been given and the social services have been provided, the fact of whether there is a job is up to the normal system of ongoing public and private programs which hire people. Either private industry or ongoing public programs thust produce the jobs. Many of the new public programs provide additional jobs, but moze for professional or skilled persons than for the "jobless". EQOA cannot produce jobs, except for those employed by "the program". The Georgia State Employment Service cannot produce jobs. There is much talk about “job development", about the need for lowering pro- fessional standards, for giving on-the-job training, but the persons who advocate such changes seldom adopt them themselves, and there are few examples of success. How realistic are our admonitions (usually to others) to make the job fit the person who is looking for employment. One dilemma is that ell the surveys and all comments by job counselors confirm the fact, that . *  Fage 5 Dtlemmas the majority of thuse looking for work are female, the majority of those are Negro, either very young with no experience, or 30 or 40, with per- haps @ high schecl diploma but no "marketable skills", On the other hand, in spite of federal laws against discrininaticn based on sex, the great majority of job orders are for males, males with experience and males with skills. To what extent Negroes an Atlanta are denied jobs because they ere Necrozs needs to be determined, but it is a fact that 8 higher percestege af these looking for jobs are Nejro, and that of those persuns with johs, a higher percentage of whites have good jobs (professicnal, “anagerial, etc.). Years of discripination because of race have resulted in Negroes being less qualified according to standards set by whites for whites. Jo we continue to apply quelifications which exclude Neoroes (such as experience which they have been unable to get) or do we hire "qualifiable" Negroes and give them a chance to qualify on the job? The August list of vacancies for the City of Atlanta Personnel department, for example, lists only 6 out of 29 categories which require no experience, Are there enough hobs to go around? Are there more people than jobs or more jobs than people? The Georgia State Employment Officies in Metro Atlanta as of July 31, 1967 had 649 job orders ("a slack season" a spokes- man said). At the sane time, there were 11,324 "active applicants" (5,874 female), Negroes who are working earn less than whites. When the head of the household. male cr female, makes a marginal salary, teenage children, Or yourger chilcren, must go to work to provide for themselves and/or to contvicutie te the family income. An increase in adult incomes might ease the cc for teenage jobs. There are, for example, approximately 1000 families in one Atlanta public housing project being supported by women who cai\) their families’ living at domestic service, for which the average rats is (8.00 6 day with no prospect of promotion, no future, no fringe benefits, lucky if social security is paid. Employment to a teen- age member of such a family becomes a necessity unless somehow the family income is increased. Men and women with families work for us, the public, at full time, permanent jobs at the "poverty" level (e.g., maids at Grady hospital at $1.08 an hour; male nursing assistants at $1.29 an hour, increases within the last few years). further increases will re- quire increased public funds. Whom do we encourage to take these jobs? Whom should we encourage to take these jobs? Dilemmas in Training: What about taining programs? Some cost; others pay trainees. How closely does the vocational education program (as re- flected in the new $9,000,000 Atlanta Trade School) reflect present and future job markets? All courses there do not require high school education but they require aptitude tests and fees, though small, and costs of materials, small enough if you have it, but to a family with no margin, it might as well be 1000. Some training programs are specifically for young peaple. The Neigh- borhood Youth Corps gives “training jobs" both in and ont of school, but the record of post-NYC employment quantity-wise is nat impressive. From October '66 through July '67, of 620 out-of-school NYC trainees in Atlanta, 98 were placed in fWflltime jobs {most of which were train- ing releted). Often the job pays little more than the "training" did (v1.50 an hour). Furthermore, the training allowance does not count on family income, etc., whereas “earned income" does. (A side effect of training allowances, which give self-respect and dignity and inde- pendence to the young, is the resentment on the partof some adult worker such as custodians and cooks at seeing an NYC trainee "earn" about as much as they are paid straight wages. This could destroy rather than strengthen a family.) Again, the vocational education department nor the NYC can produce permanent jobs. How realistic is the training? What about the family? Shoulc all young people be encouraged to work? Should all mothers be encouraged to work? The MDTA programs also have suffered from lack af jobs into which trainees could move. Here race plus sex has compounded the problem again, with most jobs calling for males with experience, and skills still uncommon among Negroes. As of August, 1967, the Atlanta office GSES had no MOTA training programs to which applicants could bs asaigned. = Page 6 Dilemmas . The new $4,570,793 Atianta Concentrated Employment Program (ACEP) is another caneetunaes for training, restricted to low-income areas af the city. The first group of 252 beyan August 14, 1967. It is expected to enroll 10U ever, 2 weeks for a training period of 6 ~ 16 weeks. To be eligible you must live in one of the 5 areas (Price, Pittsburg, Summerhill-Mechanicsville, Nash-Washington, or West-End), be 16 or older and presently "below the poverty level", 98% of the farst 200 are females. The living allowance for a head of ‘household is $35.00 to 056.0U a week and for a non-head of household, 20,00 a week, Like other training programs it includes pre-vocatianal, orientation, and other supporting social services. It is designed to train for existing or new jobs, but it cannot guarantee a job or produce one, Dilemmas in Education: School buildings in one part of town converted to special pregrams as the school population moves out. School build~ ings in other parts of town with double enrollment as the school pop- ulation moves in. tffect on schools of zoning changes -- apartments bring many new children for school. Cumbersome and lengthy process of bond issues to finance new buildings. Pre-kindergarten "headstert" programs with low pupil-teacher ratio feeding pupils into schools with large classes and double sessions. Double session, which” means z school ‘ day, doing away with lunch for, children to whom lunch is the best meal of the day and for many a free meal. >. day for some 8th graders in high school (those credits do.not figues. an graduation requirements), but 13 and 14 year olds can't work -- it's against the law in many in- stances. (When school opened in August more than 7000 pupils, all of whom.are Negro, were on what is Soe described as "double: session", dith school day-cut in he Lf nee does a lst ees: énd grader, /th grader, 8th grader, 11th grader-do the rest of the day? There's no room at school to stay. There is likely to be little room at home’ and even less likely to be an adult at home to supervise, to chauffeur, to “play, to guide, to help with studies, .to encourage, to listen, . ee REPKE HHEREREHHE These are some af the Dilemmas of the City. We cannot hold a welfare worker responsible for inadequate housing of welfare clients when we limit her resources to $154.00 a month. We cannot hold a public housing ‘manager responsible for keeping tenants who cannot pay even minimum rent when we do not give him public money to operate on. We cannot hold training supervisors responsible for lack of jobs. Agreed we need new innovative programs, but programs that spend more money, not.less and programs that provide actual economic opportunity, 1.e., jobs. A few basic misconceptions stand in the way of innovative “programs. One misconception is that our current social services, even with the additional "new programs" are adequate. A second misconception is that when "even more money” has not solved the problems, that "money is not the answer", More money may not insure successes, but there is little likelihood of success without it. The most effective uses of public money may be debated but the needs are enormous, widespread and urgent and can be met only by massive, similtaneous programs. - Teachers, doctors, dentist, recreation workers, planners and the like spend money. If we are to have. enough of the kinds of services they “provide, we must be prepared to spend more money, much more. Some of this will create jobs but that is not the prime purpose nor the crit- erion of success of ‘social service paogeens or training programs. The other misconception is that social services and training guarantee jobs and income, and/or guarantee access to capitol.- -You can have - everybody healthy, all the babies in a day care center, the would-be. workers traied, but unless there is a productive job available, none: -of this brings in family income. Anti-poverty programs: today train some people. They take care of some children. They take some to the hospital, t& the employment office. But they do not produce jobs - (nor-+do they produce houses). They do not produce the opportunity to make a man, 4 woman, ° ‘a young person self=supporting,’ unless he is fortunate enough to be hired as a staff member of ane of the "programs". They can ready him to: take advantage of the opportunity, . but. until the Sqmmunity provides at, he will have to waits There were in ‘Atlanta 2 : pie a) iis 2 seis wows aa Faget Sune Abs oo ; fe er “he: a “ay fs i wt nV i = oe =  Page 7 Dilemmas during the month uf July more than 11,000 waiting, registered for jobs with the Employment Services. Sself-helping is not the same as self-generating. Self-help programs require something to start with, something to help. A credit union is not much help if each member needs to borrow £50.00 and can hardly put in $9.00 (if you work by the day and miss two days and don't have money for rent and food, borrowing from a loan shark at high interest and "Service" charges may not be good business, but what is the alternative?) A civic association with no members who own property or have any margin of income cannot come up with "seed money", loans or fees for technical assistance. Indeed it is hard for them to produce the minimum amount to get the help necessary to apply for grants, etd. Training, counsel, sympathy, recreation, social services all have their places but in our money economy, nene of these is a substitute for money. Indeed a minimum income is necessary to take advantage even of "free" services. As has been said, one has to have a boot before he can have a boot strap. Dazens of people with no bocts still comes out no boot straps. Zero multiplied by "infinity" is still zero. Another notion which is misleading is thet the problems can be “taken one at a time". Chances are a child growing up in a good house in a good neighborhood will go to a good school and get a good job; chances are a poor house in a poor neighborhood will go to a poor school and get a poor job. Hause, school, neighborhood, family conditions, health are all parts of a wholes, and the whole is a human being. HERR ERKEREREEK ‘The decisions which resuit in school and houses and jobs, or no schools and no houses and no jobs are matters of public policy. The fact that the decisions are complex and difficult does not alter the fact that they must be made, and that we are all helping to make them, like it or not. The democratic process is still the same. The burden of responsible citizenship is not likely to become lighter. EKER KKKREEEKERE Detailed Reports of the meetings which have pointed up these dilemmas provide an interesting Diary of Atlanta. These, and other information such as questions and answers on Housing are available from the CRC office. The record from February, 1968 through August, 1967, is: Neighborhood Meetings Number Approx Attendance App. Spoke 11 1000 250 Special CRE "Hearings" at City Hall 1 650 100 Special CRC Meetings 4 60 Regular CRC Meetings i 250 Vistors 30 299 1. 1960 380 Approximately 800 requests have been processed through the office. Detailed minutes. of all meetings and 10 Neighborhood Profiles have been widely circulated, plus special reports such as Dixie Hills, Housing, etc.  The Community Relations Commission of the City af Atlanta, appointed by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, meets the 4th Friday of each month, at 1:30 P.M., in Committee Room #2, City Hall. The public is invited and citizens are urged to bring to the attention of the Commission matters pertaining to its functions and duties, which outlined in the Ordinance, include: "To foster mutual understanding, tolerance, and respect among all economic, social religious, and ethnic groups in the City. To help make it possible for each citizen, regardless of race, color, ereed, religion, national origin or ancestry, to develop his talents: and abilities without limitation. To aid in permitting the City of Atlanta to benefit from the full- est realization of its human resources. To investigate, discourage and seek to prevent discriminatory practices against any individual because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin or ancestry. Jo attempt to act as conciliator in controversies involving human relations." In between meetings, individuals and groups are invited to visit or telephone the Commission office (522-4463, Ext 433) to report matters of interest and to obtain information and assistance on specific sub- jects. Community Relations Commission 1203 City Hall Non = Profit 68 Mitchell Street, Sw . Organization Atlanta, Georgia 30303 U. S. Postage PUA IsD Atlanta, Georgia Permit No./1l Mr. R. Earl Landers Adm. Asst. to Mayor | 68 Mitchell St., sw Atlanta, Ga. 30303  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 29 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/a1ee2bf6864dfa318d3ca71a8e2674f2.pdf 09fddaaeb317aca5ddfa6a7721a14611 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. ~ NEWSLETTER OF THE W ' ,oMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION ESTABLISHED BY THE MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, NOVEMBER, 1UB 1103 CITY HALL, ATLANTA GEORGIA 30$06 J OB CONFER LNCE: Oc t obe r 26 , 1967 10 A. M. 12 Noon TELEPHON1i1 trll-.i4B6 EXT. 466 2· ~ 4 P.M. City Hall To hear from all the seg ments of the community concerned with employment -- employees loo kin g fo r workers; those looking for jobs; those giving t r aining f or jobs; employ ment service and labor repre~entatives; public and private a gencies with employment programs. If you are interested, contact the CRC office. ** ** *** SOME FACTS ON ATLA NTA Efl,l PLOYMENT: 1. Georgia St a te Emplo y ment Service, Atlanta offices in July had 659 job orders (described as a "slack season") and 11,324 active _applicants (5,B47 . females). 2. All EDA Centers referred total of 1,811 clients to Manpower counselors in July. 3. Majority of "hardcore unemployed 11 interviewed in Labor Department EDA Human Resources Survey, 1966 were Atlanta na tives or 10 year residents or more. 4. 1350 At lan t a esta blishments reported to U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1966 employed a total of 103 , 79B Negroes were 17% of the total employed, 1. 8% of the total white collar workers and 4% of the total craftsmen employed. Of the 17,641 Negroes, 5.45% were white collar, 4 .7% craftsmen. HOUSI NG MEETI NGS : Sec ond Friday each month, 10 A. M. City Hall of Organi' mmittees on equal zations and agencies with programs in housing. Sub-co housing opportunity, le gal housing problems, tenant-landlord relations, and military housing was held on October· 13th. .,., *** ***** SOME FACT S ON ATLAN TA HOL SI NG: From Relocation Study of the Community I mprovement Program (CIP) for the City. 1. Displaced by governmen t al action, 1964 - 27 ~hites, 110B non- whites. 2. Relocated in su bs t andard dwellings - 0 whites; non-whites 5.2% 3. Estimated displace men t of all urban renewal families as of July, white - 426 , · ·nan.:iwl:11te - ·: 3 ;,044 , ( 92%) · **** ********** OBSERVERS I NVITE D: Or ganizations, agencies and individuals in MetroAtlanta are invited to serve as observers at the Atlanta Community Relations Commission regular monthly ~eeting (4th Fridays, 1:30 P. City Hall) and any special meetings (as called) of the Commission. Planned~ _QQi ~ scheduled: Meetings of the CRC with the Atlanta Board of Ed ucation and t he Boa r d of the Atlanta Housing Authority, also the Office o f Econ omic Opportunity. Dates being arranged. ************ EQUAL OP PORTU NIT Y EfV1 PLOYMENT CLALlSE £JIB.. .fl.ll CONTRACTS: lrJ ill be requi red under an ordinance passed by the Board of Aldermen on Septewber 18th upon the recommendatio n of the CRC, Vice-Mayor Sam Massell, the Summi t Lead e rship Conference and others. This is required of Housing Aut ho ri ty co n tracts, by federal regula t ions. CRC has recommended that Sc ho o l Boa r d con t racts also require it. DI XIE HI LLS: Th e CRC Execu t ive Committee met at the Mayor's request to hear fr om th e r e s iden ts of the area, following the incidents of June 19- 21. Re port s o f t he meet i ng and follow-up reports are available fr om CRC office. �Pa ge 2 News SCHOOL S : On Septembe r 14th the CRC called a sp e cial emergency meeti ng with the At l a nta Boa r d of Education, Superintendent Letson and the representati ve s of t he At l a nta Summit Leadership Conference, to obtain facts about the sc hool situation. (The Commission had met with Dr. Letson : n J uly 12th an d as ked the School Board for a joint meeting to discus s matters of policy . President Ed Cook of the School ·Board had agreed t o s uc h a me e t i ng, but had not set a time). The School Board had a l r eady sched uled a special meeting to discuss a disciplinary matter f or Sept1mber 14t h. Th e Commission met and heard the grievances of parent s and orga nizations and telegraphed another request for a joint meetin g with the School Board, stressing the urgency of the situation. **** ********* NE I GHBORHOOD TE AM S~ ADVISORY COUNCILS: The original 5 Teams of the Commis s i on members t o keep in touch with specific areas have · been expa nd ed to 1 0 . T~a ms .o nd Aduisory Councils are being appointed for each. The Team s a r e f or Ed gewood- Kirkwood; SLmmerhill-Peoplesto wn; Mechanicsville- Pit t sbu r gh ; Vine City- Lightning; Northwest-Dixie Hills; NorthwestPerry Homes Ar ea; Boulevard-Parkway; Ca pitol Avenue and Blair VillagePool e Cr eek. Any ne i ghborhood or organization can call for a meeting of the Community Rel a t i ons Commission. YOUT H MEETI NG: When much of t he nation was trying to keep young people fr om me e ti ng, t he CRC voted to hold a special mee ting and invite the yo un g peop l e o f Atla nta t o t he City Hall to give their vie ws on their ,0 1rm •pr oblems.. On Augus t 9th, mnre than 150 pac ked the Aldermanic Chamb er a nd spoke , fro m all parts of town, The views of all of their probl ems were pre t ty well summed up "nothing to do and nowhere to go . YOUTH CEN TER £.QJi PI TT 5_~URGH .&.B.ll.: Inspired by what he heard at the Youth Hear in g on Aug ust 9th, Michael Forkner of t he Pittsburgh area weht ba c k· a nd hun t~d up a · building which could be used as a youth center. Wit h t he he l p of t he EDA Center, community groups a nd individuals, a place wa s located which the owner agreed to lease f or this purpose. The Ci t y Par ks and Recreation Department is nenovating the building and will staff it, a nd f or the f i r s t time t he young people of the Pittsburgh are~ will have a place of t heir own. Congrat ula tions to all who have worked on thi s. MR. J OS EPH ~-.J YAN T: Mr. Wya nt has been appointed t o replace Mr. Al Keuttner who r es ig ned f rom the Comm is sion when he moved to Los Angeles to join th e s t a f f of " Pace". Mr. Keuttner's serv i ces as an original member of t he Commi s sion wa s a ppreciated by all. Dr. f '~ veland Dennard, another ori gi nal member of t he· Commissicin who r e s i gned l a s t · win t e:r r when he left At l anta to a ccept appointment by Ne w York City Mayor John Lindsey as Depart ment Commissioner for Human Resources . Dr . Dennard na s now Eecome Dir ector of the ne w Technical Institute of the Di s trict of Co l umbia i n Washing t on . Our congratulations to both. ~JSSIDN MEMBER l • t!_ . ALE X,1NDER, .§.B.. attended t he VJa shington meeting o f the new l y f ormed Ur ban Coalition , the Steerin g Committee of which i nc ludes Mayor Al len. COMMISSI ON CHAI RMAN I RV ING f. KALER was invited to Dallas, Te xas to _ me e t wi th t he Cit iz ens Commi ttee interested in establishing a Community Relation s Commi ss i on. t:!.B2,. VE.LMA STR ODE: t-'ir s . Str ode , officer in charge of liasion with local a ge ncies f or th e Commun i ty Relations Service of the U.S. Department of Justic e , vi s ite d t he CRC at our request last month. Mrs. Strode is the s ister of t he Reverend Homer Mc Kewen, Atlanta pastor, and we want to thank her publ icly fo r her assistance wh i le she was here and at other times. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document NEWSLETTER OF THE J OMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION ESTABLISHED BY THE MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, NOVEMBER, 1060 1208 CITY HALL, ATLANTA GEORGIA 80303 TELEPHONE &#8-408 EXT. 488 JOB CONFERENCE: October 26, 1967 10 A.ii. 12 Noon 2 <4 Poms City Hall To hear from all the segments of the community concerned with employment -- employees looking for workers; those looking for jobs; those giving training for jobs; employment service and labor representatives; public and private agencies with employment programs. If you are interested, con- tact the CRC office. KEKKKHHHHHHEHHHEHE SOME FACTS ON ATLANTA EMPLOYMENT: Le Georgia State Employment Service, Atlanta offices in July had 659 job orders (described as a "slack season") and 11,324 active applicants (5,847, females). 2s All EOA Centers referred total of 1,811 clients to Manpower counsel- ors in July. Jt Majority of "hardcore unemployed" interviewed in Labor Department EQOA Human Resources Survey, 1966 were Atlanta natives or 10 year residents or more. 4. 1350 Atlanta establishments reported to U.S. Equal Employment Oppor- tunity Commission, 1966 employed a total of 103,798 Negroes were 17% of the total employed, 1.8% of the total white collar workers and 4% of the total craftsmen employed. Of the 17,641 Negroes, 5.45% were white collar, 4.7% craftsmen. EHEKKKEKKEEREEK HOUSING MEETINGS: Second Friday each month, 10 A.M.) City Hall of Organi- zations and agencies with programs in housing. Sub-committees on equal housing opportunity, legal housing problems, tenant-landlord relations, and military housing was held on October 13th. : aes KEHKEKEKREKKHHEEH SOME FACTS ON ATLANTA HUUSING: From Relocation Study of the Community Improvement Program (CIP) for the City. 1. Displaced by governmental action, 1964 - 27 whites, 1108 non-whites. 2. Relocated in substandard dwellings - O whites; non-whites 5.2% as Estimated displacement of all urban renewal families as of July, white - 426, -fAdn-swhite -~5;'044. (92%) HEEKKEEEHEKEEEE OBSERVERS INVITED: Organizations, agencies and individuals in Metro- Atlanta are invited to serve as observers at the Atlanta Community Relations Commission regular monthly meeting (4th Fridays, 1:30 P.... City Hall) and any special meetings (as called) of the Commission. Planned but not yet scheduled: Meetings of the CRC with the Atlanta Board of Education and the Board of the Atlanta Housing Authority, also the Office of Economic Opportunity. Dates being arranged. HE HHHKHERRHEHE EQUAL GPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT CLAUSE FOR CITY CONTRACTS: Will be re- quired under an ordinance passed by the Board of Aldermen on September 18th upon the recommendation of the CRC, Vice-Mayor Sam Massell, the Summit Leadership Conference and others. This is required of Housing Authority contracts, by federal regulations. CRC has recommended that School Board contracts also require it. KEHKHKEKHEREKEE DIXIE HILLS: The CRC Executive Committee met at the Mayor's request to hear from the residents of the area, following the incidents of June 19-21. Reports of the meeting and follow-up reports are available from CRC office. Page 2 News SCHOOLS: On September 14th the CRC called a special emergency meet- ing with the Atlanta Board of Education, Superintendent Letson and the representatives of the Atlanta Summit Leadership Conference, to obtain facts about the school situation. (The Commission had met with Dr, Letson «n July 12th and asked the School Board for a joint meeting to discuss matters of policy. President Ed Cook of the School Board had agreed to such a meeting, but had not set a time). The School Board had already scheduled a special meeting to discuss a disciplinary matter for Septrmber 14th. The Commission met and heard the grievances of parents and organizations and telegraphed another request for a joint meeting with the School Board, stressing the urgency of the situation. KKEEKKEKKEREREHE NETGHBORHOOD TEAMS & ADVISORY COUNCILS: The original 5 Teams of the Commission members to keep in touch with specific areas have been ex- panded to 10. Teams.and Advisory Councils are being appointed for each. The Teams are for Edgewood-Kirkwood; Summerhill-Peoplestown; Mechanics- ville-Pittsburgh; Vine City-Lightning; Northwest-Dixie Hills; Northwest- Perry Homes Area; Houlevard-Parkway; Capitol Avenue and Blair Village- Poole Creek. Any neighborhood or organization can call for a meeting of the Community Relations Commission. YOUTH MEETING: When much of the nation was trying to keep young people from meeting, the CRC voted to held a special meeting and invite the young people of Atlanta to the City Hall to give their views on their ‘own 'problems. On August 9th, more than 150 packed the Aldermanic Chamber and spoke, from all parts of town. The views of all of their problems were pretty well summed up "nothing to do and nowhere to go", YOUTH CENTER FOR PITTSSURGH AREA: Inspired by what he heard at the Youth Hearing on August 9th, Michael Forkner of the Pittsburgh area went back’ and hunted up a’ building which could be used as a youth center. With the help of the EOA Center, community groups and individuals, a place was located which the owner agreed to lease for this purpose. The City Parks and Recreation Department is nenovating the building and will staff it, and for the first time the young people of the Pittsburgh area, will have a place of their own. Congratulations to all who have worked on this. KREEKEEKREKREREREE MR. JOSEPH WYANT: Mr. Wyant has been appointed to replace Mr. Al Keuttner who resigned from the Commission when he moved to Los Angeles to join the staff of "Pace", Mr. Keuttner's services as an original member of the Commission was appreciated by all. Dr. C*’eveldnd Dennard, another original ember of the Commissian who resigned last’ winter (ee ah when he left Atlanta to accept appointment by New York City Mayor John Lindsey as Department Commissioner for Human Resources. Dr. Dennard has now Eecome Director of the new Technical Institute of the District of Columbia in Washington. Our congratulations to both. COMMISSION MEMBER T. M. ALEXSNDER, SR. attended the Washington meeting of the newly formed Urban Coalition, the Steering Committee of which includes Mayor Allen. COMMISSTON CHAIRMAN IRVING K. KALER was invited to Dallas, Texas to meet with the Citizens Committee interested in establishing a Community Relations Commission. HEKEKAEKHREKERE MRS. VELMA STRODE: Mrs. Strode, officer in charge of liasion with local agencies for the Community Relations Service of the U.S. Depart- ment of Justice, visited the CRC at our request last month. Mrs. Strode is the sister of the Reverend Homer McKewen, Atlanta pastor, and we want to thank her publicly for her assistance while she was here and at other times.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 28 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/027c151beaf825f908b04f78cc698b7b.pdf 1694221483bd0f45a7a61db122803ed9 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. Communi ty Relntions Commission, 1203 Ci t y Hnll, Ptlnnt a Ga. 30303 NEIGHBORHOOD PROFI LE NO. VI II Name of Neighborhood - Peoplestown l)escriptiori of N~·ig.h borhood - ( Expressway) E - Hill St W - Capitol l\ve. N - Ptla nta Ave S - Southern R~ Developmental Progr~ms - Demonstra tion Cities (portion ,of area) Zoni ng Classifications - 4F Private residential, zoned by apts., nnd commercial Conditions of streets - Fair, very narrow, some without sidewalks Condition of housing Deteriorating Rncial patterns - Negro area, white areas (few tra n.s itional areas) most segregated Political representation: City V!a rd - 1st Alde r men - Griggs, Dennis County - Fulton Commissioners - ft ldredge, Mitchell, B:cown State Legislative Di st. - 12 7 State Senate District - 36 Se nator - J a ck Stephens Representat i ve - Cox U. S. Congressional Dist. - 4th Bd. of Education , - Dr. Ed S. Cook Congressman - Blackburn Educational Services ttl a nta Publ i c School fr e a - 5 Superintendent - Dr. G. Y. Smith · Pub l i c schools in ar e a - No high school in are a - reside n ts attend predomina ntly the Negro schools throughout the city - Daniel St a nton Ele. Nearest high schools - Roosevelt, Ca rver. Uashington, Pr ice, Parks J r . Hi g h Voca t i ona l schools in area - Carver - Still predomina ntly v oc a tion but school board says is d eve lop i n g it i nto a communi ty h igh s chool. Nurseri e s - l eft bl a nk Pr i vat e s chools in a r e a - None Librar ies i n area - None Recreati o na l Serv ice s Parks i n Area - No ne Rec rea t i onal Centers in ~rea - None Parks ser v i ng ar ea ( not loc a ted i n g eographic area ) - Grant Park Re c rea t i ona l ce n ter s s e r v ing ar ea - no o ne par t i cula r ce n ter res ident s use c e n ters a l l o ver city Social \'ielfare Services in Area - Price Neighborhood Service Center Health Services in Prea - South Fu lton General characteristics of business in nrea - smnll grocery stores essentially Public services: Police servicePatrol, detective , juvenile and crime cars in area 24 hrs. daily Fire protection services - same as all residential areas Sc~edule for snnitnry collections - twice weekly Housing inspection schedule - monthly Publ i c trnnsportation - nothing through community - transportation through boundary streets only (over) �Neighborhood Pr ofile No. G Page 2 Civic, Political n_nd Religious Organizations: Peoplestown Civic Lea-gue Ur. Heney_ C. Phipps, Chairman located nt ~79 Haygood · Ave. _ S.E. Churches and Religious Organiz~tio~s: New Hampton Baptist · ... . ,; � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Community Relations Commission, 1203 City Hall, Atlanta Ga. 30303 NEIGHBORHOOD PROFILE NO. VIII Name of Neighborhood - Peoplestown (Expressway) ' Description of Neighborhood - £ - Hill St W - Capitol Ave. N - 4étlanta Ave S - Southern KR Developmental Programs - Demonstration Cities (portion of area) Zoning Classifications - 4F Private residential, zoned by apts., and commercial Conditions of streets - Fair, very narrow, some without sidewalks Condition of housing - Deteriorating Racial patterns - Negro area, white areas (few transitional areas) most segregated Political representation; City Ward - list County - Fulton Aldermen - Griggs, Dennis Commissioners - Aldredge, Mitchell, Brown State Senate District - 36 State Legislative Dist. - 127 Senator - Jack Stephens Representative - Cox U. S. Congressional Dist. - 4th Bd. of Education,- Dr. id 5. Congressman - Blackburn Cook Educational Services - Atlanta Public School frea - 5 Superintendent - Dr. G. Y. Smith’ Public schools in area - No high school in area - residents attend predominantly the Negro schools throughout the city - Daniel Stanton Ele. Nearest high schools - Roosevelt, Carver. Washington, Price, Parks Jr. High Vocational schools in area - Carver - Still predominantly vocation but school board says is developing it into a community high school. Nurseries - left blank Private schools in area - None Libraries in area - None Recreational Services - Parks in Area - None Recreational Centers in Area - None Parks serving area (not located in geographic area) - Grant Park Recreational centers serving area - no one particular center - residents use centers all over city social Welfare Services in rea - Price Neighborhood Service Center Health Services in frea - South Fulton General characteristics of business in area - small grocery stores essentially Public services: Police servicePatrol, detective, juvenile and crime cars in area 24 hrs. daily Fire protection services - same as all residential areas Schedule for sanitary collections - twice weekly Housing inspection schedule - monthly Public transportation - nothing through community - transportation through boundary streets only (over)  Page 2 Neighborhood Profile No. & Civic, Political and Religious Organization Peoplestown Civic League Mr. Hency C. Phipps, Chairman located at 179 Haygood Ave. S.E. - j Churches and Religious Organizations: New Hempeon Baptist  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 27 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/23478610fe9f8f9bde96ae4138ff121d.pdf b869edaaca54908d904a5c7ca449538b Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. Commu nity Re la t i ons Commiss i on , 1203 Cit y Hall, Atlanta Ga. 30303 NEIGHBORHOOD PROFILE NO. VII Nrime of Neighborhood - Mechanicsville Desc r iption of Neighborhood: Geographic Boundaries: Nr.r - McDnniel E - Capitol Ave TISouthern RR S - Universit ; Ave. Development Programs - Model Cities Zoning Classifications - Residential (private, apartments, little commercinl) Condition·s of Streets - Fair - some streets unpaved Condition of Hous i ng - Fnir to poor Rncial p a tterns - Negro areas Political Representation: City Ward - 1st Alde r men - Dennis, Griggs County - Fulton Commissioner s - Aldredge , Mi tchell Br own State Se nate Distr i ct - le f t bla nk Stat e Le gisl a t i v e Di st. 124 Senator - Coggins Representative Dis t. 12 4 John Hooe U . S. Congressional Dist r ict - 5th Bd. of Educ a tion - Ed S. Congressma n - Thompson Cook Educ a tiona l Ser v i ces: Atl a n ta Pub lic School Area - 5 Superi n te nd ent - G. Y. Smi t h Pub lic Schools i n Area - Pr yor St . Ele., Br ya n t Ele., Cooper St. El e .. Closest high school s are Br own Hi gh, ~a sh ingt on Hi gh, Car ve r High , Ce ntr al Jr. High, Parks Jr. High Vocat i ona l Schools in Area - No ne Nurseries - Southsi d e Da y Care Assn. Private Schoo ls in fi. rea - No ne Recreati onal Ser v i c es: Parks in Area - No ne Recreational Centers in Area - Do ell Ave. - City Rec re~tion Center ( Small Six-Room House) Parks Serving Area (located outside area) - P ittman , Grant Recreational Centers Serving Area - Wesle y House, YMCA Soci ~ l Welfare Services in Area : Summerhill - Mechanicsville Neighborhood Service Center Health Serv ices in Area - None Business Enterprises in Area - Small gr ocery stores, clothing shops Public Services: Routine patrol (Detective, Juvenile & crime cars 24 hrs daily Fire Protection Services - Same as all other residential areas Schedule for Sanitar y Collection - 2 times weekly Housing Inspection Schedule - Monthly Public Transportation -Satisfactory Civic, Political and Re ligious Organizations - Mechanicsville Civic League - Mrs. L. M. Thompson �I• . Pnge 2 Neighborhood Profile No. 7 ., ( Churches and Religious Organizations: 66 McDaniel St. S. W. 1~4 7 Fo~tress ,Ave. S. ~ . 388 Glenn St. S. W. . 236 Richardson St. . 700 Cooper St . . Zion Hill Baptist Church Fortress Ave. Bapt. Greater Mt. Calvary New Hope Baptist Cnlvary Temple Resident Cont a ct Persons: Mr. Marvin K. McDowell Mr. Rudolph Hines Rev. L. C. Clack Mr. Edward Moody Rep. John Hood Mrs. Rosa Brown 781 Hubbard St. S. W. JllO Edgewood Ave. N.E. , ·. 591 Pulliam St. ~:w . . 241 Doane St. S.W. .... A . . 002 2 Pryor St. S.W. 857 McDaniel St. I J\ pril 1967 ' � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Community Relations Commission, 1203 City Hall, Atlanta Ga. 30303 NEIGHBORHOOD PROFILE NO. VII Name of Neighborhood - Mechanicsville Description of Neighborhood: Geographic Boundaries: NW - McDaniel E - Capitol Ave W- Southern RR 5 - Universit, Ave. Development Programs - iiodel Cities Zoning Classifications - Residential (private, apartments, little commercial) Conditions of Streets - Fair - some streets unpaved Condition of Housing - Fair to poor Racial patterns - Negro areas Political Representation: City Ward - lst County - Fulton Aldermen - Dennis, Griggs Commissioners - Aldredge, Mitchell Brown State Senate District - left blank State Legislative Dist. 124 Senator - Coggins Representative Dist. 124 John Hooc U. S. Congressional District - 5th Bd. of Education ~- Ed §S. Congressman - Thompson Cook Educational Services: Atlanta Public School Area - 5 Superintendent - G. Y. Smith Public Schools in Area - Pryor St. Ele., Bryant Ele., Cooper St. Ele.. Closest high schools are Brown High, Washington High, Carver High, Central Jr. High, Parks Jr. High Vocational Schools in Area - None Nurseries - Southside Day Care Assn, Private Schools in Area - None Kecreational Services: Parks in Area - None Recreational Centers in Area - Dodi Ave. - City Recrestion Center - (Small Six-Room House) Parks Serving Area (located outside area) - Pittman, Grant Recreational Centers Serving Area - Wesley House, YMCA Social Welfare Services in Area: Summerhill - Mechanicsville Neighborhood Service Center Health Services in Area - None Business Enterprises in Area - Small grocery stores, clothing shops Public Services: Routine patrol (Detective, Juvenile & crime cars 24 hrs daily Fire Protection Services - Same as all other residential areas Schedule for Sanitary Collection - 2 times weekly Housing Inspection Schedule - Monthly Public Transportation -Satisfactory Civic, Political and Religious Organizations - Mechanicsville Civic League ~- Mrs. L. M. Thompson Page 2 Neighborhood Profile No. 7 Churches and Religious Organizations: Zion Hill Baptist Church 66 iicDaniel St. S.W. Fortress Ave, Bapt. 1147 Fortress Ave. §.V. Greater Nt. Calvary . . 388 Glenn St. 5.V. New Hope Baptist 236 Richardson 5t. Calvary Temple 700 Cooper St. Resident Contact Persons: lir. Marvin K. McDowell 781 Hubbard St. S.W. Mr. Rudolph Hines 110 Edgewood fve. N.&. Rev. L. C. Clack is 591 Pulliam St. S.W. Mr. Edward Moody 241 Doane St. S.W. Rep. John Hood 802% Pryor St. S.W. Mrs. Rosa Brown -857 McDaniel St. April 1967  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 26 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/07b03bd745bc19579dfafe533d0d5b04.pdf 3b40d8e8ce95d8975982aad0ac222bad Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. Community Relations Commission, 1203 City Hall, Atlanta Ga. 30303 NEIGHBORHOOD PROFILE NO. VI Name of Neighborhood - Pittsburg Description of Neighborhood: Geographic Boundaries W - Stewart Ave. N) Southern S - University Ave. E) RR Development Programs - Model cities Zoning Classifications - Residential, mostly owner occupied(55%) Condition of streets - Fair, some unpaved and narrow Racial patterns - .Negro Political Representation: City Ward - 1st Alderman - Dennis, Griggs County - Fulton Commissioners - Aldredge~ Mitchell _ Brown blank State Legislative Dist. 124 3'ate Senate District - left Senator - Coz z ins Representative - John Hood, 124 U.S.Congressional Dist. - 5th G.D.Adams, 125 Bd. of Education - Ed S. Cook Educational Services: Atlanta Public School Area - 5 Supt. - G Y. Smith, Ele. Public Schools i n Area - Gideon Ele., Cr ozman Ele., Pa r ks Jr. High Closes t ones are Roosevelt High, Washington High , Price High Vocational Schools ln Area - None Nurseries - None Private Schools in Area - None Libraries in Area - None Recreational Services: Parks in Area - Pittma n Rec reat iona l Ce nt ers in Ar ea - We s ley House, Frazier YMCA Parks serving a r ea - Pittman Soc i al Welf are Services in .Area - Pittsburg Neighborhood Cent er Health Services i n Are - None Business ent erp rises in Area - Gr ocery s t ores, barber s hops , wi ne s to re s Public Services : Police Services - Pa t rol, det ec t i ve, juv e ni le & cri rrecars in and out 24 hrs . daily Fire Protection services - As all other residentia l areas Schedule for Sanitary Collect ions - Twice weekly Housing Inspection Schedule - Monthly Public Transportation - Satisfactory Civic, Political and Religiou:*organizations: Name Chairman Pittsburg Civic League Mr. Vaug han Democratic Women's League Approximately 14 churches, majority Baptist or Methodist April, 1967. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Community Relations Commission, 1203 City Hall, Atlanta Ga. 30303 NEIGHBORHOOD PROFILE NO. VI Name of Neighborhood - Pittsburg Description of Neighborhood: Geographic Boundaries N) Southern W - Stewart Ave. E RR S - University Ave. Development Programs - Model cities Zoning Classifications - Residential, mostly owner occupied (55%) Condition of streets - Fair, some unpaved and narrow Racial patterns - Negro Political Representation: City Ward + lst County - Fulton Alderman - Dennis, Griggs Commissioners - Aldredge, Mitchell. Brown Gate Senate District - left blank State Legislative Dist. 124 senator - Cozzins Representative - John Hood, 124 U.S.Congressional Dist. - 5th G.D.Adams, 125 Bad. of Education - Ed 8. Cook Educational Services: Atlanta Public School Area - 5 Supt. - G@ Y. Smith, Ele. Public Schools in Area - Gideon Ele., Crozman Ele., Parks Jr. High Closest ones are Roosevelt High, Washington High, Price High Vocational Schools in Area - None Nurseries - None Private Schools in Area - None Libraries in Area - None Recreational Services: Parks in Area - Pittman Recreational Centers in Area - Wesley House, Frazier YMCA Parks serving area - Pittman Social Welfare Services in Area - Pittsburg Neighborhood Center Health Services in Are - None Business enterprises in Area - Grocery stores, barber shops, wine stores Public Services: Police Services - Patrol, detective, juvenile & crire cars in and out 24 hrs. daily Fire Protection services - As all other residential areas schedule for Sanitary Collections - Twice weekly Housing Inspection Schedule - Monthly Public Transportation - Satisfactory Civic, Political and Religious Organizations: Name Chairman Pittsburg Civic League Mr. Vaughan Democratic Women's League ** Approximately 14 churches, majority Baptist or Methodist April, 1967.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 25 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/32a2617386649957d3576d01cc60dac0.pdf f7573f7b9c0534b07b59e1791ddbce7d Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. Community Rela tions Commi ss ion 12 03 City Ha ll Atlanta, Ge orgia Perry Home s , Scot ts Cr ossing are a 2 Neighb orhood Hea rin g 2 Thursday, May 4, 1967 at Wi l k es Chape l Church, 22 51 Perry Bou.levardo This meeti ng was arr a nged by and he l d at the request of the residen t s of the area. Mr. Dobbs and Mrs. Paschall exp l ained the establishment of the Commis s ion ; ask ed fo r he lpf ul suggestio ns as well as problems. 1. Mr s . Odessa Hil l. Need rec r eation a r ea; sewe r s inadeq uate for all water that runs down from J a ckson Parkwa y; area needs a Jr. Hi gh ; Archer going on d ouble session . 2. Mrs . Frankie Simpson , 1 721 Barrett Dr i ve 1 N. W. Children need r ecreation are a . 159 signatures . Copy of peti ti on to Mr. Deli us with Randall Stre et is be comi ng a c ar dump i n t he Bolt on Hills are a. 3. Mr s. Mary San f ord, Pre s ident, Te na nt s Assn., Perr y Horne s . 1 000 familie s in Pe rry Homes; 67% headed by working women ; teenagers nee d places to play and s upe r vi s ion ; hav e a sked various public age nc i e s for h e lp ; 4 000 ch i l dren - the Communi t y Center was not in t he ori gi nal p lans a nd it is l ocated in a danger ous and inconvenient place on (Proctor) Cree k , no bus s ervice t o it and hard fo r chi l dren to ge t t hereo Ne ed traffic l ight at Perry Boul evard and Ke rry Driv e; asked Mr . Pirkle at Transit Co. ab out bus s ervi ce f n ot much help o Basements at project could be used for recreation but no toilet facilities. , Commun ity Ce nter lea s ed - to YMCA , which sh ows preference �2 to those who join YMCA; Te na nts Assn. buys $200 worth of memberships but still many who can't join; women work mostly in domestic service , at $6.00 a day, plus carfare. Mr. Dobbs pointed out that this area is isolated from rest of the ci ty. Plans to add 1500 more public housing units, but no plans for additional school. 4. Mrs. Olivia Pullen, 2760 Marco Drive, N. W. Need Boys Club , YMCA , YWCA in t hat area . Mrs. Sanford said recreation dept . is developing a ball park and tennis courts at Gun Club Park, children can 't afford tennis rackets, ·would be better to let them play in the spac e. 5. Rev. Dav id Mid dlebrooks, 1857 Spring Avenue, N. W. 355-6338, Forest Grove. Area is olated, need extended bus service , particularly so young girls will not have to walk so far g oing home, some have been molested . Street paving needed - on Spring Av e nue, Francis Avenue; sewers there but not connected. 6. Mrs . Darthula Stanfield, 2535 Abner Pl a c e, N. W. 792-7441. Need sewers so bad you ucan't eat y our dinner." ( Mr . Dobbs said Proctor Creek smells so bad at times people can 7 t stay i n their house.) Several vacant lot s - need 11 no dumping" signs; old cars on Arn o and Hollywood, told needed permit to get them moved . New Finch School - beautiful but no auditorium or gym , no place for meetings such as PTA ( opened in Sept . 1966) . 7. Mrs . Frances Strickland, 2598 Abner Place . No place to play, vacant lots could be cleaned off. Bus comes fast �3 down street, dan gerous for ch ildren pla ying in street. She is sponsor for a little teenage club b u t " they have noth ing to do; nowhere to go.n 8. Mrs. Jes s ie Gas t on , 2330 Perry Boulevard 7 # 30 . Lot, need equipment for c hi ldren to play; mothers will take turns supervising. 9. Mrs. Glayds Palme r ; Mrs. Arie Shelman 2 1818 Hollywood Rd . N. W. Need police protection at nigh t; need play area; should close pool room at Hollywood Plaza on Sundays. 10. Mrs. Fra nces Gha ni , 2111 d l a riss a Drive, Apt. 621. Need better bus service 1 need shelters for children . to wait for bus, ha ve to sta y from school if weathe r is bad ; need ·police pa trol at night; play area for s ma lle r child re n ; creek od or is bad. 11. Mrs . Eddi e Lee Doz i e r , 2L~l7 Clari s sa Drive., N. W. Pr octor Creek has od or a nd m6s qui t oes ; ' 'wen t down to City Hall a bout sewe rs ", but nothi ng d one . Need r e c rea ti on area - F inch Sc hool grou nds locked a s soon as sch ool is out, would be good play are a for ch i ldren . 12. Mrs . Jeanet t e Trimble, 13 70 Drew Drive . Closest libr ary on J one ~ Aven ue , need library; 24 hr . police protection ; t raffic light on Kerry a nd Drew; s peed i ng on Pe rry Boul e vard ; could use basements f or r e c reat ion ; dangerous to ge t to Community Center - dark , on creek ; need t o enfor c e school a tte ndance l a ws; mor e day care cent ers. Rev . Williams said all Negro schools are ove rc r owded ; one way to deal with it is for "you peop le to rais e hel l about i t 7 u going to �4 have to sustain your protest; Board of Education needs to know you are not going to tolerate these condit ions; should fill up some of the empty seats in other schools. Mrs. 13. we can't pay for bus service to other parts of town. Mrs. Minnie Maid son, 2314 Ab ner Place. Sewers inadequate since all apartments have been built; sanitary dept. comes out once or twice a week but t hat isn 1 t enough; open sewer at 2315 Abner Place, N. W., dangerous for children playing. 14. Mrs. O. Wheeler, 2436 Abner Place, N. W. ·complained of discrimination against couple of Moslem religion who answered public appea l for additional Negro adoptive parents; were denied child because of religion; appealed to local agencies and State Departmen t of Famili and Children Service, but no help. ~lso said dog catchers come and "take dogs out of your yard; take the dog sleeping on front ste ps." They said a Sinclair service station at corner of Covington Highway near Conyers charges deposit for bottles and then refuses to re turn deposit when bottle is returned; mentioned discrimi nation against blind; need for night police patrols; too great a tax burden on homesteaders. 15. Mrs. Trimble . Trouble with public housing is with managers, not head offi ce ; manager has last say; tenants are afraid to complain . Mrs . Pullen: 10 years in public housing; it is a good place; rules and regulations are given. 16. Mrs. Don Gates 2 1488 Kerry Drive.. Usually know of charges ahead of time. �5 17. Mrs . Carrie Smith, 54 Drew Drive . Need for recreation area. 18. Mrs. Reagan, Perry Homes . When teenager g oes to work rent goes up t oo much; child has no chanc e. to r ise. 19 . Mrs. Ruby Hawk . Charged for a new screen door without asking, one little. hole i n it; d iffere nt charges f or same things; when she moved she was charged for things that were there, but s he was told, when she asked if they would look again, they ndon 1 t check but one time"; Wha ~ are. plans for Summer activities for c hildren in Perry Homes ? 20. Rev . C. A. Samples, Westmoreland Drive . Reminded the group of the cour t c ase re Joseph i ne Williams, to be heard Tuesday in Superior Court . Said city could make Model Neigh- borhood of Rockdale urban renewal area, vacant land, demonstrate how to buil d homes, etc.; people need to be able to get ahead before the rent goes up. Need informati on on U.S. program that gives Cuban refugees $2000 loan for house, plus $25 a week while waiting for job. Robinson School built with no playground. 21. Mrs. RosaLee Miller 2 2416 Clarissa Drive 2 N. W. She is paying sewer tax but no sewers connected. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Community Relations Commission 1203 City Hall Atlanta, Georgia Perry Homes, Scotts Crossing area, Neighborhood Hearing, Thursday, May 4, 1967 at Wilkes Chapel Church, 2251 Perry Boulevard. This meeting was arranged by and held at the request of the residents of the area. Mr. Dobbs and Mrs. Paschall explained the establishment of the Com- mission; asked for helpful suggestions as well as problems. 1. Mrs. Odessa Hill. Need recreation area; sewers inadequate for all water that runs down from Jackson Parkway; area needs a Jr. High; Archer going on double ee 2. Mrs. Frankie Simpson, 1721 Barrett Drive, N. W. Children need recreation area. Copy of petition to Mr. Delius with 159 signatures. Randall Street is becoming a car dump in the Bolton Hills area. 3. Mrs. Mary Sanford, President, Tenants Assn., Perry Homes. 1000 families in Perry Homes; 67% headed by working women; teen- agers need places to play and supervision; have asked various public agencies for help; 4000 children - the Community Center was not in the original plans and it is located in a dangerous and inconvenient place on (Proctor) Creek, no bus service to it and hard for children to get there. Need traffic light at Perry Boulevard and Kerry Drive; asked Mr. Pirkle at Transit Co. about bus service, not much help. Basements at project could be used for recreation but no toilet facilities. Community Center leased. to YMCA, which shows preference 2 to those who join YMCA; Tenants Assn. buys $200 worth of memberships but still many who can't join; women work mostly in domestic service, at $6.00 a day, plus carfare. Mr. Dobbs pointed out that this area is isolated from rest of the city. Plans to add 1500 more public housing units, but no plans £or additional school. 4. Mrs. Olivia Pullen, 2760 Marco Drive, N. W. Need Boys Club, YMCA, YWCA in that area. Mrs. Sanford said recreation dept. is developing a ball park and tennis courts at Gun Club Park, children can't afford tennis rackets, ‘would be better to let them play in the space. 5. Rev. David Middlebrooks, 1857 Spring Avenue, N. W. 355-6338, Forest Grove. Area isolated, need extended bus service, particularly so young girls will not have to walk so far going home, some have been molested. Street paving needed ~- on Spring Avenue, Francis Avenue; sewers there but not connected. 6. Mrs. Darthula Stanfield, 2535 Abner Place, N. W. 792-7441, Need sewers so bad you “can't eat your dinner."*' (Mr. Dobbs said Proctor Creek smells so bad at times people can't stay in their house.) Several vacant lots - need "no dumping" signs; old cars on Arno and Hollywood, told needed permit to get them moved. New Finch School - beautiful but no auditorium or gym, no place for meetings such as PTA (opened in Sept. 1966). 7. Mrs. Frances Strickland, 2598 Abner Place. No place to play, vacant lots could be cleaned off. Bus comes fast 2 down street, dangerous for children playing in street. She is sponsor for a little teenage club but “they have nothing to do; nowhere to go." 8. Mrs. Jessie Gaston, 2330 Perry Boulevard, #30. Lot, need equipment for children to play; mothers will take turns supervising. 9. Mrs. Glayds Palmer; Mrs. Arie Shelman, 1818 Hollywood Rd. N. W. Need police protection at night; need play area; should close pool room at Hollywood Plaza on Sundays. 10. Mrs. Frances Ghani, 2111 Clarissa Drive, Apt. 621. Need better bus service, need shelters for children.to wait for bus, have to stay from school if weather is bad; need police patrol at night; play area for smaller children; creek odor is bad. 1l. Mrs. Eddie Lee Dozier, 2417 Clarissa Drive, N. W. Proctor Creek has odor and mosquitoes; “went down to City Hall about sewers'', but nothing done. Need recreation area - Finch School grounds Locked as soon as school is out, would be good play area for children. 12. Mrs. Jeanette Trimble, 1370 Drew Drive. Closest Library on Jones Avenue, need Library; 24 hr. police pro- tection; traffic light on Kerry and Drew; speeding on Perry Boulevard; could use basements for recreation; dangerous to get to Community Center - dark, on creek; need to enforce school attendance Laws; more day care centers. Rev. Williams said all Negro schools are overcrowded; one way to deal with it is for "tyou people to raise hell about it," going to Ly have to sustain your protest; Board of Education needs to know you are not going to tolerate these conditions; should fill up some of the empty seats in other schools. Mrs. : we can't pay for bus service to other parts of town. 13. Mrs. Minnie Maidson, 2314 Abner Place. Sewers inadequate since all apartments have been built; sanitary dept. comes out once or twice a week but that isn't enough; open sewer at 2315 Abner Place, N. W., dangerous for children playing. 14, Mrs. O. Wheeler, 2436 Abner Place, N. W. Complained of discrimination against couple of Moslem religion who answered public appeal for additional Negro adoptive parents; were denied child because of religion; appealed to local agencies and State Department of Family and Children Service, but no help. Also said dog catchers come and "take dogs out of your yard; take the dog sleeping on front steps.'' They said a Sinclair service station at corner of Covington Highway near Conyers charges deposit for bottles and then refuses to return deposit when bottle is re- turned; mentioned discrimination against blind; need for night police patrols; too great a tax burden on homesteaders. 15. Mrs. Trimble. Trouble with public housing is with managers, not head office; Manager has last say; tenants are afraid to complain. Mrs. Pullen: 10 years in public housing; it is a good place; rules and regulations are given. 16. Mrs. Don Gates, 1488 Kerry Drive. Usually know of charges ahead of time. 5 17. Mrs. Carrie Smith, 54 Drew Drive. Need for recreation area. 18. Mrs. Reagan, Perry Homes. When teenager goes to work rent goes up too much; child has no chance to rise. 19. Mrs. Ruby Hawk. Charged for a new screen door without asking, one Little hole in it; different charges for same things; when she moved she was charged for things that were there, but she was told, when she asked if they would look again, they “don't check but one time; What are plans for Summer activities for children in Perry Homes? 20. Rev. C. A. Samples, Westmoreland Drive. Reminded the group of the court case re Josephine Williams, to be heard Tuesday in Superior Court. Said city could make Model Neigh~ borhood of Rockdale urban renewal area, vacant Land, demonstrate how to build homes, etc.; people need to be able to get ahead before the rent goes up. Need information on U.S. program that gives Cuban refugees $2000 loan for house, plus $25 a week while waiting for job. Robinson School built with no playground. 21. Mrs. RosaLee Miller, 2416 Clarissa Drive, N. W. She is paying sewer tax but no sewers connected.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 24 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/6d42178f14f7c77234a92a48d3e0a802.pdf 1dfc0b32cbd8438f8095d92c49e5d223 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. Community Relations Commission 203 City Hall Atlanta, Georgia April 25 1 1967 meeting at St. Stephens Churc h 2 on various housing programs in area included in proposed Model Neighb or hood program . Present: Mr. Bob R.i.-::ha rds on , Hr. Sid Scarborough, Hr. Earl Landers from the Stadium Authority ; Mr. Fl . O. Wofford, Chief Inspector; Mr . J. S. Buchanan, Chief Housing Inspector; Mr. Ray Nixon, Ch ief of Construction ; Mr. Collier Gladin, Director of Planning Department; Mr. Les Persells, director of Urban Renewal (wh ich admi nisters re location program for city); Col. Malcom Jones, staff for Housing Resources Commit t ee; al s o Aldermen Gregory Griggs and Hugh Pierce; Sen. Jack Stephens, Le gislator John Hood; Commis sion members Joe Haas, Al Keuttner, Robert Dobbs, C. G. Ezzard, Sara B~ker , Mary Stephens, Jack Sells, Irving Kaler , and Eliza Paschall, Executive Director. Mr . Haas, who presided, pointed out that t he c ity officials present were administrative officials, they do not set policy . Stadium parking: Mr. Richardson stated there are "no current planf:; to acquire additional property for any purpose" ; ul tima te.ly parking for 8000 by 1979, now have parking for more than 4000; Authority does not possess power of eminent doma in; must be public proof of need a nd publ ic hearing before land can be acquired; under present plan, expansion would take place within area that would be included if you drew a circle with a radius from the stadium to Martin and Little Streets; he doesn't think any people will be displaced; nothing will be done without consulting re~idents. It was suggested that �2 newspapers be asked to carry plat of area so people will know exactly. Model Neighborhood and Code Enforcement: Mr. Gladin said city has asked for U.S. grant to plan Model Neighborhood; don't expect to hear from before June and then the planning phase will take 12 months; "continuing under normal enforcement policy until the planning application is approved. " Question: "Do we have to spend $2000 on a house when we don't know what will happen wi t hin the next 12 months? We are living in them; houses have been in this condition for 5 or 6 years, why do a fe.w more months matters so much? Mr. Wofford: stated that a nyone wh o receives notice to make repairs from inspector can call code enforcemen t office in City Hall and they will se nd an inspector t o go over it. Some in the Model Neighbor- hood area were fo und to be substandard by CIP study, house to house. inspection in t his area; some other areas have already been designated as urban renewal and in those requiring just those things necessary for safety to be repaired . - Q. "If I spend $3500 on my house, will that be considered when the city takes it?" Mr . Wofford "believes repairs will be taken into account 11 ; city gets 3 independent appraisals. Q. vlhy repair ~ •• If you have a $3000 equ.i ty and still owe $3000, you won't be able to get enough to buy another house. •. Q. What "plans" d oes the city have? The. bank will not advance money to repair her "home" 1 in this area-~ "because there are plans 0 . --~---- 0 •• �3 Q. "T o what extent will residents participate in Hodel Ne igh bor- hood? Several stateme n ts about involvme n t through EOA centers and Mayor' s office. Q. What . role have the people played? Wa s application prepared by professional? . Gladin: City is not tied d own to the proposal in the planning . appli- cation. Q. "Is it possible to determine now which houses are to be t orn down and if not, why can't you s uspend the code? " Q. What wi ll be the relationship between the Neighb orhood Advisc~y Coun cil and the Policy Committee? l,Jh o will set the standards ? Wi ll the people be able to make some of t hese decisions? ••• Q. Can an appeal be mad e from the building inspector's report ? Mr. Woff ord said yes, t o the Be tte r Housing Commi ssion (City Hall ) . Q. Pla ns for s t r eets a nd sidewalks i n this area ? Mr. Ni x o n e xplained that all initial sidewal k and street paving must be paid for by the property owners. Mr. Nixo n listed impr ovements in that area planned fo r this yea r, b ut e rnph.n siz ed that city must work on thoroughf ares. Reside nt s said streets in to the thoroughfares; streets t h at l e ad i n to a nd o ut of t h e i r n eigh borh oods 11 nee d resurfacing - e.g. Vanira ; Hay g o od , Mart i n , etc. Q. I s t here a ny way t o ge t bank s to b e mor e len i e nt on loans i n the area ? Col . Jones said banks gene ra l l y wan t a s afe ri sk; knows of no special programs avai lab l e for re siden ts n ow. Qo Was pointed out tha t insurance companie s a r e r el u c tant t o writ e insurance on house that is less t h a n $8000 - many in this area are o �4 Requests reported for: 1. Model Neighb_orhood residen ts on policy body. 2. Suspension of Code Enforcement until places are more settled. · � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Community Relations Commission 1203 City Hall Atlanta, Georgia April 25, 1967 meeting at St. Stephens Church, on various housing programs in area included in proposed Model Neighborhood program. Present: Mr. Bob Richardson, Mr. Sid Scarborough, Mr. Earl Landers from the Stadium Authority; Mr. W. 0. Wofford, Chief Inspector; Mr. J. S. Buchanan, Chief Housing Inspector; Mr. Ray Nixon, Chief of Construction; Mr. Collier Gladin, Director of Planning Department; Mr. Les Persells, director of Urban Renewal (which administers re- Location program for city); Col. Malcom Jones, staff for Housing Resources Committee; also Aldermen Gregory Griggs and Hugh Pierce; Sen. Jack Stephens, Legislator John Hood; Commission members Joe Haas, Al Keuttner, Robert Dobbs, C. G. Ezzard, Sara Baker, Mary Stephens, Jack Sells, Irving Kaler, and Eliza Paschall, Executive Director. Mr. Haas, who presided, pointed out that the city officials present were administrative officials, they do not set policy. Stadium parking: Mr. Richardson stated there are "no current plans to acquire additional property for any purpose"; ultimately parking for 8000 by 1979, now have parking for more than 4000; Authority does not possess power of eminent domain; must be public proof of need and public hearing before land can be acquired; under present plan, expansion would take place within area that would be included if you drew a circle with a radius from the stadium to Martin and Little Streets; he doesn’t think any people will be displaced; nothing will be done without consulting residents. It was suggested that newspapers be asked to carry plat of area so people will know exactly. Model Neighborhood and Code Enforcement: Mr. Gladin said city has asked for U. S. grant to plan Model Neighborhood; don't expect to hear from Sete June and then the planning phase will take 12 months; “continuing under normal enforcement policy until the planning application is approved.” Question: "Do we have to spend $2000 on a house when we don't know what will happen within the next 12 months? We are living in them; houses have been in this condition for 5 or 6 years, why do a few more months matters so much? Mr. Wofford: stated that anyone who receives notice to make repairs from inspector can call code enforcement office in City Hall and they will send an inspector to go over it. Some in the Model Neighbor- hood area were found to be substandard by CIP study, house to house inspection in this area; some other areas have already been designated as urban renewal and in those requiring just those things necessary for safety to be repaired. ‘QO. "“I£ I spend $3500 on my house, will that ‘be considered when the city takes it?" Mr. Wofford “believes repairs will be taken into account"'; city gets 3 independent appraisals. Q. Why repair now .. If you have a $3000 equity and still owe $3000, you won't be able to get enough to buy another house.. Q. What "plans" does the city have? The bank will not advance money to repair her "home", in this area, ‘because there are plans"... QO. "To what extent will residents participate in Model Neighbor- hood? Several statements about involvment through EOA centers and Mayor's office. Q. What role have the people played? Was application prepared by professional?. . Gladin: City is not tied down to the proposal in the planning appli- cation. | Q. "Is it possible to determine now which houses are to be torn down and if not, why can't you suspend the code?" Q. What will be the relationship between the Neighborhood Advisory Council and the Policy Committee? Who will set the standards? Will the people be able to make some of these decisions?... Q. Can an appeal be made from the building inspector's report? Mr. Wofford said yes, to the Better Housing Commission (City Hall). Q. Plans for streets and sidewalks in this area? Mr. Nixon explained that all initial sidewalk and street paving must be paid for by the property owners. Mr. Nixon listed improvements in that area planned for this year, but emphasized that city must work on thoroughfares. Residents said streets "into the thoroughfares; streets that lead into and out of their neighborhoods" need resurfacing - e.g. Vanira; Haygood, Martin, etc. Q. Is there any way to get banks to be more lenient on loans in the area? Col. Jones said banks generally want a safe risk; knows of no special programs available for residents now. @. Was pointed out that insurance companies are reluctant to write insurance on house that is less than $8000 - many in this area are. Requests reported for: 1. Model Neighborhood residents on policy body. 2. Suspension of Code Enforcement until places are more settled.-  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 23 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/abdb7d0f868631e3ab81562c516656a1.pdf 707055f3b83a28f627a3ec95ba3f1d3b Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. Communi ty Rela t i ons Commission 12 03 Ci ty Ha l l Atlanta , Ge or gia Northwe st Ar e a Ne i ghb orhood He a r i ng 2 Wed nesday 2 Apri l 19 , 1967 a t Allen Templ e AME Ch urch , 7 :30 P. M. Mr . Charles Hart, cha irma n of t he EOA CNAC, who had arran ged for the meeting, had served on the Human Relations Committee appointed by the Board of Aldermen, which pr eceded t h e Commission. plained the formation of t h e Commission , and said it was He . ex11 des igne.d to find out needs and problems of the cityu . Commission member s pres e nt - Mr . Robert Dobbs , Chairman ; Rabbi Jacob Rothsch ild, ?-fr. Byron Attridge, Mr. R. S. Butler, and Mrs. El iza Pascha ll , Execu ti ve Di r ector . 1. Mr . Willia m Brown , 84 7 Ger t r ud e Pla ce. Po l l u t ed s tream betwe en Ger trude Pl a c e, and Horte nse Place ; off e nsive od ors, ha ve to c lose wind ows. Had c ont ac t ed Mr. Re spress , wh o had rep li ed t hat he needed a b ond issue f or new sewers; wrote Mayor; Health Department s a id to write c ity; no thing done . 2. Mrs. Gayne lle Byr d , 1894 Tremont Drive , N. W. Street pa vi ng problems on Anderson and Simpson; Di xie Hill s Circle too narrow ; nee d turnar ound paved; area confusing and street sign s confusing , almost imposs i ble to give dire cti ons. 3. Mrs. Mary Williams, 2041 Moreh ouse Drive, N. Wo, 799-8 001 0 Dixie Hills Civic Club: need cros s walk at Newb erry Chape l, a t Spe lman and Simpson Road; need " Slow School" s ign on we s t s i d~ of Simpson Road from Dixie Hills Circl e to protec t children goi ng to W. White School; Parks Department promised 2 years ag o to fix Recreation Center at Anderson Park; need police protection at Dixie Hills Plaza against �2 teenagers who gang up against people trying to get through the area. Rothschild, etc. asked if they have tried to solve the problem; Attridge asked if they are local teenagers; Mrs. Williams said they don't know. Mr . Dobbs said it t akes police 15 minutes to arrive when they are called, "why so long?" 4. Mr. John Howard, 2105 Baker Road. Teenagers in park near his home throw trash in his yard; urges playlot at Baker and North Avenue. 5. Mrs. Jud ge Barlow, 60 Edwin Place, N. W., 794-1224. Put trash on streets, stays 2 to 3 weeks, wants schedule; teenagers siphon gas out of car, takes police "an hour to come"; big boys at Perry Homes run off small chi l dre n from playlots. 6. Mr. Andr ew Hill, 1623 Westview Drive, S. W., 753-0132. Former Manager of apartments, dismissed because he checked the buildings ; a gents don't care, just so they get their money; people should not be "afraid to the truth." 7. Mr. Robert Ba ldwin , 264 Richard.s on, N. W., 794-7901. Tur ner Hi gh PTA; unde rsta nds Turner Hi gh going on double session. Dr. Bowen says they will k now about it. i n t he stree t s . This would mean 1000 child r en Mr. Davis s a ys 330 seniors, 370 11th graders , 320 10th gr aders dismi ssed at 12; 500 8th graders, 490 9th gr a der s i n streets un t il noon . to do. Teenager s d o n ot ha ve en ough construc tive t hings 3 00 girls did n ot fi ni sh at one high sch ool on double sess ion last year because of pregnancy . Wi th 10 p or t a ble units could av oi d double sessions. Mr . Dobbs said Archer will go on double session in September too . · Rabbi Rothschild asked if there were objections to portable units. �3 Group agreed would prefer p or t a ble units to double session. 8. Mrs. D. Shaw , 2232 Verbena Street, # 10, Dixie Hills Apt., 794-9065. Complained of rats , has cal led Rode nt Control, still bad. 9. Mr . Otis Montgome ry , 730 Hor t ense Place, N. W. ( Hortense Community Club). Steel cable tower in middle of street; city owns land, Ga. Power owns tower, can't get anybody to t a ke it down; s ewe rage inadequa te , can't walk in street when it rains ; Hortense and Florence Streets need resurfacing; dogs run loose. (Commission member s J a ck Sells and T. M. Alexande·r arrived; a lso Alderman Q. V. Williamson ). 10. Mrs . Ed. W. Hal l, 1999 Baker Road, N. W. 794-3949. Blind c urve, childre n pla ying i n streets; va cant house , yard gr own up , a bandoned s tation wagon on Arlingt on Ci r cle; he r s on, a long with other t eenage rs , gets out of s ch ool at 12 : 2 0 ( Fulton Hi gh), "use d t o kn ow a c hi l d wa s out of s c h oo: when y ou saw h im in t h e s tre ets , now you don ' t kn ow if he i s c oming or going t o s chool; n othing t o d o but break windows . 11 . Mrs . Daisy B . Sti nson , 2056 Arling ton Circle, N. W. Need trees trimmed and l ight in midd l e of street, would help wome n coming home fr om work . 12. Mr . Sidney T . Dennis , 645 S . Evelyn Place, S . W. 794- 123 6. Has 4 children in school, refused t o sign s chool ass i gnment form for next year; no use for parent and child t o make request if area Supt . and Principal can make ass ignment too late f or an appeal; should be _notified of assignments in time· to reques t another one, not just �sent back to present school; when school goe.s on double session (uextended day"), should have supervised recreation program. Mrs. English, assistant Principal at West Fulton, explained that the school assignmen t form is part of the law; ask to return forms as soon as possible; those requesting transfers sent to area Supt.; if request transfer to another area, sent to Supt. of that area; notified "as soon as processed' '. Mr. Dobbs asked if other area Supt. has authority to decide. Williamson asked if decision may be appealed to Supt. Mr. Mrs. English said she did not kn ow. 13. Mrs. Pearlina Jone s, 1153 Wilkes Circle, N.. W., # 176. Pipes burst on Wi lkes Circle, sewerage odor bad; need light behind apartments; are all projects costs the same? Prices for screen doors vary, some $1.50, some $3.50 ; she has re ported to the manager. Mr . At tridge asked if she was satisfied. with public h ousing? Mrs . Jones said she i s interested in other people, particularly older people; is it possible to have copi es of rules and regulations? 14. Mrs. Lewis .Johnson, 11 93 Wilkes Cir cle, # 148. Rent has increased twice within a year; income has stayed the same. 15 . Mrs . Margaret Phillips , 1193 Wi lkes Circle, #143, 792-8742. Charged $12 .50 for½ a scre~n door; cashier sa id should have had correct change f or paying rent. 16. Mrs. Blanche Matthews, 12 75 Wilkes Circle, N. W. #81. $~17.70 income, manager says it is $3,598; says it is "anticipated income"-how does he know how much to anticipate? 17. Mr. 1,!esley Jo Mapp , 1240 Wilkes Circle, N. Wo New rent charges are more than ne makes a month, moved into public hou~ing fairly recently; will move out as soon as he can. �5 18. Mrs. Mary E. Peek, 1165 Wilke s Cir cle, #1 64. Husband disabled, live on social security and her salary as a Nurse's Aide.; income same. in April as last September, rent went up. 19. Mrs. Frankie. M. Deans 7 1207 Walden Street, #432. As supply in school cafeteria, makes $37.50 a week. Husband started driving cab(?); rent increased from $37 to $80; has 2 teenage daughters. "Go to bed early, nothing to do; if I can't take. care. of them, I wish somebody would take them and give them a good home." 20. Mrs. Ernestine Price, 1056 Chivers Street, 799-8317. Husband died; charged back rent; pre.sent rent "couldn't base it on what she is making"; asked manager about it and he said "I still have authority to put you out." 21. Mr. Edward Young, 2279 Hill Street, -N. W. Center Hill area, transition area for 2 ye.a rs; "new people but old houses, owners are "chisleing", 3 houses in are.a were condemned, came out and did little bit of repairs, after they were "fixed", tenants spent "their time emptying basins when it rains." 22. Mrs. Bobbie Mathis, 1140 Wilkes Circle, #2 04. Rent increased, she does not understand why. 23. Mrs. Daley, Bowen Homes. Works at Hillhave.n Homes , had 3 different notices of income, none of which she says is right. 24. Mrs. Ernestine Pope, 99 Chivers Street, 3282. Says she was charged for paper on grass; excess gas bills but she. doesn't see how it could be. that much. �6 Mr. Hart then read a long list of additional requests drawn up by residents, which he said he would turn off to the Commission office. . ...... .... 1 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Community Relations Commission 1203 City Hall Atlanta, Georgia Northwest Area Neighborhood Hearing, Wednesday, April 19, 1967 at Allen Temple AME Church, 7:30 P.M. Mr. Charles Hart, chairman of the EOA CNAC, who had arranged for the meeting, had served on the Human Relations Committee appointed by the Board of Aldermen, which preceded the Commission. He ex- plained the formation of the Commission, and said it was "designed to find out needs and problems of the city". Commission members present - Mr. Robert Dobbs, Chairman; Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, Mr. Byron Attridge, Mr. R. S. Butler, and Mrs. Eliza Paschall, Executive Director. Ll. Mr. William Brown, 847 Gertrude Place. Polluted stream between Gertrude Place, and Hortense Place; offensive odors, have to close windows. Had contacted Mr. Respress, who had replied that he needed a bond issue for new sewers; wrote Mayor; Health Department said to write city; nothing done. 2. Mrs. Gaynelle Byrd, 1894 Tremont Drive, N. W. Street paving problems on Anderson and Simpson; Dixie Hills Circle too narrow; need turnaround paved; area confusing and street signs confusing, almost impossible to give directions. 3. Mrs. Mary Williams, 2041 Morehouse Drive, N. W., 799-8001. Dixie Hills Civic Club: need cross walk at Newberry Chapel, at Spelman and Simpson Road; need "Slow School" sign on west side of Simpson Road from Dixie Hills Circle to protect children going to W. White School; Parks Department promised 2 years ago to fix Recreation Center at Anderson Park; need police protection at Dixie Hills Plaza against teenagers who gang up against people trying to get through the area. Rothschild, etc. asked if they have tried to solve the problem; Attridge asked if they are local teenagers; Mrs. Williams said they don't know. Mr. Dobbs said it takes police 15 minutes to arrive when they are called, “why so long?" 4. Mr. John Howard, 2105 Baker Road. Teenagers in park near his home throw trash in his yard; urges play- lot at Baker and North Avenue. | . 5. Mrs. Judge Barlow, 60 Edwin Place, N. W., 794-1224. Put trash on streets, stays 2 to 3 weeks, wants schedule; teenagers siphon gas out of car, takes police “an hour to comet; big boys at Perry Homes run off small children from playlots. 6. Mr. Andrew Hill, 1623 Westview Drive, S. W., 753-0132. Former Manager of apartments, dismissed because he checked the buildings; agents don't care, just so they get their money; people should not be “afraid to the truth." 7. Mr. Robert Baldwin, 264 Richardson, N. W., 794-7901. Turner High PTA; understands Turner High going on double session. Dr. Bowen says they will know about it. This would mean 1000 children in the streets. Mr. Davis says 330 seniors, 370 llth graders, 320 LOth graders dismissed at 12; 500 8th graders, 490 9th graders in streets until noon. Teenagers do not have enough constructive things to do. 300 girls did not finish at one high school on double session last year because of pregnancy. With LO portable units could avoid double sessions. Mr. Dobbs said Archer will go on double session in September too. ‘Rabbi Rothschild asked if there were objections to portable units. Group agreed would prefer portable units to double session. 8. Mrs. D. Shaw, 2232 Verbena Street, #10, Dixie Hills Apt., 794-9065. Complained of rats, has called Rodent Control, still bad. 9. Mr. Otis Montgomery, 730 Hortense Place, N. W. (Hortense Community Club). Steel cable tower in middle of street; city owns land, Ga. Power owns tower, can't get anybody to take it down; sewerage inadequate, can't walk in street when it rains; Hortense and Florence Streets . heed resurfacing; dogs run Loose. (Commission members Jack Sells and T. M. Alexander arrived; also Alderman 0. V. Williamson). 10. Mrs. Ed. W. Hall, 1999 Baker Road, N. W. 794-3949, Blind curve, children playing in streets; vacant house, yard grown up, abandoned station wagon on Arlington Circle; her son, along with other teenagers, gets out of school at 12:20 (Fulton High), “used to know a child was out of schoo. when you saw him in the streets, now you don't know if he is coming or going to school; nothing to do but break windows. ll. Mrs. Daisy B. Stinson, 2056 Arlington Circle, N. W. Need trees trimmed and Light in middle of street, would help women coming home from work. 12. Mr. Sidney T. Dennis, 645 S. Evelyn Place, S. W. 794-1236. Has 4 children in school, refused to sign school assignment form for next year; no use for parent and child to make request if area Supt. and Principal can make assignment too late for an appeal; should be notified of assignments in time to request another one, not just bb sent back to present school; when school goes on double session (extended day''), should have supervised recreation program. Mrs. English, assistant Principal at West Fulton, explained that the school assignment form “is part of the law; ask to return forms as soon as possible; those requesting transfers sent to area Supt.; if request transfer to another area, sent to Supt. of that area; noti- fied "as soon as processed". | | Mr. Dobbs asked if other area Supt. has authority to decide. Mr. Williamson asked if decision may be appealed to Supt. Mrs. English said she did not know. 13. Mrs. Pearlina Jones, 1153 Wilkes Circle, N. W., #176. Pipes burst on Wilkes Circle, sewerage odor bad; need light behind apartments; are all projects costs the same? Prices for screen doors vary, some $1.50, some $3.50; she has reported to the manager. Mr. Attridge asked if she was satisfied with public housing? Mrs. Jones said she is interested in other people, particularly older people; is it possible to have copies of rules and regulations? 14. Mrs. Lewis Johnson, 1193 Wilkes Circle, #148. Rent has increased twice within a year; income has stayed the same. 15. Mrs. Margaret Phillips, 1193 Wilkes Circle, #143, 792-8742. Charged $12.50 for % a screen door; cashier said should have had correct change for paying rent. 16. Mrs. Blanche Matthews, 1275 Wilkes Circle, N. W. #81. $2517.70 income, manager says it is $3,598; says it is “anticipated income''-how does he know how much to anticipate? 17. Mr. Wesley J. Mapp, 1240 Wilkes Circle, N. W. New rent charges are more than he makes a month, moved into public housing fairly recently; will move out as soon as he can. 18. Mrs. Mary E. Peek, 1165 Wilkes Circle, #164. Husband disabled, Live on social security and her salary as a Nurse's Aide; income same in April as last September, rent went up. 19. Mrs. Frankie M. Deans, 1207 Walden Street, #432. As supply in school cafeteria, makes $37.50 a week. Husband started driving cab (?); rent increased from $37 to $80; has 2 teenage daughters. "Go to bed early, nothing to do; if I can't take care of them, I wish somebody would take them and give them a good home." 20. Mrs. Ernestine Price, 1056 Chivers Street, 799-8317. Husband died; charged back rent; present rent “couldn't base it a what she is making"; asked manager about it and he said "I still have authority to put you out." 21. Mr. Edward Young, 2279 Hill Street,-N. W. Center Hill area, transition area for 2 years; "new people but old houses, owners are "chisleing", 3 houses in area were condemned, came out and did little bit of repairs, after they were "fixed", tenants spent "their time emptying basins when it rains." 22. Mrs. Bobbie Mathis, 1140 Wilkes Circle, #204. Rent increased, she does not understand why. 23. Mrs. Daley, Bowen Homes. Works at Hillhaven Homes, had 3 different notices of income, none of which she says is right. 24. Mrs. Ernestine Pope, 99 Chivers Street, 3282. Says she was charged for paper on grass; excess gas bills but she doesn't see how it could be that much. oO” Mr. Hart then read a long list of additional requests drawn up by re- sidents, which he said he would turn off to the Commission office.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 18, Document 22 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 18 Folder topic: Community Relations Commission | 1967