382 20 10383 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/e3f1573bee29abd92963b0e8624c777b.pdf abaff4d8112a7d48621db8c7b35ac8e6 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. THE URBAN COALITION ACTION COUNCIL JOHN W. GARDNER CHAIRMAN 1819 H STREET. N . W. WASHINGTON. D. C . 20006 September 27, 1968 WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE REPORT Housing. Final action on appropriations for the HUD Department was taken September 25 when the Senate agreed to the disappointingly low figures for key housing programs without dissent. (For figures, see September 20 Legislative Report.) HUD Under Secretary Robert C. Wood September 25 said decisions would be made within a week on whether to make across-the-board reductions or selective cuts in HUD programs. Congress cut the Department's requested funds by one-third -- from $3.1 billion to $2.1 billion. Wood, in an interview with editors of Housing and Urban Affairs Daily, singled out four programs where the Congressional cuts especially hurt. These were: Urban renewal grants. As these are for the next fiscal year, fiscal 1970, more funds may be sought next year. Model Cities, for which $625 million instead of $1 billion was approved. Urban inf ormation and technical assistance -- a small program to help states and cities carry out urban projects. Congress refused to grant any of the $5 million requested for the program. Fair housing enforcement, f or which all funds were denied on grounds HUD already had suffici e nt p e rsonne l working in the civil rights fi e ld. The $9 million the Senate had provided would have enabled HUD to hire about 690 investigators across the country to enforce the new fair housing req uirements written into law in Apri l . Several organizat ions h a ve p rotested the denial o f funds to e nfo r ce the · fa i r housing act and ther e is a poss i bility that HUD will ask Congress to reconsider its acti on. This . h inges, h owever, on a d ecision the Ad mi n i s t rat ion mu s t ma ke soon on whether to send requests f o r .supp l emental appropri- T !;,LE PHON E : 2 02 293-153 0 �- 2 ations to Congress this fall. Although that is the usual procedure late in the session, the economy mood in Congress may be so strong just before elections that the Administration will not ask for additional money. The major new programs in the 1968 housing law will be delayed at least six months if no supplemental appropriations are requested from or voted by Congress. HUD Personnel. Another factor that might delay the new housing programs is the Congressional directive in June that HUD, and all other federal agencies, cut back on their personnel. HUD had hoped to add 1,600 employees this year. Instead, it will have to reduce its staff by 900 -- not by firing employees but by filling only 7 out of 10 vacancies that develop as employees resign or retire. Senator John Sparkman (D Ala.), chairman of the Senate's Housing Subcommittee, tried unsuccessfully September 23 to win Senate approval of an e x emption for HUD from the personnel cutback. Unfortunately, exemptions f or other age nc i es were tacked onto Sparkman's amendment and the major sponsor of the personnel cutback,. Senator John Williams (R Del.), fought the amendment bitterly. It was defeated, 23-37. It is anticipated th a t anothe r attempt will be made to e x empt HUD f rom the seve r e personne l limitations before Congress adjourns. Education, Labor and Antipoverty Funds. Final appropriations f or e ducation, manpower training a nd antipoverty programs will be announc e d Sept e mbe r 30. Me mbers o f t he House and Senate Appropriation s Committees comp romi sed t heir d iffere n ces i n a Sept ember 26 mee ting b ut wi t hheld a nnounc e ment o f the sums agreed upon. The differences in key appropriations were listed in Appe ndix B of the Septembe r 13 Leg i slative Repor t . Head St art . Members o f the House and Sen a t e e duc ation committees, meeting in conference on the vocational e ducation bi ll , h a ve a g ree d t o d rop an amendmen t b y Sen ato r Pete r Domini ck (R Colo . ) that would hav e t r a n s f e rred the Head Start pro gram t o HEW' s Office o f Edu cat i o n. The pro gram wi ll c o ntinue to be r u n by the independent antipovert y agency, the Office of Economic Opportunity. Under the final version of the vocational education bill, the President is asked to have a study made of how Head Start can best be administered and to report to Congress next spring. � 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 THE URBAN COALITION ACTION COUNCIL JOHN W. GARDNER CHAIRMAN 1819 H STREET, N. W. September 27, 1968 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006 WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE REPORT Housing. Final action on appropriations for the HUD Department was taken September 25 when the Senate agreed to the disappointingly low figures for key housing programs Without dissent. (For figures, see September 20 Legislative Report. ) HUD Under Secretary Robert C. Wood September 25 said decisions would be made within a week on whether to make across-the-board reductions or selective cuts in HUD pro- grams. Congress cut the Department's requested funds by one-third -- from $3.1 billion to $2.1 billion. Wood, in an interview with editors of Housing and Urban Affairs Daily, singled out four programs where the Congressional cuts especially hurt. These were: Urban renewal grants. As these are for the next fiscal year, fiscal 1970, more funds may be sought next year. Model Cities, for which $625 million instead of $1 billion was approved. Urban information and technical assistance -- a small program to help states and cities carry out urban projects. Congress refused to grant any of the $5 million requested for the program. Fair housing enforcement, for which all funds were denied on grounds HUD already had sufficient personnel working in the civil rights field. The $9 million the Senate had provided would have enabled HUD to hire about 690 investigators across the country to enforce the new fair housing requirements written into law in April. Several organizations have protested the denial of funds to enforce the fair housing act and there is a possibility that HUD will ask Congress to reconsider its action. This . hinges, however, on a decision the Administration must make soon on whether to.send requests for supplemental appropri- TELEPHONE: 202 293-1530 2 S>@ ations to Congress this fall. Although that is the usual procedure late in the session, the economy mood in Congress May be so strong just before elections that the Administration will not ask for additional money. The major new programs in the 1968 housing law will be delayed at least six months if no supplemental appropriations are requested from or voted by Congress. HUD Personnel. Another factor that might delay the new housing programs is the Congressional directive in June that HUD, and all other federal agencies, cut back on their per- . sonnel. HUD had hoped to add 1,600 employees this year. Instead, it will have to reduce its staff by 900 -- not by firing employees but by filling only 7 out of 10 vacancies that develop as employees resign or retire. Senator John Sparkman (D Ala.), chairman of the Senate's Housing Subcommittee, tried unsuccessfully September 23 to win Senate approval of an exemption for HUD from the personnel cutback. Unfortunately, exemptions for other agencies were tacked onto Sparkman's amendment and the major sponsor of the personnel cutback, Senator John Williams (R Del.), fought the amendment bitterly. It was defeated, 23-37. = It is anticipated that another attempt will be made to exempt HUD from the severe personnel limitations before Congress adjourns. Education, Labor and Antipoverty Funds. Final appropri- ations for education, manpower training and antipoverty pro- grams will be announced September 30. Members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees compromised their differ- ences in a September 26 meeting but withheld announcement of the sums agreed upon. The differences in key appropriations were listed in Appendix B of the September 13 Legislative Report. Head Start. Members of the House and Senate education committees, meeting in conference on the vocational education bill, have agreed to drop an amendment by Senator Peter Dominick (R Colo.) that would have transferred the Head Start program to HEW's Office of Education. The program will con- tinue to be run by the independent antipoverty agency, the Office of Economic Opportunity. Under the final version of the vocational education bill, the President is asked to have a study made of how Head Start can best be administered and to report to Congress next spring.  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 10, Document 37 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/37cbf5e7b5d5111ecc090223de15c0d3.pdf 8f577970c2083a7ff362756ade144163 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. THE URBAN COALITION ACTION COUNCIL -. JOHN w: GARDNER CHAIRMAN October 4, 1968 1819 H STREET, N . W , WASHINGTON, D . C . 20006 WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE REPORT Education, - Labor ' and Antipoverty Funds. Congress has cleared the final appropriations f6r the HEW and Labor Departments and the Office of Economic Opportunity, the antipoverty agency. The antipoverty appropriation was the largest Congress has ever approved, but funds for schools attended by educationally deprived children were below last year's appropriation. The House narrowly defeated a Southern-backed provision that would have encoura g e d resistance to desegregation of schools. The Urb a n Coa lition Action Council joined other organizations and HEW in working for defe a t of the segregation provision. · Program Budget House Senate Final Below Budge t (in million s o f dollars) Title I Education $1,200. $1,073. $1,200. $1,123. $ -77. Teache r Corp s 31. 2 Dropout Preve ntion 30. 0 20. 5. -25 .. Biling u a l Education 30. 0 10 . 7.5 - 22.5 OEO Antipoverty Manpower Training , Labor De p artment 15. 31.2 20.9 -10.3 2,180. 1,87 3. 2,08 8. 1,9 48 . - 23 2 . 413. 400. 400. 400. - 13. Th~ Title I f unds for sch ools teaching edu cationa l ly deprived childre n -- an important program for schools in big cities -- were $68 mi llion l ess th a n l as t year's appropriation and a llowed the schoo l s on l y 32 % of the amounts t hey received for the past school year. Co:1gress also gave advance au t hority for appropriations in fisca l 1970 but limited the f unds to 90 % of the amo unt received this yeai. This was inte nde d to h e l p TELEPHON E: 202 293·153 0 �- 2 - schools plan their programs before the opening of schools next fall. The Teacher Corps appropriation was the largest Congress has allowed so far, and the funds for teaching bilingual children and for preventing school dropouts were the first made for these purposes. The antipoverty a ~p ropriation, which was not earmarked for any specific OEO programs, was $170 million more than Congress allowed last year. Funds for OEO have risen each year since the first appropriation in fiscal 1965. The Labor Department's manpower app ropriatipn was only $1.5 million above last year's fiscal 1968 figure but some manpower training programs, such as JOBS and Concentrated Employment, are financed from OEO appropriations. Funds Exempted from Budget Cut. HEW's education funds will be exempted from the o ver-all $6 billion spending reduction requi r e d under the tax surcharge-budget reduction law if Congress has its way. A section o f the vocational education bill (HR - 18366) that Congress sent to the President October 3 exempts education appropriations from the $6 billion reduction in s pending and th e $10 billion r eduction in obligations (.committed money ) vote d for all Government agencies in June. However , the Preside n t still retains authority to hold down spe nding on any education program no matter what amount Congress may have appropriated. Segregation Amendment. The key part of the Southern provision opposing d e s e grega tion of school s prohibited HEW from "forcing " childre n to attend any particular school ag a inst the choi c e of the i r pa rent s . The provis ion was sponsored by Mississippi Rep. J amie L. Whitten (D), a hi gh ranking member o f ' the Appropriations Cammi ttee. The Senate amended this provision by adding language th at prohibited forc e d atte ndance at a particular school "in o rde r to overcome racial imbal a nc e ." Thi s phrase v!as a l ready a p art o f c i v il rig h ts l a w . It allowed the Government and the courts to put an end to freedom of choice " school plans that we re p e rpe tuating racinl discrimina tion. Whe n me mbers of the House a nd Se n ate Appro pr i a tion s Committees me t in conf e rence on th e Labor-HEW appro pr i ation bill, Sou t h erne rs h ad a ma jo r ity o f the v otes a nd they stru ck from the bill the Se nate lang u age limiting the prohibition to pl a n s to overcome racia l i mba l a n ce . In effect, ·w hit te n' s p u rpose was achi eve d . �- 3 - Action Counc il Chairman John W. Gardner wrote Rous e Speaker John W. McCormack (D Mass .) and the Republican leade r, Rep. Gerald Ford (Mich.), October 2, asking them to help defeat the Whitten amendment on the House floor. He said the amendment "ra.ises the real threat of resegregation in many Southern school districts" and "implicitly sanctions racially dual school s ystems ." On a clos e , 167-175 vote Octobe r 3, the House rejected the Appropriations Committees ' recommendation and adop t ed the Senate language nullifying Whi tten's amendment. This wi ll enable HEW to continue to withhold funds from school d istricts that are not making re~l progress toward desegregation. New Housing Funds . The President sent to Congress Oc tober 3 a request f or supplemental · appropriations that included funds to begin some of the programs in the n ew Eousing Act and to administer the fair housing law . These were his housing proposals: Home Ownership Contract ~uthority $75 million Rental Housing As sistance 75 million Grants for Tenant Services 15 million Planned Ar e a wide De v e lopment 5 million Low and Mode rate -Income Spons or Fund 5 million Fair Housing Program 8 mi llion Flood Insurance Administration 1.5 million The Hou se is exp e cte d to t a k e u p the supp l ement a l appro priation bill Oc t o be r 7 or Oc t obe r 8 and the Se n a t e will a ct shortly thereaft e r . HUD Pe r s onne l. Another attemp t i s e xpe cte d t o b e made next week in t h e Sen a t e to exempt the De par t me nt o f Housing a n d Urban De ve lopmen t f rom th e cutback i n p erso n n e l r e qu ire d by the tax surcharge- budge t reduction law. For the e ff ect the law now has on a dministration of the new housing p rograms, see the Se ptember 27 Le gisl a t i ve Re po rt of the Ac t ion Council. � 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 THE URBAN COALITION ACTION COUNCIL JOHN W. GARDNER CHAIRMAN 1819 H STREET, N. W. October 4 - 196 8 WASHINGTON, D.C, 20006 WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE REPORT Education, Labor-~and Antipoverty Funds. Congress has cleared the final appropriations for the HEW and Labor Departments and the Office of Economic Opportunity, the antipoverty agency. The antipoverty appropriation was the largest Congress has ever approved, but funds for schools attended by educationally deprived children were below last year's appropriation. The House narrowly defeated a Southern-bhacked provision that would have encouraged resistance to desegregation of schools. The Urban Coalition Action Council joined other organizations and HEW in working for defeat of the segre- gation provision. Program Budget House Senate Final Below Budget (in millions of dollars) Title. =z Education Php 200. Pi OTS $1,200. ‘$2,123, 8 .+77. Teacher Corps Sle 2 ee S12 20.9 =1'0 53 Dropout Prevention 30. 0 20. 54 ~25. Bilingual Education 30. 0 10: aD 22529 OEO Antipoverty 2; £80. 1 873% 2,088. 1,948. =232'. Manpower Training, Labor Department 223% 400. 400. 400. vi33 The Title I funds for schools teaching educationally de- prived children -- an important program for schools in big cities -- were $68 million less than last year's appropriation and allowed the schools only 2?2% of the amounts they received for the past school year. Congress also gave advance authority for appropriations in fiscal 1970 but limited the funds to 90% of the amount received this year. This was intended to help TELEPHONE: 202 293-1530 <a schools plan their programs before the opening of schools next fall. The Teacher Corps appropriation was the largest Congress has allowed so far, and the funds for teaching bilingual children and for preventing school dropouts were the first made for these purposes. The antipoverty appropriation, which was not earmarked for any specific OEO programs, was $170 million more than Congress allowed last year. Funds for OFO have risen each year since the first appropriation in fiscal 1965. The Labor Department's manpower appropriation was only $1.5 million above last year's fiscal 1968 figure but some manpower training programs, such as JOBS and Concentrated Employment, are financed from OEO appropriations. Funds Exempted from Budget Cut. HEW's education funds will be exempted from the over-all $6 billion spending re- duction required under the tax surcharge-budget reduction law if Congress has its way. A section of the vocational education bill (HR-18366) that Congress sent to the President October 3 exempts education appropriations from the $6 billion reduction in spending and the $10 billion reduction in obli- gations (committed money) voted for all Government agencies in June. However, the President still retains authority to hold down spending on any education program no matter what amount Congress may have appropriated. Segregation Amendment. The key part of the Southern provision opposing desegregation of schools prohibited HEW from “forcing" children to attend any particular school a- gainst the choice of their parents. The provision was sponsored by Mississippi Rep. Jamie L. Whitten (D), a high- ranking member of the Appropriations Committee. The Senate amended this provision by adding language that prohibited forced attendance at a particular school "in order to overcome racial imbalance." This phrase was already a part of civil rights law. It allowed the Government and the courts to put an end to "free- dom of choice" school plans that were perpetuating racial discrimination. When members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees met in conference on the Labor-HEW appropriation bill, Southerners had a majority of the votes and they struck from the bill the Senate language limiting the prohibition to plans to overcome racial imbalance. In effect, Whitten's purpose was achieved. Action Council Chairman John W. Gardner wrote House Speaker John W. McCormack (D Mass.) and the Republican leader, Rep. Gerald Ford (Mich.), October 2, asking them to help de- feat the Whitten amendment on the House floor. He said the amendment “raises the real threat of resegregation in many Southern school districts" and "implicitly sanctions racially dual school systems." On a close, 167-175 vote October 3, the House rejected the Appropriations Committees' recommendation and adopted the Senate language nullifying Whitten's amendment. This will en- able HEW to continue to withhold funds from school districts that are not making real progress toward desegregation. New Housing Funds. The President sent to Congress October 3 a request for supplemental’ appropriations that included funds to begin some of the programs in the new Housing Act and to administer the fair housing law. These were his housing proposals: Home Ownership Contract Authority $75 million Rental Housing Assistance 75 million Grants for Tenant Services 15 million Planned Areawide Development 5 million Low and Moderate-Income Sponsor Fund 5 million Fair Housing Program 8 million Flood Insurance Administration 1.5 million The House is expected to take up the supplemental appro- priation bill October 7 or October 8 and the Senate will act shortly thereafter. HUD Personnel. Another attempt is expected to be made next week in the Senate to exempt the Department of Housing and Urban Development from the cutback in personnel required by the tax surcharge-budget reduction law. For the effect the law now has on administration of the new housing programs, see the September 27 Legislative Report of the Action Council.  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 10, Document 36 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/828fcef0f96714ec49fb00fd06dc9cb3.pdf 69ee53f30214dcfb09be294b91a80dba Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. --~ -·------1 ..' ! • -· ~ - • . ---~···---~- -- ~-- ~] > . , ' j. • i 181 5 H Street, N .W. Washin gton , D.C. 20006 ~- ··-··-- Telephone: 347-9630 CH AIR MAN: John W. Gardn er CO-CHAIR M EN: Andrew Heiskell/ A. Philip Randolph November 6, 1968 Te l egrams have b een sent to the me mbers of the Steering Committee of the Urb a n Coa.li tion and Action Council, outlining the timing of the meeting on November 13th at the Madison Hotel, 15th and M Streets, N.W., Washington , D. C. A reception will be held at 6:00; dinner wi ll be served at 6:30; the business meeting will start at 7:30. An agend a will follow by mail. Members of the Nominating Committee have been notifi ed of a meeting at 4:30 in the Urban Co alition conf erence room , 1819 H Street , 8th floor. Memb e rs of the Exe cutive Committee have b ee n notifi e d that the Exe cutive Committee meeting h as been cance lled . Pleas e call me at (202) 223-9500 if you have any qu estions. Sincere ly, ~ Jt~ k; /Jui Timothy E. Wirth Assistant to the Chairma n TEW:rw � 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 1815 H Street, NW. Washington, D.C. 20006 Telephone: 347-9630 Bet inetd CHAIRMAN: John W. Gardner CO-CHAIRMEN: Andrew Heiskell / A. Philip Randolph November 6, 1968 Telegrams have been sent to the members of the Steering Committee of the Urban Coalition and Action Council, outlining the timing of the meeting on November 13th at the Madison Hotel, 15th and M Streets, N.W., Washington, D. C. A reception will be held at 6:00; dinner will be served at 6:30; the business meeting will start at 7:30. An agenda will follow by mail. Members of the Nominating Committee have been notified of a meeting at 4:30 in the Urban Coalition conference room, 1819 H Street, 8th floor. Members of the Executive Committee have been notified that the Executive Committee meeting has been cancelled. Please call me at (202) 223-9500 if you have any questions. Sincerely, Tow moth yf ia eo E. Wirth Assistant to the Chairman TEW:rw  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 10, Document 35 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/3e3cc1b8fd0d80009459b3000d1b9c79.pdf b12a39fabb58c85e90a5f161a3e9520b Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. <'. STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS ARE REQUESTED TO LIST LEADERS IN THE FOLLOWING CITIES: Buffalo, New York 1. 2. Cincinnati, Ohio 1. 2. Corpus Christi, Texas Forth Worth, Texas Kansas City, Missouri/Kansas 1. 2. 1. '-------- 2. 1. 2. Little Rock, Arkansas 1. 2. Madison, Wisconsin Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania St. Louis, Missouri 1. 2. 1. 2. 1. - - - - - -- - - - - -- - 2. San Antonio, Te x as 1. 2. Se a ttle , Washington Utic a , New Yo rk 1. 2. - - - -- - - - - - -- - - 1. 2. - - - - - - -- -- - - -- Signature Steering Committee .Member ,I., -.- --- - � 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 STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS ARE eee ae, TO LIST LEADERS IN THE FOLLOWING CITIES: Buffalo, New York . Cincinnati, Ohio Corpus Christi, Texas Forth Worth, Texas Kansas City, Missouri/Kansas Little Rock, Arkansas Madison, Wisconsin Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania St. Louis, Missouri San Antonio, Texas Seattle, Washington Utica, New York a 2. 1. 2s l. 2. l. 2. a 2. Li 2% L. Ze l. 2. l. 2. l. 2. l. Signature - Steering Committee Membex r 3  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 10, Document 34 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/2b1cb26f0a8363a9cfd826542fc7c17e.pdf e273c0511f90641061c70949966b33fe Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. APPENDIX B .November 7, 1968 MEMORANDUM TO Steering Committee FROM Local Coalition Task Force SUBJECT: Report on the Organization and Establishment of Local Urban Coalitions In the national statement of goals, principles and commitments adopted by the Emergency Convocation, the Steering Committee called for the establishment of local urban coalitions throughout the country. The Task Force on Local Coalitions has been assigned the responsibility of overseeing developments and progress of these local coalitions. At its meeting on October 17, the Task Force heard reports from the Local Coalition Division staff on its activities. While most of the staff has been on board little more than three months, visits have been made to all of the cities where coalitions were reported to have been in some state of organization or existence. In addition, the staff has been to 72 cities where .interest has been expressed by one element or another in establishing a coalition. The staff reported the status of coali- tions as follows: a. Applying the tough new standards established by the Task Force, one-third of the original coalitions (11 of 34) failed to meet the minimum criteria . . b. The remaining 23 coalitions are proceeding with staff ' �Report on the Organization and Establishment of Local Urban Coalitions 2 • assistance to organize task forc~s, develop programs and engage in fund-raising. c. Sixteen strong new coalitions, meeting Task Force standards, have been established giving us a total of 39. d. Thirty-two additional priority cities have been identified and are the focus of staff organizing efforts. The staff is moving forward steadily establishing new coalitions and strengthening those we already have. However , the staff is encountering sign~ficant impediments to their organization efforts. 1. There has been a clear and noticeable shift in national pubiic opinion. The sense of urgency concerning the urban crisis which existed in 1967 and early 1968 has diminished. There is greater reluctance to engage public and private resources at the local level in a coalition movement, particularly at this time . A quie t summe r has contributed to thi s shift of ipinion, but so too has the political c a mpaign. 2. There is occasi onal lack of support from the top leadership ,n ecessary to form a coalition. Wh ile busi nes s , labo r and ma yor s in many communities are providing leadership and support, the staff has b een encountering reluctance by key individuals o f one or more o f these e l e me nts to the establishment o f coalitions in some cities. �Report on the Organization and Establishment of Local Urban Coalitions 3 The establishment of quality coalitions takes on special importance since the national credibility of the Urban Coalition in part will be determined by thi role, image and status of the local urban coalitions. To be effective, local coalitions must have as their active members the most influential and highly regarded leaders of each of the various elements . .. Despite the best efforts of the staff, itjs not always poss1ble to engage the attention and support of these key individuals without the direct, personal involvement of Steering Committee members. Where· national Steering Commit tee members have become involved whether by a telephone call, letter, visit, or the convening of a meeting, the organizing effort has moved far more rapidly and has attracted key leaders. RECOMJvlENDATION: For these reasons we wish to recommend with the utmost urgency that the Steering Committee adopt a resolution calling on each member to accept increased responsibility for the organization ·,. of local coalitions and when called upon to do so to be of _ assistance in the following ways: a. Advise the staff of key leaders in priority cities who are known to Steering Committee members and who could be instrumental in the establishment of a coalition. b. At the request of the staff, write or telephone individuals urging their support of a ~oalition. �Report on the Organization and Establishment of Local Urban Coalitions c. 4 Accept speaking engagements in local communities on behalf of the organizing effort. d. Advise the staff on general strategies to be followed in particularly difficult situations. e. In public appearances and speaking engagements, identify with the Urban Coalition and urge support for the local coalition movement. In order to help meet immediate organizing needs of the coalition, Steering Committee members are requested to list on the attached list the name s of one or two key individuals in the cities who are known to Steering Committee· members and who could be instrumental in the establishment of a coalition. The staff will call on the se individuals to enlist their support and cooperation. Steering Committee members may leave the attached form following the meeting. Attachment � 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 APPENDIX B November 7, 1968 MEMORANDUM TO : Steering Committee FROM : Local Coalition Task Force SUBJECT: Report on the Organization and Hotablisnnent of Local Urban Coalitions In the national statement of goals, principles and commitments adopted by the Emergency Convocation, the Steering Committee called for the establishment of local urban coalitions through- out the country. The Task Force on Local Boal itious has been assigned the responsibility of overseeing developments and progress of these local coalitions. | At its meeting on October 17, the Task Force heard reports from ne Local Coalition Division staff on its activities. While most of the staff has been on board little more than three months, visits have been made to all of the cities where coalitions were reported to have been re some state of organiza- tion or existence. In addition, the staff has been to 72 cities where interest has been expressed by one element or another in establishing a coalition. The staff reported the status of coali- tions as follows: a. Applying the tough new standards established by the Task Force, one-third of the original coalitions (11 of 34) failed to meet the latina eel seeds b, The remaining 23 coalitions are proceeding with staff Report on the vgundeati oh ahd Establishment of Local Urban Coalitions 3 ; 3 2 assistance to organize task forces, develop programs and engage in fund-raising. C. Sixteen strong new coalitions, meeting Task Force standards, have been established giving us a total of 39. ad. Thirty-two additional priority cities have been identified and are the focus of staff organizing efforts. | The staff is moving forward steadily establishing new coalitions and strengthening those we already have. However, the staff is encountering significant impediments to their organization efforts. De There has been a clear and noticeable shift in national public opinion. The sense of urgency concerning the urban crisis which existed in 1967 and early 1968 has diminished. There is greater reluctance to engage public and private resources at the local level in a coalition movement, particularly at this time. A quiet summer has contributed to this shift of ipinion, but so bac has the political campaign. 2 There is occasional lack of support from the top leadership necessary to form a coalition. While business, labor and mayors in many communities are providing leadership and support, the staff has been encountering reluctance by key individuals of one or more of these elements to the establishment of coalitions in some cities. Report on the Organization and Establishment of Local Urban Coalitions 3 The Seeeeniistinent of quality coalitions takes on special importance Since the national credibility of the Urban Coalition in part will be determined by the role, image and status of the local urban coalitions. To be effective, local coalitions must have as their active members the most influential and highly regarded leaders of each of the various elements. | Despite the best efforts of the staff, it is not always possible to engage the attention and support of these key individuals without the direct, personal involvement of Steering Committee members. Where national Steering Committee members have become involved whether by a telephone call, letter, visit, or the convening of a meeting, the organizing effort has moved far more rapidly and has attracted key leaders. RECOMMENDATION: For these reasons we wish to recommend with the denoet urgency that the Steering Committee adopt a resolution calling on each member to accept increased responsibility for the organization of focal coalitions and when called upon to do so to be of gegbevones in the following ways: a. Advise the staff of key leaders in priority cities who are known to Steering Committee meiieere and who could be instrumental in the establishment of a coalition. b. At the request of the staff, write or telephone individuals urging their support of a coalition. a Report on the Organization and Establishment of Local Urban Coalitions 4 Cc. Accept speaking engagements in local communities on behalf of the organizing effort. d. Advise the staff on general strategies to be followéd in particularly difficult situations. | e. In public appearances and speaking engagements, identify with the Urban Coalition and urge support for the local coalition movement. In order to help meet immediate organizing needs of the coalition, Steering Committee members are requested to list on the attached list the names of one or two key individuals in the cities who are known to Steering Committee: members and: who could be instru- mental in the establishment of a coalition. The staff will call on these individuals to enlist their support and cooperation. Steering Committee members may leave the attached form following the meeting. Attachment  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 10, Document 33 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/e3231bfb47ab431a77f3429a190b658e.pdf d7d2714f54d9be00469ec606a40e287c Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. I . Steering Committee Agenda November 13, 1968 Opening Statement by Chairman Gardner URBAN COALITION ACTION COUNCIL 1. A Panoramic View of Prospective Legislation on Urban Affairs in the 91st Congress Appendix A enumerates specific bills and issues on each of nine fields likely to claim major attention in the next Congress. Discussion will focus on setting Action Council priorities. URBAN COAL IT ION 2. Meeting with the President-elect On October 7, 1968 the Exe cutive Committee agreed that a delegation from the Urban Coalition should meet with the President-elect. We seek the Steering Committee's reaction to this proposal and as to the issues to be discussed. 3. Progress in Building Local Coalitions Appe ndix B, the Report of the Local Coaliti on Task Force, presents a recommendation that the Steering Committee resolve to devote further effort as a body and as individuals, to aiding the staff in stimulating intere st in establishing local coa litions in twelve "target citie s." 4. Cons ideration of Nomin ees for Me mbe rship on the Steer ing Committee The Nominating Committee h as met thre e times and will present the n a me s of individua ls recomme nded f or membership on the Steer ing Committee 5. 6. Administrative Matters to be considered A. Stat u s o f Budget and Fund Rais ing B. Selection o f Audit o rs Other Business .;, � 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 Steering Committee Agenda November 13, 1968 Opening Statement by Chairman Gardner URBAN COALITION ACTION COUNCIL A Panoramic View of Prospective Legislation on Urban Affairs in the 9lst Congress Appendix A enumerates specific bills and issues on each of nine fields likely to claim major attention in the next Congress. Discussion will focus on setting Action Council priorities. URBAN COALITION Meeting with the President-elect On October 7, 1968 the Executive Committee agreed that a delegation from the Urban Coalition should meet with the President-elect. We seek the Steering Committee's reac-— tion to this proposal and as to the issues to be discussed. Progress in Building Local Coalitions Appendix B, the Report of the Local Coalition Task Force, presents a recommendation that the Steering Committee resolve to devote further effort as a body and as individuals, to aiding the staff in stimulating interest in establishing local coalitions in twelve "target cities." Consideration of Nominees for Membership on the Steering Committee The Nominating Committee has met three times and will present the names of individuals recommended for member- ship on the Steering Committee Administrative Matters to be considered A. Status of Budget and Fund Raising B. Selection of Auditors Other Business  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 10, Document 32 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/86a632f24a711c556f716ef1a932c950.pdf f0e89de1d688b80e52550e6b9ceb5f6d Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. L. . ..... . ·. ·..:, •.'• 1815 H Street, N.W. Washin gton, D.C. 20005 Telephone: 347-9530 .. CHAIRMAN: John W. Gardner CO-CHAIRMEN: Andrew Heiskell/ A . Philip Randolph November 7, 1968 The attached material was sent out this afternoon to the members of the Steering Committee for the Urban Coalition and Urban Coalition Action Council: Included is the following: 1. 2. 3. Agenda Legislative Summary Report of the Local Coalition Task Force. As indicated in Mr. Gardner's telegram to the Steering Committee members, the Steering Committee meeting on Novembe r 13th will be held at the Madison Hotel, 15th and M Streets, N.W., Wa s hington, D. C. A reception will start at 6:00, dinner is planne d for 6:30, and the me e ting is sche duled for 7:30. Again, please call me at {202) 223-9500 if you have any questions about this mate rial or the me eting. Thank you. ~ IWlo~ £ AJu71 Timothy E . Wir th Assi s t a nt to the Cha i rman Attachments TEW:rw � 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 v 1A ame ese qb CHAIRMAN: John W. Gardner CO-CHAIRMEN: Andrew Heiskell / A. Philip Randolph November 7, 1968 The attached material was sent out this afternoon to the members of the Steering Committee for the Urban Coalition and Urban Coalition Action Council: Included is the following: 1. Agenda 2. Legislative Summary 3. Report of the Local Coalition Task Force. As indicated in Mr. Gardner's telegram to the Steering Committee members, the Steering Committee meet- ing on November 13th will be held at the Madison Hotel, 15th and M Streets, N.W., Washington, D. C. A reception will start at 6:00, dinner is planned for 6:30, and the meeting is scheduled for 7:30. Again, please call me at (202) 223-9500 if you have any questions about this material or the meeting. Thank you. 4 <a n | wohl ke Auil Timothy E. Wirth Assistant to the Chairman Attachments TEW:rw : elt gun (Pee awe ; S {Uj Wiad (Cod MONA . 1815 H Street, N.W. 2 "4 . Washington, D.C. 20006 a . Telephone: 347-9630  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 10, Document 31 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/aa3fee07163bf7ee1a7cce5f0d1ed1b0.pdf 95f7292f97417b7a3757e883a5b20ccd Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. The Urban Coalition 1815 H Street, N.W. Washington ,.. D.C. 20006 Telephone : 347-9630 CHAIRMAN : John W. Gardner CO-CHAI AMEN: Andrew Heiskell /A.Philip Randolph INFORMATION SERVICE FOR COALITIONS SUBJECT: Public Relations Society of America The Public Relations Society of America, a 21-year-old organization of public relations professionals with 6,000 members of 63 chapters, has offered its assistance as a communications resource to the Urban Coalition and has urged its members to assist coalitions throughout the country. The program is being coordinated by the recentlyformed Public Service Council of PRSA, which is encouraging and enlisting aid for coalitions as its first major national project. PRSA members already are playing key roles in some coalitions. Their experience and expertise could be a valuable continuing asset to many others in the crucial job of gaining broad community acceptance and understanding of the Coalition and its principles. If you have not already made contact with your local PRSA chapter, and wish to do so, you may obtain the name of the chapter President and further information from the Associate Director for your area. � 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 The Urban Coalition a Washington, D.C. 20006 Telephone: 347-9630 CHAIRMAN: John W. Gardner CO-CHAIRMEN: Andrew Heiskell / A. Philip Randolph AAR 45% o INFORMATION SERVICE FOR COALITIONS SUBJECT: Public Relations Society of America The Public Relations Society of America, a 21-year-old organization of public relations professionals with 6,000 members of 63 chapters, has offered its assistance as a communications resource to the Urban Coalition and has urged its members to assist coalitions throughout the country. The program is being coordinated by the recently- formed Public Service Council of PRSA, which is encouraging and enlisting aid for coalitions as its first major national project. PRSA members already are playing key roles in some coalitions. Their experience and expertise could be a valuable continuing asset to many others in the crucial job of gaining broad community acceptance and understanding of the Coalition and its principles. If you have not already made contact with your local PRSA chapter, and wish to do so, you may obtain the name of the chapter President and further information from the Associate Director for your area.  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 10, Document 30 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/aa65f5722e183b343cfc68ccca6acbe4.pdf fb54ebb9096a3586eeb9702c9d5d2687 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. T E L E G R A M AT I'I'S NOVEMBER .13 MEETING , rrf'.m MEMBERS OF THE STEERING COMMI'fTEE AGREED THAT THEY SHOULD SEEK AN EARLY OPPOR'l UNITY TO TALK WITH THE PRESIDENT1 ELECT. INI'I'IAL CONTACT HAS NOW BEEN MADE AND MR. NIXON ' S AIDES HAVE STRONGLY URGED THAT WE LIMIT OUR DELEGATION TO 10 PEOPLE . AS A MATTER OF COURTE$Y , WE HAVE AGREED TO DO SO . ACCORDINGLY , UNLESS ANYONE OBJECTS , I SHALL TRY TO PUT TOGETHER A 10-.MAN DELEGATION THAT FAI RLY REPRES ENTS ALL ELEMENTS WITHIN THE STEERING COMMITTEE . . I HOPE THIS MEETS WITt YOUR APPROVAL. JOHN W. GABJ)NER CHAIRl.'-'lAN THE URBAN COALITION Mr. Dan Sweat 0:ffic e of the Ma.yor City. Hall Atlanta., ~eorg i a. I J, .. - ... ,..,. ,!I ·• •. � 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 - a np ITs NOVEMBER .13 MEETING, CHE MEMBERS OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE AGREED THAT THEY SHOULD SEEK AN BARLY OPPORTUNITY TO TALK WITH THE PRES I[DENT-— ELECT. INITIAL CONTACT HAS NOW BEEN MADE AND MR. NIXON'S AIDES HAVE STRONGLY URGED THAT WE LIMIT OUR DELEGATION TO 10 PEOPLE. AS A MATTER OF COURTESY, WE HAVE AGREED TO DO SO. ACCORDINGLY, UNLESS ANYONE OBJECTS, I SHALL TRY TO PUT TOGETHER A 10-MAN DELEGATION THAT FAIRLY REPRESENTS ALL ELEMENTS WITHIN THE STEERING COMMITTEE. I HOPE THIS MEETS WITH YOUR APPROVAL. JOHN W. GARDNER CHAIRMAN THE URBAN COALITION 2} KS Mr. Dan Sweat Office of the Mayor City Hall Atlanta, Georgia  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 10, Document 29 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/8c119b7d44da6b2d05e4b640883265f8.pdf 1225ce70b3c4027fcdfef70fb9e23c16 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. ~:;,. ,!E15:31, 29 December 2017 (EST)AS•x15:31, 29 December 2017 (EST) THE HON IVAN ALLEN JR MAYOR OF CITY OJ" ATLA CITY HALL ATLA AT ITS NOVEMBEC13 NE£TING, THE lilE"BEAS or TME STEERING c c-..:. iTTE[ IGR£EO ntAT THEY St-lOULD S£E1C AN EARLY OPPORTUIIITV TO TAUi' ·,' 1 TH TI£ PAESIOENT-£l£CT • INITIAL CONTACT HAS N~ !£EN NOE At£· Pit N!X~ AIDES HAYE ST1U)NGLY URGED THAT VE LI~IT OUR OELf :'. - TION TO 10 PEOPLE. AS A fllATTEA OF' COURTESY, VE HAY£ AGREED TO Cv SO. ACCOAOIN'3LY, UNLESS ANYONE" 01\JECT, t SHALL "TRY TO PUT TC,GETHER A 1o-f'LtJ'W OEL£GATION THAT FAIRLT REPRESENTS ALL ELtt£.NTS VHi-i lN TH£ STEER INC COlll'JITTEE. I HOPE THIS !'IEETS VITH YOUR APPROVAL• JOHN V GARONER CHAIR~N Tt£ URBAN COALITION. ~--. - ·.,. .•/' . •, ' 1270 C1 - !!511 i � 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 Mi _» WESTERN UNION fe" A TxYg318 22 = TxZ2_- POB TX WASHINGTON DC 20 NFT THE HON IVAN ALLEN JR MAYOR OF CITY OF ATLA CITY HALL ATLA AT ITS NOVEMBEC4S MEETING, THE MEMBERS OF THE STEERING COM“ITTES @GREED THAT THEY SHOULD SEEK AN EARLY OPPORTUNITY TO TAL® @ITH THE PRESIDENT-€LECT. INITIAL CONTACT HAS NOW REEN MADE arr: MR NTXONS AIDES HAVE STRONGLY URGED THAT WE LIMIT OUR DELE*. TION TO 10 PEOPLE. AS A MATTER OF COURTESY, WE HAVE AGREED To 02 ‘SO. ACCORDINGLY, UNLESS ANYONE ORJECT, I SHALL TRY TC PUT TOGETHER A 10-MAN DELEGATION THAT FAIRLY REPRESENTS ALL ELEMENTS WITHIN THE STEERING COMMITTEE. I HOPE THIS MEETS WITH YOUR APPROVAL. | JOHN W@ GARDNER CHAIRMAN THE URBAN COALITION. = iyi R2-s+. al . -_- ooo | ( 1270 (1-51)  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 10, Document 28 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/76a7a24861d52e1daa869113cc5473a1.pdf da4a6860eaa3ff9fc16c6c891bbeebeb Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. 487 Lynn Valley Road, S. W. Atlanta, Georgia 30311 November 22, 1968 The Honorable Mayor Ivan Allen City Hall 68 Mitchell Street Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Dear Mayor Allen: We are proud of our Atlanta and the progress it has made under your fine leadership. One dared not dream of this Atlanta a decade ago, but here we stand today poised to move in one of three directions. There are those who would prefer to live in the past, those who feel things should remain as they are - and those who want to forge forward. Atlanta, like the lyrics of the Negr o Spiritual I'll Never Turn Bae~', can not afford to look back. Although we are proud of our progress to date, we are still beset by too many ills and inadequacies to stand still for a brief moment. Under these circumstances, there is but one acceptable route open-and that one is labeled Forward March. Miracles in urban crises seem to have occurred in many urban connnunities like ours by local Urban Coalitions. I've followed their programs for some time and would like to see such an organization functioning here in Atlanta. The National Alliance of Businessmen in its massive attack on hard-core unemployment this past summer, is an e xcellent ex ample of the t ype of returns we could expect from committed concerned businessmen. Unfortunatel y the NAB is limited to job placement for the hard - core unemployed. An Urban Coalition would enable groups of civic and business leaders to operate in the full spectrum of urban problems of education, transport ation ~ housing, race relations, etc. This, to me , could be a most fruitful venture. �I would like to see Atlanta organize an Urban Coalition. this is desirable and/or feasible? With Warmest Regards, .J/~7ft Mrs. Henrietta .. Do you think � 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 487 Lynn Valley Road, S. W. Atlanta, Georgia 30311 November 22, 1968 The Honorable Mayor Ivan Allen City Hall 68 Mitchell Street Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Dear Mayor Allen: We are proud of our Atlanta and the progress it has made under your fine leadership. One dared not dream of this Atlanta a decade ago, but here we stand today poised to move in one of three directions. There are those who would prefer to live in the past, those who feel things should remain as they are - and those who want to forge forward. Atlanta, like the lyrics of the Negro Spiritual "I'll Never Turn Back", can not afford to look back. Although we are proud of our progress to date, we are still beset by too many ills and inadequacies to stand still for a brief moment. Under these circumstances, there is but one acceptable route open-and that one is labeled Forward March. Miracles in urban crises seem to have occurred in many urban communities like ours by local Urban Coalitions. I've followed their programs for some time and would like to see such an organization functioning here in Atlanta. The National Alliance of Businessmen in its massive attack on hard-core unemployment this past summer, is an excellent example of the type of returns we could expect from committed concerned businessmen. Unfortunately the NAB is limited to job placement for the hard-core unem- ployed. An Urban Coalition would enable groups of civic and business leaders to operate in the full spectrum of urban problems of education, transporta- tion, housing, race relations, etc. This, to me, could be a most fruitful venture. I would like to see Atlanta organize an Urban Coalition. Do you think this is desirable and/or feasible? With Warmest Regards, Meine AA: Mrs. Henrietta M.  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 10, Document 27 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/c8d3668ee5b59eac7d35e90e9d9f811b.pdf cd296e86854d0820d78b1e38b99637ec Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. FROM: Ivan Allen-, Jr. D For your information D Please refer to the atta ched corre s pond e nce a nd make the necessary reply. D FORM 25-4 A d v i s e me th e s t a tu s of the a tta ch ed . � 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 Office of the Mayor FROM: Ivan Allen, Jr. LC) For your information |_| Please refer to the attached correspondence and make the necessary reply. (_] Advise me the status of the attached. FORM 25-4  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 10, Document 26 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/2c2802730045f5d8a5d39cdcfdc5d63e.pdf cd9a384fe5206217ec547bb83e107fc0 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. De cember 12, 1968 Mrs . Henrietta M . Canty 487 Lynn Valley Road , S . W . Atlanta , Georgia 30311 Dear Mrs. Canty: Thank you very much for your words of encouragement and your concern about the City of Atlanta and its urban p roblems. As you might know, I have be n involved a a member of the Steering Committee of the national Urb n Coalition since its formation. W have also h d a Ste ring Committe at the loc 1 level for some months but have found no real d mand for expanding it on formalized program basis until recently. We re in th di cussion stages now about the possibility of formalizing a Coalition in theAtl nt r a and your comments nd support r appreciated . Sine rely you.rs, Ivan All n,, Jr. M yor IAJr:fy \ � 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 December 12, 1968 Mrs. Henrietta M. Canty 487 Lynn Valley Road, S. W. Atlanta, Georgia 30311 Dear Mrs. Canty: Thank you very much for your words of encouragement and your concern about the City of Atlanta and its urban problems. As you might know, I have been involved as a member of the Steering Committee of the national Urban Coalition since its formation, We have also had a Steering Committee at the local level for some months but have found no real demand for expanding it on formalized program basis until recently. We are in the discussion stages now about the possibility of formalizing a Coalition in theAtlanta area and your comments and support are appreciated. Sincerely yours, Ivan Allen, Jr. Mayor IAJr:fy  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 10, Document 25 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/0afd32d95b9c690dac40ea7ef105c058.pdf 0c95784bd06488f31d776ebfde752462 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. The Urban Coalition 1819 H Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. 20006 Telephone : (202) 223-9500 CHAIRMAN: John W. Gardner CO-CHAIRMEN: Andrew Heiskell/ A. Philip Randolph December 13, 1968 c:::::: 2 The Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr. Mayor of the City of Atlanta City Hall Atlanta, Georgia 30302 Dear Ivan: We had an extremely successful meeting with the President-elect today. We were scheduled to spend an hour with him and he kept us for an hour and a half. Mr. Nixon said that at the appropriate time he would like to have a meeting in the White House which would mobilize business support for the Coalition. He also said that he would like to have us meet with the Cabinet members who make up his new Urban Affairs Council. And he asked Arthur Flemming and myself to give our advice to Pat Moynihan on the organization of the Urban Affairs Council. The President-elect listened attentively to what we had to say and repeatedly expressed his cordial interest in working with us. He referred to the Coalition as "the key organization in the pri,vate sector," and also said it was the first organizational group that he had met with since his election. Sincerely, @John W. Gardner Cha irman - � 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 The Urban Coalition ‘Santee Washington, D. C. 20006 Telephone: (202) 223-9500 CHAIRMAN: John W. Gardner CO-CHAIRMEN: Andrew Heiskell / A. Philip Randolph Suen ataes Yb Lab Swun yr El) The Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr. Mayor of the City of Atlanta City Hall Atlanta, Georgia 30302 Dear Ivan: We had an extremely successful meeting with the President-elect today. We were scheduled to spend an hour with him and he kept us for an hour and a half. Mr. Nixon said that at the appropriate time he would like to have a meeting in the White House which would mobilize business support for the Coalition. He also said that he would like to have us meet with the Cabinet members who make up his new Urban Affairs Council. And he asked Arthur Flemming and myself to give our advice to Pat Moynihan on the organization of the Urban Affairs Council. The President-elect listened attentively to what we had to say and repeatedly expressed his cordial interest in working with us. He referred to the Coalition as ''the key organization in the private sector," and also said it was the first organizational group that he had met with since his election. Sincerely, Zs John W. Gardner Chairman > @  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 10, Document 24 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/541ff155ab0ed0bad887c70230428e28.pdf efba2da95e6fb65627269342af3f16a4 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. ~-·-* THE URBAN COALITION ACTION COUNCIL JOHN W. GARDNER CHAIRMAN 1619 H STREET. N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. 20006 Community Self-Determination Act of 1968 Senate Democratic Version s. 3875 Senate Republican Version s. 3876 House Democratic Version H. R. 18976 House Republican Version H. R. 18460 Title I (All Title references are to S. 3875) Title I creates a National Community Corporation Certification Board (NCCCB) and outlines the procedure and purpose of individual Community Development Corporations (CDC's). The NCCCB acts much like the National Labor Relations Board in its union certification procedure. It will be composed of five members, and its primary functions will be the issuance of corporation charters, conducting and supervising referenda, service as counsel to the CDC's and as an information center for parties interested in forming CDC's. A National Advisory Commission advises the NCCCB but does not have direct impact on the latter's specific activities. Section B of Titl~ I states the structural outline of a local CDC. This is the heart of the Act. It would have a broad social improvement purpose as well as the promotion of business activity. CDC's operate in areas in which the 16-year and up population ranges from 5,000 to 300,000. The geographic area within which a CDC would operate is designated by the applicants for a CDC charter . Any resident within the designated area may be a shareholder of the corporation, but the Act requires that a minimum of 10 per cent of the 16-year-old and up population residing within the area hold stock in the CDC. The shares would have a par value of $5, and each shareholder would have one vote in corporate matters, notwithstanding the number of shares the shareholder a ctually holds. The functions of a CDC fall into si x categories. First , neighbo r hood services and community improvement , including but not limited to public welfare programs , day ca r e centers , T E LE PH ON E : 20 2 29 3 -153 0 �-2consumer education, job placement, legal aid, etc. Second, it would own stock in businesses in the CDC area. Third, it would sponsor, own, or manage housing facilities within the CDC area. Fourth, it would be an advocate planner for neighborhood and community renewal projects. Fifth, it would serve as a representative of various community interests in other areas of public policy and concern. Six th, it would encourage various other elements of the community such as business, labor, religion, and so forth, to become active in voluntary community self-help efforts. A CDC would be financed by earnings from affiliated businesses, grants from community development funds, foundations, trusts, etc., and from contracts with privately owned businesses, government agencies, and other entities for specified services or products. The CDC would have nine directors and two additional directors for each 10,000 shareholders of the corporation in e x cess of 25,000. The directors of the corporation would select the executive officers as well as the Business Management Board. The latter's p r imar y f unction i s to p r ovide ove rall manage me nt exp e rtis e and a s sistance t o thos e af filiated businesses owned . by the CDC. The full area of responsibility of the members of the BMB would be spelled out in the CDC charter but would be phrased primarily to afford the BMB max imum latitude to manage CDC owne d busine ss e s and allow fo r the purchase o f othe r e nterp ris e s. CDC' s can be orga ni zed b y a ny fi v e o r more re side nts o f a speci f ic area covering a population range from 5,000 to 300,000, 16 years and older. For any designated area to be eligible for a CDC, howe v e r, the r a t e o f unemploy me nt must be h igher than the n a tional ave r age or t h e med i a n family in c ome b e propor t i ona t e l y lowe r th a n the national a v e r age . Af t e r a ppl ication is made f o r a CDC c h arte r , a 6 0 -day period mu st e l apse so as to allow any other interes t e d group within the same area, or an o ve rl a pping are a, the opp ortunity to o rganize its own CDC . Before the NCCCB will grant a f inal c h a rter to a g r oup of a ppl icants , the a pp l i c a n ts mu st h ave received ple d ge car ds f o r the p u rchase of stock from a min i mum of 5 per ce n t of t ho se eligible to purchase stock within the designated area of operation. This insures a minimum l eve l of community support. If the applicants cannot obta in pledge cards from the minimum 5 p er cen t, the char t er appl i cati o n i s rejec t e d . Once the p l edge cards are received from 5 per cent of the population, a conditional charter i s i ssue d. At that p o int, the CDC has 45 days in which to obtain additional pledge cards covering 10 per cent of the area's population. F ive hundre d peop l e must have paid in at l east $5,0 00 f o r CDC stock. During t h e �-3- 45-day period the pledge money is kept in escrow pending further action toward issuance of a final charter. During the period in which a CDC attempts to raise the minimum level of funds, an additional determination is being made which indicates the relative economic need of the area in question. A Development Index is figured for the area. The Index is the lesser of two ratios: First, the ratio of the national rate of unemployment to the area's unemployment rate x 100, or second, the ratio of the nation's median family income to the area's median family income x 100. If the Development Index of a conditional chartered CDC is found to be 90 or above, the charter is dissolved because the CDC is considered too close to the national average of 100. A special bonus is afforded those rural areas from which outmigration is contributing directly to specific urban tensions. If only one conditional CDC is left within a given area, a vote is then held in which a majority of those voting must approve the applicants. If a majority of those voting do approve, the final charter is granted; if a majority disapprove, the charter is dissolved. In the case of competing CDC's within a given area, referenda are held for each competitor, starting with those representing the geographic area encompassing the highest level of population. If none of the competitors within the largest given area are accepted, a vote is held for those CDC's competing in the next smallest geographic area, etc., until such time as one CDC is approved by the requisite majority of those voting. At least 10 per cent of the eligible voters must actually cast a ballot for any referendum to be valid. Once a CDC is established, a one-time seed money grant is made to the corporation in an amount equal to its current paid-in capital. Title II Title II provides for the establishment of Community Development Banks (CDB's), which are organized by CDC's . CDB's operate in an area of 25,000 or more people, 16 years and up, and concentrate on financial services to the area in quest ion . They provide both business financing and consumer credit to indi vidual CDC shareholders. Equity capital is obtained through the sale of stock to 1) the Secre tary of the Treasury (Class A), 2) any groups or individuals other than the Federal Government and CDC's (Class B), and 3) stock sold only to CDC's (Class C). �-4- Class A stock would be nonvoting and repaid by a franchise tax on the CDB's net earnings. Class B stock would be nonvoting but receive dividends. Class C stock would not receive dividends. The latter point is made so that the CDB becomes a necessary financial mechanism for the establishment and proliferation of CDC activities but does not become a source of income. Income bonds would be issued to the public to provide additional equity and debt capitalization. CDB net earnings would be first applied to make up any bad debts and restore any impaired capital. The payment of stoc~ dividends is a lessor priority. Loans are made to the following individuals and businesses: 1) CDC shareholders for normal consumer credit; 2) a small business, 75 per cent of which is owned by resident CDC shareholders; 3) a small business, less than 75 per cent of which is owned by CDC shareholders, so long as the CDC in whose area the business is located is given the right of first refusal when the business is sold; 4) a subsidiary of a CDC, 51 per cent of which is owned by CDC shareholders; 5) outside corporations with turnkey contracts with a CDC; 6) cooperatives, 75 per cent of whose members are CDC shareholders; and 7) nonprofit housing sponsors operating within the community serviced by the CDB. An applicant for a business loan must have a minimum level of business experience and exper tise, or have contracted with a company or service to obtain the necessary business training. Loans of up to 90 per cent of the required capital may be made on terms of up to 20 years for repayment . Housing sponsors can receive money for "front-money" or construction loans. Unorthodox and high risk ventures are encouraged as long as they would yield significant community benefits. Participation loans are encouraged. �7 -5The primary purpose of a CDB is to channel capital to business ventures. Its secondary purpose is to provide normal banking services to people in impoverished areas. Title III Title III creates a United States Community Development Bank, which would serve as a secondary financial institution and as a source of technical, financial, and managerial expertise to CDB's. It would serve also to promote economic development in those poverty-stricken areas where no CDB's exist. The USCDB would have the same relationship to CDB's as a federal intermediate credit bank has to local commercial banks. The USCDB would have the same relationship to those areas not serviced by CDB's as the World Bank has to underdeveloped countries. Although not an instrumentaility of the Federal Government, the President would initially appoint the incorporators and first directors of the USCDB. Eventually CDB's holding stock in the USCDB would name some of the directors. Capitalization would be provided through stock sales. The Secretary of the Treasury would hold nonvoting, nonpaying, Class A stock purchased through funds provided by a Congressional appropriation. Class B stock would be held by anyone other than the Federal Government, CDB's being eligible to purchase such stock. The USCDB is authorized to issue bonds, debentures, and other certificates of debt up to 5 times its paid-in capital and surplus. Its primary functions are to provide secondary banking services to CDB's through discounts, loans, notes, advances, and so forth, and to make loans for business and community facilities or public development facilities in low-income "investment areas," designated by the Secretary of Labor. It provides interim construction financing for facilities which it may also plan, initiate, own, and manage until such time as the facilities are purchased. It provides management assistance to CDB's as well as other borrowers and generally creates new investment opportunities by bringing together facilities, capital, and management. A CDB may establish branches. USCDB earnings are to be applied in the following order : 1) restoration of any capital impairment , 2) creation and maintenance of a surp lus account, 3) payment of a franchise tax with re f e r e n ce to the amount of Class A s t ock h e l d b y t he Secretary of the Treasury , 4) establishment of contingency rese rves , �-65) dividends on Class B stock up to 6 per cent of earnings, and 6) retirement of Class A stock held b y the Treasury. Title IV Title IV authorizes certain Federal tax advantages for CDC and turnkey corporations. All tax advantages granted to CDC's are applicable until the Development Inde x for the designated CDC area reaches the national average for fi v e years. Title IV would amend the Internal Revenue Code to permit each corporation in a group of CDC subsidiary corporations to retain its individual surtax exemption and pay its regular corporate tax on any thing over the $25,000 at a 22 p er cent rate rather than 28 per cent. Tax rates and surtax exemptions are liberalized depending upon the area's Development Inde x , with provis i ons for greater tax advantages to those CDC's operating in areas with the lowest Development Inde x . In addition, the Internal Revenue Code is amended to attr act turnkey companies into the CDC area. Turnke y comp a nies can tak e advantage of rapid amortization schedules for its facilities . Again, the rate of amortization depends on the rate of the Development Index with the shorter periods of amortization being made available to those companies which inv est in the poorest areas. A 10 per cent tax credit on wages and salarie s o f CDC shareholders e mploy ed in the turnk ey facili~y is granted to the turnke y company . This is called a human investment tax credit . The 10 p e r cent figure comp ares with the 7 per cent investment credit on machinery investment, though is higher b e cause of the impermanence of the inve stment in human skills . It is a r gue d that the credit must be highe r to induce the tu r n k e y corporation to i nvolve its e lf in impover ished are a s . The turnkey comp any is not r e quire d to pay c apital gains tax on th e s a le of a turnkey fa c ility if t h e sale p rofits are rei n v e ste d in another turnkey o pe r a tion or in Class B stock o f a COB . A tu rnkey co r porati o n would b e e ntitled to a sustai ned profita bility t a x credit eq u a l to 15 pe r c ent o f the profit s g enerated fr om t u rnkey o pera t i o n s fo r f i v e ye ars af te r t he sa l e of a faci l ity to a CDC . Th is latte r p r o vi sion p r e sumably gu a r antee s th e de v e lopme nt of the stronge st fi n an cia l operat i on th e t ur nk e y c omp a ny can en c o u rage . Title V If a CDC is no t a d i v idend-p a ying c o rp o ration , it can be treated as a CAP agency under t he Ec o nomic Opportunity Act . The Sma ll Busines s Admi n istration is a uthorized to make grants to CDC ' s o f up to 9 0 per cent of th e cost of technical and management assis t ance and training programs . The grants may be made for a number of programs , some o f which are as follo ws : �-7- 1) the identification and development of new business opportunities, joint ventures, and turnkey agreements; 2) marketing surveys; 3) planning and research for business development; 4) plant design, layout, and operation; 5) marketing and promotional assistance; 6) business counseling, management training, and legal and other related services with specific emphasis on management training, ·using the resources of private business; 7) encouragement of subcontracting to CDC's for establishing business and cooperative efforts to train and upgrade CDC personnel. �A P P E N D I X S. 3875 Sponsors: Senators Nelson (Wis.), Bayh (Ind.), Harris (Okla.), Hartke (Ind.), Church (Idaho), Mondale (Minn.), Hart (Mich.), Magnuson (Wash.), Metcalf (Mont.), Moss (Utah), Pell (R. I.), Randolph (W. Va.), Ribicoff (Conn.), Williams (N.J.), Young (Ohio), Muskie (Me.), Tydings (Md.) and McGovern (S. D.). S. 3876 Sponsors: Senators Percy (Ill.), Baker (Tenn.), Boggs (Del.), Brooke (Mass ·.), Case (N.J.), Fong (Hawaii), Griffin (Mich.), Javits (N.Y.), Jordan (Idaho), Kuchel (Calif.), Pearson (Kans.), Prouty (Vt.), Scott (Pa.) and Tower (Tax.) H. R. 18976 Sponsor: Rep. Fraser (Minn.) H. R. 184 60 Sponsors: Reps. Goodell (N.Y.), Curtis (Mo.), Widnall (N.J.) and Taft (Ohio) Although there are at least three versions o f the Communi ty Self-Determination Act, the differences are in fo rm only. Whatever structural differences are found in the bills are primarily because of political reasons. In short, familiarity with the concepts and proposals of any one bill will be equivalent to a n e xamination of all of the bills. � 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 THE URBAN COALITION ACTION COUNCIL JOHN W. GARDNER CHAIRMAN 1819 H STREET, N. W. WASHINGTON, D.C, 20006 Community Self-Determination Act of 1968 Senate Democratic Version S. 3875 Senate Republican Version S. 3876 House Democratic Version H. R. 18976 House Republican Version H. R. 18460 Title I (All Title references are to S. 3875) Title I creates a National Community Corporation Certification Board (NCCCB) and outlines the procedure and purpose of individual Community Development Corporations (CDC's). The NCCCB acts much like the National Labor Relations Board in its union certification procedure. It will be com- posed of five members, and its primary functions will be the issuance of corporation charters, conducting and supervising referenda, service as counsel to the CDC's and as an information center for parties interested in forming CDC's. A National Advisory Commission advises the NCCCB but does not have direct impact on the latter's specific activities. Section B of Title I states the structural outline of a local CDC. This is the heart of the Act. It would have a broad social improvement purpose as well as the promotion of business activity. CDC's operate in areas in which the 16-year and up population ranges from 5,000 to 300,000. The geographic area within which a CDC would operate is designated by the applicants for a CDC charter. Any resident within the designated area may be a shareholder of the corporation, but the Act requires that a minimum of 10 per cent of the 16-year-old and up popula- tion residing within the area hold stock in the CDC. The shares would have a par value of $5, and each shareholder would have one vote in corporate matters, notwithstanding the number of shares the shareholder actually holds. The functions of a CDC fall into six categories. First, neighborhood services and community improvement, including but not limited to public welfare programs, day care centers, TELEPHONE: 202 293-1530 hes consumer education, job placement, legal aid, etc. Second, it would own stock in businesses in the CDC area. Third, it would sponsor, own, or manage housing facilities within the CDC area. Fourth, it would be an advocate planner for neighborhood and community renewal projects. Fifth, it would serve as a representative of various community interests in other areas of public policy and concern. Sixth, it would encourage various other elements of the community such as business, labor, religion, and so forth, to become active in voluntary community self-help efforts. A CDC would be financed by earnings from affiliated businesses, grants from community development funds, foundations, trusts, etc., and from contracts with privately owned businesses, government agencies, and other entities for specified services or products. The CDC would have nine directors and two additional directors for each 10,000 shareholders of the corporation in excess of 25,000. The directors of the corporation would select the executive officers as well as the Business Management Board. The latter's primary function is to provide overall management expertise and assistance to those affiliated busi- nesses owned by the CDC. The full area of responsibility of the members of the BMB would be spelled out in the CDC charter but would be phrased primarily to afford the BMB maximum lati- tude to manage CDC owned businesses and allow for the purchase of other enterprises. CDC's can be organized by any five or more residents of a specific area covering a population range from 5,000 to 300,000, 16 years and older. For any designated area to be eligible for a CDC, however, the rate of unemployment must be higher than the national average or the median family income be proportionately lower than the national average. After applica- tion is made for a CDC charter, a 60-day period must elapse so as to allow any other interested group within the same area, or an overlapping area, the opportunity to organize its own CDC. Before the NCCCB will grant a final charter to a group of applicants, the applicants must have received pledge cards for the purchase of stock from a minimum of 5 per cent of those eligible to purchase stock within the designated area of operation. This insures a minimum level of community support. If the applicants cannot obtain pledge cards from the minimum 5 per cent, the charter application is rejected. Once the pledge cards are received from 5 per cent of the population, a conditional charter is issued. At that point, the CDC has 45 days in which to obtain additional pledge cards covering 10 per cent of the area's population. Five hundred people must have paid in at least $5,000 for CDC stock. During the =3= 45-day period the pledge money is kept in escrow pending further action toward issuance of a final charter. During the period in which a CDC attempts to raise the minimum level of funds, an additional determination is being made which indicates the relative economic need of the area in question. A Development Index is figured for the area. The Index is the lesser of two ratios: First, the ratio of the national rate of unemployment to the area's unemployment rate x 100, or second, the ratio of the nation's median family income to the area's median family income x 100. If the Development Index of a conditional chartered CDC is found to be 90 or above, the charter is dissolved because the CDC is con- sidered too close to the national average of 100. A special bonus is afforded those rural areas from which outmigration is con- tributing directly to specific urban tensions. If only one conditional CDC is left within a given area, a vote is then held in which a majority of those voting must approve the appli- cants. If a majority of those voting do approve, the final charter is granted; if a majority disapprove, the charter is dissolved. In the case of competing CDC's within a given area, referenda are held for each competitor, starting with those representing the geographic area encompassing the highest level of population. If none of the competitors within the largest given area are accepted, a vote is held for those CDC's competing in the next smallest geographic area, etc., until such time as one CDC is approved by the requisite majority of those voting. At least 10 per cent of the eligible voters must actually cast a ballot for any referendum to be valid. Once a CDC is established, a one-time seed money grant is made to the corporation in an amount equal to its current paid-in capital. Title II Title II provides for the establishment of Community Development Banks (CDB's), which are organized by CDC's. CDB's operate in an area of 25,000 or more people, 16 years and up, and concentrate on financial services to the area in question. They provide both business financing and consumer credit to individual CDC shareholders. Equity capital is obtained through the sale of stock to 1) the Secretary of the Treasury (Class A), 2) any groups or individuals other than the Federal Government and CDC's (Class B), and 3) stock sold only to CDC's (Class C). =4= Class A stock would be nonvoting and repaid by a franchise tax on the CDB's net earnings. Class B stock would be non- voting but receive dividends. Class C stock would not receive dividends. The latter point is made so that the CDB becomes a necessary financial mechanism for the establishment and pro- liferation of CDC activities but does not become a source of income. Income bonds would be issued to the public to provide additional equity and debt capitalization. CDB net earnings would be first applied to make up any bad debts and restore any impaired capital. The payment of stock dividends is a lessor priority. Loans are made to the following individuals and busi- nesses: 1) cbDC shareholders for normal consumer credit; 2) a small business, 75 per cent of which is owned by resident CDC shareholders; 3) a small business, less than 75 per cent of which is owned by CDC shareholders, so long as the CDC in whose area the business is located is given the right of first refusal when the business is sold; 4) a subsidiary of a CDC, 51 per cent of which is owned by CDC shareholders; 5) outside corporations with turnkey contracts with a CDC; 6) cooperatives, 75 per cent of whose members are CDC shareholders; and 7) nonprofit housing sponsors operating within the community serviced by the CDB. An applicant for a business loan must have a minimum level of business experience and expertise, or have contracted with a company or service to obtain the necessary business training. Loans of up to 90 per cent of the required capital may be made on terms of up to 20 years for repayment. Housing sponsors can receive money for "front-money" or construction loans, Unorthodox and high risk ventures are encouraged as long as they would yield significant community benefits. Participation loans are encouraged. The primary purpose of a CDB is to channel capital to business ventures. Its secondary purpose is to provide normal banking services to people in impoverished areas. Title III Title III creates a United States Community Development Bank, which would serve as a secondary financial institution and as a source of technical, financial, and managerial expertise to CDB's. It would serve also to promote economic development in those poverty-stricken areas where no CDB's exist. The USCDB would have the same relationship to CDB's as a federal inter- mediate credit bank has to local commercial banks. The USCDB would have the same relationship to those areas not serviced by CDB's as the World Bank has to underdeveloped countries. Although not an instrumentaility of the Federal Government, the President would initially appoint the incorporators and first directors of the USCDB. Eventually CDB's holding stock in the USCDB would name some of the directors. Capitalization would be provided through stock sales. The Secretary of the Treasury would hold nonvoting, non- paying, Class A stock purchased through funds provided by a Congressional appropriation. Class B stock would be held by anyone other than the Federal Government, CDB's being eligible to purchase such stock. The USCDB is authorized to issue bonds, debentures, and other certificates of debt up to 5 times its paid-in capital and surplus. Its primary functions are to provide secondary banking services to CDB's through discounts, loans, notes, advances, and so forth, and to make loans for business and community facilities or public development facilities in low-income "investment areas," designated by the Secretary of Labor. It provides interim construction financing for facilities which it may also plan, initiate, own, and manage until such time as the facilities are purchased. It provides management assistance to CDB's as well as other borrowers and generally creates new investment opportunities by bringing together facilities, capital, and management. A CDB may establish branches. USCDB earnings are to be applied in the following order: 1) restoration of any capital impairment, 2) creation and maintenance of a surplus account, 3) payment of a franchise tax with reference to the amount of Class A stock held by the Secretary of the Treasury, 4) establishment of contingency reserves, -6- 5) dividends on Class B stock up to 6 per cent of earnings, and 6) retirement of Class A stock held by the Treasury. Title IV Title IV authorizes certain Federal tax advantages for CDC and turnkey corporations. All tax advantages granted to CDC's are applicable until the Development Index for the designated CDC area reaches the national average for five years. Title IV would amend the Internal Revenue Code to permit each corporation in a group of CDC subsidiary corpora- tions to retain its individual surtax exemption and pay its regular corporate tax on anything over the $25,000 at a 22 per cent rate rather than 28 per cent. Tax rates and surtax exemptions are liberalized depending upon the area's Development Index, with provisions for greater tax advantages to those CDC's operating in areas with the lowest Development Index. In addition, the Internal Revenue Code is amended to attract turnkey companies into the CDC area. Turnkey companies can take advantage of rapid amortization schedules for its facilities. Again, the rate of amortization depends on the rate of the Development Index with the shorter periods of amortization being made available to those companies which invest in the poorest areas. A 10 per cent tax credit on wages and salaries of CDC shareholders employed in the turnkey facility is granted to the turnkey company. This is called a human investment tax credit. The 10 per cent figure compares with the 7 per cent investment credit on machinery investment, though is higher because of the impermanence of the investment in human skills. It is argued that the credit must be higher to induce the turnkey corporation to involve itself in impoverished areas. The turnkey company is not required to pay capital gains tax on the sale of a turnkey facility if the sale profits are reinvested in another turnkey operation or in Class B stock of a CDB. A turnkey corporation would be entitled to a sustained profitability tax credit equal to 15 per cent of the profits generated from turnkey operations for five years after the sale of a facility to a cDC. This latter provision presumably guarantees the development of the strongest financial operation the turnkey company can encourage. faitle V If a CDC is not a dividend-paying corporation, it can be treated as a CAP agency under the Economic Opportunity Act. The Small Business Administration is authorized to make grants to CDC's of up to 90 per cent of the cost of technical and management assistance and training programs. The grants may be made for a number of programs, some of which are as follows: 1) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) aT the identification and development of new business opportunities, joint ventures, and turnkey agreements; Marketing surveys; planning and research for business development; plant design, layout, and operation; marketing and promotional assistance; business counseling, management training, and legal and other related services with specific emphasis on management training, using the resources of private business; encouragement of subcontracting to CDC's for establishing business and cooperative efforts to train and upgrade CDC personnel. APPENDIX S. 3875 Sponsors: Senators Nelson (Wis.), Bayh (Ind.), Harris (Okla.), Hartke (Ind.), Church (Idaho), Mondale (Minn.), Hart (Mich.), Magnuson (Wash.), Metcalf (Mont.), Moss (Utah), Pell (R. I.), Randolph (W. Va.), Ribicoff (Conn.), Williams (N.J.), Young (Ohio), Muskie (Me.), Tydings (Md.) and McGovern (S. D.). S. 3876 Sponsors: Senetors Percy (Ill.), Baker (Tenn.), Boggs (Del.), Brooke (Mass.), Case (N.J.), Fong (Hawaii), Griffin (Mich.), Javits (N.Y.), Jordan (Idaho), Kuchel (Calif.), Pearson (Kans.), Prouty (Vt.), Scott (Pa.) and Tower (Tex.) H. R. 18976 Sponsor: Rep. Fraser (Minn.) H. R. 18460 Sponsors: Reps. Goodell (N.Y.), Curtis (Mo.), Widnall (N.J.) and Taft (Ohio) Although there are at least three versions of the Community Self-Determination Act, the differences are in form only. Whatever structural differences are found in the bills are primarily because of political reasons. In short, familiarity with the concepts and proposals of any one bill will be equivalent to an examination of all of the bills.  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/. 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PLEASE INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE TO LEDA ROTHMAN AREA CODE 202 223 ig ai 9500 on JOHN W GARDNER CHAIRMAN je & Dil & = rr SF1201(R2-65) rove DEG 2] PM 4 20 ZU 2a C-  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 10, Document 21 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/083a7160b08c127a98991230e5103b50.pdf fa538e907c4a4e2450f6a5eef917d804 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. Kerner Commission Findings After One Year Reviewed "One Year Later," a review of what has been done, and not done, to meet the urban crisis since the Kerner Commission report of March, 1968, has been issued. The sponsors are two private, nonprofit organizations, the Urban Coalition and Urban America Inc. After presenting up-to-date data on social and environmental problems in the nation's inner cities, the review concludes that "we are a year closer to being two societies, black and white, increasingly separate and scarcely less unequal." Copies of "One Year Later" may be ordered, for a small charge, from the Communications Division of the Urban Coalition, 1819 H St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. THE BUILT-IN BOMB Reprinted Jrnm "Tlte Herhlnc k Gallen ·," Si m on and Schus ter. / 96R . ACTION COUNCIL LETTER LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN OF THE URBAN COALITION ACTION COUNCIL March 7, 1969 -- Vol. I, No. 2 Funds for Low Income Housing Head Action Council Agenda Supplemental appropriations for the low-income homeownership and rental programs of the 1968 Housing Act, and for administration of the fair housing law, are a priority goal of the Action Council . The two laws were enacted by Congress last summer but received only partial funding -far less than was needed for a good start . The new programs for lowincome families are k nown , in housing law jar gon , as Section 2 35 and Section 236 . Pri v a t e f ina ncing , b u t t r essed b y fede r a l inte r es t s ubsid i es , i s the k ey to both t h e homeowne rs hip prog r am , Sect i o n 2 3 5, a nd t he r e n ta l p r ogr am , Sect i o n 2 3 6. Low and mode r ate - inc ome f a milies will be able to b uy hou ses f o r up to $15 , 000 , spe n d 2 0 % o f the ir mo nthly i n come o n mor tgag e p ayme nts, a n d t h e FHA wil l pay t he remaining mo r t gage co s ts . Similarly o n Sec ti o n 23 6 rent a l units, the Govern me nt will pay to the nonp r ofit s po ns o rs the difference between the inte rest cost of a conventi o nal mortgage and an interest rate of 1%. The first homeownership in- �terest contracts were made in October. On the average, they were for houses costing $12,152. The average interest subsidy was $33 . 88 a month, for owners with monthly income of $430. The Housing Act authorized FHA to sign contracts for $75 million under Section 235 this year. Congress, however, allowed only $25 million. The same figures also were set for the Section 236 rental program. A House Appropriations Subcommittee is now considering budget proposals submitted by former President Johnson requesting an additional $50 million contract authority for each of the two programs . His request for the nex t fiscal year, starting July 1, was $100 million for each program. The fair housing law received an appropriation of only $2 million from Congress. The Johnson budget proposes a supplemental $2 million for administration of the law plus $14.5 million for the ne x t year. Sen . Ra lph Yarborough Becomes Chairman of Labor Committee The Senate Labo r and Publi c Welfare Committee, which han dles manpower, a n ti p o vert y, educati on a nd health l e gisl a t i o n, i s u nde r n e w leaders h i p t h is year. Ret i reme n ts and election defeats have produc e d n e w c h ai r men f o r t he f ul l committee a n d for its eigh t sub comm ittees . De moc ra t s r e main in t he ma j o r ity o n t h e c o mmi ttee but the Re p ubl ica ns have o n e addit i ona l seat thi s ye a r. Se n. Ralph Yarborough of Texa s i s t he n e w c ommi t tee chairman. He al s o ha s taken over as head of t h e Subcommittee on Health . Other key s ubcommittee chairmen include: Claiborne Pell (D -R.I.), Education; Gaylord Nelson (D Wis .), Subcommittee on Employment , Manpo wer and Poverty ; Harrison A. Williams (D N.J . ) , Labo r; Senator Ralph Ya rborough and Walter F . Mondale (D Minn.), Migratory Labor. Sen. Jacob K. Jav its (R N.Y.) remains the top-rank ing Re p u bl ic an on the committee . Th e n e w GOP members, all f r es h men , are Willi a m B. Sax be (Ohio) , Richard S . Sc h wei k er (Pa . ) a n d He n r y Be l lmo n (Okla . ) . The new De moc ra t s a re fr es hmen Thomas F. Eag le t o n (Mo .), Alan Cranston (Cali f. ) and Har o ld E . Hughes (Iowa) . CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS Re l ocat io n and Land Acquisition - - Senate subcommittee heari ng s have been completed on the Unif o rm Relocation Assistance and Land Acquisition bill (S 1). The Ac t ion Council suppo rts t h e bi ll , which would provide rel ocation payments and other assistance to persons displaced by any federal program or any federally aided state or local program. The last Congress approved this kind of aid on federal highway and housing projects and the new bill would extend this to other pro grams on a uniform basis. Post offices and other federal buildings and federally aided projects such as hospitals and college Continued on Page 4 �Congre ssmen Take City Tours To Learn of Urban Programs Small groups of Congressmen are mak ing two-day trips to major c ities to learn at first hand of u rban problems and programs. The tours are sponsored by the U.S. Con ference of Mayors for the benef it of Congressmen from rural a r e a s and small cit ies. Members o f the Urban Coalition Action Council staff are participating in t h e tours . Visitin g Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 31 a nd F eb . 1 were fi v e Represent a tive s -- We ndell Wyatt (R) of Astor ia, Ore., J ames F. Hastings (R) of Al l egan y , N.Y. , W. s. Stuc k e y (D) of Eastman , Ga . , J a mes R. Ma n n (D) of Greenville, s.c . , and Pau l Mcclos k ey (R) of San Mate o , Ca l if . The five wer e g i ven an i n t roduction t o Atlanta' s prob lems by Mayor Ivan Allen, who i s on t h e Action Council ' s b oard. Allen t old the group t h at t h e city ' s p rogress in urban deve lop me nt was due in la rge part to f unds appro priated by Co n gre s s . After hear ing other city of- ficials discuss their programs the Congressmen toured the Model Cities and urban renewal areas and visited antipoverty agencies . Afterwards, Rep. Wyatt commented that there is no , domestic problem "more urgent than that of the American city . " A similar trip was made to Dayton, Ohio, Feb. 21-22. The city's Congressman, Charles W. Whalen (R), was host to the group, which included Rep. Mann and three others -- Rep. Bill Alexander (D) of Osceola, Ark., Robert C. McEwen (R) of Ogdensburg, N.Y., and William L. Hungate (D) of Troy, Mo. Among the programs the Congressmen studied was the coordin a ted manpower programs oper ated by the federally funded local CEP office. CEP stands for Concentrated Employment Plan. It tries to concentrate a v ailable job resource s within areas o f hig h une mployment and pove rty. I n both cit ie s the Congr e s smen got a glimpse of crime problems by riding in police cars for a nigh t-time tour of pote nti a l trouble spots. Lat er trips a r e p lanne d f or New York and Bo s t on . In Atlanta City Ha ll, Rep. McCl oskey takes notes as Rep. Hastings, on the far left, listens. Clockwise, fac ing t he camera, are Rep. Wyatt, Vice Mayor Sam Massei!, Reps. Man n a nd Stuckey, Action Council executive di rector Lowel l Beck and Janet Ko hn of the Conference of Mayors. �Continued from Page 2 buildings are examples of programs that often displace inner city residents and businesses who badly need help in relocating. Provisions similar to those in S 1 were passed by the Senate, but not by the House, in the last Congress. The House Public Works Committee held hearings late last year on similar relocation bills but took no action on them. As yet, the House committee has not scheduled further hearings for this session. Senate passage probably will come first. Urban Coal ition Action Counci l Adds 2 1 New Members to Board An expanded Policy Council, the policy body for the Urban Coalition Action Council, met for the first time February 26. Twenty-one new members joined the Council, bringing the total membership to 59. John W. Gardner is the chairman. Of the new members, si x are women -- the fi r st to serve on the Council. They are Mrs . Bruce B. Benson, president of the League of Wome n Voters of the U. S . ; Mr s . Amalia V. Betanzos , e x ecutive dir ector of the Puerto Rican Commun i t y Dev elopment Project in Ne w Yo rk City; Mr s . Fr e d R . Harr is , chai r man o f the Women 's Counc i l on Pov e r t y, OEO; Mrs . Patr icia R . Harri s , Howard Unive r sity Schoo l o f Law; Miss Do r o thy I. Hei ght, pr e sident of the Na ti o nal Council o f Negro Women; a n d Mr s . Ai lee n C . Hernandez of San Francisco , fo rme r member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The 15 other new members are Julian Bond, Georgia state legislator; Paul W. Briggs, superintendent of schools for Cleveland, Ohio; Daniel J. Evans, Governor of the State of Washington; Herman E. Gallegos, executive director of the Southwest Council of LaRaza; Ernest Green, director of the Joint Apprenticeship Program in Brooklyn, N.Y.; Richard G. Hatcher, Mayor of Gary, Indiana; Dr. _Vivian W. Henderson, president of Clark College, Atlanta, Georgia. Also, Richard J. Hughes, Governor of the State of New Jersey; Roy Innis, national director of CORE; Dr. Howard Johnson, president of MIT; Edgar J. Kaiser, chairman of the board of Kaiser Industries; Robert S. Powell Jr., president of the National Student Association; Carl B. Stokes, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio; Rev . Andrew J . Young Jr., e xecutive director of SCLC; and Dr. Mark Shedd , superintendent of schools for Philadelphia . Before adding the new membe r s the policy group consisted of 13 businessmen, 6 union officials , and 19 may ors, civil rights and religious leaders . The Urban Coalition Action Counci l 1819 H St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 Tel : 202 293-1530 Chairman: John W. Gordner Co-Chairmen: Andrew Heiske ll A. Philip Randolph Execu tive Director: Lowell R. Beck Legislative Assoc iates : John P. Logomorcino Ronald J. Jomes Assistan t fo r Legislative Information : Georgia nna F. Ra t hbun On the left, new Policy Council members Mrs. Benson of the League of Women Voters and Mrs . Betanzos of the Puerto Rican Com mun ity Development Projec t, wit h Mayor Cavanagh of Det ro it. On the right, Rev . And rew Young of the Sout hern Christion Leade rship Conference, also a new Council me mbe r. ~ 31 � 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 Kerner Commission Findings After One Year Reviewed "One Year Later," a review of what has been done, and not done, to meet the urban crisis since the Kerner Commission report of March, 1968, has been issued. The spon- sors are two private, nonprofit organizations, the Urban Coalition and Urban America Inc. After presenting up-to-date data on social and environmental problems in the nation's inner cities, the review concludes that "we are a year closer to being two societies, black and white, in- creasingly separate and scarcely less unequal." Copies of "One Year Later" may be ordered, for a small charge, from the Communications Division of the Urban Coalition, 1819 H St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. THE BUILT-IN BOMB Reprinted fram “The Herblock Gallery.” Simon and Schuster, 1968. LU aT BS LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN OF THE URBAN COALITION ACTION COUNCIL March 7, 1969 -- Vol. I, No. 2 Funds for Low Income Housing Head Action Council Agenda Supplemental appropriations for the low-income homeownership and rental programs of the 1968 Housing Act, and for administra- tion of the fair housing law, are a priority goal of the Action Council. The two laws were en- acted by Congress last summer but received only partial funding -- far less than was needed for a good start. The new programs for low- income families are known, in housing law jargon, as Section 235 and Section 236. Private financing, buttressed by federal interest subsidies, is the key to both the homeownership program, Section 235, and the rental program, Section 236. Low and moderate-income families will be able to buy houses for up to $15,000, spend 20% of their month- ly income on mortgage payments, and the FHA will pay the remaining mortgage costs. Similarly on Sec- tion 236 rental units, the Govern- ment will pay to the nonprofit sponsors the difference between the interest cost of a conven- tional mortgage and an interest rate of 1%. The first homeownership in- terest contracts were made in Oc- tober. On the average, they were for houses costing $12,152. The average interest subsidy was $33.88 a month, for owners with monthly income of $430. The Housing Act authorized FHA to sign contracts for $75 mil- lion under Section 235 this year. Congress, however, allowed only $25 million. The same figures al- so were set for the Section 236 rental program. A House Appropriations Sub- committee is now considering bud- get proposals submitted by former President Johnson requesting an additional $50 million contract authority for each of the two pro- grams. His request for the next fiscal year, starting July 1, was $100 million for each program. The fair housing law received an appropriation of only $2 mil- lion from Congress. The Johnson budget proposes a supplemental $2 million for administration of the law plus $14.5 million for the next year. Sen. Ralph Yarborough Becomes Chairman of Labor Committee The Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee, which handles manpower, antipoverty, education and health legislation, is under new leadership this year. Retire- ments and election defeats have produced new chairmen for the full committee and for its eight sub- committees. Democrats remain in the majority on the committee but the Republicans have one addition- al seat this year. Sen. Ralph Yarborough of Tex- as is the new committee chairman. He also has taken over as head of the Subcommittee on Health. Other key subcommittee chair- men include: Claiborne Pell (D -- R.I.), Education; Gaylord Nelson (D Wis.), Subcommittee on Employ- ment, Manpower and Poverty; Har- rison A. Williams (D N.J.), Labor; Senator Ralph Yarborough and Walter F. Mondale (D Minn.), Migratory Labor. Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R N.Y.) remains the top-ranking Republican on the committee. The new GOP members, all freshmen, are William B. Saxbe (Ohio), Richard S. Sch- weiker (Pa.) and Henry Bellmon (Okla.). The new Democrats are fresh- men Thomas F. Eagleton (Mo.), Alan Cranston (Calif.) and Harold E. Hughes (Iowa). CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS Relocation and Land Acgquisi- tion -- Senate subcommittee hear- ings have been completed on the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Land Acquisition bill (S 1). The Action Council supports the bill, which would provide re- location payments and other as- Sistance to persons displaced by any federal program or any feder- ally aided state or local program. The last Congress approved this kind of aid on federal highway and housing projects and the new bill would extend this to other pro- grams on a uniform basis. Post offices and other federal build- ings and federally aided projects such as hospitals and college Continued on Page 4 Congressmen Take City Tours To Learn of Urban Programs Small groups of Congressmen are making two-day trips to major cities to learn at first hand of urban problems and programs. The tours are sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors for the bene- fit of Congressmen from rural areas and small cities. Members of the Urban Coalition Action Council staff are participating in the tours. Visiting Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 were five Represen- tatives -- Wendell Wyatt (R) of Astoria, Ore., James F. Hastings (R) of Allegany, N.Y., W. S. Stuckey (D) of Eastman, Ga., James R. Mann (D) of Greenville, S.C., and Paul McCloskey (R) of San Mateo, Calif. The five were given an intro- duction to Atlanta's problems by Mayor Ivan Allen, who is on the Action Council's board. Allen told the group that the city's progress in urban development was due in large part to funds appro- priated by Congress. After hearing other city of- ficials discuss their programs the Congressmen toured the Model Cities and urban renewal areas and visited antipoverty agencies. Afterwards, Rep. Wyatt commented that there is no domestic problem "more urgent than that of the American city." A similar trip was made to Dayton, Ohio, Feb. 21-22. The city's Congressman, Charles W. Whalen (R), was host to the group, which included Rep. Mann and three others -- Rep. Bill Alexander (D) of Osceola, Ark., Robert C. McEwen (R) of Ogdensburg, N.Y., and Wil- liam L. Hungate (D) of Troy, Mo. Among the programs the Con- gressmen studied was the coordi- nated manpower programs operated by the federally funded local CEP office. CEP stands for Concen- trated Employment Plan. It tries to concentrate available job re- sources within areas of high un- employment and poverty. In both cities the Congress- men got a glimpse of crime prob- lems by riding in police cars for a night-time tour of potential trouble spots. Later trips are planned for New York and Boston. In Atlanta City Hall, Rep. McCloskey takes notes as Rep. Hastings, on the far left, listens. Clockwise, facing the camera, are Rep. Wyatt, Vice Mayor Sam Massell, Reps. Mann and Stuckey, Action Council executive director Lowell Beck and Janet Kohn of the Conference of Mayors.  Continued from Page 2 buildings are examples of programs that often displace inner city residents and businesses who badly need help in relocating. Provisions similar to those in S 1 were passed by the Senate, but not by the House, in the last Congress. The House Public Works Committee held hearings late last year on similar relocation bills but took no action on them. As yet, the House committee has not scheduled further hearings for this session. Senate passage probably will come first. Urban Coalition Action Council Adds 21 New Members to Board An expanded Policy Council, the policy body for the Urban Coalition Action Council, met for the first time February 26. Twenty-one new members joined the Council, bringing the total mem- bership to 59. John W. Gardner is the chairman. Of the new members, six are women -- the first to serve on the Council. They are Mrs. Bruce B. Benson, president of the League of Women Voters of the U.S.; Mrs. Amalia V. Betanzos, executive di- rector of the Puerto Rican Com- munity Development Project in New York City; Mrs. Fred R. Harris, chairman of the Women's Council on Poverty, OEO; Mrs. Patricia R. Harris, Howard University School of Law; Miss Dorothy I. Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women; and Mrs. Aileen C. Hernandez of San Francisco, former The Urban Coalition Action Council 1819 H St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 Tel: 202 293-1530 Chairman: John W. Gardner Co-Chairmen: Andrew Heiskell A. Philip Randolph Executive Director: Lowell R. Beck Legislative Associates: John P. Lagomarcino Ronald J. James Assistant for Legislative Information: Georgianna F. Rathbun member of the Equal Employment Op- portunity Commission. The 15 other new members are Julian Bond, Georgia state legis- lator; Paul W. Briggs, superin- tendent of schools for Cleveland, Ohio; Daniel J. Evans, Governor of the State of Washington; Herman E. Gallegos, executive director of the Southwest Council of LaRaza; Ernest Green, director of the Joint Apprenticeship Program in Brooklyn, N.Y.; Richard G. Hatcher, Mayor of Gary, Indiana; Dr. Vivian W. Henderson, president of Clark College, Atlanta, Georgia. Also, Richard J. Hughes, Gov- ernor of the State of New Jersey; Roy Innis, national director of CORE; Dr. Howard Johnson, presi- dent of MIT; Edgar J. Kaiser, chairman of the board of Kaiser Industries; Robert S. Powell Jr., president of the National Student Association; Carl B. Stokes, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio; Rev. Andrew J. Young Jr., executive director of SCLC; and Dr. Mark Shedd, superin- tendent of schools for Philadel- phia. Before adding the new members the policy group consisted of 13 businessmen, 6 union officials, and 19 mayors, civil rights and religious leaders. On the left, new Policy Council members Mrs. Benson of the League of Women Voters and Mrs. Betanzos of the Puerto Rican Community Development Project, with Mayor Cavanagh of Detroit. On the right, Rev. Andrew Young of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, also a new Council member. ao 31  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 10, Document 20 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/02ca5227932c3ef6eb4467cce3a3f0a5.pdf c9fabbd306ac3a3316b0b293abaa504b Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. House Hearings on Poverty Forecast Floor Fight on OEO Hearings on legislation to extend the antipoverty programs of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) for five years began in the House Education and Labor Committee March 24. Comments at the opening hearing made clear that committee members will be sharply divided over a one-year or fiveyear extension of OEO. President Nixon has asked for a one-year extension, saying that would allow time for his Administration to conduct a comprehensive review of antipoverty programs. However, the House chairman, Rep. Carl D. Perkins (D Ky.), favors a five-year extension and has introduced HR 513 to accomplish that. Continued on Page 2 ESTIMATED DISTRIBUTION OF THE 25.9 MILLION POOR PERSONS IN \Qb7 BY STATUS OF HOUSEHOLD MEAD 32% 23% ~EAD•WORKED i:ULL YEAR AGED ~EAD 5.9 MILLION 8.2 MILLION ~EAD,,WORKED PART YEAR 6,5 MILLION 14% 2.50/4 Employment status oF non-disabled, non-aged household heads ACTION COUNCIL LETTER LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN OF THE URBAN COALITION ACTION COUNCIL April 11, 1969 -- Vol. I, No. 4 HEW Proposes Increased Funds For Community Health Centers Much larger federal grants for outpatient clinics, neighborhood health centers and skilled nursing homes have been proposed to Congress by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW Secretary Robert H. Finch asked the House Subcommittee on Public Health and Welfare March 25 to rewrite the Hill-Burton Hospital Construction law to put increased emphasis on outpatient health care. "The distances traveled and hours spent in waiting for such services by millions of our people testify to the critical nature of this need in almost every community," Finch said. Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R . NY) has introduced a bill (S 1733) that carries out the HEW propos als. It authorizes $150 million this year for allocation by the states to the facilities Finch suggested. However , the present federal program of grants for acute - care hospital beds would be changed to a federally guaranteed loan program , without interest subsidy to the hospitals. The Action Council Letter reports legislative deve lopments in the urban fie ld It is published by the Urban Coalition Action Counci l, which seeks needed urban legislation �ty Action Program and closely related activities , such as VISTA . Other programs should be trans~ ferred to established Departme n ts , the GAO report said . Comments by Sen . Nelson Continued from Page 1 In opening the hearings, Rep. Perkins said a one-year extension would be "demoralizing" to the poor who have found hope in the government's antipoverty efforts. He said that OEO programs needed the "stability" that a long extension provides. He also criticized the President's plans to transfer four OEO programs, including Head Start and the Job Corps, to long-established Departments. GAO Report A lengthy and generally f a v orable report on the OEO was is sued March 18 b y the Gene ra l Ac coun ting Offic e. The GAO, which i s often ref erred to as Cong r es s' "watchdog" over the e x e c ut ive departments , was di r ected by Cong r ess in 1967 to dete r mine the efficiency of OEO p rograms and the e x te n t to wh i ch t h ey a ch i eve t he obj ec tiv es o f the Econ omic Oppo r tunity Act , the basic antipo v e r t y law of 1964 . The ma j o r reco mmendati o n o f th e GAO wa s that the P r esident es tab lish in h is Ex ecu t ive Office a wel l - s t aff e d off i ce respo n sible f o r broad plann i n g , coo r d i nation and evaluati o n of all the g o v e rnme nt ' s a n tipove r ty effo r ts. The OEO would c ont inue as an indepe nde nt agen cy to ope r a t e the Communi - The report was dismissed b y Rep. Perkins as "not worth the paper it is written on , " b ut mo r e favorable comments came from h is Senate counterpart , Gay lord Ne l son (D Wis.) . Se n . Nelson is chairman of the poverty subcommittee of the Senate Labor and Publi c Welfare Committee . In a statement Mar ch 19 Nelson said : "Some enemies of the war on poverty apparen t ly h ad h o p e d that this report would j u st i f y a surrender of this u n der - f inanced , late-starting effo r t to he lp millions of Americans escape from poverty . It does n o s u c h thing . " It simp ly t e ll s t h e White House that fighti n g pov e rty i s such a big tas k th a t i t mu s t be supervise d b y t h e Pre side nt a n d t h at t h e f i gh t mu s t be coord inate d throughout t h e vast fed e ral bur eaucracy. I t tells th e Con g r ess th a t programs c annot functio n if approp r i ati o n s are wi thh e l d o r s er ious l y delay ed . I t te ll s b oth OEO a nd the many age n c i es -- f ederal, s tate and local -- with whi ch i t work s that met iculo us r e co r d k ee ping a nd evaluat i o n a r e vita l if the p o ve rty prog r am i s t o achieve its objec tives . " Nelso n said the GAO's recommendati o ns o n t h e whole were "construc t ive and fo rward - l o oking." Discrimination Study Cites Obstacles in Upgrading Jobs Th e n e ed to upgrade emp l o yme n t opportunities for membe r s of mino r ity gro up s is getting inc r ease d atte ntion. It is b u ttresse d by s t atistics in a recent g ove rnme nt r e port showing that racial di s crimination , rathe r than lack o f s kills or education , holds back the ad- �vancement of Negroes, Spanishspeaking Americans and Indians. The president of the National Alliance of Businessmen, Donald M. Kendall , told an April 1 meeting of bus i nessmen participating in the JOBS program for the hard-core u n employed that the major need is to provide jobs with marketable s kill s , not just menial jobs. As e vidence of discrimination in u pper- l evel positions, Kendall s ai d that of some 50,000 corporate o ffi c ers in this country, only two dozen are blacks. Th e statistical report on discr i mi n ation was issued in March by the Equal Employmen t Opportunity Commi ss i o n. Amon g industries where discrimination is most prevalent, the report said, are those with a large proportion of wellpaid employees with better-thanaverage educational backgrounds. The EEOC found that minority group employees who succeed in getting jobs in such companies "can expect few promotions." Proposals for developing marketable skills in lower-level jobs were made in the General Accounting Office's review of antipoverty programs. It found that "intensive classroom and work-experience programs" are essential to develop skills needed to rise above the helper and laborer categories for workers. Congressional Liaison Men Named for HEW, HUD, Labor The Depar tments of Health, Educat ion and Welfare, Housing and Urba n Deve l opment, and Labo r h ave n e w appoi n te es in c harge o f car r ying their legislat~ve programs t o Con gre ss. Th e Ur ban Coalition Ac ti o n Council ha s had me e ting s with these officials a nd plans to k e e p in close touc h with the l e g i slative programs t h ey deve l o p. HEW liai son with Congress i s in charge of Cree d C. Black, Assis tant Secretary for Legislati on. A newspaperman and editor, with an M.A. in political science fr om the University of Chicago, Bl ack was executive edito r o f the Chicago Daily News unti l h e joine d HEW . His principal d epu ty, with responsibility for educati on leg islation, is Charles B. Saunders Jr. Saunders has been assistan t to the president of Brookings I n stitution since 1961, and b efor e that was an assistant to fo r mer HEW Secretary Arthur S. Flemming . The Assistant for Congressional Affairs for the HUD Secretary , George Romney, is Jack Woolley , former director of government relations for the TRW Systems Group, a Redondo Beach, Calif., space and defense contractor. A graduate o~ Two Deport mentol Congressional Liaison Officers Creed C. Block, HEW Jock Woolley, HUD t h e U.S. Me rchant Marine Ac ademy, Wool ley g a ined Was h i ngton expe rience as l egis l ative affairs as sis t a nt to the Secre tary of the Navy a n d to the Se cre tary o f Defense in t h e Eisenhower Administration. The La bor Departme n t 's new Special Assistant for Legislati v e Af fai rs is William L. Giffor d, a f o r me r stude nt o f the law a nd politica l re p or t er. From 19 59 to 196 8 he was t h e admi n is t rat ive assistant to t h e n -Representat ive Char l es E . Goodel l , now a U. S. Senator from New York . Gi ffor d is a graduate of Fordham Un i versi t y . �Democratic, GOP Urban Plans Issued by Economic Commit tee dividual and the economy and should be expanded and improved: -- consolidate various approaches into single comprehensive program; -- insure that MDTA programs train people for skills in demand; stimulate job training through Federal tax credits; -- improve job information and worker mobility; -- recognize that overly rapid increases in the Federal minimum wage may reduce employment opportunities; -- intensify efforts to reduce discrimination in employment. Welfare and poverty: -- recommend guaranteeing employment opportunity rather than guaranteeing income as best approach to alleviating poverty; -- study national minimum level of welfare assistance with increased Federal support; -- e x pand efforts to stimulate welfare recipients to become more self-sufficient. Improving the urban community: -- e x pand resources available to State and local governments; -- revenue sharing should be seriously considered; -- enlist the help of the private sector in community development through approaches such as the Community Self-Determination Act; -- improve the quality of housing through activation of th e National Cor poration of Hous i ng Partnerships and fair housing , zoning and tax r eforms . Recommendations for action in the urban field were made in an April 1 report by the joint Congressional Economic Committee. Democratic Recommendations Employment, manpower and training programs should be expanded and improved by: -- providing comprehensive coordinated assistance; -- meeting critical skill shortages such as medical services and housing; -- adding to the JOBS Program, conducted by private business, a public sector program to hire the disadvantaged for public service jobs. Income maintenance (welfare) programs for those unable to work are underfunded and uncoordinated. They must be improved by: -- provision for equal treatment of every needy citizen regardless of location; -- establishment of a single local office or representative to whom the needy can turn with assurance for assistance. The highest priority must be given to developing programs for a massive environmental reconstruction of urban and rural America, including : - - allocation of the necessary resources, both public and private , to economic development of max imum social impact; -- achievement of the goal of a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American famil y, as provi ded for by the Housing and Ur ban Development Act of 1968 ; -- i n c r eas e d funding for an t i poverty progr ams , especially o n t he neighbo rhood le v el , and fo r the mo de l citi es prog r am. The Urban Coalition Action Council 1819 H St., N.W. Washington , D.C. 20006 Tel : 202 293-1 530 Chairm a n: John W. Ga rdn er Co-Ch ai rme n: Andrew Heiske ll A. Phi li p Rand ol ph Exec utive Director , Lowe ll R. Beck l egis la ti ve Associates: John P. Lag om arcino Rona ld J . James Ass istant for Legis lative Information : Georgianna F. Rathbun Republican Vi e ws Employment , manpower a nd training prog rams b e n e fi t t h e in ~ 31 � 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 House Hearings on Poverty Forecast Floor Fight on OEO Hearings on legislation to extend the antipoverty programs of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) for five years began in the House Education and Labor Commit- tee March 24. Comments at the opening hearing made clear that committee members will be sharply divided over a one-year or five- year extension of OEO. President Nixon has asked for a one-year extension, saying that would allow time for his Adminis- tration to conduct a comprehensive review of antipoverty programs. However, the House chairman, Rep. Carl D. Perkins (D Ky.), favors a five-year extension and has intro- duced HR 513 to accomplish that. Continued on Page 2 ESTIMATED DISTRIBUTION OF THE 25.9 MILLION POOR PERSONS IN 1967 BY STATUS OF HOUSEHOLD HEAD HEAD WORKED | AGED HEAD FULL YEAR 5.9 MILLION 8,2 MILLION HEAD WORKED PART YEAR 6.5 MILLION 25% * Employment Status of non-disabled , non-aged household heads oT ee Te EE LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN OF THE URBAN COALITION ACTION COUNCIL April 11, 1969 -- Vol. I, No. 4 HEW Proposes Increased Funds For Community Health Centers Much larger federal grants for outpatient clinics, neighbor- hood health centers and skilled nursing homes have been proposed to Congress by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW Secretary Robert H. Finch asked the House Subcommittee on Public Health and Welfare March 25 to rewrite the Hill-Burton Hospi- tal Construction law to put in- creased emphasis on outpatient health care. "The distances traveled and hours spent in waiting for such services by millions of our people testify to the critical nature of this need in almost every commu- nity," Finch said. Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R. NY) has introduced a bill (S 1733) that carries out the HEW propos- als. It authorizes $150 million this year for allocation by the states to the facilities Finch suggested. However, the present federal program of grants for acute-care hospital beds would be changed to a federally guaranteed loan program, without interest subsidy to the hospitals. The Action Council Letter reports legislative developments in the urban field. It is published by the Urban Coalition Action Council, which seeks needed urban legislation  Continued from Page 1 In opening the hearings, Rep. Perkins said a one-year extension would be "demoralizing" to the poor who have found hope in the government's antipoverty efforts. He said that OEO programs needed the "stability" that a long ex- tension provides. He also criti- cized the President's plans to transfer four OEO programs, in- cluding Head Start and the Job Corps, to long-established Depart- ments. GAO Report A lengthy and generally fav- orable report on the OEO was is- sued March 18 by the General Ac- counting Office. The GAO, which is often referred to as Congress' "watchdog" over the executive de- partments, was directed by Con- gress in 1967 to determine the efficiency of OEO programs and the extent to which they achieve the objectives of the Economic Oppor- tunity Act, the basic antipoverty law of 1964. The major recommendation of the GAO was that the President es- tablish in his Executive Office a well-staffed office responsible for broad planning, coordination and evaluation of all the govern- ment's antipoverty efforts. The OEO would continue as an independ- ent agency to operate the Communi- ty Action Program and closely re- lated activities, such as VISTA. Other programs should be trans- ferred to established Departments, the GAO report said. Comments by Sen. Nelson The report was dismissed by Rep. Perkins as "not worth the pa- per it is written on," but more favorable comments came from his Senate counterpart, Gaylord Nel- son (D Wis.). Sen. Nelson is chairman of the poverty subcommit- tee of the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee. In a statement March 19 Nel- son said: "Some enemies of the war on poverty apparently had hoped that this report would justify a surrender of this under-financed, late-starting effort to help mil- lions of Americans escape from poverty. It does no such thing. "Tt simply tells the White House that fighting poverty is such a big task that it must be supervised by the President and that the fight must be coordinated throughout the vast federal bu- reaucracy. It tells the Congress that programs cannot function if appropriations are withheld or seriously delayed. It tells both OEO and the many agencies -- fed- eral, state and local -- with which it works that meticulous re- cordkeeping and evaluation are vital if the poverty program is to achieve its objectives." Nelson said the GAO's recom- mendations on the whole were "con- structive and forward-looking." Discrimination Study Cites Obstacles in Upgrading Jobs The need to upgrade employ- ment opportunities for members of minority groups is getting increas- ed attention. It is buttressed by statistics in a recent government report showing that racial discrim- ination, rather than lack of skills or education, holds back the ad- vancement of Negroes, Spanish- speaking Americans and Indians. The president of the National Alliance of Businessmen, Donald M. Kendall, told an April 1 meeting of businessmen participating in the JOBS program for the hard-core unemployed that the major need is to provide jobs with marketable skills, not just menial jobs. As evidence of discrimination in upper-level positions, Kendall said that of some 50,000 corporate officers in this country, only two dozen are blacks. The statistical report on dis- crimination was issued in March by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Among industries where discrimination is most pre- valent, the report said, are those with a large proportion of well- paid employees with better-than- average educational backgrounds. The EEOC found that minority group employees who succeed in getting jobs in such companies "can expect few promotions." Proposals for developing mar- ketable skills in lower-level jobs were made in the General Account- ing Office's review of antipoverty programs. It found that "inten- Sive classroom and work-experience programs" are essential to develop skills needed to rise above the helper and laborer categories for workers. ; Congressional Liaison Men Named for HEW, HUD, Labor The Departments of Health, Education and Welfare, Housing and Urban Development, and Labor have new appointees in charge of car- rying their legislative programs to Congress. The Urban Coalition Action Council has had meetings with these officials and plans to keep in close touch with the legisla- tive programs they develop. HEW liaison with Congress is in charge of Creed C. Black, Assis- tant Secretary for Legislation. A newspaperman and editor, with an M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago, Black was executive editor of the Chicago Daily News until he joined HEW. His principal deputy, with responsibility for education leg- islation, is Charles B. Saunders Jr. Saunders has been assistant to the president of Brookings In- stitution since 1961, and before that was an assistant to former HEW Secretary Arthur S. Flemming. The Assistant for Congression- al Affairs for the HUD Secretary, George Romney, is Jack Woolley, former director of government re- lations for the TRW Systems Group, a Redondo Beach, Calif., space and defense contractor. A graduate of > Aa. Two Departmental Congressional Liaison Officers Creed C. Black, HEW Jack Woolley, HUD the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Woolley gained Washington experi- ence as legislative affairs assis- tant to the Secretary of the Navy and to the Secretary of Defense in the Eisenhower Administration. The Labor Department's new Special Assistant for Legislative Affairs is William L. Gifford, a former student of the law and po- litical reporter. From 1959 to 1968 he was the administrative as- sistant to then-Representative Charles E. Goodell, now a U.S. Senator from New York. Gifford is a graduate of Fordham University. Democratic, GOP Urban Plans Issued by Economic Committee Recommendations for action in the urban field were made in an April 1 report by the joint Con- gressional Economic Committee. Democratic Recommendations Employment, manpower and training programs should be ex- panded and improved by: -- providing comprehensive coordinated assistance; -- meeting critical skill shortages such as medical services and housing; -- adding to the JOBS Pro- gram, conducted by private busi- ness, a public sector program to hire the disadvantaged for public service jobs. Income maintenance (welfare) programs for those unable to work are underfunded and uncoordinated. They must be improved by: -- provision for equal treat- ment of every needy citizen re- gardless of location; -- establishment of a single local office or representative to whom the needy can turn with as- surance for assistance. The highest priority must be given to developing programs for a massive environmental recon- struction of urban and rural Amer- ica, including: -- allocation of the neces- sary resources, both public and private, to economic development of maximum social impact; -- achievement of the goal of a decent home and a suitable liv- ing environment for every Ameri- can family, as provided for by the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968; -- increased funding for antipoverty programs, especially on the neighborhood level, and for the model cities program. Republican Views Employment, manpower and training programs benefit the in- dividual and the economy and should be expanded and improved: -- consolidate various ap- proaches into single comprehensive program; -- insure that MDTA programs train people for skills in demand; -- stimulate job training through Federal tax credits; -- improve job information and worker mobility; -- recognize that overly ra- pid increases in the Federal mini- mum wage may reduce employment op- portunities; -- intensify efforts to re- duce discrimination in employment. Welfare and poverty: -- recommend guaranteeing em- ployment opportunity rather than guaranteeing income as best ap- proach to alleviating poverty; -- study national minimum level of welfare assistance with increased Federal support; -- expand efforts to stimu- late welfare recipients to become more self-sufficient. Improving the urban communi- ty: -- expand resources available to State and local governments; -- revenue sharing should be seriously considered; -- enlist the help of the private sector in community devel- opment through approaches such as the Community Self-Determination Act; -- improve the quality of housing through activation of the National Corporation of Housing Partnerships and fair housing, zoning and tax reforms. The Urban Coalition Action Council 1819 H St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 Tel: 202 293-1530 Chairman: John W. Gardner Co-Chairmen: Andrew Heiskell A. Philip Randolph Executive Director: Lowell R. Beck Legislative Associates: John P. Lagomarcino Ronald J. James Assistant for Legislative Information: Georgianna F. Rathbun Su  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 10, Document 19 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/37a9bb9aa85ce898d1cc5f7e689e41ab.pdf 3f77cd68566ed3d20d60914fe5940fae Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. Gardner Describes Pri ori ty Programs for Federal A ction Action Counci l Chairman John W. Gardner has described "jobs, housing and education" as top priority items for federal action. He was interviewed o n the CBS "Face th e Nation " r:: r og ram Jan;2 6 . Legislative and administr2 tive actions urged b y Gardner included: - - Adequate funding of the Housing Act of 1968, the elementary education program for children from low-income families and manpower programs. --Vigorous enforcement of school desegregation guidelines . - -Economic development of th e black community . - - Extension of the tax surcharge. · - - Support for private enterprise activities in the inner city as a supplement to _federal programs. Gardne r s a id his tas k as head of the Action Council is to make v i v id to p e ople throughout the nation the problems that confront the citi e s and the ste ps l e ading to solutions. This in turn will bri ng th e Congressional action that is nee ded, he said. ACTION COUNCIL LETTER LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN OF THE URBAN COALITION ACTION COUNCIL February 25, 1 9 69 Senate Hunger Committee Is Extended With Full Funding The special Senate committee studying hunger in the United States has been extended through this year and given $250,000 for its investigations. Mea.nwhi le, Administration officials ha v e responded to the committee hearings by initiating actions to combat malnutrition problems. The impact of the committee's hearings, which have been going on since December, was clear when Senators on February 18 took the URBAN COALITION ACTION COUNCIL WORKS ON LEGISLATION . The Urb an Coa lition Action Council was formed, and incorp orated separa t e l y f r om th e Urban Coaliti o n, in the sp rin g of 1968 to mobi li ze p ublic support for n e eded urban l e gislation. The Action Coun cil is a nonprofit tax exemp t organi z ation. Gifts ar e ge n e rall y no t t ax d educti b l e to t he donor . The Action Council works closel y with many other inter e sted org a n iz a tion s and indi v iduals in p ressing for Cong ressional action to mee t the urg en t needs of the cities . Leg islation it has supp orted include s the Housing and Urban De ve lopment Act , fai r housing, t h e ta~ s urc h a rge, and a public serv ice job p ro g r am as we ll a s pr i v at e en t erpris e' s ef fort s to hire and trai n the hard-c o r e u nemp l oyed. I t h as s ought , and c ontinue s to se ek, mor e ad equat e fu nd i ng o f educa t ion, h o us i ng, ma npowe r a nd anti po ve rty le g islati on. · Thi s is th e fir st i ss ue o f the Ac tion Counc il Letter . It wil l be pub l ished o n a time l y b asi s t o r epo r t l eg islati v e deve l opment s in the urban fi eld. �r rare step of rejecting the recommendations of the Senate Rules Ccmwittee. It had cut the hunger commit.tee's fund request to $150,000. Sen. Georg e McGovern (D-S.D.), chairman of the hunger committee -- officially, the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs -- said the Rules Committee cut would nullify hiE plans to coll e ct f ull statistics showing "the inadequaci e s of our present fooc. programs. " Without a roll-call vote, the Senate agreed to the full $250,000 McGover~ had asked for the study. So f ar, the highJ_j_ght. of committee t e st i mony has been a p relimin a r y report b y a gove rnment surveJ group on the prevalence of hunger in four states studied for a National Nutrition Survey. Dr. Arnold E . Schaefe r , chief of the nutrition progra m of the Public He alth Serv ice , testi fied Janu ary 22 t hat i n v estigations had uncovered widespread maln utrition in low- i ncome are as. He said that 1 6 to 17 p e r c e nt o f the pe r son s examine d were in n eed o f me dical a tt e nti o n f o r p robl e ms associat e d with starvat ion . Earlier, the outg oing Se c retary o f Agriculture , Or v ille L. F r eeman, t e st if i ed that t h e g o v e rnmen t wou ld h ave to s pe nd $ 1 billion more th a n the $1.l billion now b e ing spe n t i f h u n ger i s to be wiped o u t . Fr eeman s a i d a c ruci a l p r ob l em i s " t o ge t the food t o whe re i t i s need e d. " Administrative Actions Describ i n g fe d e r a l programs for the p o or as "wo e fu lly inadeq u ate ," HEW Se c re t a ry Robe rt H. F in c h a n n ounced February 17 th a t h e h ad o rdered a o e·p a rtme nt -w i de r e view of possible pre ventive a nd reme d i a l a c tions to d ea l with ma l nutrition a n d its c ons e que nc e s . F i nc h a l so as ked for f ull da t a on the relat i onship be t ween menta l ret a rdation and improper nutrition in children's early years. The first free food stamps for the poorest of the poor were authorized b y Secretary of Agriculture Cli ff o rd M. Hardi n February 19. The pilot p ro j ect in t wo South Carolina counties, if approv ed b y local officials, will prov ide free stamp s for persons who cannot p a y the $3 required in those counties for stamps that can buy $45 o f f ood in local stores. The action had been urged on Hardin b y McGov ern and Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D S.C.), who h ad made his own inv estig ation o f h unger in his state . CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ESEA -- The House Education and Labor Committe e has b e e n holding h e aring s since Janu a r y 15 on a bill (HR 514 ) to ext e nd the El e me ntar y and Secon d a ry Educ a tion Act f or fi ve yea r s . Committee Chairman Car l D. Perk i n s (D Ky .) r e portedly p l a ns t o h a ve the f ull Committee c o n side r t h e bi ll as soon as hear i ngs end , with t h e hope th a t t h e Hou se wi ll pa s s t h e bill b efore Easte r. HUD Appro p r i ati o ns -- The f irst a p propri a tion h e arin g s of t he ye ar h ave b egun b e for e the Hou se Su bcomm i ttee o n I ndependent Off i ce s and the Department o f Hou sing a nd Urban Deve lopme n t . Th e s u pp l e me ntal a ppropr i ations r equ e sted for t he se a g e nc i es by Pres i d e n t J ohnson b e for e he lef t off i c e are the sub j e ct o f the c los ed - do o r h e arings being h e ld by the Appropriations s ubcommitt ee . Subcommi tt ee h earings on the prop os e d fisc a l 197 0 b u dget f or the s e age n c i es , covering the fi s ca l y e ar tha t be g i ns J ul y 1 , wi l l start i n l ate Ma rch . Re location and Land Ac quisi tion - - Se n . Mu s ki e ' s Su bcommi ttee on Inte r gove rnment a l Re l at i ons has begu n hear ings on h is Uni form Relocati on Assis tance and Land Acquisition bi ll (S 1 ) . �Urban Affairs Council Meets With Action Council Leaders Chairman John Gardner and a group of Action Council leaders met February 17 with President Nixon and his Urban Affairs Council to discuss a number of proposals. The list was not made public, but Gardner told newsmen that among the proposals were federal standards for welfare payments, expansion of pre-school and early education programs and revitalization of the attack on poverty. Full funding of the 1968 Housing Act and manpower p rograms also were urged, Gardner said. While the President made no commitments, "the reaction was fa v orable, I believe," Gardner added . A statement by the President was released b y the White House. It described the meeting as "most productive," warmly praised the Urban Coalition's efforts, and called on business leaders "to lend active support to the Urban Coalition." Council Studies -- The first product of studies by the Urban Affairs Council was made public February 19 when President Nixon sent Congress a message asking for a one-year extension of the present anti-poverty agency. That would allow time for a comprehensive study of the future of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Mr. Nixon said. As a first step, however, he has ordered the transfer of several activities from OEO to regular departments. The Head Start program for pre-school children, neighborhood health centers and the foster grandparents plan will be delegated to the HEW Department by July 1. The Job Corps will be administered by the Labor Department. The President's Counci l for Urban Affairs: standing from left to rig ht, Sec retary Sh ul tz, Budget Burea~ Direct~ r May o, Coun se llo r Burns, Attorney General Mitchell, Secretaries Volpe and, hidde n, Finc h, Vice President Agnew, Secreta ries Hardin a nd Ro mney, Executive Secretary Moyn ihan , Secretary Stans. �Among other issues now under study by the President's Council on Urban Affairs is whether to extend the Model Cities program to more than the 150 cities now participating in it. The y have received funds to prepare plans for a concerted attack on all aspects of blight in selected inner city areas and will receive additional federal aid when their plans are completed. The 1968 Housing and Urban Development Act authorized inclusion of additional cities in the program, but the fiscal 1970 budget submitted by President Johnson before leaving office recommended funds only for the 150 programs now under development. Mr. Johnson proposed $750 million for supplementary grants in fiscal 1970 and an advance appropriation of $1.25 billion for the next year, to aid the cities' long-term planning. John Gunther of the U.S. Conference of Mayors talks with Wayne Smithey of the Ford Motor Co . while, in the back, Mark Keane of the International City Managers Association and Tom Hannigan of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers talk together . Action Council Discusses New 91 st Congress Member s of the Action Council staff met January 8 with Washington representatives of Policy Council members to discuss the outlook for urban legislation in the new Congress. With little change in membership from the previous Congress, the 91st Congress is not expected to make radical changes in e x isting programs but will need considerable encouragement to move forward fast enough on current problems, it was generally agreed at the meeting. The most urgent need is for full appropriations to carry out major programs for the cities that previous Congresses have authorized, many participants said. Among those participating in the meeting was a good cross section of the Action Council's constituents. Included were representatives of municipal groups, business, labor unions and spokesmen for civil rights and religious organizations. The Urban Coalition Action Council 1819 H St., N.W. Washington , D.C. 20006 Tel: 202 293-1530 Chairman , John W. Gardner Co-Chairmen: Andrew Heiskell A. Philip Randolph Executive Di rector: Lowell R. Beck Legi sla t ive Associates : Joh n P. Lagomarcino Ronald J . James Ass istant for Legis la ti ve Information: Georgianna F. Rathbun Ronald J . James, an attorney in Waterloo, Iowa , and former executive director of that city' s Com mission on Human Rights, joi ne d the staff of the Urba n Coali tion Action Council Feb. 17. A graduate of the University of Missouri, Jam es worked for Congressmen Rum sfe ld (R Ill.) and Bromwell (R Iowa) whi le studying fo r hi s law degree at American University . ~ 31 � 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 Gardner Describes Priority Programs for Federal Action Action Council Chairman John W. Gardner has described "jobs, housing and education" as top pri- ority items for federal action. He was interviewed on the CBS "Face the Nation" program Jan. 26. Legislative and administra- tive actions urged by Gardner in- cluded: --Adequate funding of the Housing Act of 1968, the elementa- ry education program for children from low-income families and man- power programs. --Vigorous enforcement of school desegregation guidelines. --Economic development of the black community. --Extension of the tax sur- charge. --Support for private enter- prise activities in the inner city as a supplement to federal pro- grams. Gardner said his task as head of the Action Council is to make vivid to people throughout the na- tion the problems that confront the cities and the steps leading to solutions. This in turn will bring the Congressional action that is needed, he said. LETT LETTER LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN OF THE UE OVE OTe) Cea CO me eLU Tee February 25, 1969 Senate Hunger Committee Is Extended With Full Funding The special Senate committee studying hunger in the United States has been extended through this year and given $250,000 for its investigations. Meanwhile, Administration officials have re- sponded to the committee hearings by initiating actions to combat malnutrition problems. The impact of the committee's hearings, which have been going on since December, was clear when Senators on February 18 took the tax deductible to the donor. ployed. in the urban field. URBAN COALITION ACTION COUNCIL WORKS ON LEGISLATION _ The Urban Coalition Action Council was formed, and incorporated separately from the Urban Coalition, in the spring of 1968 to mobi- lize public support for needed urban legislation. cil is a nonprofit tax exempt organization. The Action Coun- Gifts are generally not The Action Council works closely with many other interested organizations and individuals in pressing for Congressional action to meet the urgent needs of the cities. ported includes the Housing and Urban Development Act, fair housing, the tax surcharge, and a public service job program as well as pri- vate enterprise's efforts to hire and train the hard-core unem- Legislation it has sup- It has sought, and continues to seek, more adequate funding of education, housing, manpower and antipoverty legislation. This is the first issue of the Action Council Letter. be published on a timely basis to report legislative developments TE will  rare step of rejecting the recom- mendations cf the Senate Rules Committee. It had cut the hunger committee's fund request to $150,000. Sen. George McGovern (D-- S.D.), chairman of the hunger committee -- officially, the Se- lect Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs -- said the Rules Committee cut wovld nullify his plans te collect full statistics showing "the inadequacies of our present food programs." Without a roll-call vote, the Senate a- greed to the full $250,000 Mc- Govern hed asked for the study. So far, the highlight of committee testimony has been @ preliminary report ky a govern- ment survey grcup on the preva- lence cf hunger in four states studied for a National Nutrition Survey. Dr. Arnold E. Schaefer, chief of the nutrition program of the Public Health Service, testified January 22 that in- vestigations had uncovered wide- spread malnutrition in low-income areas. He said that 16 to 17 percent of the persons examined were in need of medical attention for problems associated with starvation. Earlier, the outgoing Sec- retary of Agriculture, Orville L. Freeman, testified that the gov- ernment would have to spend $1 billion more than the $1.1 bil- lion now being spent if hunger is to be wiped out. Freeman said a crucial problem is "to get the food to where it is needed." e Administrative Actions Describing federal programs for the poor as "woefully inade- quate," HEW Secretary Robert H. Finch announced February 17 that he had ordered a Department-wide review of possible preventive and remedial actions to deal with malnutrition and its consequences. Finch also asked for full data on the relationship between mental retardation and improper nutrition in children's early years. The first free food stamps for the poorest of the poor were authorized by Secretary of Agri- culture Clifford M. Hardin Febru- ary 19. The pilot project in two South Carolina counties, if ap- proved by local officials, will provide free stamps for persons who cannot pay the $3 required in those counties for stamps that can buy $45 of food in local stores. The action had been urged on Hardin by McGovern and Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D S.C.), who had made his own investigation of hunger in his state. . CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ESEA -- The House Education and Labor Committee has been holding hearings since January 15 on a bill (HR 514) to extend the Elementary and Secondary Educa- tion Act for five years. Commit- tee Chairman Carl D. Perkins (D Ky.) reportedly plans to have the full Committee consider the bill as soon as hearings end, with the hope that the House will pass the bill before Easter. HUD Appropriations -- The first appropriation hearings of the year have begun before the House Subcommittee on Independent Offices and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The supplemental appropriations requested for these agencies by President Johnson before he left office are the subject of the closed-door hearings being held by the Appropriations subcommit- tee. Subcommittee hearings on the proposed fiscal 1970 budget for these agencies, covering the fis- cal year that begins July 1, will start in late March. Relocation and Land Acquisi- tion -- Sen. Muskie's Subcommit- tee on Intergovernmental Rela- tions has begun hearings on his Uniform Relocation Assistance and Land Acquisition bill (S 1). Urban Affairs Council Meets With Action Council Leaders Chairman John Gardner and a group of Action Council leaders met February 17 with President Nixon and his Urban Affairs Coun- cil to discuss a number of pro- posals. The list was not made public, but Gardner told newsmen that among the proposals were federal standards for welfare payments, expansion of pre-school and early education programs and revitalization of the attack on poverty. Full funding of the 1968 Housing Act and manpower programs also were urged, Gardner said. While the President made no commitments, "the reaction was favorable, I believe," Gardner added. A statement by the President was released by the White House. It described the meeting as “most productive," warmly praised the Urban Coalition's efforts, and called on business leaders "to lend active support to the Urban Coalition." Council Studies -- The first product of studies by the Urban Affairs Council was made public February 19 when President Nixon sent Congress a message asking for a one-year extension of the present anti-poverty agency. That would allow time for a com- prehensive study of the future of the Office of Economic Opportuni- ty, Mr. Nixon said. As a first step, however, he has ordered the transfer of sev- eral activities from OEO to regu- lar departments. The Head Start program for pre-school children, neighborhood health centers and the foster grandparents plan will be delegated to the HEW Depart- ment by July 1. The Job Corps will be administered by the Labor Department. The President's Council for Urban Affairs: standing from left to right, Secretary Shultz, Budget Bureau Director Mayo, Counsellor Burns, Attorney General Mitchell, Secretaries Volpe and, hidden, Finch, Vice President Agnew, Secretaries Hardin and Romney, Ex- ecutive Secretary Moynihan, Secretary Stans. Among other issues now under study by the President's Council on Urban Affairs is whether to ex- tend the Model Cities program to more than the 150 cities now par- ticipating in it. They have re- ceived funds to prepare plans for a concerted attack on all aspects of blight in selected inner city areas and will receive additional federal aid when their plans are completed. The 1968 Housing and Urban Development Act authorized inclusion of additional cities in the program, but the fiscal 1970 budget submitted by President Johnson before leaving office re- commended funds only for the 150 programs now under development. Mr. Johnson proposed $750 million for supplementary grants in fiscal 1970 and an advance appropriation of $1.25 billion for the next year, to aid the cities' long-term planning. Action Council Discusses New 91st Congress Members of the Action Council staff met January 8 with Washing- ton representatives of Policy Council members to discuss the out- look for urban legislation in the new Congress. With little change in membership from the previous Congress, the 9lst Congress is not expected to make radical changes in existing programs but will need considerable encouragement to move forward fast enough on current problems, it was generally agreed The Urban Coalition Action Council 1819 H St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 Tel: 202 293-1530 Chairman: John W. Gardner Co-Chairmen: Andrew Heiskell A. Philip Randolph Executive Director: Lowell R. Beck Legislative Associates: John P. Lagomarcino Ronald J. James Assistant for Legislative Information: Georgianna F. Rathbun John Gunther of the U.S. Conference of Mayors talks with Wayne Smithey of the Ford Motor Co. while, in the back, Mark Keane of the International City Managers Association and Tom Hannigan of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers talk together. at the meeting. The most urgent need is for full appropriations to carry out major programs for the cities that previous Congresses have author- ized, many participants said. Among those participating in the meeting was a good cross sec- tion of the Action Council's con- stituents. Included were repre- sentatives of municipal groups, business, labor unions and spokes- men for civil rights and religious organizations. Ronald J. James, an attorney in Waterloo, lowa, and former executive director of that city’s Commission on Human Rights, joined the staff of the Urban Coalition Action Council Feb. 17. A graduate of the University of Missouri, James worked for Congressmen Rumsfeld (R Ill.) and Bromwell (R lowa) while studying for his law degree at American University. a  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 10, Document 18 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 10 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1969