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BENTO HARBOR The
County Action (BCA) Board of
ton and staff ju got report card
d it 't good.
An 't of po y ency
done by Department of
Labor, Bureau of Community Services
Iutw
e i the future of DCA. The
I
te e s that BCA funding
milht be entirely or partially cut off.
The study ound problems
t y:
-DCA. "reliability is .peel, particu­
larly in regard to flSCal accountability. tt
-DCA doe not have adequate man­
ement sy ems to upport state-funded
program. and projects in a reliable man-
I
ner."
-DCA "demon rate me critical
weakn in it ability to properly
account for state funds and property
a ell as community support regarding
fmancial matching" fund
-BCA's "
in deli
• .'. pr'OU'lIJlll
efficiency."
-BCA Jack
the ca s of
ty and "is not
- of problems nor u .
available in the eomm
-DCA "d ot appear to be co
con '00 tt
.:..BCA'. "lnan t and program
planning is in dequatt.
According to the report, the ency
is percebed by the community .solely
"the ch p ce.".
FolIo e t of the rep
BOard membe convened a meeting,
Tuesday, January 24, in pp ent vio­
lation 0 Open A.el. This
notified of the Ie - I
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BE 0 HARBOR - One of the Bobbie .Jordan ($150), ichael R.
ills found by the Department of Labor Bernard (S310), illie Byrds ($100),
in Berrien County Action wa the ertha Jones ($90), Shelly Howard •
pr ctice of using relatives of board ($90), Donald iman ($85), alo
member to transport chee . .King ($85), Alcides Esquival ($85),
A revie of documents t BCA Jame Harrell ($85), Johnnie Burch
re that the spouses of Rev. Ruth • ($80), Frank Jone ( 80), He en Tol­
Garlanger and Artric tson - both bert ( 45 , Joyce Ware ($45), Georgia
board member - ere paid to trans- Kirby ( 45), Velma Kilgore ($45),
port ch in the government che Bertha Gulley ($45), Dorothy Partee
give- way program, . . • $42.50) Dorothy Partee $42.50,
Je . Garl er was paid $490 by Linda Wannan ($42.50) Ro illiam
the BCA board and Rev. Che er at- (42.50), Ro attes ($42.50),
son paid 600 by the board. Hollie Evand ($42.50), Ara ont-
According the te study, uch gomery ($40), Robert Frantz ($37.50)
conflict of intere t, along with theft Christopher ichiels ($35), Ruben
of the commodities, use of agency Ruban (30), gil Wilsin ($27.s0),
van and equipment "has fo tered a laVerne Pahlke ($25), and Jam s
community perception of collusion, Atterberry, Willie dams, Jerome
. ineptn , and po ible corruption." Bledsoe and Carl Perkin all $ 1 0 e ch;
Board member Fred Baird said that axine Haley (S8), Usa Kemp and
. the board ha amended it by-law to Charlene Hudson each $'37.50; and
include ban on board member • rei - Billy Cheatham ( 54.89).
ti having contracts with BCA. Pay i d termined by the number of
Other per ns paid by BCA to pounds and mile covered, Baird id.
tran rt ch and butter to various Baird did not know ho chee
di ribution point include, with the transporters got the job. Henderson
mount they were paid for September was out of town and could not be
p rentheses: ilson Tric ett ($622) reach-ed. ·
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L SI G - The Legislative Blac
.Caucu has attacked the Blanchard bud­
get that cuts at the heart of cial pro­
gram ..
Representative Carolyn Cheeks Kil­
patrick (d.Detroit), chair of the Caucus,
ha charged that ·the governor favors
,"trees'over people."
State Rep. elson Saunders compared
Blanchard's conservative swing to the
governor's voting record while a congress-
"A lot of times they feel like Black
only talk in the context of social
services," Rep. Kilpatric told the ichi-
g n Chronicle. "It is a if that is perceived • \
as some kind of Black stipend. The truth
is that there are certainly more white
recipient than there. are BI cones."
'. She said the Blanchard budget was
a "slap in the the face" to lack d
poor people' intere ts.
, t i astonishing" that he cho
to rai the budget of the Department of
atural Resources by 61 percent while
cuttin social services," she said. "That is
certainly like favoring trees over people."
"The Governor appears to be basing
his Department of cia} Service reduc­
tions on the notion that AFDC and GA
c eloads will decrea , when all the evi-.
deuce we ha e seen over the past few
months is tha tho ca load figure are
going up," said Kilpatrick.
Blanchard's margin of victory in 1982
was attributed to the Blac vote. The
. chigan Democratic Blac CauCU has
been critical of Blanchard appointment
saying the governor ha not ju tly repre­
ented Blacks.
Political analy ts cr dit B1 chard's
conservative swin to the r of t 0
Democrat who appro d . tax . e.
man. ,
,''When he was a national congressman,
he voted for the neutron bomb - a we -
pon that destroys people and leave
buildings tanding," Saunders said. �'I
think this is a. buildings-be fore-people
type budget."
'Kilpatric noted in a pre release,
"In his remarks before the Legislature,
the Governor announced hi intentions .
for a zero-growth budget in which spend­
ing for education would be sub tantially
increa d. Hi plan also include an accel­
erated rollback of last year's income tax
increase, if his budget is enacted intact."
Kilpatric pointed out that a look t
the entire budget .: not just the Social
Service Department - reveals a shift
toward Republican and conservative
interest .