Wednesday, May 15, 1974 +oge Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY ~oge Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wedne , May 15, 1974 Model Cities: Editor's note: The following is the Model Cities, and especially first in a series o articles asessing its citizens participation com- the role ritiren priiainJ participation coas played in the Ann Arbor Model ponent was born out of the riots Cities program. For a glance at the and Urban turmoil of the middle present Model Cities structure ano sixties. Some observers argue programs, see second story on th t page.that the legislation sprung from the cvnical belief that citizen By ERIC SCHOCH participation, even the most daily News Analysis minimal, would co-opt the na- After five years of the Model ti"n's blacks and poor so that Cities program in Ann Arbor, they "won't burn down what its most unique aspect, citizen they build up. participation, has for the most part failed. And there is no sin- OTHERS VIEW the legislation gle reason for it, or rather, as a sincere attempt by liberals every observer names at least in the Johnson administration to ten. attack poverty by giving people Group Flute Lessons Beginners can take advantage of our 6 week group flute course - only$1 2.OO Private Instruction Available For enrollment, call: 336 S. STATE - 769-4980 10:00 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mon.-Sat. - Citizen controlalls in the local communities power GEORGE JUNNE, assistant way it is written up in the to make decisions to help im- director of the Model Cities pro- regulations." prove their own lives. gram, argues that the city must To the members of the Policy Whatever the reasoning, it is retain the final power over Board, however, who for the clear that by May 1974, nearly the program: "If HUD (the two years have had an unfriend- five and a half years after Ann Department of Housing and Ur- ly relationship with the Model Arbor received its Model Cities ban Development) gives groups Cities central administration, grant, the local citizens' partici- money, they want to know who (City Demonstration Agency) pation unit, the Policy Board, is responsible, because if some- CDA Director Herbert Wingo has considerably less power and thing happens to the program, and his administrative staff, more enemies than in February well, the citizens can just go citizen participation means 1969, when it was first created. home. more than just. giving advice. The basic issue has always "But the, city can't do that," been the extent to which the he says. "So if anything hap- ALBERT WHEELER, a long Policy Board should control the pens to the program, the city is time black activist and Demo- program. responsible for it. That's the See CITY, Page 9 Local Model Cies program offers numerous services The Model Cities Program was created by Congress in 1966 with the passage of the Demonstration Cities and Me- tropolitan Act of 1966 as a uni- que attempt to combat urban poverty and decay. The program was designed as a five-year experiment in at- tacking a wide variety of prob- lems in a specifically designated Model Neighborhood within each area receiving a Model Cities grant. Model Cities funds were to be distributed to each pro- SUBSCRIBE TO THE SUMMER 14& A THE SUMMER DAILY FEATURES: " Community and National News. " University Events. " Sports-Including the late baseball scores from the West Coast. * The (semi) Continuing Story of MADAM SOPHIE. 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N._Phone_ 11 Date Started Number Street Nome Apt. No, City State Zio - gram as a block, with the in- dividual program determining needs and, priorities for its neighborhood.. ONE OF THE more innova- tive and controversial compon- ents of the program was the in- volvement of citizen participa- tion in the decision-making. In Ann Arbor, citizen input has come from the Model Cities Pol- icy Board whose members are elected by the residents of the Model Neighborhood. Not a II the members of the Policy Board have to be residents of t h e Model Neighborhood, however, which has spawned continuing charges that the Policy Board is "not representative" of the residents of the Model Cities area. The final authority and re- sponsibility for the program rests with the mayor and City Council, who are known for the purposes of the program as the City Demonstration Agency (CDA). Abortion Alternative OFFERED BY Problem Pregnancy Help 24 hr. phohe: 769-7283 Office: Basement-400 S. Div. 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However, it is difficult, Junne says, to know how many of them have been Model Neighborhood residents. The Public Service .Careers program is not really a Model Cities program, but is run with funds from the Department of Labor administered by the De- partment of Housing and Ursan Development (HUD). Accord- ing to Wingo, the program at- See PROGRAM, Page 9 Do you want good government? So do we. The Democratic Party would like you to consider participation in the party as a precinct delegate. The precinct delegate is the grass roots elected official of the Democratic Party. The precinct delegate selects Demo- cratic delegates to state and national conventions and elects party officers. If you desire to help build a strong Democratic Party and end disastrous Re- publican control of the State House and the White House, run for precinct dele- gate and get involved. For information contact: Michigan Democratic Party John F. 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