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Lawmakers puzzled by water proposal
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water supply.”
¢ Comm. Andy Cheek later
-explained the significance
‘of such a request: “When
‘we accelerate projects,
other projects suffer. Other
‘projects may get left out,”
he said, because the com
'mission hastodipintooth
erwise-earmarked funds.
Therefore, the county must
be reimbursed for this ac
‘celeration of their plans.
Inthe past, Bridges said,
‘the county calculated
what it would take to
.supply the expanded
‘business and charged
;them accordingly.
;But, hesaid, they soon
,found that expansion
!led to expansion when
‘their neighbors fol
'lowed suit. And so,
'when groups started
'requesting more wa
‘ter, the county began
'toestimate thegrowth
‘that would follow and
putin more lines than
‘just the one group
needed. At that point,
‘he said, they charged
‘the business accord
ingtowhat their needs
.were, and the county
paid thedifterence.
To combat this
pesky problem, Kolb
had developed a plan.
It contained four
points and promised
toaddress every situa
tion that could possi
bly arise. It involved
creating a special as
sessment water district
that would be for no
Jlonger than five years;
holding public hear
‘ingsand requiring ap
proval from 51 percent
of the property own
ers; and chargingeach
property owner acost
per-foot assessment.
Finally, ifthe proposed
project is in a bond
issue prior to the spe
cial assessment being
passed, then the spe
cial assessment would
be forgiven. At that
point, the Utilities De
partment would bere
imbursed the remain
ing costs for going
through with the pro
ject.
The commissioners
didn’tunderstand it ei
ther. They asked Kolb
totakeitawayand get
it into a form they
could digest before
they would make a
decision on it.
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Drive, which has found itself
in just such a situation, was
sent back right on its heels.
Cheek had made a motion to
waive all charges for expand
ing its sewer lines. Some of
his colleagues did not think
this would be such a good
idea.
Commissioner Willie Mays,
for instance. He was con
cerned that, if the commis
sion allowed the work to be
done at no cost to Calvary,
other organizations would
expect thesametreatmentin
the future.
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cerns as well, such as pro
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different organizations.
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one who pays SIO,OOO gets
$27,000 worth of construc
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have animbalance in terms
of prorating.”
Hethought that, instead of
developing a hard-and-fast
policy, it might be better to
usea “reasonable case-by-case
measure.” However, hedidn’t
think it would be a good idea
to make any decisions about
the church until the policy
had been nailed down.
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pointed out, was in any shape
to make any decisions about
the policy as written.
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mously concurred and both
items were sent back to com
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SCLC conference
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honest truth,” Young said.
The board meeting followed a
day of workshops on modern-day
civil rights topics including repa
rations for slavery and racial pro
filingby law enforcement officers.
“America owes us a debt,” said
Chicago Alderman Dorothy
Tillman, who grew up in Mont
gomery. “We built this country
on our backs —black labor, white
wealth.”
Tillman moderated a panel on
economicjustice. In separate ses
sions, other civil rights leaders
also sought to energize blacks to
fight against discrimination.
“You wonder why we have so
many of usinjail? It’s because we
have so few black police officers,”
said Leon E. Frazier of the Use of
Force Research Institute. “The
majority of people in jail look like
us, and this is by design.”
Hesaid blacks should be careful
to follow the law and respect po
lice officers, or else they could
easily end up in jail for the slight
est of infractions, such as disor
derly conduct.
“Those are charges that are too
often used on us in a free-lance
way,” Frazier said.
The SCLC was formed in the
late 1950 s as the movement for
racial equality gained momentum
from the Supreme Court’s deci
sion outlawingracial segregation
of public schools and the Mont
gomery bus boycott that brought
an end to racially separate public
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the Augusta Focus.
Stevan Clements, the Cree-
Walker Distinguished Professor of
Communications at Augusta State
University, will lecture and host a
video presentation of Black Women
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lead to passage of civil rights and
voting rights laws.
Former SCLC President Joseph
Lowery, active in the group since
its earliest days, said Monday that
reparations should be paid toghe
descendants of black slaves in the
form of scholarships, grants, low
interest loans and incentives for
small businesses owned by blacks.
“It’sbeen donefor everyoneelse,”
Lowery said, referring to govern
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groups like Japanese Americans
during World War II and Ameri
can Indians. “They need to devote
aprogram that deals with the prob
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Blacks were packed into slave
ships, imported to slave owners
who raped them and were later
lynched by the Ku Klux Klan, said
Kwesi Jumoke of the National
Coalition of Blacks for Repara
tions in America. Blacks today
suffer the economic and social con
sequences caused by inherited re
pression, he said.
In the past, it has taken many
years and a strong grass-roots
movement to receive reparations
from the U.S. government, said
Amilcar Shabazz, director of Afri
can American studies at the Uni
versity of Alabama. Japanese
Americans were eventually given
$20,000 per family that had arela
tive put in internment camps dur
ing World War 11, he said.
“This idea of reparations isn’t
something that just started five or
10 years ago,” Shabazz said.
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