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Vol. 9, No. 29
our new Civic Center
Grand Opening
Held on Dec. 5
By Fannie Flono
For Ed Mclntyre, Augusta’s
new civic center is the
culmination of a long and
sometimes hard fought battle.
It has meant overcoming
verbal assaults on the worth of
the project and realized that
for some the issue was just a
“political football,” he said.
But Mclntyre, originator of
the civic center idea and
vice-chairman of the
Augusta-Richmond County
Coliseum Authority, “pursued
it (the civic center) until it
became a reality,” he said.
Mclntyre, a former chairman
of the Richmond County
Commission, feels the
completion of civic center
represents a “renaissance” for
the Central Savannah River
Area.
“We’re finally coming into
modem times,” he said.
The new civic center, like
HEW says Augusta Tech discriminates
By Fannie Flono
The Augusta Area Technical
School Unlawfully
discriminates against blacks,
women and th® handicapped,
the Atlanta Regional Office of
the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare charged
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The HEW Office of Civil
Rights has told Richmond
County School Board officials
they must immediately begin
correcting the 16 violations
and submit plans for more
extensive compliance where
funds and construction may
prevent immediate compliance.
A report must be filed within
30 days.
However, the director of
vocational and technical
education for Augusta Tech
said school officials will
continue at least one policy
which federal officials said are
discriminatory until they can
develop alternate policies.
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Mclntyre is Civic Center originator
the shopping malls, will
provide area residents with a
sense of pride, Mclntyre said.
“Those who could afford it
were going to Columbia and
Atlanta for something they
could get here,” Mclntyre said.
The new civic center will
attract businesses, bring
cultural events to the
community and make major
entertainment available at a
minimum cost, Mclntyre said.
The Vice-president of
Pilgrim Health and Life
Insurance Co. said he
supported the construction of
the civic center because it was
one of the basic things a
community such as this one
should have.
“The community is no
better than its leadership and
the leadership should try to
provide basic things for the
community. We were way
behind in one of those basic
ingredients.”
Jack Patrick, the director,
said most of the violation cited
by ORC are being corrected.
Already, the school has
eliminated its participation in
off-campus housing.
But Patrick said the
vocational-technical school will
continue to use the test of
Adult Basic Education, a test
which a disproportionate
number of blacks and women
fail, ORC contends.
Patrick said he has been told
the tests are culturally biased,
something Patrick doesn’t
think is true, Patrick said. “We
had already decided though
that the TABE test was not
giving us all the information we
needed,” Patrick said.
“We feel it is not
comprehensive enough.”
Patrick said the school will
continue to use the test until a
new one is found.
On the basis of the TABE
scores, 64 percent of the blacks
during the 1977-78 school year
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For area residents, the new
civic center will provide family
type entertainment, he said.
“There are fewer and fewer
things nowadays that families
can do together that are
were referred to remedial
programs.
Seventy-seven percent of the
women were assigned to such
programs.
The ORC also questioned
the school system’s assignment
of faculty members and racial
indentity of the two campuses.
Patrick admitted that the
two campuses, one on White
Road and the other on
Lumpkin Road, are segregated
though not by intent, he said.
“Because the White Road
campus is in a black
neighborhood, more blacks go
there. The same is true of the
Lumpkin Road facility,” he
said. “It’s almost lily-white,”
he said of the Lumpkin Road
School.
The White Road facility was
originially developed for
blacks.
Patrick thinks the duality of
the schools will be eliminated
once a new building is finished
early next year. The technical
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entertaining and educational
and in a price range they can
afford,” Mclntyre said.
Experience with the kind of
entertainment available at
other civic centers will mean an
increase in “wholesome”
entertainment locally, he said.
Economically, the new civic
center will mean more
conventions. Thus far 43,000
people have been booked into
area hotels with promises of
many more, Mclntyre said.
“Experts say these
(conventioneers) will spend
SSO a day here,” he said. That
money would be turned over
three times.
Visitors would also
contribute to the local option
sales tax funds which help area
residents roll back property
taxes. They also pay
hotel-motel sales taxes and are
expected to contribute in the
form of increased sales of beer
and liquor and the taxes.
school will then be housed on
one campus.
Patrick said for the time
being school officials will try
to remedy the situation by
appropriately hiring and
assigning when persons resign.
A centeralized admissions
policy was developed a few
years ago to change the student
complexion of the campuses.
Patrick admits the school
system has not been successful
either way.
He said it is hard to attract
black instructors to either
school because of the low pay.
The present make-up of the
schools are 772 female
students, 601 male students,
502 black students, 844 white
students, 47 female teachers,
53 male teachers, 22 black
teachers and 78 white teachers
(one oriental and one
Hispanic).
The ORC also requests
completion of self-evaluatior,
requirements in regards to
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Additional jobs will also be
available.
Mclntyre said blacks will be
helped in the same ways as
everyone else in the
community with the
construction of the civic
center.
“Blacks will get a fair share
of the jobs.”
Mclntyre has been on the
Augusta-Richmond County
Coliseum Authority since its
inception and “most of the
time there have been two
minorities out of eight
members of the coliseum
authority.
“We have had minority
input,” he said of the
development of the civic
center.
The Coliseum Authority will
remain an active body
evaluating policy, creating
policy, monitoring finances
and proper management of the
facility , he said.
rights of women and the
handicapped, adoption of
grievance procedures for
women, blacks and the
handicapped, revision of
admissions applications to
exclude reference to marital or
handicap status, monitoring of
apprenticeship program of
unions or other businesses,
notification of employees and
beneficiaries of the school’s
non-discrimination policy,
preparation of plans making
programs and activities of
school accessible to the
handicapped, and action to
assure that students are not
discriminated against in
off-campus housing.
Patrick said the school has
already completed its
self-evaluations and have been
working with grievance
procedures and policies
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Less Than 75% Advertising
James Dunn county’s
second black assistant
school superintendent
By Fannie Flono
James Dunn, Richmond
County Board of Education
personnel director, last week
recame the second black
assistant superintendent in the
Richmond County School
system.
He replaces Dave Mack,
assistant superintendent for
administrative services, who
becomes assistant
superintendent for personnel.
Mack, the system’s first
black assistant superintendent,
has served at that level since
1973.
The changes were made
possible because two school
superintendents plan on
retiring at the end of the year.
Dunn, a graduate of Allen
University and South Carolina
State College, has been
personnel director for the past
four years.
He did further study at the
University of Georgia.
Civic Center
Southeast's most modern
By Billy W. Hobbs
Coliseum Authority Manager
Richard Cobb said, “With the
new complex, we will be able
to provide area residents with
professional type
entertainment, ranging from
concerts, Harlem
Globetrotters, Holiday on Ice,
Pro Tennis exhibition and a
possible heavy-weight
professional boxing match.”
“The complex is the
southeast’s most modern
multi-purpose facility to
service conventions, trade
shows, sporting events and
entertainment spectaculars,”
Cobb said.
The new facility is located at
601 7th St. It includes a Grand
Arena with a seating capacity
of 9,258 and 23,000 square
feet of unobstructed floor
space, a 14,570 square foot
exhibit hall, a seven meeting
rooms, banquet facilities for up
to 2,500 people and on-site
parking spaces for 1,080
vehicles.
Projections prepared by the
Augusta-Richmond County
Planning Commission indicate
a 1980 metro-area population
approaching 310,000 and a
1990 census of over 375,000.
Forecasts to 1990 have been
developed for the total market
area by the U.S. Environmental
Projection Agency. Total
market area population is
projected at 545,538, with
anticipated growth to exceed
630,000 people by 1990.
“As a result of research tasks
-- it became evident that
definite demands existed in
Augusta for public assembly
facilities.
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Dave .Mack
“Prior to the new' complex,
the majority of facilities in
Richmond County were
inadequate in terms of design
and seating capacity,’’ Cobb
continued.
“The larger entertainment
events such as the Ringling
Brothers Circus, Holiday on Ice
and others were bypassing
Augusta because of the limited
seating capacity, and now that
we have the new complex -
events like these and others can
be booked in Augusta.”
Presently, Cobb and other
officials are estimating that the
facility will attract some 35
events per year... with an
average attendance of 5,000
persons. Average attendance
per convention is estimated at
1,500 delegates, with total
delegate enrollment around
53,000 annually. Most
conventions are expected to be
of state or district affiliation
with larger regional
conventions anticipated in the
future.
The complex has three large
meeting rooms, which can be
divided into six smaller rooms
- with a large VIP meeting
room. These rooms can
accommodate a variety of
meetings of 25 to 400 persons.
It is anticapted that over 100
such meetings will be held per
year. The new facility is
expected to attract a number
of activities such as dances,
banquets, crusades, and
commencement exercises.
There will be 18 sporting
events, 13 entertainment
events, 35 concerts and
theatrical events, 165
conventions, exhibits and
shows, and still other events
during the remaining 36 days.
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Dunn has been a counselor,
supervisor of secondary
education, principal, director
of elementary-education and
director of > the Emergency
School Aid I’drgram.
He is married to the former
Mamie Cummings and they
have three daughters, Lisa,
Kathy and Sonya.
A trustee of the Tabernacle
Baptist Church, he is also a
member of tire Frontiers
International, Kappa Alpha Psi
Fraternity and the Human
P.elations Council
He said he feels good about
the change. “I flunk of it as a
challenge. ready to ®t
down to the ijßsiness of dura
the job.” ™
Dunn will be in charge of
educational media, visiting
teachers. student records,
transportation, tire print'shop
and psychological services. He
takes over in January.
Parking fee will be SI.OO. This
will yield approximately
$187,400 in parking revenues
annually.
Staffing will consist of seven
administrative positions with
21 full-time employees.
The operation of the facility
will creatq* new job
opportunities j-j-most of which
will originate from the
Augusta-Richmond County
employmen; base. As
estimated * earlier, annual
employment gerfbrated by the
facility should result in 20
full-time job's and 40 part-time
positions of 36.4 total
man-years of employment. Ii
total, payie 11 ' salary
supplements for vrkers
should approx-. . ...V.’C
per year.
It is also t '-ncvt .« as z
result of emp’o-o■. ■ sted
through ope A the
recommends* ecifitles,
additional eqgloyment will in
turn be stWuiated via a
multiplier process. Using a 2:1
multiplier, about 72.8
additional annual man-years or
employment should be
generated; mainly in the service
sector of the economy.
“The estimated $25.4
million in community income
generated by direct and
indirect expenditures will have
substantial effects on various
segments of the local economy.
Some of the obvious include
the greater magnitude of state
tax revenues, increased hotel
and motel occupancy and
benefits relating to ancillary
growth ... gs- real estate
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