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/ ~1/ - / )- ,,,.,,...._. , > j • --rojects Okayed r $1.2 Mi . ion By 1/lodel Cities Directors . By ALEX COFFlN noted that Moody's name wa.s . The · Mode-I Cities E xecutive the only . one to come up as the Board approved some $1.2 mil- executive board's special review lion in projects Tuesday, b ut committee screened proj ect aphel,d up on two contracts. with plications. The review panel apModel Neighborhood Inc. a i '..er proved the fWlding. Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. shaq>ly The board voted to expand the criticized.its president. review committee to include all The board agreed to hear executive board members and a gain from MNI, of which. Ed- hear from Moody's group again. ward Moody is president , chair- EOA CONTRACTS man of the board and director, ---itmong the contracts apbefore acting on two projects to- proved · were four t o t a l i n g taling $35,000 which are de- $255,000 with Economic Opporsigned to assist ghetto busi- tunity Atlanta. One of the programs, Project Expand, at nesses. "I'm obviously opposed to Mr. $140,000 would set up EOA cenMoody," Allen said, "He is not ters in Grant Park and Adair qualifi ed . .. based on his asso- Park- against the protests of ciation with the city . . • his Joe Whitley, the board's reprepast record and his failure to sentative from Grant Park. rollow through." Whitley said additional services are needed, but argued WORKED WITH CITY Allen noted that Moody h ad that a majority of Grant Park been with city agencies twice residents don't want EOA to before-the City P arks aep::irt- move in to provide them. ment and. Model Cl.ties program Pet ers charged Whitley with itself. speaking only for white resiThe board sharply divided on dents. Mrs. Matte Ansley sugthe question of funding :&'INI, gested that Grant Park resiwhich has started a small gar- dents ought to " face up" to the ment factory in Summertrill and fact that poverty exists in their plans a shopping center in Me- 1 area and accept SOA's help, as have o ther neighborhoods in the chanicsviHe. C. Miles Smith defende d Model Cities territory. Moody's project. while Deacon JOB HELP Lewis Peters and others '°PThe board referred to the city posed it. Clarence _ Coleman I attorney's office a - resolution • . proposed by a special committee headed by · Co eman to give Model Cities r esidents first crack at jobs connected with the various projects. Alderman Everett Millican, a board member, said the resolution went too far by requiring contract agencies to give preferential treatment to area residents . But when Millican tried to substitute his own resolution, the board wo uld not go along and sent Coleman's proposal for a ruling on its l•e gality. Millican had argued he had talked with the city attorney's office, which had said his version was preferable. .J L . ,.. I -- �