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R<J BER, S DENNIS r, A. C:ILL!AM CHA/ll/ .S H. LEF TWICH J B N MOORE JACK SUMMERS TECHNICAL ADVISORY BOARD EXECUrlVE COMMITTEE R EARi. LANDER S ,1, 1min t.s !-.'t to (he Mayor, Cha,rman W/ON T 13. BEAN Pn nniri q Ennincer HI /JnY L. flOWDEN C •y Att , ,nr y Cl/ l<fl ll 5 L DAVIS Mrs. EI iza Pasch a 11 Executive Director Council on Human Relations · of Greater Atlanta, Inc. 5 Forsyth Street, N. W. Atlanta, Georgia 30303 c .-:nµt, 1l/er II LLI M < S HOWL AND { •ec,1ti t! O•t<'ctor. C.A C U R /l,n A NIXO N C: il' t ol Co,,,; t,uc tion t B. S,\ TT ERF IELD f r,!c. {) r . AU.Jn l J Hous,ng Au l ho•i ty I', .LI AI I R. WOFFORD 1, peel 1r o,' Bwkiings OTHER MEMBERS D' IANF W, BECK [,.,:,c V r., C:ommunity Council of Atl3n l,l Dear Mrs. Paschal I: Thank you for your recent letter concerning personnel policies relative to the undertaking of the Atlanta Community Improvement Program and specifically to the employment of Negroes. Your letter offers us an opportunity to report on sound progress in th is regard. GI Er-.N E. BENNE TT f-,"<.. ul,H' 01rec tor. A.R.M P C Ki, RL A Bl VINS 1, J/f1c f ng,ncer JACK C DELIUS p ,,.~f s, ( cnr·ral M;mager or ' J, ' n-r Pul HACKNEY H"a lrh, Fulton Co. C H. HILDEBRAND One of the clauses appearing in the contract between the City of Atlanta and the United States of America for the federal grant funds reads as follows: I 11 eCh1 el PAUL B /V EY I <I A, rnt J()HN H. JACOBS D . ecto, of L,brBries I IERB El'T T JENKINS P,··'lcc Chief I,/ AN f Kif PPfR r , tun C<- u, l y Manager ( · JO > •l ·,•, LEl SON .' 11 0 1 ' ·C' 1:01'. Jc V, M LLER ,.rm, r•. A F C.J.P B f I. OP. Y ~- PARRI SH , 1, 'r St ,le Hw y Planning Enp,in,,,., T1 :lMt,, H ROBER TS f', •nnin 1 O,r . A R M.P.C I ( 1 0 1 T, <J. VIN SON D.. , Pub Health , DeKalb Co. p;, u1. L. WEIR W iter Worl-: li, Gen. Mgr . Equal Employment Opportunity. In the carrying out of the work covered by this Contract, the Public Body will not discriminate against any employee or applican.t for employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin. The Public Body wi 11 take affirmative · action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that' employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin. Such action shall include, but not be limited to, the followinu: employment, upgrading, demotion, or transfer; recruitment or recruihnent advertising; layoff or termination; rates of pay or other forms of compensation; and selection for training, including apprenticeshipo The Public Body agrees to post in conspicuous places·, available to employees and applicants ,for employment, notices to be provided by the 11 • • • ATLANTA'S MUNICIPAL RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM 522-4463 GEORGE L. ALDRIDGE, JR . Director �Mrs. EI iza Pasch a 11 - 2 - · August 10, 1966 Government setting forth the provisions of this nondiscrimination clause. The Public Body will, in all solicitations or advertisements for employees placed by or on behalf of the Public Body, state that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, or national origin. · The Pub I ic Body wi 11 incorporate the . foregoing requirements of this paragraph in all of its contracts for work covered by th is Contract, other than contracts for construction and contracts for standard commercial supplies or raw materials, and will require all of its contractors ·for such work to incorporate such requirements in all subcontracts for work covered by this Contract ••• 11 In retaining the services of professional consultants to undertake the sundry work items contained in the format of the Cl P, subsequent contracts have been executed. Each contract drawn between the City of Atlanta and the professional consultants contains th~ same language set forth above.

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The Community Improvement Program has a permanent staff of six persons in addition to the director. Al I are City employees - paid by the City of Atlanta and subject to the City's personnel policies . These six persons on the permanent staff consist of two professional planners, two assistant planners, an administrative secretary and a Clerk Ill. The Clerk Ill is a Negro. He is but one of three appointments on the permanent staff made by the director since he was employed. Prior to my arrival the entire permanent staff had been selected and were on the job working . Although the positions Clerk 111 and Assistant Planner are subprofessional classifications, the potential for moving up to professional levels is wide open, depending on experience, education and abilities . Concerning salary ranges for these positions and any others in which you may be interested, we suggest that you address your questions to the City of Atlanta Personnel Department . Due to the natu re of the Atlanta CIP, it has been ne cessary for the Ci ty to e mploy te mpora ry college and high school students . Du ri ng the summe r a nd ear ly fal l of 1965 , the CIP staff assembled a task force of a pprox imately 70 people to unde rta ke a city- w ide inventory of parcels of land in At lanta and com pi le 38 un its of informatio n a bou t e ach parcel (e . g ., building conditions , owne rsh ip, land use , zoning classificatio n, e tc. ) . Th is inventory wa s unde rta ke n in con juncti on with the insta llation of the City' s electron ic da ta proc essi ng equ ipmen t. In a ssembling the "task force 11 , we sought a combi nation of co llege students from th e local area and high school students enro lle d in the In-Sch ool Program of Economic Opportunity Atlanta, Inc., the local anti-poverty program. The Atlanta Personnel Department sent notices to al I colleges in the metropo litan area and the response by the college students for approximately' 40 jobs was overwhelming. White and Negro college �- -- - - - - ~--.·---3- Mrs. Eliza Paschall -·--·-"'""' August 10, 1966 students applied. Recruitment, testing, screening and certification were handled through and supervised by the Atlanta Personne I Department. Selection of the 40 college students was the perogative of the CIP staff. The result was a bi-racial group of college students which constituted a large portion of the task force. Economic Opportunity Atlanta, Inc., provided us with 25 to 30 high school students through their In-School Program - all of whom were Negroes. Although we are not recruiting at the present time, our record speaks for itself i_nsofar as recruiting Negroes is concerned~ Our experience in employing Negroes and whites in a team effort has wrought meaningful results. In response to your question concerning the irpolicy,working board 11 , apparently you have reference here to the Board of Aldermen of the City of Atlanta. As you know, this is a 17 member board, one of whom is a Negro, Mr. Q. V. Williamson of the Third Ward • • As mentionecl'eadier, each of our consultants are bound by a contractual clause relative to equal opportunity in employment. To our knowledge each has offered Negroes employment and are I iving up to th is contractual requirement. The City's contract with each consultant is not predicated on their submission of detailed payroll records or substantiated by racial composition relative to payments for work performed. Instead, each consultant bills the City based on the percentage of work he has completed in proportion to the total cost of the contract. Should you have evidence that the aforementioned equal opportunity in employment clause is being or has been violated by one of the City's consultants on work contracted for under this program, we would appreciate your forwarding it to us for investigation. ,,1. The time limit for completing all of the work items contained in the Atlanta Community Improvement Program is twenty-seven months. We are currently in the twentieth month of the program. As I mentioned in my letter to you of February 4, 1966, we have worked very closely for some time now with two citizens groups as the CIP has progressed. These are the Mayor's Citizens Advisory Committee on Urbari Renewal and a CIP sub-committee of that group. Both of these groups are bi-racial. For some time now, the City along with the citizens groups mentioned above have recognized the need for broader citizen involvement, thinking and reaction to CIP findings and recommendations. Generally speaking, such citizen involvement in other cities having undertaken similar programs has awaited the completion of the entire program. Early this fall, prior to the completion of the program, the City of Atlanta is planning to conduct, on a city-wide level , and then perhaps for local neighborhood associations, civic organizations, etc., a series of four seminars on the Atlanta Community Improvement Program. These four seminars will treat the topical areas: �i -4- Mrs. Eliza Paschall August 10, 1966 (1) Government and law (2) The physical environment (3) The economic environment, and (4) The people These seminars should serve to promote broader understanding of the City's problems, its resources, what the future holds for. the City of Atlanta - and the ro le of Atlanta's citizens in that future. Once again, thank you for the opportunity of reporting on what we consider a good record in bi-racipl employment practices. We are looking forward to this fall and to our seminar~ with ... the citizens of Atlanta • . GLA,Jr/lm cc: The Honorable Robert Weaver Secretary Depar1ment of Housing and Urban Development Washington, D. C. The Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr. Mayor City of Atlanta, Georgia The Honorable Q. V. Wil Iiamson Alderman, Third Ward City of Atlanta, Georgia be: Rodney Cook tv D Sw Ear-I La en Colli GI in t Lyle �