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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...This is it," explained Wally Brown, chairman of the Model Cities Board. "We either live or die on these issues. We've got to establish the fact that we are the people who cope with these things...
Cambridge is unique among the 154 Model Cities in the nation because here, control over the program has long been exercised directly by the residents of the area. Everywhere else, city hall, acting through either the mayor or the city manager dominates the program...
...Caught between pressures from both sides, the Cambridge group is fighting attempts by City Hall to take over more power in the program. At the same time it is faced by the Nixon administration's decision to turn over even more authority for Model Cities to city governments all over the nation...
...annual operating budget for Model Cities approved by both HUDand the Cambridge City Council, authorizes 11 per cent raises for most staff members and larger promotional increases for others. Corcoran, however, has refused to allow HUD to raise the salaries of the local employees that much, and has instead offered to substitute the same pay-raise plan most city employees will be receiving-8 per cent...
Members of the board feel that this clause should give Corcoran little actual power in determining pay scales, and no power to bargain. "So what if he offers you 11 per cent?" said Justin Gray, one of the founders of Cambridge Model Cities. "The point is that he has no power to offer anything...