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: Uncle Harvey Leads Council
: "Reverse Privatization" Of Employment and Training, Inc. -- One More Nuisance Suit

: By H.A. Andrews

:    (Jersey City) The Council voted 
: to introduce an ordinance sponsored by L. 
: Harvey Smith that will bring back under 
: the city's umbrella an agency that was cre-
: ated to stand-alone and benefit from 
: Federal funding. The autonomous 
: Employment and Training Program, Inc. 
: was created on a stand-alone basis to 
: avoid commingling its funds, 100% from 
: the Federal Government, with city 
: finances. Stand-alone status also prom- 
: ised to make the agency's management 
: immune to political wrangling in the city 
: government.
:    The ordinance, if approved 
: would fold the agency back into the city 
: organization chart as a department within 
: the Office of Economic Opportunity. 
: "Putting it back within the city organiza- 
: tion defeats the entire purpose for which 
: this Agency was created," said Executive 
: Director Edward Santiago. As the ordi- 
: nance was approved, Santiago would 
: remain as director. But the move raises 
: questions about what happens to the flow 
: of federal funds to the agency's $5 Million
: annual budget and control over that flow. 
: "I am afraid that some of it will be 
: absorbed in the pipeline on its way," said 
: Santiago. "I am more worried about the 
: autonomy of the agency and the independ- 
: ence we enjoy. What will happen to that if 
: we come under the control of some city 
: department caught in a political tug-of- 
: war?"
:   "We will take this to the courts if 
: we have to," said Mayor Glenn 
: Cunningham. We are a distressed city and 
: we cannot afford to dissipate our precious 
: cash on frivolous litigation like this. 
: These are experienced people who ought 
: to know better. I refuse to believe that 
: they did not think this through far enough 
: to realize that this means adding 35 
: employees to the city's payroll. I refuse to
: believe that our Council members do not 
: know that there is a hiring freeze. This 
: flies in the face of reason. I would hope we
: have the right to expect better than this 
: from people who call themselves profes- 
: sional and reasonable."
:   Uncle Harvey would not com- 
: ment on the ordinance.


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