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fV W'' mm ffV J.V lit I I Oakland Berkeley San Francisco METRO Alameda Albany Emeryville Piedmont i i THE TRIBUNE Wednesday, November 8, 1989 SECTION but at great cost THE QUAKE OF 89 Broadwav Building at the intersection of Broad1 Iway and San He said that some South Bay cities, including Watsonville and Santa Cruz, have made a concerted effort to demolish older structures. The ornate 81-year-old Broadway Building suffered substantial structural damage, said Michael Taylor, a vice president of Taldan Investment which owns the structure. Anything can be fixed for a City Council member Mary Moore said she expects a battle over the future of the 75-year-old City Hall building. The attitude of city government is that if something is old it's bad, she said. Craigo, who has visited buildings from Santa Crux to San Francisco in the last week, said, most historic buildings in this area reacted well and are repairable.

The major issue is going to be the cost Monday and found some 'damage, but it looks repairable, said Steade Craigo, deputy state historic preservation officer. The most serious damage is at the base of the tower where some cracks open as much as one inch, said Terry Wong, a fed- eral engineer with the team. The tower is not in immediate danger of collapse, he said, but another major quake could loosen chunks of masonry and send them tumbling into the street tire office shares a very strong sentiment along with the mayor i and the council to do whatever is within reason to save that build- tag," said Assistant City Manager Craig Kocian. But Kocian said that it may not be economically feasible to save City Hall and his office may have to recommend tearing it down. That would be a last he said.

A team of architects and engineers evaluated City Hall on. Many of central Oaklands historic buildings, including City Hall, came through the devastating Oct 17 earthquake with less structural damage than was first feared, a team of federal and state experts has concluded. However, the price of restoring the damaged structures could make it impossible to save them." The owner of the triangular Pablo Avenue says he may have to demolish It and preservationists fear that the classic Amtrak depot in West Oakland will not survive the post-quake reconstruction period. Oaklands towering Beaux Art City Hall is still a question mark. The city manager and the en See BUILDINGS, Page C-Z Berkelejresidents fight losing battle in the war on drugs Down By William Brand na mum It's obvious that Berkeleys law enforcement effort is completely inadequate.

Murray Rosen, resident BERKELEY The city council got a graphic report from the front lines of the drug war last night from worried residents of the West Berkekely neighborhood around 8th Street and Channing Way. It is a war, and residents said the city and the neighborhood is losing it despite a massive commitment from the city government that includes a large police drug task force and a half million dollars in social services. Its obvious that Berkeleys law enforcement effort is completely inadequate, said neighborhood resident Murray Rosen, whose' anguished letter to coun-. cil member Mary Wainwright got the matter on last night's agenda. More police are needed and more money needs to be spent on non-police services, Rosen said in an interview.

While the price tag may look large, he told the council, the result without the help will be Police Chief Ron Nelson, speaking. at council member Wainwright's request, said that police are in the area constantly and that arrests are up sharply. In an interview. Chief Nelson estimated that task force has arrested more than 2,000 people so far this year in the city, a large increase over last year. Nelson said he supports a vote, by the Police Review Commission last week to add 14 officers to the force.

Our problem is that when we -put our mobil headquarters at 9th and Channing, for instance, and have officers out walking beats in the area at night, the drug traffic just moves somewhere else, he said. We just don't have enough people now. Rosen suggested in an interview that at least 30 officers are needed But, he added, Dealing with the city bureaucracy outside the police is like dealing with the bureaucracy in some Eastern European country like Bulgaria, theres so little action. Theyre so entrenched in their political agenda. Theyre -completely out of touch.

Theyre stuck somewhere in the 1960s. out of Claremont Middle School. Menique Jackson collects her thoughts before packiag up and See Page C-Z Red Cross moves last quake homeless out of Claremont school By Jacqueline Cutler VmTribmm THE QUAKE OF 89 Jittery UC workers urge; closure of University Hall By Tarry Unk TlmT THE QUAKE OF 89 found housing, "a voucher extension will be issued, Oesterich said. They are not going to get lost in the system Oesterich vowed. This is not the end of assistance.

Its the beginning. But Melba Ward, who also had lived at the San Pablo Hotel and is mi the mayors task force to help find housing, was skeptical. Im not taking a voucher, she said. "Its only a seven-day thing, then were out on the street Ill just go on the street 111 find a way. Marian Wilson, executive director of-Alameda County Red Cross, praised the citys efforts.

During this crisis, the city has worked with us she said. The city has been partners looking for solutions for the disaster victims. Among those at the shelter yester- day was Harold Wilson, brother of Mayor Lionel Wilson, who was in Washington, D.C., yesterday trying to get more aid for the city. Harold Wilson, who is not a gov- HE LAST of the homeless at Claremont Middle Schools temporary shelter were moved out last night, leaving the schools gymnasium free and some of the displaced even more distressed. The makeshift shelter was set up in the College Avenue school Oct 18, lor those who lost their homes in the earthquake the day before.

Over the past few days, the shelter became a sore point because parents of the sixth- through eighth-graders at the school wanted the shelter closed. Parents had complained of drinking and drug abuse at the shelter. But the most important issue, they said, was that the gymnasium should be used as such by the students. All along, Red Cross and city officials had worked to find affordable housing for the displaced. The majority of those were from low-rent hotels on San Pablo Avenue which were uninhabitable after the 7.1-magnitude earthquake.

By yesterday, the number of people staying at the school dropped to from a peak of 71 just after the quake, said Judi Oesterich, a Red Cross representative. Yesterday, more bad found other housing The announcement closing the shelter made 6 p.m,, and people had to immediately packing their sparse belongings in large black trash bags- They were taken to arm hotels. Linda Kately, who had lived at the San Pablo Hotel with her two children. said she was extremely upset Her son allegedly had been hand-. cuffed and molested by a man working as a security guard at the shelter.

Although the guard was arrested. Kately vowed to sue, First we can stay, then we can go, I dont understand, she said. People were being taken to hotels and given seven-day vouchers. If, at the end of the week, they have not The concensus is that the building is just not safe, said another employee, who added that she was unaware of any disaster plan and that no emergency drills had been conducted for employees. I think we need them.

Were not prepared, she said. UC officials, who began a slow program of seismic correction in the hall more than a dozen years agoi, say they are doing the best they can with limited resources. Moreover, the building is one which UC top executives occu- pied until last spring, and where Berkeleys top administrators will move while their own office buiilding, California Hall, is reinforced next year. BERKELEY University of California employees, fearful of the risks involved if another earthquake strikes, are demanding immediate closure of a major campus office building. Structural engineering reports classify the seismic safety of University Hall, which until last year boused the administrative offices for the entire UC system, as very poor." UC administrators admit the weaknesses of University Hall, but say that it survived the Oct 17 earthquake without structural damage and is just as safe as today it was before that quake.

One employee, who asked that her name be withheld, said there is a high level of anxiety among workers in the building. Im uncomfortable and Im not an antsy person, she said. Sce SHELTER, Pegs C-Z See JITTERY, Page C-Z INSIDE Balance of power shifts On Emeryville city council By Larry Spears Ttmi ELECTION Moore, lost Will Richards, lost Walter Fertig, elected Hubert Savage, elected EMERYVILLE A slate of incumbent Walter Fertig and Planning Commissioner Bob Sayage swept to easy victory last night in the race for two city council seats. In the final count of six precincts, Fertig had 784 votes, Savage 768. On the opposing slate, Will Richards trailed with 606 and Susan Moore had 555..

Voters reelected incumbents to three school board seats. Susan Bateman had 906 votes; Cheryl Bolling, 804, and Felix Cappelino, on the board for 20 years, 732. Controversial former member Rita Dixon trailed with 602. Fertig, a real estate apprais- er, and Savage, a worker, were expected to form a majority with council member Gregory Harper and realign the council. Although1 all the candidates favor.

the city's burgeoning growth. Fertig and Savage have argued most strongly for regulating it Savage, a resident of the citys older eastern neighborhoods, wants more redevelopment money for neighborhood pro-grams. He and Fertig came out clearly for giving money to the Emery school district. Retail, residential and high-technology growth transformed the city of 5.500 in the 1980s. Booming projects in its 1.2-square miles have cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

An indirect election loser' would be Mayor Ken Bukowski. The victorious Sayage said last night that he would work for parity in the city. Im going to try to make sure that development benefits everyone and not just a few," he Savage had campaigned hard for two new businesses sought particularly' by residents in the older neighborhoods, a super- market and a pharmacy. During Ms campaign, Fertig said every major project in the city should have an environmental Impact report. Savage argued.

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