Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 11

Sr MOO -rsW-jV Friday, August I 1991 OAKLAND TRIBUPfq system, official says is upi Well have Juveniles on probat wo wont see. i probation urticulariy uts would particularly cuts Sheriffs Department suffers loss in patrol coverage f.t county patrol said Rainey. The patrol staff is already It si lower than It should gMstoOoUseAuKt MARTINEZ Tewer adults and Jbveniles placed on probation will bo seen by probation officers and coart calendars will continue to be Jammed because of cots In the probation depart pints budget for 1991-92, county officials predicted yesterday. The department has been cut down the marrow, Jerry Back, department director, told the Contra Costa County IBcard of Supervisors yesterday at a bddget bearing. The recommended budget Is 17.4 million, a decrease of $1.2 million from last year and 2J million less than re One beat officer to the ISO Bpm Rai The supervisors were concerned about how the affect Juveniles.

Supervisor Nancy Fahden called the cuts unacceptable! and said to County Administrator Phil Batchelor, Youre going to have to do something, find money somewhere. j- She suggested looking at other dej partments7 budgets to see if more cuts could be made to their departments to Supervisor Sunno Wright McPean that the business license fees that staff win only go to the scenes of homicides or serious assaults and rapes. Court service such as bailiffs, win also bo reduced. The Marine Patrol Unit win not bo reinstated nnder the proposed budget, although it Is on the sheriffs priority list of restoration. Supervisor Tom Toriakson noted that the county Is losing revenue because Judges are throwing out citations issued by the Marine Patrol deputies or not aaoessing some pen- ney noted.

The cuts mean that deputies will respond to emergencies but will not respond to misdemeanor complaints, cold 'burglaries, nuisance calls such as barking dogs, the sheriff MARTINEZ Contra Costa County Sheriff Richard Rainey yesterday told the Board of Supervisors he could boll the budget situation down to one word Help." The cuts to his budget, he said, ars disastrous. The recommended budget tor the Sheriffs Department Is nearly 922 million with million to cuts. They Include cloetog the Work Furlough Center in Richmond at 1450,000 and II positions. The result will bo changing the criteria for putting people on home electronic surveillance, and putting more people to JaiL "The biggeet problem tor ns Is should be used tor the probation depart; The cuts affect the safety factor tor deputlee because there will be of them on the street and more time wUl be needed to respond to assist another deputy, Rainey Revenue could also be raised by assessing new developments tor marine patrol as has been done in his district In eastern Contra Costa County, ho said. The crime lab services win be severely restricted, to the extent i Contra Costa County courts place mors people on probation than the state average, said Back, and three-fourths of aU convicted felons are sentenced to a conditional term of probation.

Many programs have been cat In the 14 years, since the passage of i II, he said, and there are no mpre special programs to cut. "Not only have we lost resonrces and staff, weve also experienced Increased workloads as the county has grown and as police make more arrest district attorneys pneecute more cases and courts sentence more offend-' era, said Buck. "The proposed budget would bring ns back to 1967, he said. Batchelor, noting that the Work Fur lough Center to Richmond was to be dosed, suggested that the center could be used to help children and their tomlf lies who have been abused, are at risk od need assistance to stay out of the crimi; nal Justice system. I The center could be used to provide counseling, comfort, education, nutrition, bousing or protection to The board liked the proposal, whic will be explored further.

ft Supervisor Tom Toriakson suggestr ed help be sought from cities. The most disturbing thing to mo is the inequity and disparity between the probation department' and other departments In the criminal Justice system, said Buck. We havent spent an equal amount of money on keeping peo-ote out of orison. Although a new 948 million Jail There has been ah increase to Juveniles piaffd on probation, he said, an increase to the seriousness of the crimes. Were seeing more gang-related activity and more dysfunctional families.

Placement to foster group homes rued to West Contra Costa County, conditions at Juvenile Hall to Martinez are deplorable, be said. Due to constant overcrowding, the California Youth Authority threatened to the hall, but that was avoided when Buck ordered the population to be limited to ISO Juveniles. complex into default 111 parking spaces. Julia Brown, the city's economic development director, has said the deal is a great one for the dty. Oakland expects to recoup its investment after 10 v- -v 'tr company funds to force him out Both sides anticipate a court battle.

Dallas said everyone knew exactly how the money was spent although he acknowledged that Infighting among business dfcners and a default notice Joould trip up Oaklands Hou-i Market development several months, the prints behind the 77 million project have Jousted of the commercial it there were some legitimate con- years, plus an estimated 117 mil-ceras about protecting investors, lion in tax revenues, 53 million from housing sales, and between SO percent and SO percent equity a a imeraro. Blumenfeld who before the could set a bad precedent because it involves a high degree of partidpation by minority Investors and brings in long-needed downtown homing. Mayor Eiihu Harris (daces the, project high on his list of those needing "rethinking. The develr opment also happens to sit neat the site of Harris proposed downtown basketball arena. Still, others back the projed's housing element and dont want to see it threatened.

The years paid lip service needs for homing downtown, said council member Wilson Riles Jr. "Its been too easy to go with office building ments and now this glitzy arenf project in the project In addition, the dtys costs are fixed, while Lucas Dallas would have to foot any Increases. The developer is expected to put up 95 million and find 949 million to conventional financing. But other developers have been eyeballing the project, which is bounded by Washington, Clay, Eighth and Ninth streets. Some privately grouse the deal takeover was not an Investor to Housewives Market said only, It's a long story and involves litigation.

I dont feel free to consent oo It Alan Marks, another Lucas Dallas general partner whos siding with Btomenfeld, did not return phosie Because of Housewives location and the precedent setting nature of the agreement the outcome of the feud could have ramifications beyond the project boundaries. The dty has promised to commit up to 918.1 million tor Housewives, which would Include S6S condominium units, 50 rental units, 85,000 square feet of commercial space. hThe battle ended irtners yield! i the project IBM the transfer tow Jeopar- 1 Lucas Dallas Development i Wright to complete f-PWDCRs 1 a result the city manager sent the developers a of default, which they. 1 68 days to 'cure," or cor- the city has been with (developers) BUI and Tony Lend. And this to other people hasnt -requested for permission, Vice Mayor Leo Baxlle.

dont know who those are or what their jRQECT SEED, BECAUSE Of IT5 OUTSTANDING SUCCESSES, HAS RECEIVED The project design calls tor SOS rsnlsminiam units, 10 rental units, and approximately 85,400 square feet ef commercial space. Dallas acknowledged he and Dallas said the company's Lend, both general partners to the project, to June transferred their entire two-thirds Interest to Stanley Blumenfeld, an Atherton businessman who invested to a 12-bome Lucas Dallas development to Half Moon Bay. public explanation tor the transfer was to compensate Mimum. told for losses to Half Moon Bay. But In recent Interviews, he said he made the deal because he feared his partners would use the allegation of a diversion of reflect pother of states civil rights fight Tarea Pittman dies at 88 TsreaHall Pittman was a Obituariis Exciting Discovery Style Classes 1 Algebra Writing EE ferQradMl-0(AS AbflHy LsvataWMoonw) Over tile past 29 years wo have taught 2 tens of thousands of children to love algebra! How? Our teaches ars degreed mattiematicians, and writers utn low their subjects, ui Wli list adiscoveiy approach which 7 develops analytical skills and.

sen confidence. We explore why math works and fi do not rely on memorization. lfinVMAa3NN3)I Q31NVDV3d QTVNObNV9IHOIW JO AUSU3A1NH Clarice Isaacs, 84 and Farid ta Wyatt, 78. A memorial service will be held 5:30 pmrSunday, August 4 at Fouche's Hudson Funeral Home, 8865 Telegraph Oakland. practice to Berkeley, was never paid for her broadcasting work.

Until 1985 she did it as a public service. Carpenter said that Pittmans primary interest was getting information out whether She was on the radio or Just talking to people at the supermarket. She wanted people to know that there were black doctors, judges, architects and funeral directors who had overcome great obstacles and were role models for other struggling Hack Amer- i 4b i Hall Pittman, one of the I of the dvil rights strug-ftaUn Northern California died aday in Berkeley. Pittman, 88, former West regional secretary of the il Association of Colored and host of a Mack af-yadio program for fifty died quietly to her sleep fcbesdsy afternoon at the sema Skilled Nursing llty after a lengthy fight a brain tumor. rrShe was the mother of the dvO rights movement in Calif Lawrence Crouchett, dkpetor of the Center for African' American History and Cul-tyNi 3Tom a family of fanners to fiiutrsfield, she was the first btyck student to graduate from the junior college there.

She to Berkeley to 1923 and her masters degree to so-welfare from the University California. Pittman was a walking lopedia of this centurys dvil rights movement She it, led it and talked about it adult days. he was a member of the KAACP for ever 75 years and as I'M Coast regional secretary moat of the 1990s, she build the organization to CEastbay and elsewhere west Mlsrisslppt Mrs. Pittman is survived by three sisters who all live in the Eastbay: Eugenia Greene, 91; She was a fighter and a good fighter, "said Eugene Lasarte-may one of Mrs. Pittman's coworkers to the NAACP.

But it was her voice and elocution that Mrs. Pittman was best known for. For 50 years she brought Bay Area listeners Negroes to the Newson KDIA ra-dio which under previous owners was named KWBR. Aleta Carpenter, now general manager of XDIA, remembered listening to Mrs. Pittman when she was growing upi Mjr grandmother would sit ns down to front of the radio and we were not allowed to go to the bathroom or sneese or anything.

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