Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 11

Friday, August 2, 1991 OAKLAND TRIBUNE METRO Budget cuts will hurt probation system, official says Sheriff's Department suffers loss in patrol coverage By Marina Gottschalk Tribune staff writer MARTINEZ Contra Costa County Sheriff Richard Rainey yesterday told the Board of Supervisors he could boil the budget situation down to one word "Help." The cuts to his budget, he said, are disastrous. The recommended budget for the Sheriff's Department is nearly $25 million with $2.5 million in cuts. They include closing the Work Furlough Center in Richmond at $650,000 and 18 positions. The result will be changing the criteria for putting people on home electronic surveillance, and putting more people in jail. "The biggest problem for us is "The most disturbing thing to me is the inequity and disparity between the probation department and other departments in the criminal justice system," said Buck.

"We haven't spent an equal amount of money on keeping people out of prison." Although a new $48 million jail Investor squabbling puts Oakland housing complex into default RESIDENTIAL TOWER CENTRAL FREE MARKET OUTDOOR PODIUM AREA CHILD CARE FACILITY COMMERCIAL PLAZA AREA RATTO HOUSEWIVES MARKET CONTH PARKING STREET BELOW ENTRANCE GRADE The project design calls for 262 condominium units, 50 rental county patrol said Rainey. "'The patrol staff is already lower than it should One beat officer in the Byron area covers 130 square miles, Rainey 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 said. The cuts affect the safety factor for deputies because there will be fewer of them on the street and more time will be needed to respond to assist another deputy, Rainey said. The crime lab services will be severely restricted, to the extent opened in West Contra Costa County, the conditions at Juvenile Hall in Martinez are deplorable, he said.

Due to constant overcrowding, the California Youth Authority threatened to decertify the hall, but that was avoided when Buck ordered the population to be limited to 130 juveniles. that staff will only go to the scenes of homicides or serious assaults and rapes. Court services, such as bailiffs, will also be reduced. The Marine Patrol Unit will not be reinstated under the proposed budget, although it is on the sheriff's priority list of restoration. Supervisor Tom Torlakson noted that the county is losing revenue because judges are throwing out citations issued by the Marine Patrol deputies or not assessing some penalties.

Revenue could also be raised by assessing new developments for marine patrol as has been done in his district in eastern Contra Costa County, he said. There has been an increase in juveniles placed on probation, he said, and an increase in the seriousness of the crimes. "We're seeing more gang-related activity and more dysfunctional families. Placement in foster group homes 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 there were some legitimate concerns about protecting investors' interests. Blumenfeld who before the takeover was not an investor in Housewives Market said only, "It's a long story and involves litigation. I don't feel free to coment on it." Alan Marks, another Lucas Dallas general partner who's siding with Blumenfeld, did not return phone calls. Because of Housewives' location, and the precedent-setting units, and approximately 65,000 square feet of commercial space. nature of the development agreement, the outcome of the Dallas acknowledged he and Dallas said the company's feud could have ramifications Lenci, both general partners in public explanation for the trans- beyond the project boundaries.

the project, in June transferred fer was to compensate Blumen- The city has promised to comtheir entire two-thirds interest feld for losses in Half Moon Bay. mit up to $18.2 million for Houto Stanley Blumenfeld, an Ather- But in recent interviews, he sewives, which would include ton businessman who invested in said he made the deal because he 262 condominium units, 50 rental a 12-home Lucas Dallas develop- feared his partners would use units, approximately 65,000 ment in Half Moon Bay. the allegation of a diversion of square feet of commercial space, Mother' of state's civil rights fight Tarea Pittman dies at 88 Mahoney to staff writer -Tarea Hall Pittman, one of the pioneers of the civil rights strugDa in 1 Northern California died ednesday in Berkeley. Mrs. Pittman, 88, former West bast regional secretary of the tonal Association of Colored People and host of a black affairs radio program for fifty died quietly in her sleep Vadnesday afternoon at the yakameema Skilled Nursing Facility after a lengthy fight with a brain tumor.

"She was the mother of the civil rights movement in California, "said Lawrence Crouchett, director of the Center for African American History and Culture. From a family of farmers in Bakersfield, she was the first black student to graduate from the junior college there. She moved to Berkeley in 1923 and earned her masters degree in sowelfare from the University California. Mrs. Pittman was a walking cyclopedia of this century's civil rights movement.

She tved dit, led it and talked about it all her adult days. A She was a member of the NAACP for over 75 years and as West Coast regional secretary during most of the 1960s, she helped build the organization in the Eastbay and elsewhere west of the Mississippi. By Marina Gottschalk Tribune staff MARTINEZ Fewer adults and juveniles placed on probation will be seen by probation officers and court calendars will continue to be jammed because of cuts in the probation department's budget for 1991-92, county officials predicted yesterday. The department has been cut down to the marrow, Jerry Buck, department director, told the Contra Costa County )Board of Supervisors yesterday at a budget hearing. The recommended budget is $17.4 million, a decrease of $1.2 million from last year and $2.2 million less than requested.

Contra Costa County courts place more people on probation than the state average, said Buck, and three-fourths of all convicted felons are sentenced to a conditional term of probation. Many programs have been cut in the past 14 years, since the passage of Proposition 13, he said, and there are no more special programs to cut. "Not only have we lost resources and staff, we've also experienced increased workloads as the county has grown and as police make more arrests, district attorneys prosecute more cases and courts sentence more offenders," said Buck. "The proposed budget would bring us back to 1967," he said. Brian Johns Tribune staff writer Infighting among business attners and a default notice could trip up Oakland's Housewives Market development.

For several months, the prinbals behind the $77 million wntown project have jousted control of the commercial and residential development. The battle ended with two of the partners yielding their interest in the project. But the transfer has jeopardized Lucas Dallas Development Group's legal right to complete project. As a result, the city manager on Monday sent the developers a notice of default, which they 60 days to "cure," or the city has been dealing with (developers) Bill Dallas and Tony Lenci. And this ansfer to other people hasn't requested for permission," Mayor Leo Bazile.

We don't know who those cople are or what their qualifiCations are," he said. practice in Berkeley, was never paid for her broadcasting work. Until 1985 she did it as a public service. Carpenter said that Pittman's 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 black Americans.

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Supervisor Nancy Fahden called the cuts unacceptable, and said to County Administrator Phil Batchelor, "You're going to have to de something, find money somewhere." She suggested looking at other de budgets to see if more cuts could be made in their departments to help probation. Supervisor Sunne Wright McPeak said that the business license fees should be used for the probation depart: ment. Batchelor, noting that the Work Furlough Center in Richmond was to be closed, suggested that the center could be used to help children and their families who have been abused, are at risk oF need assistance to stay out of the criminal justice system. The center could be used to provide counseling, comfort, education, nutrition, housing or protection to children. The board liked the proposal, which will be explored further.

Supervisor Tom Torlakson suggested help be sought from cities. into default 812 parking spaces. Julia Brown, the city's economic development director, has said the deal is a great one for the city. Oakland expects to recoup its investment after 10 years, plus an estimated $17 million in tax revenues, $3 million from housing sales, and between 20 percent and 30 percent equity in the project. In addition, the city's costs are fixed, while Lucas Dallas would have to foot any increases.

The developer is expected to put up $5 million and find $49 million in 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 could set a bad precedent because it involves a high degree of participation by minority investors and brings in long-needed downtown housing. Mayor Elihu Harris places the project high on his list of those needing "rethinking." The development also happens to sit near the site of Harris' proposed downtown basketball arena. Still, others back the project's housing element and don't want to see it threatened.

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"She was a fighter and good fighter, "said Eugene Lasartemay one of Mrs. Pittman's coworkers in 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 in the KDIA radio which under previous owners was named KWBR.

Aleta Carpenter, now general manager of KDIA, remembered listening to Mrs. Pittman when she was growing up. "My grandmother would sit us down in front of the radio and we were not allowed to go to the bathroom or sneeze or anything. When it was over she would say, 'When you grow up I want you to speak as well as Tarea Hall "she said. Mrs.

Pittman, whose late husband, Dr. William R. Pittman, was the first black dentist to OBITUARIES Clarice Isaacs, 84 and Faricita Wyatt, 78. A memorial service will be held 3:30 p.m. Sunday, August 4 at Fouche's Hudson Funeral Home, 3665 Telegraph Oakland.

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