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AUGUST 13 - 19, 2015 VOL. 4 NO. 46

Arts groups not invited to tax dance

City Administrator Janice Allen Jackson is managing the new administration’s first SPLOST package. Local arts groups were not included in the $200 million proposal.

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THE CITY

COMMENTARY

RCSO SEEKS NATIONAL ACCREDITATION

SPLOST 7 bid soft on arts & culture

By Frederick Benjamin UrbanProWeekly Political Analyst AUGUSTA When city administrator Janice Allen Jackson ordered up her first SPLOST-7 special, she had only one request — hold the arts and hold the culture!

The first term city administrator is experiencing first-hand the damned-ifyou-do and damned-if-you-don’t nature of the latest special-local-option-salestax (SPLOST) package.

While Jackson is merely carrying the water for the commission in this endeavor, it’s messy because the commission is divided and she is the face of the commission. And while the commissioners can manage to get lost in the shuffle, there’s no place for Jackson to hide.

Here’s her dilemma. A significant percentage of the public is anti-SPLOST — period. This group feels that the city has had its hand in their collective pockets far too often and will cite the 2014 huge property tax increase and the 2015 stormwater fee as proof.

They’re just not willing to give up anything else.

Another segment of the public says that they will only support SPLOST if it is limited to essential infrastructure projects and only then if they believe that the infrastructure projects are absolutely necessary.

Yet another segment of the public feels that they won’t be able to support any SPLOST package that doesn’t include their favorite arts program, whether that be a museum, a performing arts theatre, an acting school or a festival package just to name a few.

To make matters worse, Jackson has

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to manage the bloodletting and then get a team out in the street to sell it all to a skeptical public. This, on the heels of the narrow defeat of the most recent SPLOST referendum in the spring of 2014.

But, it gets worse.

Jackson is following a city administrator who never lost a SPLOST referendum. In the recent 2014 defeat, the city was in-between city administrators and had a lame-duck mayor.

Former city administrator Fred Russell joined the city in time to see his predecessor’s SPLOST initiative go up in smoke in 2004, but in 2005 and then again in 2009 he shepherded through SPLOST 5 and SPLOST 6 which is set to expire in early 2016.

Ironically, Russell’s SPLOST packages were very generous to the local arts organizations.

The difference between then and now is that the 2014 SPLOST package suffered from a lackluster sales effort on the part of the city.

To his credit, Russell was constantly in front of the public telling them exactly how their penny sales tax money was being spent. He also was assisted by the Morris-owned interests in town that benefited from his SPLOST packages.

Jackson has an uphill struggle.

A source close to the most recent successful SPLOST endeavors tells UPW that the current $200 million SPLOST package is far too ambitious even without the inclusion of the arts nonprofits.

They advise a scaled down SPLOST which only includes the amount of money needed to complete the municipal building and other really essential projects like providing a home for the public defenders building — nothing

Tamera Bulla (L) and Steve Seechak (center) listen to comments about the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office from concerned citizen Tim Hollobaugh (R) during a public meeting held at the courthouse. Bulla and Seechak are both assessors with the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). Photo by Vincent Hobbs else!

That shouldn’t be more than $80 million and that could be completed in a couple of years.

That is the least that is needed to regain public trust which is now at an all time low, they argue.

That, however, is not likely to happen.

The city has only a few days left to craft a SPLOST package that they think they can sell and if all of the arts groups are left out, they’re losing a lot of support which they were able to count on in the past.

Regardless of how the next package comes together, arts groups in the CSRA will have to come to grips with the reality that they will have to get used to the idea of getting by without the support of their local government.

This will not involve a seismic shift in the thinking of the executive boards of most of these organizations because the days whereby wealthy private donors have done the heavy financial lifting for

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Simply put, the world appears to have a new attitude toward the arts – especially, the classical variety. This covers a broad range of subjects. For instance, there’s much less of an interest in “antique” furniture as there used to be and even the most famous jazz festivals struggle to be profitable.

It remains to be seen, just how vibrant a role that Augusta nonprofit organizations including the Augusta Symphony, The Imperial Theater, The Augusta Ballet and the Augusta Museum will play in the city’s effort to portray Augusta as a tourist destination and a “quality-of-life” haven for new arrivals.

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A new sign marks the entrance to Powell Pointe development on Twiggs Circle. The new homes are slated for seniors (55+) and is managed by the Augusta Housing Authority.The Twiggs Street area has seen a flurry of homebuilding in recent months.

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Ready for Occupancy The Augusta Housing Authority recently unveiled its latest public housing complex — Powell Pointe.

Named in honor of Addie Scott Powell, who lobbied for decades to preserve crumbling structures in the Bethlehem neighborhood, the units are located on Twiggs Circle.

There are 40 units available for those 55 and over. The eight single family homes have 2 bedrooms and the 32 duplex units have 1 bedroom each.

You must be on the AHA waiting list if you want to see about landing one of these units.

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“The Walls Do Talk: Translating Adinkra Symbols in Southern Architecture” Georgia Heritage Room, 3rd floor of the downtown public library at 823 Telfair St., Aug. - Sept.

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MAKIN’ A DIFFERENCE COMMENTARY by Ken Makin

One year after Ferguson:

Do Black lives really matter?

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o you remember where you were August 9, 2014 – the day Michael Brown was murdered

by Darren Wilson? I don’t, and I feel confident saying that many of you reading this do not as well.

With that said, what made Michael Brown’s death so profound?

What made it the flashpoint that birthed #BlackLivesMatter and the new civil rights movement?

I mean, it wasn’t a new phenomenon. The case of Jon Ferrell in Charlotte was similarly heartbreaking. Sean Bell was one of the poster children for senseless police brutality.

And while it didn’t specifically deal with police, Trayvon Martin was still on the nation’s conscience.

I’m asking this question now – almost a year to the date of Michael’s death – because I want to see just how far we have come.

Take Ferguson itself. Since the tragic incident in question, we have watched a community rally together – contrary to the limited perspective that mass media presents. We have witnessed the federal government and its challenge of the apartheid-like conditions of Ferguson and surrounding counties.

Even though Darren Wilson was not charged in Brown’s death, there was victory in the Department of Justice’s

report that outlined rampant discrimination in law enforcement. As a result, many of the racist and crooked officials in Ferguson left office like roaches scattering in the presence of light.

Yet it still feels so … EMPTY. For every triumph, there is a bone-chilling incident such as the Sandra Bland “suicide.” Samuel Dubose was gunned down in cold blood by a crooked cop. How can I call Ray Tensing “crooked”? The body camera video tells me all I need to know.

Texas. Cincinnati. New York.

California. CHARLESTON. NORTH

AUGUSTA. There is no escape, not even in our own backyards.

So much back and forth. So much triumph and tragedy. It all leads me to the question: Do Black lives really matter?

And this is the point where you and I come in.

Yeah, it’s easy to share the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. It’s easy to get mad at the latest news report of some cop overstepping his or her boundaries.

But do we have the fortitude to say that Bland will be the last victim?

Or Dubose will be the last victim?

Remember, Brown was supposed to

be THE LAST! I’m tired of talking about “the last.”

In the spirit of Etta James, I’m ready to talk about “At Last.”

AT LAST, we stand in unity against injustice – whether in our neighborhood or in this nation. “An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” right?

AT LAST, we stop waiting for single, solitary individuals to play the role of superhero and demand accountability for ourselves.

AT LAST, we stop falling prey to the crippling narratives of social networks and majority media and learn the truth about progressive efforts in our communities!

The truth is simply this – #BlackLivesMatter is a MATTER of perspective.

Black lives matter to me – my commentary and commitment to my community prove it.

The question is – do #BlackLivesMatter TO YOU? Ken J. Makin is the host of “Makin’ A Difference,” an online radio program at facebook.com/makinadifferenceshow. You can also reach Ken by email at makinadifferenceshow@ gmail.com, or via Twitter @differencemakin.

Doctors who colluded with US torture vote to crawl ‘out of the dark side’ AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION VOTES ALMOST UNANIMOUSLY TO BAN MEMBERS FROM BEING INVOLVED IN BUSH-ERA TACTICS OF TORTURE IN WAKE OF DAMNING REPORT

By John Barber The largest association of psychologists in the United States

voted to begin reversing its policy of collusion in torture on Friday by prohibiting members of the American Psychological Association

from participating in the interrogation of US prisoners on foreign soil.

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Torture from page 8 right.’”

The sense of unfinished business was personified by council member Jean Maria Arrigo, who first blew the whistle on the APA’s torture collusion and suffered the worst of the personal attacks and slurs as a result.

In accepting an award from a newly contrite leadership “as the

finest possible role model for us in the profession of psychiatry”, Arrigo pronounced herself both “very touched” and “very wary that this is a public relations event meant to shut me up”.

Arrigo vented frustration about “having to spend 10 years of my life being a critic and a nuisance”, and insisted that the work of institu-

tional reform had only just begun for a group she said had been “dedicated to looking the other way” and had spent too long “interlocked with the national security establishment”.

“We have to negotiate the issue between psychological ethics and national security. That’s the real work that we have to do.”

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The Augusta Housing Authority (AHA) will provide 10 project based vouchers and 10 public housing units for seniors ages 55 and up. Effective Monday, July 27, 2015 through Tuesday, August 25, 2015, potential residents may complete an on-line application at www.augustapha.org. Preliminary applications will be accepted through Tuesday August 25th at which time the site based waiting lists will be closed. A $14 application fee will be required to process your application at Walton Communities. Eligible applicants will be placed on the site-based waiting lists and will be ranked by date and time.

The Augusta Housing Authority will continue to accept online applications only for the Elderly Public Housing Program waiting list. The waiting list will be opened for all applicants age 55 and older. Elderly families that require a two bedroom unit are encouraged to make application and all members of the family must be age 55 and older to be eligible. Applications will only be accepted by completing the on-line application at www.augustapha.org.

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from medical professionals of their complicity in post-9/11 interrogations, the APA’s 173-member council of representatives consented almost unanimously to ban its thousands of psychologists from being involved in Bush-era tactics of torture as well as present-day non-coercive techniques.

Concerns among reformers about growing opposition from military psychologists turned to joy and relief as only council member, Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib military psychologist Larry James, dissented against a detailed resolution prepared by longstanding critics in the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology.

“This is an extraordinary victory because these prohibitions are clear, they’re implementable, and people will be held accountable,” council member Steven Reisner, a leader of the group’s reform coalition, said.

The vote, at the annual convention of the group, which counts more than 130,000 medical professionals among its members, will turn the APA “from leading us into the dark side to leading us out of the dark side”, he said.

Although the prohibition applies exclusively to interrogations carried out in the name of national security abroad and at “black sites”, Reisner said reformers are hoping to expand the prohibitions to prevent psychologists from abetting “domestic cruelty” in the US justice system. “We have to consider that in the future,” he said.

Indeed, reformers stressed that the vote in Toronto by no means marked the end of a nine-year campaign to restore the APA’s “moral compass”. They were long belittled and suppressed by the leadership of the organization, which retains enormous influence in setting standards of psychological practice and ethics in the US and elsewhere.

But last month, the reformers were vindicated by a scathing report from former US attorney David Hoffman, which found the group’s senior officials had adapted internal rules – and collaborated with the US military – to permit medical assistance in developing so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques”.

“We think there is something profoundly wrong with the way the organization functions,” said coalition member Stephen Soldz, describing a “general atmosphere of suppression and bullying” that prevailed until the report’s release. “No one in leadership ever spoke up against it. Not one board member or anyone in leadership over the past 10 years said, ‘This is not

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AUGUST 1 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 Women have played a key, but often unrecognized role in The Civil Rights Movement. From educators, to politicians, to fierce activists they have influenced the course of history and inspired generations. This exhibition explores their contributions and impact.

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Augusta seeks input for Recreation & Parks Master Plan

A public workshop to develop a ten year master plan for the Augusta Recreation, Parks and Facilities Department will take place on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. at Minnick The theme for this year’s conference Park, located at 1850 Kissingbower was “Are You Ready To Be Grown.” Road.

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