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...everything from schools and housing to public works and the police, have been taken away from Barry and placed under the jurisdiction of a financial control board, which was appointed by Congress two years ago to get the city's finances in order and is headed by economist Andrew Brimmer. Only relatively minor agencies (including tourism and parks and recreation) remain under Barry's purview. Asked at a press conference what residents should do if they want to complain about potholes, Barry replied bitterly, "Call Dr. Brimmer...
Onto this battlefield steps Brimmer, 71, a former Federal Reserve Board member. Like Barry, Brimmer is black, but there the similarities end. While Barry is fond of dashikis and rambling rhetoric, Brimmer is as precise and exacting as the cut of his charcoal-gray suit. He took immediate action last week, firing three department chiefs and threatening that more heads will roll unless changes are made. Still, some are skeptical of his ability to tackle a job akin to fixing a plane while flying it. "I can't predict the outcome, but I can predict the effort," Brimmer says...
...April of last year, the city was in such bad condition, with more than $3 billion in long-term debt, that the President signed legislation creating a financial-control board to impose some discipline. Headed by former Federal Reserve Board member Andrew Brimmer, the new board set out to end the city's worst fiscal excesses--noncompetitive bids, deficit budgeting, a bloated work force whose ranks include 40,000, or 1 out of 9 adults in the District--while figuring out how to pay overdue bills and eventually refinance the district's $379 million current deficit. But the board...
School for Wives. Through March 19. Brimmer Loft Theatre, 69 Brimmer St., Boston...
Other Overseers whose terms ended in 1993 are Andrew F. Brimmer, Al Gore '69 and Jerome B. Wiesner...