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...CCA prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary next month, its new leaders promise a reformed good-government group. However, the defection of popular Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 from the group in 1993 and a breakdown in communication within the organization last year threaten to hamper the liberal group's efforts to clarify its political agenda...
...CCA confirmed a new board of directors May 1, electing a new president, Geneva T. Malenfant...
...CCA has traditionally prepared informationsummaries and issued policy recommendations to theCity Council members it endorses. Malenfant saidthe group has streamlined its work, assigning mostof it to one of five committees: education,housing, budget and finance, elections and acommittee devoted to the anniversary celebration...
...CCA's outgoing president, R. Philip Dowds,was the target of some criticism as the end of hissecond one-year term approached. Some members sawDowds as overly partisan in the world of Cambridgepolitics, and faulted him for the group'stenacious pro-rent control position, which theysay alienated many Cantabrigians...
...Other CCA members disagreed. "At times, Ithought the CCA was too weak in defense of rentcontrol," said Lester P. Lee Jr., a tenantactivist and CCA board member...