Word: cda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago forty staff workers and a dozen members of the Cities Demonstration Agency (CDA) Board invaded City Hall, hoping to confront and pin down City Manager John Corcoran and City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin on three specific issues-two contracts and Model Cities pay raises-that illustrated the clash of power over the program...
Ostensible control over Model Cities is vested in a 24-member CDA Board. Sixteen of the Board members are residents of the model neighborhood, elected for two-year terms. The remaining board members are drawn from various constituencies outside the neighborhood. The relevant portion of the CDA enabling legislation empowers the board to "hire, fire, select, and set the terms of employment for its staff, with the approval of the City Manager...
...Corcoran's intransigence or Cronin's retorts during the sit-in. The real issue, it seemed, was deeper than the two contracts and the pay raise that had been lying dormant on Corcoran's desk for weeks. To them, it was a question of power. Conflicting interpretations of the CDA enabling legislation asked "Who is going to exercise the authority over Cambridge Model Cities, the Board or the City Manager...