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...Moot's fears counsel caution, and chairman of Cambridge's "Citizens' Committee on Implementation of the Economic Opportunity Act," that's what he has given the City...
...despite Washington's silence on the initial $60,000 request ("we haven't even received a postcard," Moot says), the committee will dispatch two more applications to the capital this week. If approval comes back before mid-June--and the very tardiness of the requests and the slowness in Washington make this an imponderable--the committee hopes to have three pilot projects underway this summer...
...Moot also believes the committee's size and diversity provide a protection against political intrusion. Intentionally, the mayor appointed no City Councillors or School Board members. "It's one step removed from politics," Moot observes, adding, how-ever, that there is" not one City Councillor that hasn't got a good pipeline" to the committee. But that doesn't bother him, because he says that politicians possess "communication channels to the people that can feed ideas and reactions to us so that we don't go completely off base." What he does not want is a poverty program in Cambridge...
...Washington gives the go-ahead for everything the committee has asked for, Cambridge will be running only "pilot" projects this summer. Moot explains this caution: "Getting the wrong programs started could be a problem... Once you create something, it's hard to kill it, although you may have decided it's not a good program and you want to put your resources elsewhere...
Eventually how much Cambridge puts up in dollars--and consequently how much it participates in the poverty program--is a political question. And John Moot, who wants a non-political poverty program, must make sure that a non-political program is not one without strong political support