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Hold On, Change Is Coming

NIK
EAMES
WARD 1

BIOGRAPHY

Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner 1B05
Former Treasurer, ANC 1B
Tutor, Garnet-Patterson Middle School
Volunteer Coordinator, Clinton/Gore Presidential Inaugural, Heritage Hall
Coordinator, Million Man March (Student & Youth March)
Founder, Operation Vote Bison (Youth Political Initiative)
Chief of Staff, Howard University Student Association
Featured in Jet Magazine and The Washington Post
Member, Delegation to Cuba, Mexico and Senegal
Chemical Engineering Senior, Howard University
Resident, LeDroit Park (Ward 1)

EDUCATION

• Institute regular oversight hearings on public education
• Establish a Ward 1 Tutorial Database
• Increase vocational and computer training
• Support full funding for the University of the District of Columbia
• Propose laws that would provide financial incentives for high school graduates to attend college

JOBS

• Assist residents with welfare to work by adding financial incentives within the public assistance program
• Work to restore and increase the summer job program
• Establish Job Clubs to provide a resource for employment

PUBLIC SAFETY

• Enhance recreational opportunities for young people and expand crime prevention programs
• Expand police sub-stations and community prosecution and regulation offices
• Support the creation of a Civilian Complaint Review Board

PUBLIC WORKS

• Improve solid waste collection, rodent extermination and other environmental protection programs
• Support a city-wide recycling program
• Institute regular community clean-up projects
• Establish a Department of Public Works Hotline

DEMOCRACY

• Advocate for a constitutional review of self-determination for the District of Columbia
• Encourage high school and college students to register to vote as part of their curriculum
• Propose laws that would enable District residents to register to vote when they apply for public housing or assistance at the Department of Employment Services

November 3, 1998
UMOJA

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P.O. Box 26313, Washington, D.C. 20001
neames@howard.edu
(202) 605-0811

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