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Press release at Committee on Finance and Revenue public hearing on “Ballpark Revenue Amendment Act of 2003,” Bill 15-270
June 12, 2003

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WASHINGTON INTERFAITH NETWORK
1226 Vermont Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 518-0815

Contact: Martin Trimble 202-518-0815
301-802-1065 (cell)

PRESS RELEASE

CHURCH LEADERS TO MAYOR & DC COUNCIL:
NEIGHBORHOODS FIRST BEFORE BASEBALL

$200 Million Fund to Rebuild Neighborhoods Should be Top Priority for City Action

75 Clergy and lay leaders from Washington Interfaith Network (WIN) will attend the DC Council's Finance and Revenue Committee hearing on Thursday, June 12 `h at 10 am at the John Wilson Building at 14 `h & Pennsylvania Ave, NW to deliver a clear message to the DC Council & Mayor Anthony Williams: Neighborhoods First!! WIN leaders will demand that DC Mayor Anthony Williams keep his promises to create a $200 Million Neighborhood Investment Fund and to rebuild 8-10 DC neighborhoods before providing public financing for a new baseball stadium.

Specifically, WIN leaders will demand that the DC Council and Mayor take action on Bill 15104-"DC Neighborhood Economic Development and Investment Amendment Act of 2003"-before taking action on baseball financing legislation. Last week, Council member Jack Evans introduced Bill 15104 with 8 other council members (Cropp, Chavous, Fenty, Graham, Ambrose, Orange, Allen, and Catania) that would raise at least $100 million to capitalize the $200 Million Neighborhood Revitalization Fund called for by WIN.

In December 2002, Mayor Williams pledged before 600 WIN leaders at Beulah Baptist Church to create the $200 Million Neighborhood Investment Fund and to start immediately to address neighborhood blight in the area around Beulah Baptist in Deanwood Heights, NE (Ward # 7) where church trustee Walter Coates was brutally murdered on New Years' Eve last year.

The Mayor has taken no action in Deanwood Heights or other targeted WIN neighborhoods (Brightwood, Columbia Heights, Washington Highlands, Eckington, etc.) because he has been too busy promoting a $338 million public financing scheme to lure the Montreal Expos to DC. At the press conference last week, WIN clergy announced their Neighborhoods First Campaign to hold up action on baseball until the neighborhoods see action and get equivalent resources for rebuilding.

WIN is a city-wide, multi-racial, non-partisan citizens organization with 52 congregation, union, public school, and community organization members representing 25,000 DC families. WIN is affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation, which is the oldest and largest communityorganizing network in the US. The late Saul Alinsky established IAF. Other IAF affiliates in the DC Metro area are: Action in Montgomery (AIM), Montgomery Co., MD and Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD).

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