Just posted at http://educationright.tripod.com
NEWS BRIEF - Hollman Update: Legal Aid seeks sanctions against City
Also published in the MN Spokesman-Recorder newspaper, 24 Dec 2003 (print
only)
On December 5 Minneapolis Legal Aid filed a motion in Federal Court
seeking an order that imposes financial penalties on the City of Minneapolis in
excess of $345,000 plus legal costs for being in default of its duties under
the Hollman Consent Decree (the settlement of a housing discrimination lawsuit).
Legal Aid contends that the city could have assured timely completion
of housing units for poor people at Heritage Park, formerly the site of a huge
public housing project on the near North side of Minneapolis. The City had
originally agree to have all of the Heritage Park units ready for occupancy by
the end of 2001. The deadline was subsequently pushed back to 2002, then
October 2004. The city recently asked for an extension of the deadline to May 2005,
but now expects to get the work done no sooner than the fall of 2005.
If Legal Aid's motion is approved, the City will be compelled to fulfill
its obligations under the Hollman Consent Decree, even if the City is less
than fully successful in suing the Federal Department of Housing and Urban
Development to cover some of the remaining construction costs. The date for a
hearing on this matter has not been set, but is likely to be scheduled during the
week ending January 23. The NAACP withdrew as a party to the Hollman Consent
Degree in October 2003.
For news articles about the Hollman Decree, see Minneapolis News
archives at http://educationright.tripod.com
-Doug Mann, Kings Field
Author of "Flight From Equality: School Reform in the US since 1983"
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