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8/11/2019 Sanders Wins the Battle | Vanguard Press | May 29, 1983
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Winning smiles ..Mayor Sanders and Republican Alderwoman Diane Ga/Jagber after Gallagberdecided to vote for Sanders'development office.
S a n d e r s W i n s t h e B a t t le By Hamilton E. Davis
BURLINGTON
~
fter harassing Burlington
Mayor Bernard Sanders
without cease for two
years, the Board of Aldermen
gave him the keys to the city
Monday. Whether they intended
to or not is open to question.
The keys came in the form of
approval of the mayor's proposedo f f ic e o f e c on o m i c a n d c o m m u -
nity development, anew arm of
government that will have a staff
of six, and a budget of more
than a million dollars in federal
money.
Most important, itwill answer
directly to the mayor and the
aldermen - which will inevitably
in practice mean the mayor-
without a commission to snarl
up the works. And it will have a
mandate to deal with the city's
most pressing problems - hous-ing, the waterfront, youth pro-
grams, the works.
In 99 cases out of 100, you
would not get such a crucial
d e ci s io n o n s o crucial an issue
without a titanic, behind-the-
scenes struggle. In 75 cases out
of a hundred.you would not get
it without buying several poli-
ticians at high prices or fighting
a tong war.
In fact, the landslide appar-
ently wasn't triggered by anythingS O m u nd an e as a t o ng WAr; it
WdS set off ruther by a series of
comments from local business-
men to the effect that if the
aldermen are concerned with
the best interests of the city, they
would go along with the mayor.
Richard Feeley, a local realtor
said that he was disappointed to
see the board so badly split at a
t i m e w h e n it i s a t a crossroadsin its development. "I haven't
heard anything of a positive note
coming from my right hand side
of the
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