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FAMILY JOY - Ruben Robles' wife Mary [left] and his
daughter, Linda R. Solomon, congratulate Robles on his victory
in the April 10 primary elections for the South Tucson City
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By HOWARD G. COOK
Staff Writer
South Tucson's community develop-ment
director said she is still awaiting
instructions from the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development on how
$250,000 in grants can be spent.
Lillian Lopez-Grant explained that the
city had applied for $283,000 in HUD
funds for a three-year comprehensive
program.
She said she was later notified that
about $250,000 for a one-year program
had been approved and one of the
proposed projects had been cut, although
she remains unsure where the cut was
made.
On April 6, she received word that
South Tucson was eligible for an ad-ditional
$92,000, but again she complained
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Council. Four Democratic incumbents and one Republican will
face each other in the May 15 election.
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she was unable to determine guidelines
for use of the funds.
According to Lopez-Grant, the extra
$92,000 would become available to South
Tucson if the state could escape disaster
until July 2. If a flood or similar
emergency hit Arizona, causing the
governor to declare a disaster area, the
money would be diverted to the stricken
area, she explained.
South Tucson was selected as the
recepient of the additional funds because
its performance rating in community
development was the highest of all
Arizona cities in its population category
that had applied for HUD funding, Lopez-
Grant continued.
Lopez-Grant said she is sure that
$15,000 of the funds can be applied to
repair the rain-damaged roof at the Civic
Center, 1625 S. Third Ave. Another
$75,000 can be used to purchase 10 parcels
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By KIM HESS
Staff Writer
The South Tucson City Council race has
been narrowed down to the four
Democratic incumbents and one
Republican write-in after two Democratic
candidates were eliminated in the primary
election April 10.
The five will advance to the general
election May 15 which will determine who
will hold the four four-year positions.
Those elected were John Garcia, Stuart
Irwin, Frank A. Lopez, Alfonsa S.
McKenna and Felix C. Robles.
John Garcia, who took the most
Democratic votes with 21.3 percent; said
the election was "an effort of all four of us.
With the complete cooperation between
us, we will be seeing more progress being
made. We are filled with anticipation of
seeing more for South Tucson."
The Republican write-in, Stuart Irwin,
said this election is "the beginning of the
Republicans' return. There are even six
more candidates behind me because the
Republican movement is starting to come
tolife."
Irwin said he is running his campaign
without money and without promises, and
he hopes to get the votes of all the in-dependents
and the candidates who lost,
as well as all of the Republicans.
Frank Lopez, who grabbed 21 percent
of the Democratic votes, said it was
"exciting to see the people still want us.
It's an indication of what they want:'
Alfonsa McKenna, who received 16.2
percent of the Democrat vote, said she
was happy and "I was sure I was going to
win. Everything keeps going on and on."
Felix Robles, who took 18.7 percent of
the Democratic votes, said "I'm very glad
and happy with the results. I will cer-tainly
continue to do a good job for the
next four years."
of land for single or aggregate housing,
she said.
But other projects described in the
application are in limbo, Lopez-Grant
confessed. The other projects include
plans to modernize 47 homes at a cost of
$37,000 and to rehabilitate 20 homes at a
cost of $120,000. The city also planned to
purchase and develop land for commercial
use, she said.
The estimated cost of the projects in the
application totals $247,000. About $36,000
or about 15 percent was added to cover
administrational costs, she said, bringing
the ' total application to $283,000.
Lopez-Grant said she is also still
awaiting HUD approval of Iota Main-tenance,
the firm that submitted a partial
bid for another housing rehabilitation
contract. The intent of the project is to
rehabilitate 28 homes, but the company
only bid on seven of them.