An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner FRIDAY March 27, 1998 • THE· • Volume 124 Number 42 Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid Newark, DE Permit No. 26 250 Student Center• University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 City approves downtown partnership BY MARYCHRISTINE DALY Roser said establishing businesses in Newark for the city to raise money for its own purposes. Copy Editor wi II be made easier by advising owners at the "I don't think the city has a clue what the people City Counci I voted unanimously Monday to Planning Department. She said this involves who do business on Main Street really need or create a partnership which promises to enrich providing a plan of action to assist. businesses with want," Del Collo said. "All we are to them is Newark's economy and bring new waves of vitality connections to other various city departments, such revenue." downtown. as the electric department. "Ultimately the only ones the partnership City Manager Carl Luft said the primary pmpose "We want to maintain the businesses we have benefits is the city, not the businesses." of the Downtown Newark Partnership is to merge now, but we want to fill the gaps in the retail mix so In addition to increased licensing fees, city costs present city organizations, such as the Newark that we're not just a mirror image of the mall.'' she will also be covered by financial assistance from the Parking Authority and the Newark Business said. "We want something to make it unique." university. The university agreed to add $24,000 to Association, into one organization concerned with Roser said she hopes to bring more restaurants, its annual $120,000 properly tax . management of downtown policies. special interest shops and cultural events to Newark President David P. Roselle said the university is According to Luft. the goals of the partnership to increase its public attraction. enthusiastic about its role in the Downtown Newark are to attract new businesses to the downtown area The city's gross cost to establish the new Partnership. under the direction of Maureen Roser, assistant partnership is $146,000, Luft said. This makes a "We recognize that the appearance, services. planning direttor. $53,200 increase to present city costs. quality and variety of downtown is imponant to the Luft said there is no precise date for when the Roser said the increase will cover operation university as well as to individual members of the new pannership will become effective, but he and expenses to fund the partnership for the upcoming faculty, staff and student body," he said. his staff are pushing for July I. year. In addition. the city plans to hire another In addition to providing financial assistance. Roser said the partnership was suggested by the planner so Roser can attend to the partnership's Roselle agreed to sit with the mayor and city HyettPalma marketing analysts hired last year by business plans. manager as a permanent partnership board member. City Council, the Newark Business Association and Luft explained the money will come from tax John R. Armitage, director of government the university in a joint collaboration. · dollars, the funds from the national Community relations, said the university plays a huge role in "One of the key recommendations was to Development Block Grant and a $25 increase to Newark's economy. develop an umbrella organization which would Newark 's annual business licensing fees for "Students spend $83 million beyond room and coordinate and increase communication with the establishments with more than five employees. board and tuiti on on the local economy. and various entities downtown," she said. Currently the fees range between $151 and $410 university employees spend another $80,000."" he Ro er said she proposes to enhance Newark's based on the number of employees and the occupant said. "It makes sense that the University o f economy by implementing more vigorous capacity of the establishment. Delaware has a say in the development of Newark."' THE REVIEW/ John Chabalko marketing strategies and making it less difficult for Outer Limits owner Don Del Collo said he feels The Downtown Newark Partnership will combine existing new businesses to come to Newark. raising the price of business licen~es is another way see DOWNTOWN page A4 organizations into one group responsible for benefitting Newark. Ashley looks to Council will .. tackle 'nonsense' make public BY JEN IFER L. TOWERS the whole idea of there being no Sraff Reporrer opponent is just not American,'" she Newark needs a back-to-basics, said. no-nonsense approach in the way it If Ashley is successful, she said deals with politics, according to there are four main changes she Marguerite Ashley, a candidate for would like to accomplish: minutes mayor. Arid if she' elected, she said • a reorganization in real estate hat's what the city will get. handling; BY CHARLES DOUGIELLO neutral. .. Ashley wants to put civility and • improved transi t; Cit) Neu·s Ediwr Godwin was charged with professionalism back into the city's • complete support for the Newark c ity officials released violating the ci ty 's e thics code by government. she said. During this Downtown Newark Partnership the tran sc ripts from a June Shirley Tarrant, a resident. who y e a r s recently established by City <;:ouncil; executive sess ion .meeting felt that Godwin had acted election and Tues day, after the Court of improperly A look at on April • more professionalism when Chancery ruled that some of the in sending Newark's 14 , she is dealing with conflict. discussio n during th·e meeting the memo ready to However, her main goal is to violated the Freedom of to council. mayoral take the create a healthy mix of property Information Act. According political renters and owners, she said. The transcripts of the June 9 to Tarrant, candidates leap to do " Right now , the real estate is c losed-door meeting were made Godwin so. being pitched to investors to make a public after council decided at its h a d Ashley, 45. has been profit off of renting to students," she Monday meeti ng that it would not a ttempted contemplating running for office for said. " I would like to see more appeal the Court of Chancery's to block the past four years, she said, but people make a permanent move. decision. GODWIN Goldstein's always th ought she was too busy to " Indexes show the higher the During the illegally held nomination take on the responsibility because of percentage of rentals in a executive ·because s he her career and her family. community, the more problems a sess i on, had once sued him for damages '"When I heard that it was going to neighborhood has. Moderate is great, THE REV LEW/ John Chabalko council done to her car while it was in his be an uncontested election. I knew it Mayoral candidate Marguerite Ashley is a university graduate discussed care at his service stati on on Ro ute was the year I had to run, because see GRADUATE page A6 and the mother of three sons. t h e 896. nominati on Godwin denied th e allegations of Leslie and s tated he didn ' t even Goldstein. a remember the lawsuit. ' uni ve r s ity ' .. ~ ' In the executive sess ion Presley professor, '· ' • ; ;"! transcripts. Councilman Gerald J . Service with benefits ~ , o.Blo.<;;. _ ...... i~:.. ~ to the Grant questioned Godwin's Board of T URNER memory. calls it Ethics. The According to the transcripts , AmeriCorps supplies graduates with funds and fun meeting also dealt with a memo Godwin said: '·I' ve had a number BY SHANl A. BROWN "I didn't like MBNA because I relief assistance. sent to coun ci l members by of situations where people have Sw!J Reporter was locked into the same routine Last year, AmeriCorps was Councilman Harold F. Godwin come to me and say, 'Something quits regarding the political affi li ati on of happened to my car while it was in While most graduating seniors day after day. responsible for teaching and spend their last semester scribbling " I wanted to do something tutoring 508,493 children, building Goldstein. your care and custody,' and l turn BY CHARLES DOUGIELLO it over to the in surance company. resumes together, pestering working with 1,214 homes , and planting City Neh'S Editor In hi s memo. Godwin stated that council should nominate professors for recommendations people as 24,307,203 trees. And then there were two. '·Ncwarkers who are politically sec EXECUTIVE page A6 and frantically scanning th e opposed to Applicants can apply to any of John H. Presley dropped out of c/assifieds, there are severa l sitting in front the programs affi I i a ted with the mayoral race Tuesday for options oth er than jobs to explore of a computer AmeriCorps, regardless, of personal reasons. following graduation. screen all day," location. Presley, a general contractor in In this parr of an occasional she said. Elisa Diller, advisor for the Newark for the last 20 years. series focusing on these AmeriCorps uni versity's chapter of IFC to hold delivered a letter to the Board of alternatives, The Re view will was where AmeriCorps, said there are many Elections stating his desire to examine AmeriCorps. Woollens found reasons for seniors to consider withdraw from the race. what s he ,was joining AmeriCorps following Presley entered the race right Tired of the monotony of staring searching for. graduation. before the deadline on March 16. second Rush . at a computer screen for hours at a "AmeriCorps " With the wide range of The 54-year-old was pledge periods.