Mrs. Steingold Enters Race

Mrs. Sarah R. Steingold has become the second person to announce candidacy for the Republican nomination to run for City Council in the Fourth Ward. Charles Frank earlier announced for the GOP race in that ward and if both file petitions they will face each other in a primary eb. 21. The seat being sought is currently held by James Stephenson who says he will not seek reelection. A resident of Ann Arbor for the past 13 years, Mrs. Steingold lives at 1722 Sanford Place with her husband (former assistant city attorney Fred Steingold) and their two sons. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University in political science. In announcing her candidacy, Mrs. Steingold said, "The Fourth Ward representative must, of course, be accessible to area reaidents and responsive to thé special needs of the ward. In addition, she must act responsibly on the broader issues which affect all people living in Ann Arbor. In council deliberations, the Fourth Ward representative should be guided by the merits of the particular issue at hand." She said as a council representative she would "avoid voting a particular way for purely partisan reasons. I deplore the excessive partisanship which all too often has unnecessarily polarized tha council and the community." On the matter of the newly enfranchised voters, Mrs. Steingold said, "We must demónstrate to students and other newly-enfranchised voters that our city government provides an effective forum for political and social action. I welcome their constructive participation in our local government." Stating that monetary waste and employé inefficiency have plagued governmental bureaucracies since ancient times, Mrs. Steingold said, "Our own Cith Hall is not immune from these difficulties. Sometimes it appears that city services have declined proportionately as the number of employés has grown. We must carefully examine municipal operations, making such changes as are necessary to maintain a better fiscal balance, while improving the quality of services. "Efficiënt employés should be adequately compensated for their efforts; inefficiënt or unnecessary employés! should be dropped from the public pay-roll," she said, adding citizens "deserve high quality services in such basic areas as street maintenance, refuse collection, Utilities and pólice protection. "At the same time we cannot dismiss those social and recreational programs that make Ann Arbor a unique and desirable place in which to live." Sne said programs that aijd a certain segment of the community often promote the well-being of the entire community. Mrs. Steingold said council "has I ten bogged down in the minutiae of planning" and questioned whther it is ! ble for councilmen to "endlessly debate and then make ad hoc decisions on individual site and area plans." "The council, with the advice of the Planning Commission, should devote its efforts to long-range planning decisions that promote orderly growth," she said. "I believe that Ann Arbor citizens wish to live in aesthetic surroundings with ampie parks and open space, adequate mass transportation, and the type of business enterprises which are compatible with the traditional character of the city. We should avoid ugly commercial strips with their proliferation of gas stations and franchised drive-ins. We should encourage housing developments which offer choices other than standard single family subdivisions on the one hand, and monstrous high-rise apartments on the other," she concluded.