Races for ANC Jobs Gain More Attention

75 Candidates For Commissioner Face Opponents

Advisory neighborhood commissioners are increasingly visible as they make important recommendations to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, the Board of Zoning Appeals and the Historic Preservation Review Board.

Now their long-disregarded and disrespected commissions are beginning to attract political attention.

"As I drive around the city, I see more and more signs of real competition for these jobs," said D.C. Council member David A. Catania (R-At Large). About 75 of the city's roughly 300 advisory neighborhood commission positions are being contested Tuesday.

The ANC system was established by federal law in 1976 under the city's Home Rule Charter to represent neighborhoods and advise city government. Each commissioner represents about 2,000 people.

By law, commissioners' views must be given "great weight" in decisions of city agencies, such as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.

Several ANCs have recently been instrumental in forging agreements with retail establishments to curb the sale of single cans of beer and drug paraphernalia.

Catania called the ANCs "desperately important" in communicating the voice of the community to city government.

"There are imperfections" in the ANCs, he said, but the "vast number of ANC commissioners work hard and need more tools and more respect."

The system's costs $893,000, Catania said.

Information about ANC boundaries can be found at www.anc.dc.gov.

The ANC candidates are:

WARD 1:

1A

1A01 Jacqueline C. Arguelles;

1A04 Mack A. James;

1A05 Elizabeth McIntire, William

H. Jordan;

1A06 Jenna J. Moheyer;

1A08 Charles E. Matiella;

1A09 Marie Whitfield;

1A10 Lenwood "Lenny" O.

Johnson;

1A11 Evette Suesbury-McDowell.

1B

1B01 Lawrence T. Guyot Jr., Myla

Moss;

1B02 Philip C. Spalding;

1B03 Catherine Hammonds, M.A.

Doll Fitzgerald;

1B04 Deborah R. Thomas;

1B05 D. Edward Farrar, Jarvis

Houston;

1B06 Theodore "Ted" Butler;

1B07 Sertira "Cookie" A. Wilson;

1B08 Charles E. Glover;

1B09 Sinclair "Nupe" Skinner;

1B10 Dana Mozie Jr.;

1B10 Kelvin P. Esters.

1C

1C01 Alan Roth;

1C02 Nikolaos Apostolides;

1C03 Bryan Weaver, Robert J.

Donkis;

1C04 Michael Piacsek; Mindy

Moretti;

1C05 Ken Levy;

1C06 Andrea Broaddus, Jobi

Javanka Magana;

1C07 Eleanor Johnson, Josh

Gibson;

1C08 Daniel R. Brody, Jeff

Coudriet.

1D

1D02 Micheal Capel, Will Grant;

1D03 Jack McKay;

1D06 Dominic K. Sale, Jejchelle M.

Stevenson.

WARD 2

2A

2A01 David Lehrman;

2A02 Richard James Price;

2A03 Maria Tyler;

2A04 James W. Lewis;

2A05 Dorothy Miller;

2A06 Joshua Singer.

2B

2B01 Rob Halligan;

2B02 Vince Micone;

2B03 Bob Meehan, Jeffrey S. Hops;

2B04 Darren A. Bowie, Matthew

E. Rhoades;

2B05 Carol Mitten;