Style has more on Wolf’s legacy

“I’m done,” says Wolf, emotional after discovering on Monday that 14 of her petition signers had been found not to meet the requirement of being registered voters in the 3rd precinct where she serves.

She says she will not mount a write-in campaign to retain her seat: “It’s not respectful of the system — of the process.”

“Ultimately, it’s me. I talked about accountability,” Wolf says, noting her eleventh-hour attempt to make the election filing deadline last Tuesday after losing a petition sheet full of names. Wolf congratulated Norma H. Murdoch-Kitt, who will now run unopposed for the seat.

During her three terms in office, Wolf pushed the school system to comply with federal with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Late last year, she was appointed as the lone member of a School Board subcommittee charged with finding money to help the school system comply with that law and a lawsuit settlement.

Most recently, Wolf lobbied City Council and Mayor L. Douglas Wilder for additional money to pay for improvements to bring the school system into ADA compliance.

Both versions of the budget (Wilder and Council are at odds over whose budget is legal) include $5 million earmarked exclusively for ADA improvements. That money is in addition to approximately $2 million Wolf’s subcommittee helped secure from other sources.

“I was a voice for responsibility and reform and I shall continue to be,” says Wolf.