VOL. III O. 51
OV.25 -DEC.1, 1981
" er id Local Devel-
00-
been in
for i dling of
rted, tenant-occup··
rti 0 d by the
"ce
,received
throogh
r
In F bruary of 1979,
Te . b Corporation,
131 Graham, nton Har·
ived 68,000. It
Tech-Fab my,
ly th t city ttor
orris G "
of divertin for to
25
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ing Company, ain and
Second, Benton Harbor,
had its 249,300 SB loan
ppro d. ity Stamp-
ing dec! ed bankrup icy
the same year.
E.A.s.A., Inc h
490 000 1 proce d
for it by Rive . e. Accor
ding to G vin, that
for B" Boy restaurant
in Three Rivers, ichigan.
T in City etal Fin-
. . , Corp. also recei ed
SB 200,
000 thro id .
. City etals had earli
er recei ed 240,000 SBA
ougb e t;Jnited\
Community Development
Corp ra ion COC).
According to SBA no
plica ·0 bmi ted
ere denied
unab
ount of
o n u . G " fee, proce
cretary of Ri r· de. or h dling fee coll •
In pril, 1980 the ted by Ri r ide on the
defunct Quality Stamp-
nee Coo e om
into office onday night
promi s and pIe
from commissioners to bury
political hatchets.
olitical
dominated the e Ding's
bu . , ho ever, and the
be een the Coo e
force and tho of former
yor Joel Patter n ere
1OI,.,«:ot.
Coo e ppointment
of IUpporter Commissioner
Yarbrough to the
. -A- . e board ac-
b the commission·
overturned one of
Pattenon's 1
45 minu
r
Riverside's attempt to
11 tenant the city-owned
home they ere occupying
at prices three time or
more the amount of past
due taxes, and in bstan
dard condition as revealed
by this p per in summer
of 1980.
The erne inve tie
gated by the Attorney Gen
eral and d the te to
op deeding reverted
propertie to the city.
. erside offici t
that· e p . ed they
hoped to u the proceed
from th of the home
to b home in th
city.
us. District Judge
. chard Enslen rul
23, that Carl Brown
fired from his job ith
Benton Harbor city for
political re ns.
Coo
e
pared re lution wlUch call- ing Commission,"
ed for the ouster of all Coo e ed commis
housing commi . on mem- sioners to submit name of
bers. . potential member to th
Coo e' tatement city m er by Friday,
re d: " . . . whereas th so that ction could be
majority of its pr nt en next onday.
memb r ip has un . Iy After di 'on about
fit to e eel i presi- het r or not the com-
dent, p yor Joel P tt- 11USSlon empo ered to
erson ho recently has been e ch action, the matter
indicted by the US. go - tabled.
ernment, aDd hereas, ch Patte d county
irrespon ible action p ces cornrnilsioner Charte Hen-
in jeopardy pre nt and derson are both housi
future federal funds hich commission membe and
are 10 desperately needed to ts of Coo e.
upgrade the dud of The ppro
public hou . within our brough or Pro-tern
communi�." n by Coo e. The
Cooke then called for action t P tenon
the commisIion to uthor- pporter Arnold Bo·
ize city er to out of title. The
"rem from appo Pro-tem
office aD cumnt metnoe
ion, d by
in the hope of
city Attorn y
Gavin ended in
Coo e, ckin the
votes to force Gavin out, an
nounced that the i e will
be brought to the floor t
next onday' meeting.
Th mo political
rno of the e�ning by
Cooke foD eel. tatement
by P ttenon made during
citizen' comments sec
tion of the meeting.
Pattenon offered his
pport to Cooke, com
. on Uld the city. He
then reminded Cooke t
aDd former ayor
Jo ph re to the
reality that in Benton Har
bor the &1 of nctory is
James
char e that
fired for - political re
not uph Id by the
Judge ho c eluded th t
Jame fired becau
o
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of Y r-
of his poor or record
and the city's financial
conditio .
Remedie ill be d -
po
of ac . director of com
munity de lopm nt ter
Davis had n tennin ted
ted to fire Carl forl
of job perform ceo
"From t .
scenario I m
that Hender n
cided in
other bench
. , th Bro ttor-
ney, T t Parrish ..
onday's de . . on
the out com of an October
trial stemming from : tb
1979 ruin of 0
n folIo ing th re-e ct
ion of Joel P tterson. Both
Bro pported
Ilee Coo e in that elec
d charged in court
that pport had co
them their job 0 ..
tion of federal civil righ
Jud re ted ho
the yor d Commi . on-
er Arnold Bolin h d planned
to fire Carl.
The Jud
1
En n ruled that
the