What Ferraro owes
, Jesse Jackson
MCP
conduct its cond annual
Dollar Day demonstration
during Labor Day eek to
educate Blac con men and to
dramatize to th busine com­
munity th immen purchasing
po r of BI c, AAC2 Ex­
Direct 0 Benjamin L
announced.
d mo ation will be
d Sept. 1-.8 cro the coun­
try.
During that
branches ill urge and
eir pporters to S2
bi and Susan B. An OIly
dollar co'
o
'''U'IoA'''''''S determination to open
up more job and b
opportunities for B . Approx-
Dna ely 36 million circu-
t during that demonstration.
The AACP will continue to
licit pport for the demon-
ration e ch year "until B cks De
pur-
gaiIi me mblance of economic
parity," Hoo d.
Boo stre d that Black
Dollar Day is a demonstration
. of real Black po er, a "positive,
forceful and convincing way" to
remind the busine community
that Blac pend more than
1 SO billion year on goods
andservice.
Blac Dollar Day . part of
the AACP's Fair Share move-
ment hich economic ju
tice for Blac and other minor­
ities, Rash d . d.
. e busin ve long
reaped the benefits of Blac
buying power. 0', that ealth
m be shared with the B ck
community," he added.
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BENTO AARBOR - B o.
an, re 'dent and taxpayer -
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Freddie L. oore, 53� Colfax,
has written State Repre nt tive
lad Stacey (R-Berrien Springs)
to reque an opinion from the
state attorney general on the
city commission's d .
closed ° on to
courts spreading $2.6
on the tax rolls 0 r
30 yean.
oore said th proc::ed
getting an attorney ral
ion ° to go through
repre ntati e.
In his letter to S cey ,
notes the city coDUluaaon
clo die' on to settle qu
tion - of how to payoff the ° $2.6
don in pension fund
The police and rue
fund had been tapped fo
by the city in the early "O's
and late '60's. A court de . 0
in 197 4 ordered the city to e t
an annual payment of 33000
on the arrears.
The city had not
payment in the
and initiated co
"fmd a ay to p Y 0
arrears, City Attorn y E
to d the commisaon
20 meetin .
Taxpayers fo
All city commissioners app r-
ently ith th ditional
t levy non h spo en out
gain the tax.
embers of th city commi -
sion include: ayor Ilee Cooke,
Chari Hend' n, Char s Yar­
bro gil, rno d Bolin, el
Govato, Juanit Echo, Ran-
dall Juer n, Ralph Cren
and orv
Of tho me alre dy
been found guilty of Open eet­
in Act vio tio by the county
pro cuter in 1980. They e:
We· , Bolin, Echols, Govato.
In his letter to Stacey, oore
notes, "I be ° that t Open
eetin Act provid th t any
ction taken in vio tion of the
bmitted to the Voters?" Act' null and void d m y be
If er to eit r set . de by a Court of compe-
of the abo questions' DO, hat tant juris . ction."
ory of the court
n ppe . The court or-
t the commission had
d to.
oore is ° g th Attorney
to an er three ques-
- 'I
ilgon All
c to School
Information
25c'
• !
ro
remedy is availab to tax­
payers to h the Court Order
t 'de?"
oore further the attor-
ney general to initi te hat ever
ction i appropriate if the an er
to either of the fu 0 qu tions
no.
The city' no taxin proper­
ty at a rate of 31.7 mills, th max­
imum allo ed by la. city
r has estimated that the
dditional vy for the pen . on
fund during the fust year will be
pproximately 4.25 additional
mills.
