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ByTerry eUy
USKEGO - The Mus e
gon City Commission has re
cei ed a list of demands for use
of the Hotel Project UDAG
fund pay back from the South-
estern ichigan Christian
Leadership Conference (SMC1£).
illiams refured to elabrate
on the demands, saying SMCLC
I wanted to allow the commission
. an opportunity to study the
list before publicizing it.
The commission is expected
to discuss the list Monday night,
illiams said.
C1£ rued suit last month
gainst the City of Mu kegon
. g for an injunction to halt
a $4.1 million federal Urban
Development Action Grant
(UDAG) propo d for the hotel
project.
The SMCLC suit charged
the city h d violated an earlier
greement with the minority
community under that agree
ment, hotel developers re
paid the un G, the funds
would be channeled to a min
ority group for minority econo
mic developer.
Circuit Court Judge R. ax
Daniels denied the motion for an
injunction during a hearing
October 1. Daniels did not
ho ever, dismiss the suit.
". . . I can't ignore the
$1 million in public fund that
have alre dy been spent on the
project," Daniels said. "(But I)
will aIlo the uit to continue
I
on the redistribution" (of the
repayment money).
It is that red' ribution of the
$4.1 million that is the subject.
of the CLC demands pre-
nted to the city, Williams
noted.
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The city i under pressure
to settle with S CLC, William
said, since developers are facing
an October 31 deadline for
completing financing of the
hotel project.
Georg itchell of the Carley
Capital Group e hotel de-
velopers, tated publically,
"It must go. e ve got to start
in October. e mn clo
financially. There' no flexi
bility there. Either it goes in
October or it doesn't."
Bids for the project are good
only through October. If the
project isn't ready to go by then,
construction will have to be
rebid.
Though SMC1£ has been
accused by city spokesperson
of trying to stop the hotel
project, attorney (or the group,
Wendell Davi$ noted, "Our pri
mary intention is not to hurt
the project but to make sure
there is equal justice in federal
funding. Our primary concern
is not to be left out again."
"If anyone i hurting the
project it is the people drag
ging their feet in getting this
ttled," illiam added.
ATTORNEY DORA P. PRI
MUS in egon this week
end, vi ·ting her Aunt and Uncle,
John and Delena Dixon of
1488 arcoux A nue.
Prim a r • ent of
oyean hile
Graduate with Legal
Aide of W em . hipn. e
attended La School at the
Uni e· of otre D , grad-
uating in 1979. bile in th
egon area, Attorney Pri
mu vi ·ted with other friend ,
including Attorney endell
Davi aDei hi ife, Brenda. t
t pre nt time, Attorney Pri
m i practicin Ia in Detroit,
here e· employed a
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As reported in the Septem
ber 28 issue of The Citizen,
minorities have received .01%
of UDAG payback funds to
date.
Rev. Stanley Levy is pre
sident of the Muskegon chapter
S CLC.
The city ha maintained that
SMCLC had no right to me
the uit since the original UDAG
pay back agreement w with a
group called UDAG, no
defunct.
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By Liz Sheppard Coleman
MUSKEGO HEIGHTS
Peter Sartorius, the new Di
rector of Planning and Com
munity Development for the
City of Muskegon Heights, has
goals and objectives girded for
success. He visualizes a new
birth for the city, achievable
with p oitive action and shared
total community involvement.
Mr. Sartorius hopes to share
his vision of enhancing the
over-all community tax base;
improving employment and edu
cational opportunities by stabliz
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both the private and public
sectors, professional and non
professional; devising over-all
posses an ability to work with
people to improve personal per
formance which affect the
quality of education for stu
dents," stated David . Kahn,
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improvement in housing, com
mercial, industrial and human
resources; improving the city's
image, and - haring improve
ments with neighborhood com
munities.
Peter said, "Muskegon
Heights is typical of "declin
ing" communities, but it's man-
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Satorius realizes that he can
only work to help implement
goals and objectives; it i up to
the citizens to provide input
to the City Council. The Coun
cil can then give policy dire
ction to the Heads of Depart
ments, who will in tum to
willing to take positive risks
to adopt a progressive and
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