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being devoted to 1FT's.
TWP. - Que tio Schren noted that many
re rai d t Benton Town- local governm nta1 units in
ship' Board of Trustees meeting ichigan have exceeded their
to wheth r the board SEV' by over 40%, and th t th
tretched it If too thin, by state survey found tha the ex-
granting many indu rial tax ce had not threatened the
batement it h . The pro economic curity of th area.
and con ere debated during The first motion was to ap-
d' ion on R B Rebuilders :' f e . year 1FT for R B
reque t for an 1FT. ebuilders, It as defeated 3 to
Tre urer Jame Culby 4, with Clerk Jake Scott, and
recommend d granting ix year Tru tees Boothby, Lane and
1FT, as R & B had already been Jeffer on di nting.
granted an 1FT everal years pre- Th second motion wa to
viou, and becau Benton approve a 12 year 1FT for R
To nship h d . ued 1FT' in B. It was approved 4 to 3, with
exce of five percent of its Supervi or Charles Zollar, Trea-
tate qualized value. urer CuI by , and Tru tee
R B, th first industry to argaret Crishal di nting.
move into the Urbandale Indus- The board t ovember 20
trial P r ,is proposing to build a the public hearing date for a
15,000 sq. foot building, and proposed 1FT for Patterson
hire 12 ne . employees over the Printing on Territorial Rd.
next t 0 year. Patter on is adding 30000 sq.
Robert un president of R feet to its pre nt ite, plans to
R B, tated he w not happy purch over 00 000 in new
ith a 6 year 1FT, and he felt aquipment and hire eight ne
that the bigger busines s in employee .
Benton Township ere getting The board al 0 p d a unan-
the better breaks. imous resolution, that it will be
He d of the Berri n County considering granting 1FT's not
Economic Development Dept., for the maxium 12 years, but for
Chari Schren handed out re- roughly 4 to 8 years.
sults of # hi an at urvey, The board Halloween
and of survey done on 1FT in tric or treat hours for Oct. 31
Benton Township. from 5 to 7 p.m. Clerk Scott
The town ip urvey found announced that the Oct. 13
th t of the 25 companies receiv- police auction of ob lete
ing t adatements, four ar no equipment raised 11,293. Scott
longer oper ting, one h a 54% felt it ' as very cce ful",
deere in employment, one The board also heard from
had a 14% incre - but th Kelly Angelo, repre nting the
project as not completed, and Reeder St. Bloc watch club,
fifteen re operating above ell as re 'dents of Greenley
their propo d employment Ave. Angelo requested the board
vels. co ider installing du to dawn
Of the 26 local units in light and a "Children at Play"
Berrien County that have' ued tgn on Reeder, ell exter-
IFf's, four have exceeded their minating the rats and roaches
SEV' by higher percentage currently residing at 1541
than Benton Township's eight Reeder, though recently
percent. One of th . Benton condemned h not been tom
Harbor, ith 19% of_it' ��� .� _
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Greenley Ave. re idents ub­
mitted a petition reque ing the
bo rd "deem it nece ry' to
pave half mile of Greenley.
ore than 50% of 'prop rty
owners with frontage on
Greenley igned the petition, but
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a few re idents expre d con­
cern to th quality of road
construction, with drainag
being poor due to the high water
tabl there.
Scott inform d the residents
that the 'deeming nece ary , is
fir tep in Malot of
red tape" in order to get
road paved, d the board eoul
not ure th . dent of t
quality, or even the type. of con-
truction u d.
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HARBOR - Ber-
rien County Elections Com­
mission ruled that th language
in the petition to recall Benton
Harbor City Mayor Wilce Cooke
p sed the clarity test and can
now be circulated.
George Wysinger, city resi­
dent pushing the recall of
Cooke had hi first attempt
turned down because the petit­
ion did not pass the clarity test.
embers of the commission
are: Judge Donald Dick, Berrien
County Chief Probate Judge'
William Heyn County Treasurer'
and Forre t Kesterke Berrien
County Clerk.
In a letter to the commis-
'on, Cooke wrote,' yinger's
petition faJ the test due to
very poor ntence tructure and
very poor literary style." Cooke
further stated, ,"S ntences are 0
compound .that no one knows
how many of the items listed
in each sentence are meant to
be charges and ho many are
meant ·to be adverbal phrases
or adjective phr describing
the charges."
y inger' petition calls for
an election to recall ayor
Cooke for the folIo ing reasons:
- et in clo d se sion with
the city commission on or
bout July 16, 1984 to agree to
levy an dditional 4.25-mil tax
for the upcoming tax year and
an unknown, imilar amount for
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each of the next 30 years to
payoff unfunded pension liabil­
ities pursuant to a court order,
but not budgeted or appro­
priated by the city commission.
- et in closed e sion on or
abour July 23, 1984 with the
city commission and agreed to
pay 3,200.00 to City Trea urer
Richardo John on for dam a e
to John n' car. John n
said the damage resulted from
an accident that occurred whil
he was on city busine . Con­
trary to state la , Johnson h d
no insurance, nor did he pro­
vide Cooke and the Com­
mi ion with a police report
of the accident.
After the meeting, Coo e said
all charge e
, fal and erroneou ."
"I don't belie it will hap-
pen," he dded . ., d 't thin .
he will be abl to recall me.'"
According to Coo e
is making giant strid
is a conspiracy to ham it
progre .
Wysinger before the meetin
said Cooke thre tened to rin
him to hi kn " if he e r did
thi again. ysin r indi ted
that he ha been receivin
similar threats from Coo'
supporters.
Sr Ce ter
date chan
BE 0
Senior Citizens Ce ter,
Pipestone, Benton rbor, .
es to announce a date
two rvices hich
viousJy announced
to e p ce October 23.
o , co� date U
o for t 0 niees: th
of rpl food' ems
taking of ni ID.
photo.
The nominal c of on
dollar will be mad for nior
photo ten.
Tho ishing ddition in-
formation may contact tt
Smith, th Center director t
the center 927-2497·