"PARTNERS FOR ECO OMIC PROGRESS: Business, Government and Education
focus of eli cu sion during a recent meeting of the Highland Park Chamber of Commerc a convened
i? th Conference.Center of Highland Par Community College. Standing,(r-l) front row - Wally Wil
hams, past president Booker T. Wa hington Bu lnes As ociation; Emmett Moten Jr., lunch on
speaker and director of community and economic developm nt for tbe City of Detroit; Geo e Howell
executive �irector, Highland Park Development Corp.; Roy L. Williams, community relations manager:
Cb� ler Corp., and guest. Back ro . (l-r) Dr. Comer Heath III, pre i4ent'HPCC; Chris Allen, vice
president/administrator Detroit Osteopathic Ho pltal and pre ident of th Chamber; Tom Ballard,
Ch mber program chair; Chuck Gordon, dean of community ervices and corporate training at H PC �.
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By Ron Sei I
HIGH LA PARK - Christine
Franklin, w 0 was inaugerated
to the Highl nd Park City Coun
cil in J anua y accu ed former
Mayor Rob t B. Blackwell and
� the last city ouncil of setting up
� employme t policies which
added to e nse in the emer
gency city b dget without con
sidering the ull cost to the city
in a time 0 severe financial
. crisis.
Franklin oted that the pre-'
vious council oted last fall to in
crease the alary of non
. unionized a ointees by 4.8%,
because a nion agreement
gave such arise to its me'Vbers.
In doings , Franklin charged
- that the form r mayor and coun
cil did not c nsider how much
thi cost the c y r how much the
ap intces w re getting before.
, he noted th i'1 c ntr st to the
union cmplo ecs, some of the
appointees w re in administra
tive or super ory p sit ions and
made higher salaries to gin
with. I
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Tre surer L cille J nes t Id
said that he u not give the
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without exten ive checking into
her records but estimat d that
such in rea in appointee
salaries avera&ed out to SI,OOO to
2,000 a year per per on.
I J nes stated th the COI11-
mun icat io n r the f rmer
mayor's office to the city council
did not mention how much thi
would cost the city.
Franklin emph ized that she
w·. not sayin that app intees
w re gelling 1 0 much money,
but � he felt ci ffi ial had t
give "more consideration to our
ability to pay,"
Franklin n ed that because
of Iinan ial pr blem Highl nd
Park had to eliminate c m
munity . crvices youth service ,
mental health nd substance
abuse programs for 'victims of
drug addiction. -.J'
Jone emphasize that it had
always been Highland Park
policy to give nonunionized ap
pointees the arne percentage
. increase as they v to union
member , "for as long as I've
been here", but she added that
with the serious financial crisis
in the city, it might be adviseable
to reconsider this.
J ones noted that under the
city charter, the council was
given power over money, "but it
alway uses an excuse not to use
that power." '
Franklin also criticized a
resolution passed last year
giving employees 50% on all
past accumulated vacation and
sick pay without setting a maxi
mum limit on the amount that
could go, unu ed, which she
stated was common policy in
certain corporati ns.
Franklin said that a past .
Highland Park ordinance had
set uch a maximum, and the
previous ityadmini tration had
acted ille 'ally in ov rturnin an
ordinan .e with a r. luti n.
The new Mayor Martha ott
placed such item in the em r
gency city budget, which the all
current city council members,
including Franklin voted to
adopt early in February.
Franklin noted that while she
had urged the past council not to
create these policies, she
believed that once they had done
so they had made a L:>mmitment
on behalf f the city, which the
new mayor and c uncil were
obliged to honor.
he added she would be
going to meetings of different
bloc clubs to di cus with
citizens the em rg ncy budget,
in order to inform them and gc;
their ideas.