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BENTO HARBOR - A
beam· :12 will be held OIl a
pending plan for the ae y
released, formerly &w.eo Co -
munit Development Bloc
Or (COBO) Funds, accord­
. to a memo from Communtity
Deve pment Director Steve
MaDDil· Ia to the city ••
AI of press time, DO e for
the beariDg bad been an- ..
DOUDCed.
Three years of funds
e frozea in October, 1987 by
the Detroi office of Housing
and U rbaa Develop ent
(HUD) beca of the citys in-
bility to manage tbe. money.
With the arrival April 4, of Man­
niDg to head the city' Co -
unity De\lelopment Dep -
lit, HUD releued the money.
There is $13,974 rem.ining in
1985 COBO kitty, aDd Man- .
• • propoIiDg the city d
it for code enforcement as
oripWly plaaDed
Por 1986 there i $ 520,(0).00
d to t e city from HUD d
ano her S 522,000.00 due for
1987 for a grand tptal of
$1,055,974.00 available for com-
uaity. .
The plan for .1986
Of
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loe I author
° Story hour continues this
WedD y at 10' LJD. for 3-5
years olds.
No movi wi! be shown on
S turday, May 7 beca the
library will be closed due to the'
Blossomtime Par de.
The Second Annual Local
Authors Reception will be held
Tuesday, May 3, at 7 p.m.
Co and meet your favorite
local amho . The reception will
be held in the librar "
Books added to the dult
dc�nt are: Hot Money' by
D· Francia; "The Icarus a­
d " by Robert Ludlum; "The
B er er" by Jautiwl
Kcllcnun; -rbc
by Cynthia Freeman; a
"Dalva" by Jim H .
illio
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May 1-7,
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funds as propoICd by originally planned for Commer-
CD director remain. the cia! Acquisition would go in-
origiDally planned for: -stead to beef up Demolition.
Reh bilitation/Code Enforce- And the $SO, planned for .
ment $330,000; Recreation Down own Improvements
50,000; Crime Preveatioe ould no go to additiona .
SS,<m; Administration S3S,<m. Code Eoforcem ccordiDg
In addition, there are two to Manniog's plan.
proposed The SSO,OOO With the 1987 funds, Man-
Tal
The talk of recall· swirling arouDd OIl Harbor
Recall efforts oaly lead to more of the frustration they
1 symbolize. . •. .
The DeW mayor IW no clear e. It bent upon
. him to . broad a scope of the community possible.
He Jet, to our ,to UDicate·th the min-
. • era, the leaders who reach the people in the COID-
mwUcy. •
The mayor e himself. a mayor in '
a predomiDaDtly B town oaly the problem d
reinforces the Deed for him to remain in cootinual
commUDicatioo. His failure to do So • rea in the chaos
!' already startiaa to urrouDd � .
mo�D
ning is proposing to keep:
Rehabilit tibn/Code Enfoce­
ment S290,OOO; Crime Prevea­
tion $15,000; De olition
$30,000; Seoi Citizc $7,000;
Recreation S50,000; Ad--
ministration $9O,(XX) .,
These chaDges are csted:
Instead of $15,000 for Com­
munity roycment, M�
SS,(D} of that to go to
Senior Citizcns; $15,000 in­
<led for Vacant Lot Clean-up
uld go. cad to Rehabilita­
tion/Code Enforcement; and
Ma� ould take $10,000
from Building Stabilization and
dd it to Code Enforcement
Under the new � the total
expeD • by category uld
be: R • . . aICode Enfor-
cement 1698,974; D olition.
$80,000; Crime Pr vention
20,000; ecreatio 100,000;
Senior Citizens $12, ; Ad-·
m;nistatioD Sl2S,(XX)
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