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State Represen� Alma
Stallworth, who was oa.e of the
state legislators present, aid
. "Dot true.·
Two of Ediso estions
were totally rejected both by the
. tors � the mayor, she
said. One ugestion her-
self co . dered p'o .• she
said, though she could Dot ac-
. cept i until EdisoD in 0 ifor MaI:'IIIa G. Scott
greater specifia.
A seCOD d meeting as Office, during the first five city
scheduled for Wednesday hall business days of the month,
December 21, after the . a printed schedule mailed .
Michigan CitizeD goes to press - to city customers regarding
for the holiday i ues, business ho and dates. .
Neither Ferris nor Bufalini - Getting another ageDCY,
has told the paper a1tema- such as First ndependenee
rives Edison suggested, because Bank, to perfo Iy all the
the process of negotiatio is ervices and fun ions of. an
till going 0 Bdison Customer Service
Ho ever, Walter Crider, Facility in what Edison calls
President of the Highland Park wsuper ore" or Wmoney store"
Caucus Club, stated be heard arrangement
from an inside source that
Edison came up ith three
proposals.
-lDstaUing a secured pay-
ment box in city hall, re an
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Detroit Edison reported as
proposing several s tions
for dealing with die problems to
customer; and die aty of High ..
land Park, caused by the
planned closing of their High­
land Park office.
The Michigan Pub . c Service
Commission organized negotia­
tions between Detroit Edison
and Highland Park Mayor Mar­
tha G. Scott, who· leading a
protest against the dosiDp. If a
mutually satisfactory aDSVt'er is
not arrived at, commission offi­
cials promised to step into the
pi cture and hold Iaearings on the
subject in Highland Park.
Both Fred Perris, Ad­
ministra� . t to Mayor
Scott and Marty Bufalini,
Detroi Edison's Supervisor for
Media Relatio , told The­
Michigan CitizeD that Detroit
Edison suggested several alter­
natives to keeping the office
open, which the yor rejected
unacceptable.
Bufalini of Detroi Edison
stated, �veryone at the meeting
agreed with Edison's alterna­
tives, except the mayor. W Ac­
cording to Buf . i's ceouat,
the included state legislators,
who had b eked Mayor Scott at
the public h�
types pfbill payments, including Crider called the first two
check and money orders over- I "ludiaous.·
due and partial payments would NoOn, that the Highland
be accepted. '. Park Edison office handled
- Opening a bill payment 21,441 payments a month,
. dOw in the City Treasurers Crider asks, ·Can you imagine
the J.ine..ups on the first five days
of the business month around
city hall (if Edison were to have
speciat office there)1 It would
make the cheese and com­
modity lines; unemployment
lines and Wayne County
Department of Social Service
lines look like mere block club
affairs and would add one more
indignation to those already suf- I
fered by this citizen group." I
Crider adds that the problem
would be heigh ed by the fact
that city hall is open only four
days a wee and the Treasurer's
Office i closed from noon to
1 p.m.
Representative Stallworth in
a hurried interview confirmed
that such suggestions were
made adding that all the legis­
lators agreed with the mayor in
rejecting it
The third suggestion �about
an ageaicy opening up a special
office ere bills could be paid, :
she coatended, could beacc:ept- I
rable if i p!ovided Edison cus-
tomers With the -run range of
services" the current Highland
Park office does.
.. She stated that Edison had
not fully clarified this point at
the first meeting, but might in
the second! one on December
21.
Walter
Crider,
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