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, The Downtown Devflop- Mayor William Wolf said the
", ment Authority (DDA) and the State had approYed a SS5,OOO
'�:'''::, ,Tax Increment Pinance grant for the Water Street
. Authority (TIFA) boards met Project. But it was only a verbal
, Wednesday, March 8 for their approval at the time.
'. regular monthly meeting. Water Street ne some
During the DDA meeting repairs done before June 89,
the board pproved the follow.. l� work is to be done on the
. illg bills submitted by the Bicentennial Bridge. While the
F'mance Committee: bridge is closed for repairs the
- Clary Nanez, Wood, Hof- traffic is to be detoured to
ficus, RaBkin and Cooper for an Northshore and W ter Street .
amount of $2,169.03 for legal A contract awarded to
service. According to the DDA the Allen Demolition Contrae
Director, Aaron Anthony this . tors, Inc., Saginaw, Michigan for
the final payment The firm rep- the amount of S124,118.75 for
resented DDA in a uit, Alex ,demolition, : three structures,
Little vs DDA, in which the asbestos removal from six struc
charges were dropped. tures andsidewalk removal and
- Plante &: Moran, eer- replacement'
tified public ooountant fi(m fo The board tabled the bi d of
an amount of SS9S.00. Yerington Constructio Com-
- Telephone system lease pany for demolition of struc
termination with AT&T for tures for two sites in the amount
S1,368.24. The current lease was of $34,040.
signed at the Vincent Place. An- During the TIFA meeting
thony said, the bill should be there was much discussion of a
split, and paid equally between bill of S9,OOO from the National
DDA, TIFA and Vincent Fitness Campaign of San Fran-
- Computer software con- cisco, Ca., for execise equip-
tract for the amount of $700. ment that was purchased in 1,s7
Roland A. K1ockow, P.E .. by former City Manager Alex
City Engineer was present at the Little. ,
meeting to fill the board in on Bob Schultheis said, "I don't
otherprojectsofthe1>DA,such think 'we need to spend a dime.
as, the Water Street Engineer- Tb equipment was not taken
ing Project, Britain' Avenue care of and was not oused like
Project, Acquisitio» of Water it should have".
I Street Property and Project "If you go down and take a
Ideas FY 89-90. 100 at it, it's scattered around
like hell and gone," he said
B Anthony said the company
Frieda ro n said if they don't get their money
re-elect they will sue the city.
, ' The Board voted to table the
matter until they had more
details.
: Covert - Frieda Brown was
elected to serve a 2 year term as
president, according to Mae
Lucas, publicity chairperson. Commi· n
Change in Constitution term
of office will be 2 years except Coo D d fr 10
for trustees staggered years ser- transfer because there is already
vice up to 4 years terms. " . t· ale t busi .
\fan Buren United Civic Or- �e ��!�g t e-ou usmess 10
ganization established in 1961 is "It is difficult, if not impos
a Van Buren County based non- ibl t th tavern
profit organiz tion head- Sl � to segreg e e .
te d i thei C·· Cente bUSlDrl from the take-out busi-
quar re ID eU' IYlC r I· . . de
. Co t, Mich· ness. e oitermg, IDa quate
m ver Jg8D. ki d th h bee
ThepurposeofVBUCOisto par m� a� ere .ave. n
promote the general welfare of sever" lDa�ents of cnme 10 the
the public, stimulate inter in area, e said .
� . the social, educational, political M� or "Wolf 5al� Napoleon
and moral growth of the com- Lark LS an outs�ding me�r
munity. of our co�munlty '. working
Other elected officers are:. with th Police Athletic League
Benn tte Mickle, vice presi- (PAL) program an� the vote
dent; Ruth Moore, secretary; � on on the choice o� loca
Step�anie Howard, asst. t.lon t transfer the hquor
secretary; Norvel 'Ha.ney, lice:e' er business the com-
treas, rer; Carlotta Miller, missio voted unanimously:
fman9a1 seaetar)? Tr�tees, (4 _ transfer Zina Sterling
years1 John Brimfield, H. to fill e vacancy created by
George Leon�rd, Charles 'Emma orris, wbo was hired as
Pater on, Phyllis Burton and I . on on the City
I Os blair c errca pers
car � . Manag 's staff.
Trustees, (� years) Thomas 0 sell ci y-owned
Brown, Lorr�e Br?WD, Fred house at 723 Madison to
Madden, RubIO Mtller, J c Philan r Martin, Jr., for $1.00.
Prestoh �d l><?rothy London. Martin to demolish the struc-
A special tributeto Mr. �- ture to blain the lot.
Mood e Taylor for ��rv.ng _ T' give a commendation
many s � trustee chairman. for 25 y ars of service to Police
Mr. Ta or did not seek re-elec- Up·' P Schneider.
tioD. .
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