. ,
IDeIDbCrs- of bon
of Mayor Martha G. Scott.
, Green is aeeuai I the
• . •• of the
city . • vic) te
the charter d or . of
the City of· Park. •
Vio . the charter· a
DUlllISIUmie 0
8eca of cil ,tIWolUII.
C· Attorney DarDeD Diclrer-
on, aD appoiD of yor
Scott, 0 geoerally gives Iepl
dvice to all city officials, •
Ioager the city clerk's wyer.
. Wit' my opi ion th t the
city's Iepl department caD not
be allowed to haDdle this mat
ter," Green ted. "It i obvious
to me that they will do and say
whatever the Mayo teDs them
to, in spite of t the Ia ....•
"Because of th·· adcIed,
-I am of the opinion that they
also violated the charter."
Green tated that will be
king her lawyer to make "a full
investigation of ible viola-
tions of the charter, which she
dded, "will be hared with the
Wayne County Prosecutor' Of
fice and the Attorney General'
Office.·
. One of the main cri .. IDS
Green raised involved the' ue
of Mayor Scott's voiding a con
tract with an mbulance com
pany called Emergency Care
Services, hich city council ap
proved 0 r her veto and ign
ing a contract, without the
knowledge of the council or the
city cler s office, ·th Oakland
Ambulance Service.
, Green state that the city
council· supposed to appr<We
eoatr as and the cler .
pposed to .. the SiDce
GreeD did
o'UJ\,.O ....
ayor Scott's AdmiD' tr -
1M . tant Fred Ferris, noted
the Mayor 4 the right to
bypass "formalities", because of
an ordinance allowi her to
ma e n executive order,
declaring a slate of emergency.
Although members of the
colt Admin' tration admit that
a
Adam Gottlieb, head of
E ergeaey Care Service ,
claims that beiag UDder
reeei . p did per .
biJity to aid citizeas· High
land Park d ODe in the ad
IllinistratiOD tried to CODtact
him to him if • d.
He charges t this part
ofOD8O' of .
co •
In a reso lion passed
eek 0, c:ouacil members
stated that u der Section
246.01 of'� very law iD-
�ked, Elrcaltfte Order 89,
if Mayor Scott declared aD
emu cy, she IeplIy com
pelled to conveae OOUDciI •
lOOn reasonably expedicnr
to get them to perform "its 1egiS
IatWe and admiDistratWe duties
the situation demands- and
"report to th body relatWe to
vice.
Ccuacil, ho ever, COD-
tadect after ID·� valJDbI.
. . tbrouP • special
·d I, a t orized Advisory
CommiIIee·, . d .., Emer-
aeDCY Si t· e· ted" ud
DO periqd of .
the public hei1th, safety,
d welfare, in jeopudy ...•
Admiaistrators were also
aiticized by Councilman Porter
for failing to, teU the council at
replarly scheduled, meetings
bout the a� the mayor had
taken.
Ferr· noted that Gottlieb
suiDg the city for vio tiag
the eoetr d,. in
court, and there reaso to
belie\'e Porter ·0 the side
of Mr. Gottlieb· . t the city.
"There' a questioD of ere
your loyalties lie in this situa
tio • Ferris told Porter.
In a previo mee� Ferris
told the council there bad been
DO suit against the city and the
only court case inYOiYed private
parties against Emergeocy Care
Services.
Porter also aiticized Dicker-
• 1 since • Iepl dminisb'atioll's point of view,
duties iD ohed represeatiDg then we have failed to live Up to
'JDeJlllDers of the council, he the people's trust·
ciL have DOtified � COUD- Councilman Heath, who op
posed giviDg Green a wyer,
DickersoD shot back to argued that the city eked the
Porter, "You De\U - moaey to give.e\a')' of&ciar a
• Wbea I say specialattoraey.
cut me oft. Yau say, I cbl't K P: • • • that the
the prMIege to say ythiDg.. cIwtcr specified that in a boDa
As mum presideDt, it ] fide· e betweea differeat
Porter's job to de· . departments, the council
allowed to speak. authorized to allow a special at-
Porter declared that if Dick- ,tomey to be eel.
CfSOD fe he UDfairIy deoied
the right to peak at mcetiags,
he c:ouJd t this . • •
, po
to the other coUDcil members.
Green stated she intends to
her special lawyer 8bout the
p�ssibility. 'of in tituting
gnevance procedures against
D· and other albers
of the Law Departm before
the Attorney's Grievance Com
mission and the possibility of
pr05Calting the UDder Sectio
5-2 of the City Owter.
Green warned in her state
men ·If we allow our authority
to be ta en away from us by the
illegal action of the Ad
ministration through fictitious
executive orders; ... through con
tr acts that are kept secret;
through City Attornies who only
advi e u as to the
NOnCE OF HEAFI
nt to
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a f r th
May 8- 27) ju .. t match
the f irst tw f thr
digit f the winning .
num r In xact Oli r
on a Daily 3,Game
dollar .. traight t, and
get a payout of ten
dollars.
Collect your ten
dollars from any Lotto
retailer.
So now, when you
play tbe Daily 3 Game,
two out of three no only
ain't bad. It's good. Ten
dollars good,