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The DCIl meeting will be in the Conference Center of the
. Detroit Public Schools Center Building. 5057 Woodward
�ve., 0 Tuesday Sept. 26, 5 p.m.
pn Sept. 12 "'s meeting agenda, at Hampton Middle
School, the board discussed developing a recommended
policy far filling vacancies on the Detroit Public Schools .-
Board of Education. The board's secretary is retiring as of
Oct. 1" 1989. A meeting as h Id at the Schools Center
uilding on Sept. 18 reguarding this issue and the hiring of
an dministr tive istant for the board.
Other items on the agenda:
The board accep ed gifts valued over $2,409.00 from
private donor . Am the many gifts were two orpns and
1984 Pontiac Sunbird.
The board recommended approval of an annual contr ct
with Blue Eagt Cab Company to transport special educa­
tio students in e amount to exceed $720,000 for the
period Sept, 14 through August 31, 1990.
Chairman Josep Blanding presided over the Personnel
Committee Meeting Wednesday Sept. 20 at the Schools
enter Building Conference Center.
Inform tion items included an implementation update
of the Drug-Free Wor place Act of 1988 requiring
employers who are recipients of federal procurement con­
tr cts valu d S25,OOOor more and/or gr ts in any amount
m provide a drug-free r place. Th w became ap­
plicable to the Detroit Public choo System on March ,
1989. The b . c requirements cover the dissemination of the
policy to employees d do not deal . th drug testing.
Are . ency policy update also presented during the
meeting E.xcep for members of the Detroit Federation of
. ) T all DC Dcttoi Public Schoo Dl
ablish d maio ain residence . . the City of Detroit
- a condition of employment. Individual bargaining unit
. members need not establish troit residence if they were
. n the bargaining unit prior to dop ion of resideacy
(grand! thered). The residency Policy dopted by the
Detroit Board ofEdu . on July, 1978.
The pr dice of the Personnel Department, since dop­
tion of the policy in 1978,· to gr nt time extensions for C6-
t bli hment of residency if tisf ctory evidence of
extenuating circumstances can be provided:
taff travel restri oDS for 1989-90 the last informa-
tional item on the board's agenda. It stated aU Board reim­
bursed tr 1 will be restrided, effecti'¥e Aupst 28, 1989, -
. r otice.. This restrictio COYeII an cxpeDditurea
for traDsporta . room aod board, and coofcre � JDCCt ..
. registr. . Th� Board will pay expeoscs:
- H the staff pe is a requested prese ter at the con-
ference and e pr tio is relatiYe to their job repon-
• ility or a Detroit Pub' Schoo ctivity or progr
determined by appr· offICe d.
- Or if the persoa's tCDGlDCC
ciaI pin to district
dOC1lUDeDl,ed.
Hazardou
t
fab'mty planned
_-----------1 __ ....... munity organiaatlo and on
I August 9, 0 e month before the
site selection committee gave its
approval, put together a
pro po al of items that they
would undert e to mitig te
potential p ob ems.
The Art Center Citizens Dis­
trict Council, representing resi­
dent of the re ne r the
facility p s ed resolution
criticizing the comp ny's
pro tat!ng the council
- "Philosophically" in "total
opposition to toxic VI te" and
desired "to have these processes
which create such removed
from our society entirely."
- Dis ppointed that the
corre pondence did not ad­
dre "the mitig tion of t e
elimin lion of toxic w te."
- Believed that certain
items in the company's docu­
me were "vague, insufficient,
and ineffectiVe."
- Concerned about the
omissio of language addr -
ins safety of the community in
case of ccident or plant mal­
function."
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of the facility • t be harmful
to people, C\4e • out cci-
deDt, Ra . d, "There .
nothiDg you can put your fmger
00. We have never had plant
of that size in oper lion.
- Whe if t� at
using residents around ea
- guinea pi he said, "l think
that be the case."
He expressed 0
the u1d be "cost ef-
fecti'¥e."
"They have to . in
trash to make· cost eft . ,"
he . d. "I think they OYer ..
tima'te the daily . e. It WOuld
� to be heavily subsidized:
City Environmental, Inc, the .
company which pplied for the
permit to build the ha7Mdo
e facility, met with com-
em. .
On the other- hand, when
ed if normal oper .
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