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By Ber ice Bro ..
The Benton Harbor. City
Commi ion Monday, March
26, approved two ordinance
in an eCfor.t to curb what
they see as long and disor­
derly commission meetings.
The order of bu iness will
be basically the me.
Before the change, the
ordinance allowed five
. minutes per pea er as the
maximum amount of time
Cor both City Commis ioner
comments and citizen com­
ments.
With the change. t max-
imum time limit may tl
reduced by the chair prior to
the beginning of di cussion
a determined by the length
of the agenda, the number of
speaker and th latenes of
the hour.
Also, each speaker shall
in an orderly fashion yield
the floor at thc expi ration of
their allocated time to peak.
Prior to making comment,
each citizen hall state their
full n me nd addre of
City okay
f nc ng off
II y b hind
ayor'
brother
By Ber ice Bro
At the Zoni ng Board of
Appeal -mccting held Mon­
day, March 26, the Benton
H rbor City Commi sion ap­
proved a permit for an 8 feet
fence to be in tailed at the
re ar of the Vincent Place
Building, by owner Winn
Wo f. p nding commi. ion
pprov I for vacati ng a por­
tion of the alley hchi nd the
building.
The 175 fect of the alley
that ill be v cated run
ea t and st bet een Sixth
Street nd Fifth Street.
Wolf aid the rene would
he an iron rene , clo ing in
the parking lot behind the
building, along Sixth Street.
H ill placc a tempor ry
chain fence. long Ter­
ritorial. but as time progre -
·e .• Wulf said he wouLd like
ttl rep lace the chain fcnce
ith broad iron for .ccuruy
matters. Each entrance from
- thc Clllc. w ill have a gate for
c mcrgc ncy usc and now
removal. The entrance from
Sixth Street will have an
electric gate.
Wolf told the commi ion
that he had talked with the
other business owner and
they had no objections to
him putting up the fence.
During the public hearing
for the vacation of the alley,
Mr. Alfred Fraizer. said he
"see that Winn Wolf had
. done hi homework," but he
just couldn't see anyone
clo ing the alley - "Mr.
Booker .(owner of the Ort'ice
Lounge next to Vincent
parking lot on Territorial)
didn't object becau e he·
cannot afford to", aid
Fraizer.
"That alley belongs to the
public and I don't e why
you arc going to take a
public all y nd give it t
one private man because he
ant it. The .allcy is also
u ed heavy at night between
two tavern', tt he . aid.
Fraizer aid he wishcd th
commis ion ould u c better
judgement - "instead of
bringing thc town back.
you'll ju t choking it off if
you bloc the ailey."
M yor William Wolf
ab stained on the vote. He is
the broth r of Winn Wolf.
their home and/or bu ine s.
During citizen comment,
each pea er shall have only
on opportunity to make
comment.
Mayor Wolf aid it 0",1
be helpful in thc future t�at
the citizen who i h to
have comment, rai e their
hand. He al 0 s id in th fu­
ture the city is hoping to
h ve the agenda on a sere n
o the citizens could foil
along with the commi ion, .
In the past few week
citizens nd commissioners
h ve spoken 15 minutes or
more.
Last week city re ident
Curtis Murphy' brought to
"the attention of the cornmis-
ion that the city charter did
not require citizens making
comment to tate their ad­
dre • only required that the
person identify them elvc .
Yarbrough abstained from
voting on both ordinance .
Hc·said,'if the comment
m de in the la t four we k
wer favor ble to the mayor
and the m nager, they
wouldn't be trying to change
things. "I hope thi i ri 't a
w y to hut the people up,"
aid Y rbrough ..
TilE COMMIS 10
also Monday night approved
an amendment to the loiter­
ing ordinance.
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