:y
The Benton Harbor City
CommisSion approved at their
My, Api116, meeting ap­
. cali 0 for $40,000 grant from
the Private IndustJy Council of
Berrien-C -Van Buren Coun­
ties.
agnet
'School
r gi tration
School officials of the
Benton Harbor Area Schools
would like to inform parents
that the deadline for applic -
iion to the Di trier's M g­
net School Program for he
199 }-91 School year is May
1.1990.
Magnet School' in the
Benton Harbor Di trier are
the Boynton-Montes or i,
Creative Arts Academy.
Gifted and Talented
Academy and the McCord
Renais nee Program.
Dr. Alexander Bailey.
Deputy Superintendent for
the Benton Harbor district
has also announced that the
annual "lottery drawing" for
applicant. to the Boynton­
Momcssori Program wi II be.
held on Munday. May 21,
19t)O at 4:00 p.rn. at the
Boynton Montessori Sehoul,
170() E. Britain Avenue.
Parents of applicants arc
welcome to attend the dra -
ing.
ov r
to ire
r
The fun would provide par- Yarborugh the onl y one
tial funding for the salary of an voting against the resolution
economic developne director said the reason .he was voting
to monitor the enterprise zone "no" was because Benton Har-
activities. . bor was DO getting their fair
City Manager Steve Man- share of the funds.
Ding aid the job would entail Also Monday night the com-
monitoring companies that mission appoved entering into
receive enterprise zone benefits a amended purchase agreem
from the city, making sure they with Mr. William Nichols,
follow all the requirements as owner of Che Nichol Au 0
far as the hiring of Benton Har- Parts, 315 East Main Street,
bor residents. Benton Harbor.
Manning said this is the The city approved the sale of
fourth year tha the city has sub- 323 East Main to icho for
mined an application for grants $3,500 to construct an $100,000
under thi pogram through the expansion to hi u 0 part usis-
Private Industry Council. Last n .
ye r the city applied for a The amendcdrisk allocation,
$100,000 grant and was only ap- hold harmless and indcm.nifica-
proved $18,000. tion agreem holds Nichol
Commissioner Charles harmless of any problems of
Yarbrough id PIC funds are contaminatioo 00 the poperty
for the people that "really need in the future.
it and deserve it" and Benton Manning s id there have
Harbor qualifies. been tests dOD and they came
"The need is right here, not baclc clean, but there might be a
take the money and give it to all problem up-steam because g
the tri-county area", said . products are flowing toward that
Yarbrough - "We ought to be property from a former gas sta­
getting 90 percent of PIC tion site that i located across
monie right here in Benton the street (rom Chet Nichols
Harbor." Auto Parts. With the agreement
"They used us to get the the owner of the property would
funds nd give them to be held responsible, not
everybody else" , he said Nichols. .
Yarbrough said the city In other busines Manning
should demand their fair share told the commission that the city
of all the money and put all the has plans to apply for funds for
people to work, because Benton· . a program called, "Community.
.Harbor qualified for all of the Officers Patrolling Streets"
PIC money.
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three d a h If day Capitol .. pxerlence. bove: (l-rt) re:
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experienced cmock com lttee e lon, b do ed govern­
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(COPS), where two to three
uniform officers will be sta­
tioned in an area of, the city
where much needed.
The city has applied for the
funds through the S tate of
Michigan drug enforcement
funds in partnership with Ber­
rien County Prosecutor s Of­
ficer and the District and Circuit
Courts to enact a rather inten­
sified program drug enforce­
ment p-ogtam, said Manning.
Manning said the funds for
the COPS program was taken
out of the budget during the last
rounds of budget cuts of the
State. "In spite of that I'm no
researching a possibility in the
very near future of about three to
five weeks, of going ah-ead and
placing two uniform foot patrol
officers in the Broadway and
Fmpre area. "
Fmt, be said he has to find
the inside funds, because he
didn't know if be could get the
fun from an outside ency.
Manning said said he wants
to place two uniform police of­
ficers in the Broadway and Em­
pre where b inesses have
been long establi bed, but are
now 10 ing custom rs. He aid
the officers would be placed
there al 0, for the benefit of.
delivering a message, that "we
can and we will control our
streets."
M yor William Wolf aid
one of hi wee Iy open hous
for th public, the Benton Har­
bor Area School and the City of
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