"EGG "-CITING HUNTIN IIIGHLA I) P R -Hundred'ofyeut e eout
to p r'tlelpate in t e offici I E ter E II u t, April 13, po . red by t e City of
lJighlund P rk. M yor M rt a G. Scott long it the Easter Bunny greeted
children between t e age . 3-12. The child collectin the most Ea uer E s wu
pre rented, sp ciul Ea ter �ift. The contrihutions of cundy und Ea ster e were
de by the unders/Country Home Il kerles of lIi�hulund I' rk.
May 6-11, 1
ICHIGAN CITIZ
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4-H makes
Wayne
appointment
EAST LANSI 0, ie .-
- Michigan State University
Cooperative Extension Service
ha made two Wayn County
appointmen . Ron Brown has
been appointed director of the
Westside 4-H Center in Detroit
and Tyrone Winfrey, youth
ag n1.
Brown i re ponsible for
youth development programs at
the center, at 10501 Oran
gclawn, which provides oppor
tunities for young people to
develop leadership potential,
citizenship responsibility and
productive capacity. Program
will u e community volunteer
adult and older youth leaders.
Brown, who joined the
Wayne County Extension taIT
March 26, h worked for t
pa t 11 years with community
and youth development
pr grams in Detroit. Ann Arbor
and Ypsilanti. He received hi'
bachelor's degree in p ychology
in 1973 from Oakland Univer
sity.
Winfrey has primary respon
sibility for the youth component
of the Expanded Food and
Nutrition Education Program
(EFNEP). He will implement
thi program through the estab
Iis�ment, development and
maintenance of 4-H youth
cen rs, comrriuniti of Wayne
County.
A 19 2 gr duate of th
U�i�ersity of Wyoming,
Wanlrey worked in Detroit
a a counselor for th Com
preh. nsiv Youth Training and
Community lnvolvement Pro
gram sin 19 5.
. City to host spring
cl an-up
HIGHLAND PARK - Join
Mayor G. Scott in th 1990 City
Wid Clean-Up 0 Friday, M Y
4 & 11, 1990 and S turd y, M Y
5 12, 1990. The Clean-up .
sch duled from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00
p.m. All residents and b in
owner. are encour ed to "take
prid "and help de n-up just in
time for the Michig 0 Week
Parad , May 19, 1990. For more
inf rmati n call 869-5 2.
Healthcare, Education have paid prison bill, GOP charge
. ..
By D n· I y
LA ' I '0 -- Budget pre surcs
, t, te Medi . id f nding are
the result of Michigan' pri on
build-up, according to
Republican Hou e Leader Paul
Hillcgonds R-Hulland.
You can't add' over a half
billion dollars in that area
without taking from others,"
HilJegonds said. "It really has
diverted re sources a ay from
aid to chooi. and uni vet. itic ,
and the other major part of the
budget today, health care,"
Medicaid is funded through
the states to provide health care
for indigent person. The
federal government reimbur: es
about 55 P .rccnt of th . � tate'
c Sl .
State f unding for correction.
has gone up over 4 percent
since 1979, while the budget for
ocial . erviccs ha increa cd 86
percent. The governor's prison
expansion has added 17 pri ODS
and 12,3000 cell since .1984.
More than 3,300 additional cell
�II be added before the expan
sion program ends in 1991.
State Budget Director Shel
by Solomon deni d that the cor
rection budget increase is
diverting re ources from other
programs. He aid social ser
vice is receiving the largest ap
propriation in the 1990 budget.
DUC 10 RECEIVED
the highest increa e in the 1990
budget, going from 2.6 billion
to 2.9 billion, an increa c of
11.7 perc nt, while c rrections
received an incre e of .5 per
cent. ocial service remained
reI tiv ly t bl , increasingly
only 0.6 percent in the 1990
budget.
Over the pa t' 11 years,
however, corrections funding
went from $146 million to $TIO
million, an incrca e of 428 per
cent. During that same period,
ocial . ervicc ro from $1.2
billion to $2.3 billion, an in
crease of 86 percent.
Solomon blamed budget
constraints on legislative over
pending, not lac of r ds.
"The problem that we're
fceling i a spending problem.
the legislators are enacting
policies that are costing us more
than we have," Solomon said.
Th t's not true, said David
Wiener, aide to Rep. David
Hollister, D-Lansing, chairman
of the House Appropriatio
s cial services subcommittee.
"How he can make a claim that
we're overspending is unbeliev
able to me."
Wiener noted tha the House
had rejected Blanchard's Heal
thy Start specifically because it
contained to provisions to raise
revenue to support the
program.
HEALTHY START WAS
intended to provide healt
coverage to the children oflow
income famil!es without private
insurance who do no qualify (i r
Medicaid ..
"In the case of Medicaid you
can't make the argument that
we have a spending problem,"
Wiener said. "We are paying 78
cents for every dollar in hospital
co ts. .
The Michigan Hospital As
dation, together with other
hcalt h care organizations, is
suing the state over Medicaid
reimbur cm e nt, claiming
Michi an's policic. ct iUegaJly
low rates.
The state budge includes
pr opuscd cost-cutting
measures for Medicaid which
would:
- Reduce the incentive paid
to hospitals that tre t large .
numbers of Medicaid patients.
- Establish competitive bid-
ding for Medicaid contracts.
.. - Link reimbursements
paid for hospital improvemen
to hospital occupancy,
- Place acap on reimburse
ments for medical education
programs at teaching hospitals.
- Reduce the rates paid to
long-term care units attached to
hospitals to the level of other
nursing homes.
- Place a cap on the daily
rates paid to psychiatric hospi
tals.
Salomo defended cost cut-
ling ures, . g there
a lot of competition for s e
dollars.
"If we tried to meet every
need nd evcry concern that
was out there, our budget would
be many times larger than it is
now," he said.
DID YOU ... that for
rea ns health officials do oot
understand, there h been a
50% increase in thm de ths
among Blacks over the last IX
year.
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