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HIGHLAND PARK - Mayor
M rtha G. Scott w as rece ntl y
ppointed to e r v e on the
Edi on Electrical In t it ut
Community Development Ad
vi ory Cotnmi ttee.
As a member of the com
mittee, Scott will be in-
trumental in the
development of a thre ta k
"Edi on Electrical In titute
Community Development Ac
tion Ki (."
The first ta k involve
evaluating existing Com-
. munity Development aid.
and is well underway. Ta k
two focu es on the prepara
tion of a elf-help Community
Development Action Kit.
And the third ta k , the Com-
,mittee will look to develop an
Instructor's Guide for u e by
EEl Economic and Com
muni ty Development Profes
sionals in presenting the
Community Development Ac
tion Kit to appropriate com
munity repre entatives a a
'tool for l o ca l development
programs.
- Advisory Commi ttee mem-
ber will review the re ult of
task one and erve a ound
ing board for the review of 1-
ternative workbook design
develop d in task two ..
Til .... DI 0 Electrical
In titute (EEl) i a national
association of inve tor-owned
electric utilitie in the United
States. The EEl Economic
Development committee e r
ve a the national voice for
the individual economic
development efforts -of the
member companie .
The Committee provide a
. liaison with ite and Io c al
deci ion-makers, the various
b ranche of the U.S. Govern
ment, with emba sy taff and
trade repre entatives of
foreign governments, with the
pre s and with bu iness
leaders from all part of the
world.
Mayor Scott was selected
on the basi of the City of
Highland Pa r ks completion
of its strategic planning
proce and the valuabl input
that cOUld be provided to EI.
City still 0." five-day work week
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by DERRICK C. LEWIS
Staff Writet
During the April 4 town
meeting at St. Benedict's
Church, attended by about 70
people, the main topic of dis
cussion centered on contract
talks between the city and
Local 41 union members.
Included in this discussion
was whether Mayor Martha
Scott will implement the four
.day work week that' Circuit
Court Judge Marianne Battani
ruled on.
Currently the city is still on
a five-day work week, and
Scott indicated when she
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receives the order on April 12,
the city will decide what ac
tion to take.
t is, expected that the city
will appeal Battani's decision,
and Personnel Director
Robert Gordon indicated he
will submit a resolution to the
city council asking for a five
day work week.
LOCAL 41 WORKERS ex
pressed concern that the city
was negotiating with them in
bad faith,. and that their
leaders were not representi .. ng
their best interests.
Dialogue between union
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members and Gordon centered
on members losing money from
going to a five-day work week
without an increase in pay.
Union members were receiving
40-ho.urs pay for 36-hours of
work, and they contend that
go�ng to five-days would be a
s of four-hours pay.
Gordon said the city was
paying some members 44-
hours pay for 40-hours of work,
but members present at the
meeting said no one was
receiving this amount of pay.
Currently Local 41 is
without a contract, the city
having terminated it in Decem
ber. Battani ruled that neither
the mayor nor the director of
personnel could terminate a
contract without city council
approval. Local' 41's contract
stipulated a four-day work
week.
THE HEADS OF various
city departments were present
to answer questions and give
an update on their
department's actions.
One issue which received a
lot of time was code enforce
ment and inspection of houses.
The city is now enforcing com
pliance with housing codes,
partly in response to the threat
of fire in the city's older wood
frame omes.
Inspectors will only inspect
the exterior of city homes, and
citizens are expected 0 bring
their homes up to code. This
raised concern that the costs of
bringing homes up to code
would take an undue toil on
citizens, but Scott indicated
the city will work with citizens
to lessen the burden.
concerned
whether the college ill t y
op n, d th t h thou ht it
wrong to "set-up nd d
mini tr tor in public nd y
he did omethin wrong hen
he didn't."
"T e e people are living in
welf re city, and h ve C dil
l c t te of mind," id Reed.
He s id people re more con
cerned with look inste d of
quality.
The chool board meeting
w uneventful I t Tuesday.
The bo rd pproved a Summer
Lunch progr m, Teen
other progr m (summer
high school completion clas-
es), Summer Drivers Educa
tion, Summer Que t-z (infus
ing Afric n American
materi Is into content reading
enrichment for gr des 3-8 stu
dents), Te cher Quest-2
(workshop on infu ing African
American contributions into
the curriculu )',
dult Educ tion, e e
enzie um er Tutori 1 -
progr , Oper tion Or du -
tion (ummer or e.'
perience), the STH progr "
( c demic/wor experience)"
nd t e SYETP pro ram (u _.1
mer or e perience), all to be'"
im le e ted thi u mer i' ,.
the -12 chool di trict; ,
-Approved the ccept nee
of $7,320 gr nt from th
ichigan Dep rtment 0 •
N tural Resource for t he: �
Youth Environmental ervice':
progr m" which would ent it .
tudent from Liberty choo!'
to develop veget ble g rden
t 338 lorence; I - '
-Approved the gener I fund."
"need" budget in the amount
of $28,670,369 for ubmi io� .
to the W yne County Alloc ":
tion Board for review; :
-APP OVED TH proces '- "
ing of check re que t to ,.
Metropolitan Cab Co., United
Cab Co., and Superintendent. ...
Eldon M rtin in the amount of;
$9,355.29 for transport tioii
services and expenses, nd;.,,:.
Approved conference re-,
quests in the amount of $1,420."
for six school employees.
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HP C to. I unch anti
drug campaign
be using a method used by the
Landlord- Tenants Court at
Detroit's 36th Di trict Court,'
which developed a plan to evict:
tenants dealing crack cocaine'
quickly, to overcome the threat',
to public health which thet
represent. .,
The plan calls for landlords,
contacting the Prosecutors Of- I
fice when a tenant is known t.c)'
be dealing crack. .If landlords"
do not take action when they"
find out about a crack dealing;
tenant, their building can ber
padlocked for a year, or even
sold. ".1' " r ' . IH'T1
The HfNC wants to work'
out an 'agreement with High.:'
land Park's 30th District Court"
to implement a similar method.
"
the more
pressure put
upon drug
dealers by
the HPNC,
the more
likely they
were to
get out.· I
Lawyer Rodney Watts, who I
was present at the meeting,
called it the "Health Hazard
Approach." He said it would" I
only take about a seven-day':
period to get drug offenders •
evicted by this approach. The '
usual .per iod (or evicting a' :
tenant is 30 days. Ross said the ,
method will be implemented in J'
Highland Park within two I
weeks.
Watts also sa d a good
method for identifying crack
houses, would be to use stu
dents:
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ROSS CONCURRED,'
saying students are more prone
to come in contact with drug
activity, and are more likely to
know where crack houses are
located .
He' said the more pressure
put upon drug dealers by the
HPNC, the more likely they
were to get out.
The HPNC also di cussed
plan for a re cheduled Block I
Club Seminar, to help people I
in t rting a block club .
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by DERRICK C. LEWIS
Staff Writer·
Dormant for about three
months, the Highland Park
Neighborhood Coalition
(HPNC) revealed plans for im
plementing it's "Highland
Park: Drug Free by 93"
program, during a meeting at
Highland Park Community'
College last Wednesday.
City Councilman Frank
Ross said the lull in ctivity
was due to finding out whether
the organization would be
funded, e- ho1id ys.· ad 'the
postponement 'of a seminar.'
Ross revealed that a grant
request was turned down and
the organization would have to
look elsewhere for funding.
Although now without
funding, Ross said the HPNC
was going to literally; launch
the progra with a formalized
structure that entails identify
ing drug houses and working
with the courts to obtain evic
tions of drug dealers from
these houses;
BEFORE THE meeting con
vened Ross and Highland Park
Public Safety Director Mar
shall Emerson went over the
HPNC's proposed strategy. •.
Ross said that Emerson was
elated on the approach.
Since the HPNC announced
its "Highland Park Drug Free
by 93" campaign, the Depart
ment of Public Safety has
received nume ro us tips on
suspected, drug activities,
r esult ing in a considerable
number of drug busts, said
Ross.
The HPNC strategy calls for
observation of any suspicieus
activity, and using a "Narcotics
Activity" form to report the in
formation to public safety,
Emerson wants the forms to
go directly to his office to in
sure confidentiality, and im
mediate action on the informa
tion given.
Ross said Emerson wi I
notify him of tips received d
a ct ro ns taken to keep 1
HPNC informed. "
. ROSS SAID THE HPNC will
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