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Balgooye w 0 d t Ii e or
ve . 0 ce in the city, rema d
quiet, refu in to n er the
Council om . In ef ect, the
I wyer too 'Council oman
Wilkin' uthority y, d idJ
on �ron me 0
person'. directive-that her
commit e or coun for notbin
if be decided thin ould
different way.
YO Robert Warren t,
listened, aid nothin and took no
ctlon to protect hi co tltuents'
right to peak t the mee . One
item that w on the end w
plan to limit public input at Coundl
meetin .
In contrast to the yor' failure
to defend Councilwoman Wilki or
the citizens of the city, these
homeowne and builder d thrown
open the doors to the hom t the
M yor' request in Au t so that be
could bow off the Woodcliff project
to the vi iling Bla Mayors.
Anyone ttending the meeting
Monday could only wonder who'
really in char e at ety Hall?
yT R A KEl:.LY
Ifit' the Y r
tM on
Heigb a ty Hallow it yet, or
el e there' omeone in c r e oth r
than the yor.
At Monday' City Council
Committee of the Whole meetin t
Mu kegon Height Ci ty Hall,
Councilwoman Rill tine WilkinS
tried un ucce fully to give
taxpaying citizens from the city
voice, but no male Council member
raised hi voice or lifted hand to
i t her the City Attorney too
control.
Pre ent for the meeting,
expecting to be heard were the
homebuyers and builder from the
Woodcliff Village project.
Homeowners Dan Smith, Willie
Dilliard and Velma Williams were
there. Builder Charle Kelly, of
Cinda Co.rporation, with hi attorney
Ron Torbert from Dy ma Gos ett
office in Lansing w also there.
om on
d r hip
-Comm ntot
Wm B Igoqy.n. Jr.
M�k.gon H.lghta
City Attorney
THE WOODCLIFFE parties
expected to dl cuss the plan to move
forward on the Woodcli ffe
development that had been agreed on
during an Augu t 27 Finance
Committee meeting with Co cll
members Rilla tine Wilkin and
Rev. Willie Burrel.
Th group arrived at city hall only
to discover that someone had
removed the item from the agenda.
After the Committee of the
Whole meeting began,
Coundlwoman Wilkins told Mayor
Pro-tem Fisher, who was chairing
the meeting, that the Woodcliff
discussion should be on the agenda
and asked who took the item off the
agenda.
"I did," said city attorney William
Balgooyen, Jr. "Someone had to take
leadership on this."
B.al&�¥erl-:whO had not bt7n at.
1 "]\nAUS "Tr'me . en the
proposal solution w hammered
out-then said he was in the process
of developing a "counter proposal."
"At whose direction?" asked
Councilwoman Wilkins.
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DEDEDICATION OF TIGERS PRESS BOX
Staff and Board mem bers of Benton Harbor Area Schoo stand In front of the TIger' P
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