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bout City m nt, th
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d th n w pri tiza ion
tern.
The city has taken iti
to d 1 with th pro­
lems, Wainwright id in d -
fense.
Residen complain employ­
for th company 1 th
DB roll on the lawns nd did
not put the to on them.
Wanda Lin ey Bo tic, a
critic of the privatization erv­
ice, id many iden had to
go to work rly and could not
tay hom to d I
with the problem on gar­
bage pickup days.
Wainwright id the city
talked with the company and
got it to agree to providing t­
ter supervision.
Council P ident Pro Tern
Christine Franklin stated she
personally is trying to start
GOOD
arden appointed
P Deputy
Director
j
m nt," h
"My wor ha.
They didn't have h t in the
trucks in inter, n though
thi wa required, becau e
council didn't approve fun
for it, ff h id. ffThey ere
treated lik children nd
weren't Howed to go the ba h­
room."
"I didn't the council over
here in tigating eonditior ff
he added. "They just believed
what was told to them without
looking into it themsel ff
Franklin id that th city
had no obligation to collect the
garbage in a way that OO8t
more.
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By Ron Sigel
Mlchla n Citizen
By RoN SEIGEL
Mlchlp.n Citizen
JnGHLANDPK, I-Anthony
Harden w appointed to the po­
ition of Highland Park Deputy
Finance Director.
In a letter to Harden an­
nouncing thi ppointm nt,
Scotty Wainwright, Assistant to
the Mayor, id, "We would ex­
pect that this challenge will be
one that you accept and excel.
Th finance department's uc­
cess is critical to th� city's ad­
vancement. "
Highland Park Mayor Linsey
Porter states that the position of
deputy director is crucial, be­
cause of the city's financial eri­
sis, caused by businesses like
Chrysler moving out, reducing
the city's tax base.
At the public ion of the
August 2 City Council meeting,
Mamie Cooper, President of Lo­
cal 41 AFSME, said, "The Mayor
added a Deputy Director of Fi­
nance, but he said there is not
enough money to run the city."
Cooper was critical of the fir­
ing of 41 garbage employees in a
move to bring about privatiza­
tion. which Porter said was nec­
essary to cut costs.
violence by going into the com­
munityand:
Providing emotional sup­
port to the family.
Debrief the community.
o Give members of the com­
munity a chance to let them
know how they feel about what
is going on.
, Give the community a
chance to take action.
Wedlow said that SaSAD
uses social pressure and peer
pressure among teenagers to get
areas of the community free of
violence, guns and drugs.
Zaundra Hardaway, Violence
Prevention Trainer and Peer
Counselor, adds that SaSAD
also has a program of training
young people in resolving con­
flicts and problems without vio-
lence. .
"We are training young peo­
ple so they can train others," she
said. "We are training the train­
ers."
For information about re­
sources SaSAD offers, call call
(313) 361-5200.
mOJn.AND PARK _ Sav Our
Sona and Daughters (SaSAD),
an organization formed to pre­
vent youth violence, is nding a
Cri is Support Team to help a
Highland Park community re­
spond to a drive-by shooting that
resulted in the death of a 10 year
old child and the injury of three
others.
Killed was Reubin Elder, an
honors student at Liberty
School. He died of a chest
wound on the front steps of his
home after assailants prayed
bullets from an automatic
weapon as they drove past the
Geneva street house.
Injured were: Reuben'
cousin Tremaine Nelthrope, 16
and neighbor Allen Whaley, 21,
both in stable condition at
Henry Ford Hospital.' Ronald
Thomas, 36, was listed in good
condition.
SaSAD Crisis Response Co­
ordinator Terry Wed low indi­
cated that the Crisis Response
Team responds to such acts of
HP Water Department earnspraise
By RON SEIGEL
MlchlQ.n Citizen
quality.
In an interview with the
Michigan Citizen Franklin she
Mud she was also implying that
the failure of other department
heads to respond the same way
made it harder for the city coun­
cil to make informed decisions.
before the City Clerk opened
bids for replacing the flat slab
roof over sand filters for the
Highland Park Water Treat­
ment Plant at the intersection of
Dequindre and the Davison
Service Drive.
The companies seeking the
bids were LDS Contractors from
Kego Harbor, with a $39,500
bid, cCarlhy nd Smi
Redford firm with a bid of
$47,600 and a Utica finn Pdsen
Construction, Inc. in Utica with
a cost of$31,850. All of them had
bid bonds attached.
JnGHLAND PARK - Highland
Park City Council President Pro
Tem Christine Franklin pub-
·licly thanked Water Depart­
ment Director Katreah Bey for
providing the Council with bid
proposal specifications.
Franklin added that the
J�Wat r par ment. WQ .. h
only department" to do so, ignor­
ing a request the city council
. made two years ago.
Since the Highland Park City
Council has the ultimate
authority to approve bid propos­
als, Franklin aid it was neces­
sarv to have the specifications,
not only to judge how much a bid
008t, but if it met standards of .
Me14chant of the Week
COUNCIL PRESIDENT
Dwigh Down id th& \1l\Cil
had formally requested depart­
ment heads to provide this infor­
mation at least two years ago .
Franklin told th Michigan Citi­
zen she found Bey to be an ex­
ception public official, who
consistently went "beyond the
call of duty."
Franklin's public praise of the
Water Department came just
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eadline mistaken
$40,000 a month, which left it
$4,000 ahead of expectations.
The headline mistakenly in­
terpreted this as meaning the
city expected to spend $40,000 a .
year and put in the headline
that the city would spend more
in a few months than it had ex­
pected to spend in privatization
in an entire year.
JnGHLAND PARi{'- Statistics
quoted by a Highland Park ad­
ministrator to show that priva­
tization costs less than the city
expected was misinterpreted by
a headline writer in the August
15 edition of the Michigan Citi­
UTJ..
Scotty Wainwright, adminis­
trative a istant to Highland
Park Mayor Linsey Porter, said
after water department services
had been turned over to a pri­
vate firm, there were $36,000
worth. of repairs the company
had made in the past month.
Wainwright was quoted as
saying the city contract antici­
pated $40,000 worth of repairs.
Wainwright meant that the city
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-Neighborhood bu iness should reflect the needs of the community. ff ays Kelly Kuza,
owner of Champion Food Center, 7802 Mack Avenue on the city' east side.
A family-owned business. Champion Food Center opened their doors to the community In
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great I am determined to stay," Kuza said.
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