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By RON IG L
Mic"ilan Citizen
HlOID..AND P -At ita Monday, S ptem­
r 6 m ting, th City Council nd i non
pproving th mayor' financing pro
Th city council had previously voted to hold.
back on all financial programs, xoept for em­
ploy lari, until the administration got
financial records up to date.
After financial reports were provided in Au­
gust, city council members continued the ban,
tating that they wanted the Finance Director
to attend a meeting to a wer questions.
"The State Monitor says we must monitor the
budget," aid Council President Pro Tem
Christine Franklin. "We can't authorize pay-
ments, unl you have the money."
She added if the city did not have the money,
city council would have to prioritize which pay­
ments were made.
MAYOR LINSEY Porter told the City Coun­
cil that in the future he would agree to having
any member of his administration attend meet­
ings, but he asked that such requests be made
by council members in writing and that it be
specified what they would be asked.
This would allow them to make sure they had­
the proper documents on hand, he stated.
Finance Director Elaine Terrell was asked
why the city failed to pay $1 million to the
Detroit Water Department until recently, de­
spite the tact at he money was authorized
last year.
Terrell said this payment was part of a set­
tlement agreement etween Detroit and High­
land Park and Detroit officials failed to sign the
settlement agreement.
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n w dminiatration nd n
id. "I'h pi y not in-
volved (in th tlement m nt with High-
I nd P r ) or w re not reporting to th m
people. Franklin id,. "Tonight VI' 're paying
one third of[th funds city council put id forl
our ettlement money, and it' only on fifth of
the yr."
Johnson id if the ettlements were not ac­
cepted the city might have to pay more in coetly
court cas and possibly higher awards later.
THE CITY COUNCIL approved four settle­
ment agreements with individuals uing the
city, granting a total of 74,360.
The ettlement included:
- 12,000 to settle Cornelius Ware v City of
Highland Park.
- 15,000 for Diane Butler et. a1. v City of
Highland Park.
- 1,500 for two persons in Morris Cotton et.
al v City of Highland Park, amounting to a total
of$3,000.
- $360 in Department of Labor v Highland
Park DPW.
- $5,500 for Department of La�r v Public
Safety. -
- 38,500 for Michelle Denise Hardy v City
of Highland Park.
Administration sources say that the cost to
the city would be higher if the settlements had
not been made and it was necessary to go to
court.
Elders' remarks about son's
"rug conviction causes stir
By JAMES 'JEFFERSON ers was asked if he was likely to 'that the case was entrapment,
commit more crimes. as her son claims.
"I don't feel that was a crime," "I was urprised that ODl�-
she told the judge. Mrs. Elders one in her position would make
did not elaborate on the stand a comment like that," Deputy
Tuesday and would not com- Prosecutor Chris Palmer said,
ment after the hearing, It was noting that Kevin Elders wrote
not clear whether she meant a letter to the court acknow­
ledging that he had committed a
crime. -
Elders, 29, was released on
$10,000 bond while he appeals
his conviction and 10-year sen­
tence. He agreed to continue
drug treatment and take a drug
test every two weeks.
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. (AP)
Testifying for her son's freedom
after his conviction for selling an
eighth of an ounce of cocaine,
Surgeon General Joycelyn Eld-
Fr ud and your
checking ccount
the scam from happening to oth­
ers. You need not' feel embar­
rassed " if you've been taken by
a smooth-talking telemarketer,
you better believe someone else
has too."
MRS. ELDERS testified
that her son would live with her
older son Eric, a Pine Bluff
school teacher, and help manage
the family's rental property.
At the trial, Elders admitted
to a decade-long drug habit and
a three-year cocaine addiction.
He received the minimum sen­
tence Monday for his first of-
fense; he could have received a
life sentence.
Elders says the informant
who bought the-cocaine for $275
on July 29, 1993� threatened to
e his drug addiction and
embarrass his mother at her
confirmation hearing unless he
made the le.
Elders wasn't arrested until
Dec. 19. The warrant was i ued
a week after his moth r sug­
gested at a Dec. 7 National Press
Club luncheon that the go rn­
ment should study I g lizing
drugsasam ansofreducingth
crim rat.
We need you.
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MERRIL-PALMER CONTRIBU1l0N IS ON TARGET - Ell Saltz (right) dir ctor of the M rrU·
Palmer Instit� t Wayn Stat Univ rally, acc pta a 10,000 check from tar t .tor t am
leader Rudolph Mackey Jr. and Ju I Collier, Target telm relation leader. Ov r the II.t .ix
year Target ha provide the in titute with $60,000, which has b en us d to give 24 mlnlr.
a year to working parents. _The workshops coy r uch topics a. family attachment, commu­
nication, guidance nd di ciplln , and include role-pllylng and mall disc aion groupe. Th
emlnar h Ip parent lear to provide a happier environment nd accom III mof with
J etf
The world of finance has
made electronic leaps and beeps
in becoming easier for consum­
ers to access their savings or
checking accounts. It seems
that the next generation only
needs to set foot in a credi t union
or bank once or twice in their WHENEVER MONEY is in­
lifetime to open an account and volved, someone is looking for a
then never again! TheATM has way to create a scam. Consum­
become a 24 hour financial life- ers should always k p their
line to withdra w, deposit, trans- checking account number confi­
f r money or simply check an d ntial to avoid the e scams.
account balance- Paych ks can Just as consumers k p credit
be automatically deposited into card numbers p,rivate so hould
a checking and/or avings ac- their checking account numbe
count, and payments to t�gs be treated.
like r tirement plans or utility Michael Kelly i the Senior
bills can be withdrawn from a Di or of Information for the
paych ken fo h em- Michigan Credit Union League.
ploy re i it. He s rv on the boards of
While these dvances are the Michigan Consumer Coun­
great for conv ni n , unfortu- cil, the Better Busin Bureau
nately, they a also n w.oppor- and th Consumer Edu tors of
tuniti for fraud. The Michigan Michi n H' ne paper col-
nion ague (M lTL umn, "Your Mon y Matte ", is
warns co urn to P carri by more over 20 n wsp -
iv bout ch eking ccount p rs ross Michigan with' a
num ." If you give out your combined circulation of over
checking account number to 500000.Heisafrequentspo -
telemarket r you could be man on consumer financial af­
opening yourself up for �raud�" fairs-
says Mich el Kelly, mor DI-, The Michigan Credit Union
r ctor of Iriformat.icn for the League is th primary trade as­
MCUL- ociat ion serving Michigan
According to K lly, 8 typical credit unions. Founded in 1934,
• scam begins when a tel mar- it is headquartered in Southfield
.' r calls and informs th per- with an additional effie in
son th t they haven a new La mg.
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