2 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, April 3, 1995 YMCA Continued from page 1 Lewis, Pollard and Page that the agree- ment was illegal and void. Great Lakes Bancorp brought suit against the city of Ann Arbor, Miller- Canfield and the YMCA for breach of contract inJanuary. Circuit CourtJudge Donald Shelton was set to hear thecase. The YMCA and the city reached a management agreementthatcalls for the facility to continue to run its program to house low-income tenants. The two par- ties will work together to set rental fees based onthetenants' incomes. Miller-Canfield will be dropped from the lawsuit, and the city is now responsible for its own legal fees. The decision to settle out of court raised much debate among councilmembers. Prior to Thursday night's vote, the council discussed the guidelines of the proposed repay- ment. Councilmember Peter Nicolas (I- 4th Ward) initially opposed the agree- ment. Nicolas said he believed the agree- ment was too vague in explaining how it would fund theEconomic Development Bonds that will be sold by the city. The agreement states that the $1.2 million would come from the city's general fund. Nicolas charged the docu- ment failed to specify from where the money would ultimately come and proposed an amendment to extract money through across-the-board cuts. "I don't want to solve one problem by causing another problem," Nicolas said. "I am not willing to risk the gen- eral fund. It is important for me to have some kind of assurance." Councilmember Christopher Kolb (D-5th Ward) supported the original agreement. He responded to Nicolas by saying, "If you want to act in faith, you will have to show some faith." Councilmember Stephen Hartwell (D-4th Ward) was one of two mem- bers who voted against the agree- ment. Hartwell supported it until Nicolas's amendment passed. "The proposal puts the city in danger. Nicolas overstepped his bounds. He is totally irresponsible," Hartwell said. Councilmember Elisabeth Daley (D- 5th Ward) joined Hartwell in oppos- ing the agreement. Nicolas's amendment also passed by an 8-2 vote. Councilmember Jane Lumm (R- 2nd Ward) initially opposed the resolu- tion in light of the city's overall han- dling of the situation. "I'm inclined to vote no, given the mess we are in. I believe the city has treated all partners in a shameful way. The city hasn't acted in good faith. I think the settlement is ill-conceived, and it sends a very bad message, Lumm added. She eventually voted for the agreement. Although a majority of the coun- cil voted to settle, they were not com- pletely comfortable with the pending outcome of the ycarlong dispute. Councilmember Peter Fink (R- 2nd Ward) said, "I am not happy about weaseling out, yet closure is the only way to do it." The council feared the matter would end up in court. CouncilmemberPatricia Vereen-Dixon (D-Ist Ward) said, "The city has had enough of this and to con- tinue to go on, it will only get worse." Mayor Ingrid Sheldon supported the agreement partly because of her belief in the value of YMCA services. "The YMCA is truly providing a need in this community. I am proud of what the YMCA does." Sheldon, attempting to build con- sensus for the agreement, said she had little faith that the city could maintain its resources if it were forced to go to court. Bill Blewit, executive director of the YMCA, said his organization has "approved the concept of the settle- ment," but cannot comment on the revised management contract. The city also faces more dilem- mas concerning the recent law suit filed by the Ann Arbor Tenants Union on behalf of YMCA tenants. "It is an open question as to how the YMCA has been treating tenants with disabili- ties. We want the YMCA to operate under state and local law," Daley said. SN A rE House GOP pledges to pass tax cuts WASHINGTON - Haunted by the memory of the last time their party broke a tax pledge, House Republicans plan on keeping a campaign promise this week by passing their huge tax cut package. Republican leaders believe they cannot risk abandoning a key part of their "Contract With America" because they remember the 1990 budget summit, when President George Bush broke his "Read my lips: No new taxes" campaign pledg* and touched off a conservative rebellion within his own party. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer (R-Texas) said last week that despite rising opposition from Democrats and influential moderate Republicans in the Senate, House Republicans remain committed to the $188 billion tax cut package. If House Republicans were to renege on their promise, he said, "the criticism that exists today would double in decibels." But in going ahead with the tax cut, Republicans also are haunted by another event: the Reagan budget plan of 1981, when Republicans and a handful of conservative southern Democrats pushed through President Ronald Reagan's experimental economic policy of huge tax cuts and modest spending cuts that helped to usher in an era of record deficits. RUMORS Continued from page 1 Ann Arbor resident Renee Emory ensured the crowd that Hash Bash ral- lies would continue long into the future. "We're going to be here the same time next year- 'high' noon," Emory said Saturday. Elderly gatherers, who claim they have attended the event every year since the first rally in 1972, screamed loudest when Emory spoke, respond- ing with cheers of "Hemp, Hemp, Hooray!" Brook was quick to reassure le- galization advocates that the Hash Bash would return to Ann Arbor next year and for years to come. "Next year, we'll have the largest Hash Bash ever this time in Ann Arbor. I guarantee there'll be 10 times this many people here for the 25th anniver- sary of Hash Bash." r Don't Panic!! If you think you're pregnant... cal us-we listen, we. care. PROBLEM PREGNANCY HELP 769-7283 Any time, any day, 24 hours. Fully confidential. Serving Students since 1970. Eu g R s U " U gU 53 FnivefstAey Tom '36 S. Forest Ave. Your Own b Share a be8 SPECIAL: H Free Microwave Oven to first 15 Joint Two-Bedroom Apartment Leases Signed U U edroomn from $315 per monthI Broom from $175 per month 12 Month leasesI Hours: 10-8 Mon-Fri, E -6 12-S Sat/Sun M EE MM E M E E ENE HASH BASH Continued from page 1 change that.... We gotta vote the re- gents the hell out of this University and vote some new ones in," Brook said. Brook was among dozens of mari- juana-legalization proponents who spoke on the steps of the Graduate Library throughout the afternoon. The rally had amplification power only from noon to 1 p.m., in accordance with the University's Outdoor Com- mon Areas Policy. During thathour, some ofthe nation's most outspoken legalizationists kept the crowd entertained and cheering with anecdotes and battle cries. "We're freedom fighters, and we're not gonna take it," Rasaid. "We're not criminals. We're peaceful, hard-work- ing people out here." Jon Coon, 1994 Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate, spoke aboutproposed legalization legislation as well as his party's view of marijuana activism, "It takes two things to win this war - it takes politicians who are willing to take a stand on this issue, and it takes people to stand behind it," Coon said. Ann Arbor resident Renee Emory spoke of growing hemp on her prop- erty and her ensuing arrest. Emory said she used the drug to ease pain caused by multiple sclerosis. "They arrested me for growing my own medicine to treat my condi- tion," Emory said. After the amplified-power hour ended, various speakers used a mega- phone to preach the virtues of mari- juana until about 4 p.m. People came from allover the coun- try to hear the annual legalization rally. Rochester native Mark Harting trav- eled to Ann Arbor to see the festivities and play his drum. "Ican't even smoke this year because I'm on probation, but I'm having fun anyway," he said. Hundreds of people surrounded musicians and drummers composing the drum circles, which have a substan- tial draw every year. "Checkout the bongos," said New Yorker Jennifer Curtin, proclaiming that the music brought her to Ann Ar- borthis weekend. "Thisis like nothing I've everseen." Curtin rolled a joint as she wan- dered through the crowd and haze of smoke over the Diag. Of the 3,500 attendees who spilled out of the Diag and into the streets, most were not University students. "Marijuana attracts all kinds of people and some of them are very strange," said Engineering sophomore Jill Tanowitz. Virginia to implement tough welfare law RICHMOND, Va. - Beginning July 1, Virginia will implement one of the toughest new welfare laws in the country, forcing recipients to go to work within 90 days of receiving their first check, and the law will cut off their benefits after two years. But the jobs that could mean the end of dependency for some of Richmond's welfare mothers are just over the county line, in suburban Chesterfield and Henrico, and the buses from downtown Richmond hardly ever go there.- And the education many of these women seek to escape a life of dead- end drudgery often is gained by attend- ing classes for up to three years at J. Sargent Reynolds Community College. Now some may have to drop out, pressed to get a job - any job - fast. The new law - exemplary of the kinds of restrictions expected to be imposed nationwide by a reform- minded Republican Congress - will. ,<, U Us bring unprecedented changes on a scale that many professionals work- ing in the welfare system had yearned for as they endured the'old way's infuriating contradictions. 2 people die in Montana avalanche ANACONDA, Mont. - A 100- yard wide avalanche swept a man and a woman to their deaths yesterday while they rode a snowmobile, authorities said. The avalanche missed two others who also were on a snowmobile in the Pintlar Mountains about 15 miles south of Anaconda, in the Rockies of south- west Montana. . Search and rescue crew members on snowmobiles recovered the bodies. The victims were a man in his 60s and a 35-year-old woman, said Law En- forcement Chief Jim Connors. The slide, likely triggered by the noise of the snowmobiles, went about 150 yards down the mountain, burying the victims in about 5 feet of snow, he said. 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