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NEWS ....................................
OPINION ...............................
ARTS ......................................
CLASSIFIEDS.........................
CROSSWORD........................
SPORTS..................................
NEWS
Tiny Houses
Art students collaborate
with non-profit to serve A2
homeless community
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NEWS
ACA Ruling
University experts react to
Supreme Court decision.
>> SEE PAGE 2
OPINION
University funding
Performanced-based
model ineffective and must
change
>> SEE PAGE 4
ARTS
XXL fun
‘Magic Mike: XXL’ gives
women what they want.
>> SEE PAGE 6
SPORTS
inside
Council considers
pedestrian safety,
sustainability
By ALAINA WYGANT
Daily Staff Reporter
Snow removal and other topics
concerning the environment were
discussed at the Ann Arbor City
Council meeting Monday night.
Resident Robert Gordon, who
was awarded Ann Arbor’s Green
Fair volunteer of the month
award, spoke about local landfill
space and ideas on how to make
use of it.
“There’s going to come a day
when we are going to realize that
landfill space could be park space,
could be places where there’s
affordable housing, could be plac-
es where there’s retail,” Gordon
said. “... we’re wasting it on gar-
bage — most of which is recycla-
ble or compostable. There’s a lot of
work to do.”
One of the main topics on the
meeting’s agenda was the city’s
current snow removal policy. The
current legislation states that
property owners are required to
remove snow more than one inch
deep from public sidewalks. If an
owner fails to remove it, the city
issues a notice to the owner to
do so and, if after 24 hours the
sidewalk isn’t cleared, the city
removes it. Ann Arbor’s Pedestri-
an Safety and Access Task Force
recommended changes to this
policy.
One of the proposed changes
is to require property owners to
remove snow even if the snowfall
does not reach more than one inch.
This change would hold property
owners responsible for clearing ice
from their sidewalks.
Members of council had differ-
ing opinions of the proposed policy
change while others expressed
concern for other aspects of the
city’s snow removal ordinance.
Councilmember Jane Lumm (I–
Ward 2) said she wasn’t comfort-
able with the policy’s method of
warning residents to remove their
snow. Lumm said she thought only
one warning was not enough and
asked other councilmembers what
alternatives were available.
Lumm said some snow removal
contractors and services don’t
remove snow until two inches
have fallen. She also said she was
concerned that seniors, the dis-
abled, and those who spend time
out of the city wouldn’t see the sin-
gle snow removal warning issued
by the city, and would therefore
be unable to meet the local snow
removal standards and, as a result,
be unfairly fined.
“It just doesn’t seem reasonable
that on a second occurrence a per-
son should be fined $250 to $500
plus costs to remove,” Lumm said.
Mike Anglin (D–Ward 5) said
there needs to be better legislation
for snow removal than the city’s
current policy. He argued, because
many Ann Arbor residents rent
and may be in apartment housing,
the responsibility of snow removal
should fall on the owner, not the
occupant.
“I can’t see this as something
I’d be willing to take a look at right
now and push this obligation onto
elderly people and people with
limited incomes who then would
have to hire people to have this
done,” said Mike Anglin. “It’s
another type of taxation which I
would not like see.”
VIRGINIA LOZANO/Daily
Ann Arbor mayor, Christopher Taylor, speaks at the City Council meeting Monday.
See CITY, Page 3
Campaign aims to
combat extreme
poverty and
preventable disease
By ALYSSA BRANDON
Summer Managing News Editor
This year, a Wolverine will be
heading to Capitol Hill to participate
in ONE Campaign, a program that
works to help fight extreme poverty
and disease in Africa.
Sara Isaac, a rising LSA senior, was
one of 16 college students selected to
serve on the Student Advisory Board
of the ONE Campaign and attend the
campaign program based in Wash-
ington D.C.
Each year, ONE Campaign selects
students from various campaign
chapters located at college campuses
across the U.S. to participate in the
three-day program. Throughout the
program, students collaborate with
political leaders, activists and others
to plan new campaign programs to
implement on college campuses.
According to a press release from
campaign leaders, this year’s students
were selected because of their skills as
on-campus organizers around ONE’s
mission of ending extreme poverty.
They were also selected because of
their eagerness to engage with other
students and young people to encour-
age similar activism.
In a statement, Laurie Moskowitz,
who serves as senior director of U.S.
Campaigns, said she was excited to
hear fresh ideas from this year’s Stu-
dent Advisory Board.
“ONE’s Student Advisory Board
brings together the best and the
brightest of ONE’s student activists
to provide crucial insight and shape
the organization’s campus work,”
she said.
City officials discuss possible
changes to snow removal policy
LSA student
attends ONE
program in
Washington
CAMPUS LIFE
See ONE, Page 3
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Just do it
Michigan signs record-high
apparel deal with Nike.
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