arguments 
from 
legal 

representatives of the plaintiffs, 
city and U.S. Department of 
Agriculture — the department’s 
Wildlife Services is conducting 
the cull —Monday.

Should the court rule in favor 

of the plaintiffs and grant a 
preliminary injunction — a legally 
binding 
court 
order 
granted 

before the resolution of a lawsuit 
— the City of Ann Arbor would 
be forced to halt the cull until the 
lawsuit is resolved, even if the suit 
goes to trial. To achieve this, the 
plaintiffs will have to prove to the 
presiding judge they are likely to 

win if the case goes forward.

The lawsuit claims the deer cull 

will create a public safety hazard 
and sidesteps state laws that 
prohibit hunters from carrying 
silenced weapons, which the 
USDA shooters hired to carry out 
the cull will be carrying.

The 
Ann 
Arbor 
City 

Government website outlines the 
deer management program and 
asserts measures have been taken 
to manage safety concerns.

“The 
deer 
cull 
will 
be 

performed by highly experienced 
USDA sharpshooters who are 
specially 
trained 
to 
conduct 

culls in urban settings with 
precision, accuracy and safety as 
top priorities,” the city website 
states. 
“(The 
cull) 
will 
not 

include allowing the discharge 
of firearms by hunters, residents 
or visitors at any time within city 
limits.”

Barry Powers, the attorney 

representing the plaintiffs in 
the case, said in an interview 
he was confident the Ann Arbor 
administration 
lacks 
legal 

grounds to conduct the cull and 
that he would be able to achieve a 
favorable ruling on Monday.

“If the city had a position that 

would have been formidable, they 
would’ve brought it out by now,” 
said Powers. “We don’t believe 
the city has a good precedent to 
support what it hopes to do.”

Powers said the lack of a 

preliminary injunction against 
the cull would be more damaging 

than if one were to be granted 
because the consequences of the 
former would be irreversible.

“The 
government 
doesn’t 

stand to lose too much (if 
the preliminary injunction is 
granted),” Powers said, “whereas 
if the status quo isn’t frozen, then 
the plaintiffs will be severely 
injured because they will have 
lost peace and lost the right to 
not have wildlife killed in their 
backyard.”

Stephen Postema, Ann Arbor 

City Attorney, was unavailable for 
comment Sunday. In an interview 
with the Ann Arbor News on 
Saturday, Postema maintained 
his belief of the the cull was legal 
and said the city will mount legal 
arguments in court on Monday.

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State universities jointly sue

Lawyers from both East-

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Michigan 
University 

and Central Michigan Uni-
versity said they would con-
sider joining the University 
in a union lawsuit claiming 
the Hutchinson Act in its 
then-newly amended form 
violated 
Michigan’s 
state 

constitution.

The Hutchinson Act was 

amended in 1965 and would 
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unit.

The amendment would 

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The University claimed 

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EMU and CMU,sought the 

same autonomy the Univer-
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Then-University 
Presi-

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The Board of Regents 

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Two Washtenaw County 

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A2 City Council unanimously 
passes Ackerman’s resolution

Councilmember’s 
first proposal aims 
to collect funding for 

fire protection

By MARLEE BREAKSTONE

Daily Staff Reporter

For the first time in seven 

years, Ann Arbor’s mayor and 
City Council are slated to get a 
raise.

The increase, proposed by the 

city’s Local Officers’ Compen-
sation Commission, amounts to 
about a 1 percent bump in each 
official’s respective salaries — a 
monthly increase of $35 for Ann 
Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor 
and a $13 monthly increase for 
all 10 City Council members.

The LOCC, a seven-member 

body appointed by the mayor and 
council, suggested the increase 
in a memo before Monday’s City 

Council meeting. The change 
will automatically take effect 30 
days after LOCC’s memo, unless 
two-thirds of city council mem-
bers vote in objection.

The memo proposed that 

annual pay for Mayor Christo-
pher Taylor be raised to $42,860. 
 

Additionally, it recommended 
that the annual pay for council 
members be adjusted to $16,073. 
Currently, Taylor makes $42,436 
and City Council members make 
$15,913.50 annually.

Though the city’s charter 

states that members of Council — 
with the exception of the mayor 
— should serve without compen-
sation, state law allows cities to 
establish an LOCC, which can 
then supersede salary provi-
sions in city charters. Under the 
state law, these changes do not 
require voter approval, unlike 
changes to the city charter. 

If the raise goes into effect, 

the mayor and councilmembers’ 
salaries will collectively total 

$203,587 for each of the next two 
years, a $2,000 overall increase 
compared to previous years.

City Council members gave no 

indication that they objected the 
proposed change in compensa-
tion at Monday’s meeting.

“This pay raise is just one 

more cup of coffee at one more 
meeting,” said City Council-
member Sabra Briere (D-Ward 
1). “It’s not a big deal.”

Taylor, who nominated a 

majority of LOCC’s current 
appointees, said he was willing 
to accept whatever determi-
nation the commission made, 
whether that was an increase or 
decrease in pay.

In an interview Wednesday, 

Briere said the LOCC did not dis-
close to City Council members 
the criteria used to determine 
the 1 percent pay raise.

She added that the body had 

asked councilmembers to report 
how much time they spent doing 
their jobs prior to meeting in 
December. The LOCC meets 
every two years to discuss pay 
changes.

Briere said that this was the 

first time she had ever been 
asked to explain how much 
time she spent working for the 
community, and that she had 

reported working about 30 hours 
weekly and about 90 to 110 hours 
monthly.

“Honestly, I didn’t feel I was 

being underpaid,” Briere said. 
“I’m not in this for the money. 
The money is convenient, espe-
cially at this point in my life, but 
I didn’t run for office expecting 
to make money. I ran for office 
expecting to work.”

City Councilmember Zachary 

Ackerman (D-Ward 4) echoed 
Briere’s sentiment about the 

increases.

“I don’t think any of us are 

in it for the money,” Ackerman 
said. “We’re all in it to serve the 
community. I know I certainly 
am.”

Pay increases for the mayor 

were more common in past 
years, which saw the mayor’s sal-
ary rise from $18,300 for then-
mayor John Hieftje in 2000 to its 
current level of $42,436 in 2009.

Yearly pay for councilmem-

bers saw a similar trend, rising 
from $9,200 in 1997 to its cur-

rently level of $15,913.50 in 2009.

The rest of the city’s employ-

ees have also seen increases, 
ranging from between 1-3 per-
cent in the past four years. 
Before that, from 2009 to 2012, 
most city employees saw little to 
no pay increases as the city expe-
rienced budget challenges. Some 
voluntarily accepted decreases 
in pay in order to help close bud-
get gaps, such as the Ann Arbor 
firefighters, who experienced a 3 
percent pay decrease in 2010.

CLAIRE ABDO/Daily

City Councilmember Zachary Ackerman (D-Ward 4) listens to a public speaker at an Ann Arbor City Council on December 
7, 2015.

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