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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Data mining
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The United States flew
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State universities jointly sue
Lawyers from both East-
ern
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
have allowed public employ-
ees, including public univer-
sity faculty, to be represented
by a collective bargaining
unit.
The amendment would
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lature to involve itself in what
were considered internally
resolved University issues.
The University claimed
the state legislature had nei-
ther the right to have general
supervision of the University
nor the ability to control its
funds,
EMU and CMU,sought the
same autonomy the Univer-
sity did.
Then-University
Presi-
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no comment, but upper-level
staff members and officials
said they welcomed both
EMU and CMU as co-liti-
gants.
The Board of Regents
chose to defer any official
recognition of any union rep-
resenting EMU employees
until the constitutional sta-
tus of the bill had been deter-
mined.
While
EMU
Attorney
James Tracy said he would
move to join EMU’s suit with
the University’s, CMU offi-
cials had been in contact with
University attorneys were
preparing pleadings to join
their suit as well.
Two Washtenaw County
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By the time of these events,
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against the amended form of
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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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