The Center of the City Task
Force met at Larcom City Hall
Wednesday afternoon to advance
their public engagement plan. It
was the fifth task force meeting
for
the
10-person
municipal
committee, created after local
voters approved Proposal A to
designate the library lot between
Fifth Avenue and Division Street
for plans to become a park and civic
center commons.
Community
member
and
Pioneer High School senior Miles
Klapthor is not a member of the
task force but led the meeting in
place of committee chair Meghan
Mussolf. He explained his interest
in this project as an Ann Arbor
native who wants to see the land
put to good use.
“I first got involved with the task
force after reading about it in the
newspaper. I thought it was pretty
interesting, the idea of having public
input for how lands going to be
used around downtown and down
the block,” Klapthor said. “A lot of
the time people my age, students in
high school and students in college
too, don’t really have a whole lot of
input in the planning process in a
lot of cases. Considering so much
of the use of the area is centered
around both the University, and
a lot of high school students that
are there, it’d be important to have
some ideas brought to the table by
people like me.”
The committee discussed the
most effective method to reach
members
of
the
community,
weighing the general efficacy of
universal mailing versus targeted
mailing, keeping in mind cost,
likelihood of engagement and other
factors.
Committee member Alan Haber
was the most vocal supporter
of universal mailing, claiming it
reached every stakeholder in Ann
Arbor, while others proposed
decreasing the scope of mailing
lists to encourage specific feedback.
“I do not believe our primary
mode of communication with the
public should be social media,”
Haber said.
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A panel titled “Unintended
Consequences: Panel on the
Impact
of
‘Opioid
Crisis’
Messaging on Those with
Chronic Pain” kicked off
Disability Community Month
Wednesday.
Disability
Community
Month is sponsored by the
University
of
Michigan
Human
Resources
department,
Michigan
Medicine
and
University
Health Service. Around 30
people attended the event,
held at Hatcher Gallery, and
many of them were graduate
students supporting Shanna
Kattari, the event coordinator
and assistant professor in the
School of Social Work.
Kattari
was
a
panelist
in the event, in addition to
two other women, Emma
Garrett and Clarissa Love.
One additional panelist was
unable to attend the event
because she could not find a
handicap accessible parking
spot close to the Hatcher
Graduate Library. Before the
panelists shared their own
stories, Kattari shared stories
of people who could not
attend the panel due to their
own chronic pain.
Kattari shared one story
about a Vietnam War veteran
whose
insurance
stopped
paying for the pain medication
he had been taken for decades.
When his children stopped
hearing from him, they went
to visit him and were shocked
by what they discovered.
“He was a mess,” Kattari
said. “Turns out, after decades
of
being
on
medication,
his providers cut him off
cold turkey... They told him
to
work
on
mindfulness
exercises to handle it, but he
was completely depressed.
He never moved from his
armchair,
except
maybe
to use the bathroom, and
slept in that chair all the
time,
depressed.
He
was
embarrassed… because he was
ashamed he couldn’t make
due about the medication.”
Sarah Jones doesn’t want to
stop fighting.
“I’m fighting to keep my son
alive,” Jones said. “It’s been
a nightmare every day since
we’ve been here.”
On Saturday, Sept. 21, her
son, 14-year-old Bobby Reyes,
went into cardiac arrest after
suffering an asthma attack
while she was driving him
home in Monroe County. He
was immediately transferred
to
C.S.
Mott
Children’s
Hospital in Ann Arbor, where
doctors declared him brain
dead.
After conducting a series
of tests, doctors announced
to the family Reyes would
not recover, and they would
be taking him off of his life
support
Friday,
Sept.
27.
In response, Reyes’ family
contacted
an
attorney
to
issue a court order that would
extend his time on life support.
On
Monday,
Washtenaw
County’s 22nd Circuit Court
ordered Michigan Medicine to
delay taking Reyes off of life
support.
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Elizabeth
Anderson,
University
of
Michigan
professor of philosophy and
women’s studies, was named a
MacArthur Fellow last week.
Anderson is one of 26 “Genius
Grant” winners whose work
displays
“extraordinary
originality.”
In addition to Anderson,
who is known for her work
in political philosophy and
social
epistemology,
this
year’s MacArthur Fellowship
class
includes
writers,
artists and urban planners.
The fellowship comes with
a
$625,000
grant
to
be
distributed over five years.
The Foundation was created
by
insurance
businessman
John MacArthur in 1970.
The award is commonly
known as the “Genius Grant”
— against the wishes of the
MacArthur Foundation itself
— though Anderson said, in
an interview with The Daily,
she does not consider herself
a genius in her field. Anderson
pointed to research showing
women are less likely to go
into fields where one must be
considered a “genius” rather
than a hard worker.
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campuses will see a slight
increase in funding under the
state
budget
Gov.
Gretchen
Whitmer signed into law on
Monday.
The budget includes $322.8
million for the University’s Ann
Arbor campus, a 0.6 percent
increase
from
the
previous
fiscal year, with $26.3 million
allocated for U-M Dearborn and
$23.9 million for U-M Flint, 1
percent and 1.3 percent increases
respectively. The funds contain
a stipulation that tuition for
in-state undergraduates does
not increase by more than 4.4
percent or $587, depending on
which is the larger amount.
The budget is the result of a
months-long standoff between
Whitmer and Republicans in
the state legislature over the
governor’s signature campaign
promise to fix Michigan’s worn
down roads and infrastructure.
Whitmer signed the budget for
fiscal year 2020 hours before the
deadline to fund the government
and avoid a shutdown. She issued
147 line-item vetoes to slash $947
million from the 16 budgets sent
to her desk. The cuts included
$38 million in higher education
tuition grants for private colleges
and universities in the state
and $150,000 for a program
that supports students who are
pregnant or parenting children.
In a video posted to Twitter
on Monday night, Whitmer
explained why she made the
cuts.
“I took my role as governor
very seriously,” Whitmer said
in the video. “I had to use the
line-item veto to try to clean up
budgets that were a complete
mess, built on phony numbers,
using funds in the wrong way,
usurping executive power.
These are important things
that I had to eliminate from
these budgets. I’m always going
to put the safety and the health
and the welfare of the people
of the state of Michigan before
anything else.”
Panelists discuss the impact of the opioid crisis for those who deal with chronic pain at the Hatcher Gallery Wednesday afternoon.
Center of the City T
ask Force plans
to ramp up community engagement
Group’s 5th meeting focuses on involving stakeholders in planning process
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Members of the Center of the City Task Force at a meeting in Larcom City Hall Tuesday afternoon.
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