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^^^^^^^WWM»W^P> Tt>wn COMMUNICATIONS N B T WORK lUcstlani* dDbsmier Your hometown newspaper serving Westland for 35 years Thursday, May 18, 2000 hometownnewspapers.net 75C V0MT»»KMT**f K» Weattsnd, Michigan ¢¢000 HomsTowm CommunteaSon* Network™ DEAJtllKADKltS, Spacious Effective with today's issue, we've Council made improv«i»enta in the section front flagi inside your Westland Observer. WeVeclewgned a special typeface member for the section front flags. Ita . distinctive and easier to read. Section front letter* also are larger and easier to read. At the bottom of the page youll find the telephone number and internet addressee of the editor and the newsroom. We want to make it easy for you to reach us. i • We've also changed the name of our Community Life section to HonWlbwn Lire so that it more In response to a dearly reflects the hometown news request from - news about weddings, Councilman engagements, religion and births * David Cox, contained in the section. You will continue to BBC Councilman improvements in the way we Richard package and present your LeBlanc offered hometown newspaper which is part the city council an apology of the HomelWn Communications for questioning four coun­ Network. Our aim is to make our cil members' ethics in rela­ newspapers the essential tool for tion to the January firing our readers and their families to of Clerk Patricia Gibbons. live the good life in their home towns. That's why we are making BY TRACEY BTRKENBAUEB these changes, with others soon to STAFrWRTTKS come. Councilman David Cox got his apolo­ Tell me what you think. You can gy at Monday's Westland City Council reach me at (734) 953-2100 or at meeting. [email protected]. mm PHOTOS IT TOM HAWIKT Unfortunately, he wasn't there to Sincerely hear it. Council President Charles On toar: School Superintendent Greg Baracy leads administrators and school board members Griffin said Cox was ill and couldn't on a tour of the district's $108 million building and technology program Monday. This is the attend the session. Susan Rosiek, new entryway at Adams Middle School. Below, tour members exit the new Adams entry way. At the May 1 meeting, Cox demand­ Publisher ed councilmen Richard LeBlanc and Glenn Anderson publicly apologize for accusing him of violating the Michigan Open Meetings Act. Cox also wanted IN THE PAPER Tour updates school board on I^eBlanc and Anderson to help him pay. more than $1,000 in attorney's fees, but that's not likely to happen. Anderson didn't comment on the fees technology, renovation projects at the meeting, but in the past he TODAY called Cox's request for monetary reim­ bursement "ridiculous." BY DOUG JOHNSON STAFF Warm LeBlanc didn't say he'd help defray Deadline: The filing dead­ the expenses, but offered to help Cox line for county elections Wayne-Westland school board members and adminis­ explore ways to pay his legal bills. trators toured their district via bus Monday evening for a MI am told personal funds were later this year was Tues­ close look at some of the construction and renovation pro­ expended to enable a response to.the day. We have a roundup of jects currently under way. prosecutor for actions involving council who filed J A6 The improvements are being paid for by a voter- members acting within their elected approved 1998 bond issue that designated $82 million for positions," LeBlanc said. "While others construction and $26 million for technology upgrades. have suggested the advice of an attor­ AT HOME Included in the tour were walk-throughs at the William ney is viewed as a form of insurance, 1 D. Ford Career/Technical Center, Adams Middle School, would say that it would be difficult to Flower power: Now's the Taft-Galloway Elementary School and Walker-Winter consider those expenses normal. If Elementary School. council members believe they were time to plant those School Superintendent Greg Baracy said the extensive responding to an inquiry involving springtime flowers. If you projects will eventually touch every school in the district their elected position, there might exist plan right, you*ll have a and the work is "on time and within budget.* another method or methods by which Representatives of the construction management firm Some highlights: repayment could be achieved. constant bloom through­ of McCarthy and Smith Inc. of Redford Township, and • At the Ford Center, tour members saw the new 90- "I am willing to assist in the explo­ out the summer. / D8 from the architects for the project, TMP Associates of ration of those methods." Bloomfield Hills, also took part in the tour. _ _ _ —- « Please see TOUR, A2 REAL ESTATE Please see APOLOGY, AS Guidance for the newWe: Future owners can enroll in many classes to learn Citizen pleads\for decorum at council meetings about buying a home /fl BY TRACEY BIRKENHAUER favor of the institution. What is the to support the government," Marvaso Marvaso encouraged residents to BTAFF Warm institution? Whether it be a church, the said. "The government is not always voice their concerns but pleaded for While the majority of residents at YMCA, a manufacturing plant or our right, but we need to support the com­ decorum. He criticized residents who INDEX Monday's council meeting were vocally government, there must be a structure munity. We don't need to overthrow mock their elected officials, cursing and disgruntled, one man stood up and of authority in any institution or the the government." berating council members as they Apart merits/M Crossword/82 called for peace. institution will fail." Since Gibbons was fired, some West- speak. AtHome/D Entertainment/El "I'm concerned about our community He doesn't support the effort to recall land residents have shown mistrust for "I don't see a lot of good role models Automotive/8 Jobs/08 and the direction it's taking as far as council members Sharon Scott, David their city government. At the meeting, aiming up here to voice their opinions," OaAsffled/MJ Obituaries/AlO the children and the role models that Cox, David James and Charles Griffin, several citizens boasted of filing Free­ he said. Classified Opinions/ A14-16 are being displayed right here at city who voted to abruptly fire then-City dom of Information Act requests Residents probed the council for Clerk Patricia Gibbons in January. regarding budget items and investiga­ answers until after '11:30 p.m. Many lndei/F7 Real Estate/FI council," said George Marvaso. "Here, "If you have a government, you have tions into campaign funding histories. Community Service Guide/J2 as a silent majority, I say that I am in ~ Please see HAAMOHY, A3 Ufe/stt Sports/Cl New tradition »* i. HomeTown Classifieds City OKs bids for Crowned: Wayne WORK! Memorial prom new fire station queen Kelly Tyler (front left) and BY TtAOtY BfUENHAUCT king Scott Teasdale "I got great action STAFF WSIIU •ON SOUTH SIDE (front right) pose from myObserver- Residents on the south­ 'W*<^l I UlEPlllMMtlH »'l>l^^—^^^^^ | ,| • fahind the prom Eeeentric classified east side will be a little lived in the neighborhood court (second row- safer after the construction for 43 years. left to right) Alma ad. My play struc­ ofFire Station 5 "I Can see it being really beneficial," < said the Ibanez, Jenny ture sold really fast. Response times for West- Clark, Steve Fiel land Fire Department fire Annapolis Park resident. trucks and ambulances "It's nice to see the city hauer, Brandon ArleneB. should drop from about 6 to using tax dollars in my Ijewis; (back r<iw- Franklin 9 minutes to about 2 min­ neighborhood. I suppose it left to right) utes, said Fire Chief Mark should be beneficial to those Angela Bradford, Neal. people who live on the ^•^kxistina Gaines, On Monday, the city coun­ Inkster side, also " Kevin Watson and cil approved the low bid Construction should start Justin Smoes. No from KOH Contractor Inc. within six weeks and be for 1896,991 completed six months after one can rememher The station, to be located that. the la*t time the near Irene Street and "This is going to make s school elected a Annapolis Road, has been a tremendous life-saving dif­ prom king and long time coming for ference," Neal said "In the queen. Dorothy Smith, who has 1 f Please •MI'MBTA? STAfF Fawfft wt Twa IUWIST ?••> };l;t<:•• i classified M\ 734-591-09QO Newsroom: 734-953*2104 Home Delivery: *34 591 0500 BBB« SSSSSSSslBSSS«BSSSSSSslBSSS«BSSSstl mam TAe Oo**rv«rr 41 Eccentric/ THURSDAY, MAY 18, 2000 <W)A2 tP^Jm? Tour from page Al seat lecture hall, and large addi­ tions to the auto body lab, con* iUestlan6 (Obsearer struction trades room, CAP- CAM lab and welding labs. •••••pitil !#•*•»•*•*• They also toured video/media HOW TO REACH US production labs and a new com- puter lab for graphic design $u*an Roslek, courses. About two dozen com­ puters will be installed there r*ubtt*h«r along with airbrush and sign- (734)953-2100 making equipment. srosiek @oe. homecomm.net About $5,5 million is being spent for construction at Ford and another $2,1 million is set aside for equipment. Mechanical work is at about 95 percent.com­ plete at Ford; cement flooring is Hugh Gallagher, due to be poured in the auto Managing Editor shop lab in the next few days. (734) 953-2149 Lecture hall oe.homecomm.net The lecture hall will be avail­ able to the public for small groups to rent and the "district Julie Brown, can use it for staff in-service.

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