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FREE a newspaper for the rest of us www.lansingcitypulse.com May 25-31, 2016 ComeCleanDuathlon.org Online registration ends Friday, September 9 September 11, 2016 / LAKE LANSING Park / 9AM 2 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • May 25, 2016 PRESENTED BY THE CITY OF EAST LANSING, MSU COLLEGE OF MUSIC & WHARTON CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS DOWNTOWN ELJAZZFEST.COM EAST LANSING THE SOUL OF JAZZ IN THE HEART OF EAST LANSING featuring THE BEST IN local, regional and national music, an interactive children’s area and a traditional New Orleans-style second line parade City Pulse • May 25, 2016 www.lansingcitypulse.com 3 LANSING MEDICAL CANNABIS GUILD PRESENTS River Rock Concert Starring The Verve Pipe performing “Villains” cover to cover Friday & Saturday, June 10-11 JuneAdado Riverfront Park 10 Tickets available at riverrockconcert.com THE VERVE PIPE WALLY PLEASANT TRIPLE LINDY $15 advance/$25 at the door June 11 ELLIOT STREET LUNATIC JAMES GARDIN STEFANIE HAAPALA CITY MOUSE $5 advance/$15 at the door INCLUDES Top of the Town Party! Celebrate the winners of the City Pulse/Fox News47 Top of the Town contest and sample delicious food from the ToTT restaurant winners! Tickets at riverrockconcert.com Benefit for Buy in advance & save $10! 4 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • May 25, 2016 PUBLIC NOTICES VOL. 15 CITY OF LANSING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ISSUE 41 WAIVER OF THE NOISE ORDINANCE Installation of a Natural Gas Pipeline on N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. from Sheridan Road (517) 371-5600 • Fax: (517) 999-6061 • 1905 E. Michigan Ave. • Lansing, MI 48912 • www.lansingcitypulse.com to Approximately 800 Feet South Of N. Grand River Avenue ADVERTISING INQUIRIES: (517) 999-6704 The Lansing City Council will hold a public hearing on Monday, June 27, 2016 at 7 p.m. in the City PAGE or email [email protected] Council Chambers, Tenth Floor, Lansing City Hall, 124 W. Michigan Ave., Lansing, Michigan for the purpose stated below: EDITOR AND PUBLISHER • Berl Schwartz 6 [email protected] • (517) 999-5061 To afford an opportunity for all residents of the City of Lansing to appear and be heard with regard to ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER • Mickey Hirten a request for a waiver of the Noise Ordinance in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 654 of the [email protected] Code of Ordinances, filed by Consumers Energy Company and their contractor be permitted to work DeWeese surrenders medical license, faces up to 5 years in jail ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR • Ty Forquer some evenings Monday through Friday from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM, some Saturdays from 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and up to six (6) Sundays from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. [email protected] • (517) 999-5068 PAGE PRODUCTION MANAGER • Allison Hammerly For more information please call 517-483-4177. If you are interested in this matter, please attend [email protected] • (517) 999-5066 the public hearing or send a representative. Written comments will be accepted between 8 a.m. and STAFF WRITERS • Lawrence Cosentino 5 p.m. on City business days if received before 5 p.m., Monday on the day of the Public Hearing at 9 [email protected] the City Clerk’s Office, Ninth Floor, City Hall, 124 West Michigan Ave., Lansing, MI 48933 or email [email protected]. Todd Heywood [email protected] City Pulse celebrates Top of the Town winners at River Rock Concert Chris Swope, Lansing City Clerk ADVERTISING • Shelly Olson, Suzi Smith, www.lansingmi.gov/Clerk www.facebook.com/LansingClerkSwope Prince Spann, Liza Sayre CP#16-133 PAGE [email protected]:30 a.m. Saturdays [email protected] [email protected] CITY OF LANSING 14 [email protected] NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Contributors: Andy Balaskovitz, Justin Bilicki, Daniel E. Bollman, Capital News Service, Bill NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held on Monday, June 13, 2016, at 7 City Pulse's 2016 Summer Guide offers ideas for warm weather fun Castanier, Mary C. Cusack, Tom Helma, Gabrielle p.m. in City Council Chambers, Tenth Floor, Lansing City Hall, 124 West Michigan Avenue, Lansing, Lawrence Johnson, Terry Link, Andy McGlashen, Michigan, for the purpose of supporting or opposing: Kyle Melinn, Mark Nixon, Shawn Parker, Stefanie COVER Pohl, Dennis Preston, Allan I. Ross, Rich Tupica, Act-5-2014, Grand Woods Park, W. Willow Hwy., Sale of approximately 139.3 acres. Ute Von Der Heyden, Paul Wozniak For more information, please call 517-483-4177. These documents are available for review at the ART Delivery drivers: Frank Estrada, Dave Fisher, Paul Shore, office of the City Clerk or at http://www.lansingmi.gov/clerk under the heading of Documents Placed Dick Radway, Richard Simpson, Thomas Scott Jr. on File. If you are interested in this matter, please attend the public hearing or send a representative. Interns: Kayleigh Garrison, Eve Kucharski, Callie Opper Written comments will be accepted between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on City business days if received “Capitolfest” By TOM COCOZOLLI, original photo by before 5 p.m., Monday on the day of the Public Hearing at the City Clerk’s Office, Ninth Floor, City CAROL ANN COCOZOLLI. See page 10 for story Hall, 124 West Michigan Ave., Lansing, MI 48933 or email [email protected].. Chris Swope, Lansing City Clerk THIS WEEK Editor & Publisher www.lansingmi.gov/Clerk www.facebook.com/LansingClerkSwope THIS WEEK with Berl SchwartzBerl CP#16-134 onSchwartz ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS on • Etienne Charles, 2016 Division Street Parking Garage Facility Generator MSU jazz professor BID Saturday at 10:30 a.m. CITY OF EAST LANSING 410 ABBOT ROAD EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN 48823 Sealed proposals will be received by the City of East Lansing Parking Administrator at 181 Division (Division Garage/multi-color) up to 11:00 A.M., Monday, June 13, 2016, at which time and place proposals will be opened and read for the furnishing of materials, labor and equipment for installation of new generator for the Division Street Parking Garage in the City of East Lansing. Proposals may either be mailed to the City of East Lansing (Attn: Caleb Sharrow) at 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing, Michigan 48823 or hand delivered to the Office of the Parking Administrator located at 181 Division Street, East Lansing, Michigan. The Contract Documents, including Specifications, Plans and Bidding Forms may be obtained electronically from Bergmann Associates, located at 7050 West Saginaw Highway, Lansing, Michigan. Request Contract Documents from Angela Robinson by email: [email protected]. Proposals must be accompanied by a certified check, cashier's check or bid bond payable to the City of East Lansing, in the amount of not less than five percent (5%) of the bid amount, which shall be forfeited to the City of East Lansing if the bidder to whom the Contract is awarded fails to enter into a Contract within ten (10) days after the Contract is awarded. The unsuccessful bidders' checks or bid bonds will be returned upon final award of Contract, approved and executed. Prevailing wages are required for this project. A mandatory Prebid meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 1:00 P.M. at the 181 Division Street, Main Parking Office located in the Division Street Parking Structure (corner of Albert Street and Division Street). The City will apply its Local Purchasing Preference Policy, Policy Resolution 2009-3, in making the award of this contract. The City of East Lansing reserves the right to reject any or all proposals, to waive defects in proposals, and to make the award in its own best interest. CITY OF EAST LANSING Marie Wicks City Clerk CP#16-132 City Pulse • May 25, 2016 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION partner developer Continental Real Es- tate Cos. He said they will seek an exten- $35 M for infrastructure sion of the pre-development agreement Ingham County bonding considered to help fund Lansing’s Red Cedar project through the City Council. Brown Clarke said on Monday she was C The developers of the Red Cedar Re- year. He said either the city or the county surprised to hear that the Council would naissance project on Michigan Avenue in have the ability to issue the bonds, and be asked to extend the pre-development OF THE WEEK Lansing may seek about $35 million in that neither is near its bond capacity. He agreement. bonds funded through Ingham County declined to offer specific numbers. “Our next meeting is in June,” she said. for construction of the elaborate infra- Kara Hope, D-Delhi Township, who “It’s going to time-out before our next structure needed to raise the proposed chairs the Ingham County Board of Com- meeting.” mixed-use building above the Grand Riv- missioners, said she has had preliminary She was concerned the agreement had er floodplain. conversations about the proposal. not been brought to the Council’s Mon- “They have a better credit rating than As for putting the county’s full faith day meeting, the last one of the month. the city of Lansing, and thus you would and credit behind the project, she said it She said a special meeting could happen, have, over the course of 20-plus years, $7 was a “good question and not something but with the impending holiday weekend to $10 million savings in interest rates,” I take lightly, especially in light of the oth- it was unlikely. Councilmembers Patricia said Bob Trezise, the CEO of Lansing er large capital projects we have coming Spitzley and Adam Hussain are already Economic Area Partnership. our way — like the jail. out of state traveling, meaning all six of The proposal was greeted with skep- “I want to take a closer look and see if the remaining eight members of the body ticism by the president of the Lansing this is just a boon for the developers, or would have to be at the meeting.