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Smith Court Hope Borbas Okemos Branch Library, 4321 Okemos Road 89 FM Haslett Branch Library, 1590 Franklin Street Harris Nature Center, 3998 Van Atta Road Snell Towar Recreation Center, 6146 Porter Ave. and the Township Web Site www.meridian.mi.us. November 3, 2015 Regular Meeting ELIZABETH LEGOFF BRETT DREYFUS, CMMC SUPERVISOR TOWNSHIP CLERK CP#15_284 NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING EAST LANSING CITY COUNCIL Notice is hereby given of the following public hearing to be held by the East Lansing City Council on Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers, 101 Linden Street, to consider the following ordinances: 1. Ordinance No. 1360; an Ordinance to amend Sections 108.2 and 108.4 of the International Property Maintenance Code, 2006 Ed, as adopted by Section 6-171 and amended by Section 6-175 of Article III - Property Maintenance Code - of Chapter 6 - Building and Building Regulations - of the Code of the City of East Lansing to make amendments to the provisions regarding dangerous buildings 2. Ordinance No. 1362; an Ordinance to amend Sections 2-83 and 2-85 of Division 2 - Code of Ethics - of Article III - Officers and Employees - of Chapter 2 - Administration - of the Code of the City of East Lansing to prohibit the acceptance of certain campaign contributions and to require the council members’ to disclose campaign contributions in excess of one hundred dollars from businesses when voting on issues affecting that business 3. Ordinance No. 1363; an Ordinance to amend Sections 48-91, 48-93, 48-94, and 48-95 of Chapter 48 of the Code of the City of East Lansing and to add Section 48-94A to Chapter 48 of the Code of the City of East Lansing to protect certain trees within the City of East Lansing The City of East Lansing will provide reasonable accommodations, such as interpreters for the hearing impaired and audio tapes of printed materials being considered at this meeting, upon notice to the City of East Lansing, prior to the meeting. Individuals with disabilities requiring reasonable accommodations or services should write or call the City Manager’s Office, 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 319-6920, TDD 1-800-649-3777. Marie E. Wicks, City Clerk CP#15_285 City Pulse • November 25, 2015 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION the city’s ordinance, Burnham would have to find another lo- cation not in a residential area to operate from. Failing to com- Moving on the mover ply can result in fines of $500 per day, a court order and — if C the activity continues after the court order — criminal charges OF THE WEEK Neighbors battle unwanted neighbor; for contempt of court. Burnham said in a telephone interview that his licenses are city slow to respond, they say current, that City Pulse was “lying” about the information it Elena Keller and her neighbors first noticed the giant had collected, and the upset neighbors were “fictitious.” Budget rental trucks parked on their busy southeast Lan- As recently as Friday morning, a large Budget rental truck was sing neighborhood street a year ago. One was parked in the parked on the driveway on Wabash. A rut with frozen water in driveway of 2623 Wabash Road — just blocks from Beekman it scarred the shoulder of the road in front of the house, giving Center and around the corner from Forestview Elementary evidence of a truck having been there regularly. The garage door School. The other was parked on the shoulder. stood open, revealing piles of moving pads and other moving re- December gave way to January, then February — and still lated equipment. Burnham’s red Cadillac, plastered with U Save the trucks were there. Sometimes they left during the day; but signage, sat in the driveway beside the truck. they always returned. When the trucks were gone, the street While city and state officials were closing in on Burnham’s was crowded with cars of the people who came and drove the business, he was making runs. His Facebook page show trips two trucks. moving people out of the state and across the state. “The snow plow would go around the truck parked on the One of Burnham’s clients during the last year was the Lan- Property: 329 E. Grand River Ave. (Bank of street,” Keller said, noting that one truck was often buried in sing city clerk. He was hired to move voting equipment to vari- Lansing Building) snow. “Why didn’t the Police Department or the snow plowing ous polling locations throughout the city, Clerk Chris Swope Lansing department pick up on that?” said. On May 20, neighbors said they gave Scott Sanford, the “We used them for all three elections in 2015, two days of head of the city’s Code Compli- pre-election delivery and two When the current owners bought the Bank ance Office, an earful about the days of post-election pickup of of Lansing building in 2005, their purchase trucks. Documents obtained equipment,” Swope wrote in an agreement stipulated that they would not from the City of Lansing show email. “As we did with Stevens operate the facility as a bank for at least 10 official photos of the trucks [the former contractor] for years.