City Council approves all mayor's re-appointments
Jun. 16, 2010 · 3:42 a.m.
After much procedure, Ypsilanti City Council approved six mayoral re-appointments to city boards and committees Tuesday, including the two postponed from earlier...read more
Council postpones two reappointments
Jun. 4, 2010 · 4:57 p.m.
Two of Ypsilanti's volunteer board members were not reappointed on schedule Tuesday night, owing to a 4-2 vote by City Council to delay the appointments until...read more
Downtown properties to be rehabilitated
Jun. 4, 2010 · 10:40 a.m.
Three recently-vacated properties in downtown Ypsilanti, two of them condemned, will soon be renovated owing to recent purchase by a local development company and...read more
Ypsilanti Township authorizes litigation against Liberty Square
May. 28, 2010 · 6:53 p.m.
Residents living in the Liberty Square complex of townhouses will see a sticker appear on their homes Tuesday, when the Ypsilanti Township Building Department places...read more
Ford plant granted tax exemption by township
May. 24, 2010 · 5:44 p.m.
New machines and equipment will soon be wheeled into Ford's Rawsonville Plant in Ypsilanti Township as it begins manufacturing a line of batteries for the new global...read more
Oct. 29, 2008 · 11:16 p.m.
The Superior Township Board is scheduled to take action on its Fiscal Year 2009 budget at Monday’s board meeting.
The Board is expected to approve the continued funding for nine Sheriff’s deputies. The proposed contract allocates nine deputies with $10,000 per deputy allocated for overtime funding and another $10,000 for special operations.
Township Supervisor William McFarlane said he only expects to see the Township spend about $6,000 in overtime per deputy but he said his office is budgeting for the unknown.
“If we don’t plan for the worst when the worst comes we won’t be prepared,” McFarlane said.
Lt. Jim Anuszkiewicz, who oversees Superior Township operations for the Sheriff’s Department, said he anticipates 2009 being very similar to 2008 and he does not anticipate any changes in the office’s operational plan. Anuszkiewicz agreed with the Township’s decision to budget the extra amount for overtime.
“I know, working for the Sheriff’s Department for the last 18 years we are always looking at worst case scenario and I think when you project $10,000 per deputy for overtime you are looking at the worst case scenario,” he said. “I think it gives the residents a sense of security that if something does happen there is money there to keep them safe whatever type of incident may occur.”
McFarlane said the Township may consider adding one more deputy for patrol but asked the Sheriff’s Department to submit a plan in terms of deployment to MacArthur Boulevard, a high crime area, as well as the rest of the Township. McFarlane said he wanted to reassure residents the Township’s resources are being equally distributed and there are additional resources to distribute.
“Because of the situation and the crime that has been occurring (at McArthur) there are some residents wondering what has been going on,” McFarlane said. Again, from looking at the statistics of the deputies I know they are doing more work they’re writing more tickets, making more traffic stops and they are issuing more trespassing notices but there are still possibilities in some minds crime is still increasing there.”
Anuszkiewicz said the Sheriff’s department has stepped up patrols as well as working with the management and Township to find more resources from the County and the State.
“And that doesn’t mean we are taking any resources away,” he said. “Our resources are working around the clock to bring people off the street.”
Visit the Ypsilanti Citizen Monday night for budget details.
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