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ALLEN PARK — Several clerical employees could learn their fates as early as this evening. The City Council meets at 7 p.m. for a work session that could involve discussion of plans to lay off a handful of clerical employees and switch the hours of three appointees from full- to part-time. The city is working [...] With home values tanked and tax coffers empty, communities across metro Detroit are asking voters to pony up on Nov. 8 for public safety, public works, roads and parks and recreation. In Allen Park, voters will be asked to increase taxes to pay for a failed movie studio or risk the city going into receivership, [...] Gov. Rick Snyder’s plan to eliminate the state’s personal property tax has cities around Michigan worried that, if it is approved by the Legislature, they will lose millions of dollars in revenue and they have no idea how, or if, it will be replaced. Personal property taxes are levied on businesses and taxes for items [...] Wayne County officials do not approve of a money swap proposal to help the city financially. That’s according to Dennis Miller, the Downtown Development Authority’s attorney. Miller said he spoke Thursday with a Wayne County attorney who said the proposal goes against the Michigan State DDA Act 197(1975). “That’s not the purpose of the money,” [...] City officials told the Downtown Development Authority on Tuesday they were able to meet the $1.1 million bond payment on the 104-acre property formerly known as the Allen Park Studio Center. City officials were considering pulling money from the DDA and swapping those funds with restricted city funds to make the payment on the property. [...] The Downtown Development Authority tabled discussion Thursday on a money swap proposal that would help the city make a bond payment. The city has a bond payment of nearly $1.1 million due this month on its 104-acre property formerly known as the Allen Park Studio Center. Without the swap, officials say the city could default [...] ALLEN PARK (WWJ) – Allen Park will soon have a couple of high-level vacancies. Two city officials are resigning. The News-Herald reports that finance director Timothy McCurley, who was appointed to the job six months ago, and Councilman Kyle Tertzag submitted letters of resignation to the city council this week. This comes just weeks after [...] |
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