No. 20
NEWS YOU CAN USE, NEWS YOU CAN TRUST
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May 19 – 25, 2016
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Voters in Wayne precincts
3 and 6 will not vote at the
Wayne Activities and
Banquet Center during the
upcoming Nov. 8 presiden-
tial election.
See page 4.
The Aug. 2 primary elec-
tion in Northville Township
will reduce the field of seven
candidates seeking four,
four-year terms on the town-
shipboard to four.
See page 7.
Vol. 131, No. 20
Vol. 69, No. 20
Vol. 69, No. 20
Vol. 16, No. 20
Four comprehensive con-
struction projects will be
under way in the City of
Romulus this summer, but
only one includes road clo-
sures and a detour.
See page 3.
Vol. 131, No. 20
Vol. 69, No. 20
Vol. 69, No. 20
For home delivery of The Eagle call 734-467-1900.
Mayor William R. Wild is
reaching out to Westland
businesses to help with the
"Wild About Youth Works!"
Program which employs stu-
dents for the summer.
See page 4.
Joshua C. Meier took his
oath of office last week and
is now the Canton Township
Director of Public Safety, the
first to have come from the
fire services department.
See page 5.
Vol. 16, No. 24
Fire officials in Inkster
are continuing the investiga-
tion into the cause of a fire
Saturday afternoon which
destroyed 36 apartment units
anddisplaced 100 residents.
See page 6.
The City of Plymouth is
looking for precinct inspec-
tors and other workers at
polling places for both the
August and November elec-
tions.
See page 2.
The only two current
members of the Belleville
Civil Service Commission,
met last month for the first
time to interview candidates
for positionswith the city.
See page 3.
One of the busiest intersec-
tions in Plymouth Township is
about to get even busier as an
additional 600 employees move
to the former Automotive
Components Holdings (ACH)
plant onSheldonRoad atM-14.
The plant is being revamped
to suit the needs of Troy Design
& Manufacturing (TDM), which
supplies prototype tooling, man-
ufacturing engineering and
parts manufacturing services.
The company is consolidating
employees from three locations
at the Plymouth Township
plant. The move is expected to
be complete at the end of the
year.
President and Chief
Executive Officer of Troy
Design & Manufacturing John
Lowery said in a prepared
statement, “”This consolidation
allows TDM to leverage all of its
resources in a single facility. We
are excited to join the Plymouth
Township community.”
The TDM facilities in
Redford, where more than 500
are employed, and the Warren
plant where about 100 are
employed, will continue to oper-
ate during the plant remodel-
ing. The 1 million square foot
plant was acquired from Ford
LandDevelopment Corp.
The ACH plant was formerly
a Visteon plant and before that
a Ford plant. It most recently
housed Detroit Thermal
Systems which moved the
majority of the operation to
Romulus.
Nearly 1,300 volunteers of
all ages filled the gymnasium
at the Plymouth Arts and
Recreation Complex last
Saturday to package food for
the Greater Plymouth Service
Project, supporting the Kids
AgainstHunger Coalition.
Volunteers from the
Colonial Kiwanis Club of
Plymouth along with the
evening Kiwanis Club, area
church groups, high school
groups, Rotary Club members
and Scouts, among other com-
munity groups and individual
volunteers joined the effort to
pack 126,000 meals for the
needy during the day-long proj-
ect.
The volunteers packed the
meals in a show of force noted
event ChairmanDaveSiegrist.
The Greater Plymouth
Service Project took nine
months to organize through the
Community Foundation of
Plymouth, which also chairs.
Siegrist also thanked the
Plymouth
Community
Chamber of Commerce and
Doug Wallace for their help
with the enormous effort, along
with all the volunteers who
workedduring the day.
Volunteers worked in about
20 assembly line configura-
tions, packaging the food into
boxes for delivery. More than
$35,000was raised indonations
to support the effort and organ-
izers said enough bulk food
was purchased for the meals.
One packet, which costs about
$1.68, will provide six meals.
Preparation usually involves
only boiling and serving.
The packaged meals will be
delivered to the Schoolcraft
College food pantry, the
Plymouth Canton Community
School anti-hunger backpack
program, the Wayne-Westland
Salvation Army, Veterans
Haven, Trinity Church food
pantry and the main recipient,
the Kids Against Hunger
Coalition. Ten thousand meals
See
Project,
page 2
The Plymouth Canton
Community Schools budget for
2016-17 includes increased class
sizes at most schools along with
other cost cutting to compensate
for a $3.7milliondeficit.
The proposed budget also
includes an additional five
school days, employee furloughs
and a $150,000 credit from
Durhamtransportation services.
Superintendent of Schools
Monica Merritt presented the
$155.2 million budget to mem-
bers of the board of education
last week.
Measures proposed to com-
pensate for the revenue deficit
include increasing class sizes in
upper elementary, junior high
school and high schools. Those
increased class sizes will result
in commensurate teacher layoffs
anticipated at a reduction of 18.9
full-time equivalent teaching
positions.
The figures estimate a stu-
dent enrollment of 17,355 includ-
ing 250 Schools of Choice stu-
dents. The proposal also
includes an increase in para-
professionals at the schools and
the return of three plant engi-
neers to help with maintenance
at the elementary schools.
The district expects to receive
an increase of $120 per pupil in
state foundation allotment funds
whichwould total about $1.6mil-
lion in revenue in the budget.
Officials said that funds antici-
pated from the Wayne County
Regional Educational Service
Agency were not included in the
budget figures presented.
Merritt told the board mem-
bers that the budget plan is bal-
anced based on the accuracy of
the revenue projections and
impact of the changes suggested.
She told the boardmembers, too,
that she and the district adminis-
trators are open to more discus-
sion.
The proposed financial plan
will be reviewed by the board
members during a meeting May
24, and discussed at a public
hearing planned for June 14.
The budget is slated to be for-
mally adopted June 28.
“We need to stabilize our dis-
trict,” Merritt said. “I know we
can get through this together.”
We are excited
to join the
Plymouth Township community.
”
School budget includes increased class sizes
Move will bring 600 jobs to area
Community effort
Food packaging event draws volunteers from throughout area
