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Millage question divides
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Westland mayor meets with Dalai Lama, Lady Gaga
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JAY GUSTAVSEN
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DAVISON, COPPLE,
COPPLE & COPPLE, LLP
Attorneys at Law
199 North Capitol
Boulevard
Post Office Box 1583
Boise, Idaho 83701
Telephone: (208) 342-3658
Facsimile: (208) 386-9428
Attorneys for Petitioner
IN THE DISTRICT COURT
OF THE FOURTH
JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF
THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY
OF ADA
ELISABETH VANDEVEN-
TER, NOW Known as ELIS-
ABETH LEBRUN
Petitioner,
vs.
ALLEN VANDEVENTER,
Respondent.
Case No. CV DR 1100989
SUMMONS
NOTICE: YOU HAVE BEEN
SUED BY THE ABOVE-
NAMED PETITIONER. THE
COURT MAY ENTER
JUDGMENT
AGAINST
YOU WITHOUT FURTHER
NOTICE UNLESS YOU
RESPOND WITHIN 20
DAYS.
READ THE INFORMATION
BELOW.
TO:
ALLEN VANDEVENTER
You are hereby notified that
in order to defend this law-
suit,
an
appropriate
response must be filed with
the above designated court
located at 200 West Front
Street, Boise, Idaho 83702
within 20 days after service
of this Summons on you. If
you fail to so respond, the
court may enter judgment
against you as demanded
by the Petitioner in the
Verified Petition to Modify.
A copy of the Verified
Petition to Modify is served
with this Summons. If you
wish to seek the advice or
representation by an attor-
ney in this matter, you
should do so promptly so
that your written response,
if any, may be filed in time
and other legal rights pro-
tected.
1. The title and number of
this case.
2. If your response is an
Answer to the Verified
Petition to Modify, it must
contain admissions or
denials of the separate alle-
gations of the Verified
Petition to Modify and other
defenses you may claim.
3. Your signature, mailing
address and telephone
number, or the signature,
mailing address and tele-
phone number of your
attorney.
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ery of a copy of your
response to Petitioner's
attorney, as designated
above.
To determine whether you
must pay a filing fee with
your response, contact the
Clerk of the above-named
court.
DATED this 19 day of
November, 2015.
CHRISTOPHER D. RICH
Clerk of the District Court
200 West Front Street
Boise, Idaho 83702
(208) 287-6879
CHRISTOPHER D. RICH
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Moore demanded of the council
members. Moore said that the
retirees were still “under con-
tract” with the city and should
not be subject to the cuts.
Moore suggested that the
council members wait until the
Aug. 2 election. During that
upcoming primary election, vot-
ers will be asked to allow the
City of Wayne to join the South
Macomb Oakland Regional
Services Agency and then in a
separate question, allow that
agency to levy up to 14 mills for
police and fire funding in the
city. Joining the agency would
allow Wayne to circumvent the
20 mill tax limit imposed by the
state.
Proponents of the measure
claim that due to the decrease
in property values in the city,
the increased millage would
generate only about the amount
homeowners were paying in
taxes in 2008. While the millage
number is higher, actual tax
bills will be about the same as
the amount paid at that time,
officials claim.
Opponents claim that the
measure is simply a means to
avoid the legal taxation limits
and puts an undue burden on
taxpayerswho approved a dedi-
cated police and fire millage
that was used for general fund
expenses by past administra-
tions.
Rowe has said that the city
faces the assignment of an
emergency financial manager if
expenses are not brought in
line with revenue and that the
South Macomb agency plan
would significantly aid the abil-
ity of the city to provide police
and fire services, freeing those
funds up to pay other expenses
in the community.
Several other retirees in the
audience spoke to the council
members, asking for more time
and the consideration of other
options noting that this
decrease in benefits is a signifi-
cant expense for those who are
on a fixed income and have
only their pensions and or
Social Security benefits.
Dissenting votes were cast by
Ryan Gabriel, Christopher
Sanders andRichardSutton.
The cuts will go into effect
Sept. 1.
“If we have an emergency
financial manager, you'll lose
everything,” Councilman John
Rhaesa told the audience of
retirees. “The money isn't
there,” he added.
Current Wayne CityManager
Lisa Nocerini and former
Mayor Al Haidous strongly dis-
agree regarding the upcoming
millage election in the city.
Citing severe property value
losses and cuts from the state,
Nocerini proposed the ballot
questions. Voters will be asked
to approve Proposal S which
will allow the city to levy up to
14 mills through the South
Macomb Oakland Regional
Services Authority.
Nocerini and Mayor Susan
Rowe agree with auditors that
the city will be insolvent and
out of money by December of
2017. Members of the city coun-
cil have made multiple cuts in
spending to stave off the loom-
ing $1.5milliondeficit.
Haidous, however, is not in
favor of joining the authority,
which is a funding mechanism
that would allow the city to
exceed the state-mandated
maximum taxation level.
Haidous is actively campaign-
ing against themillage and says
that the taxpayers simply “can-
not afford it.”
Nocerini had said that
Haidous and his administra-
tion are responsible for the cur-
rent deficit and that they based
past budgets including revenue
frommillages that didnot pass.
Haidous says that Nocerini
has “a lack of experience” and
claims that her explanation of
the situation has not been ade-
quate.
He also criticized her for
what he described as “scare
tactics” threatening the loss of
police and fire services if the
millage is not approved.
Haidous said that he could
understand the need for 4 or 5
mills but that 14 is unaccept-
able.
Nocerini and Rowe have
stated that the 14 mills would
allow the city to rollback up to 5
mills and a resolution allowing
that rollback was approved by
council members earlier this
month.
Proponents of the measure
claim that while the millage
number will be higher, the actu-
al amount of taxes paid by resi-
dents will be the same as in
2008, due to the decline in the
taxable value of property in the
city.
The SMORSAmillage would
be dedicated to funding the
police and fire departments.
Critics at city council meetings
have reminded council mem-
bers that voters approved a
dedicated police millage sever-
al years ago. A recent mailing,
paid for by Wayne Citizens
United for Police and Fire,
claims that without the millage
or Proposal S, the city will
enter into a state of insolvency
and be “forced to lay-off police
officers, firefighters and out-
source or eliminate certain
essential services (public
works, buildings and engineer-
ing.
The mailing also claims that
such an insolvency would lead
to a state-appointed emergency
financialmanager.
Mayor William Wild had the
opportunity to hear the Dalai
Lama speakwhen he joinedmay-
ors from across the country in
Indianapolis last week for the
U.S. Conference ofMayors.
The renowned spiritual leader
chose the topic of ways to instill
compassion in cities as the topic
of his keynote address in the
wake of recent violence in
Orlando and elsewhere.
“This is a unique opportunity
to not only share ideas and dis-
cuss major issues affecting cities
across the country,” said Wild
prior to his attendance, “but it is
important time in our history to
focus on the role that compassion
can play in building social inno-
vation.”
The Dalai Lama's keynote
remarks will focus on the global
significance of building kind and
compassionate cities through
mayoral actions at the local level.
In addition to the keynote
address, His Holiness will
answer questions from the offi-
cials during a question and
answer session following his
remarks.
This is Wild's second meeting
with the Dalai Lama. After their
first meeting in 2012 in Louisville
at the Festival of Faith, Wild was
inspired to create the
Compassionate City program in
Westland, the first city in
Michigan to sign the Charter for
Compassion.
The United States Conference
of Mayors 84th Annual Meeting
took place from June 24 through
June 27.
Following the presentation,
singer and activist Lady Gagawas
scheduled to join the Dalai Lama
for an onstage conversation.
In addition, each of the
Presidential candidates was
invited to address the meeting,
and to discuss the 2016 Mayors'
Compact for a Better America: A
Call to Action, which prioritizes
urban issues, as well as their
vision to strengthen the federal-
local partnership and build
strong cities and metro
economies.
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