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WAYNE - WESTLAND
WAYNE - WESTLAND

Cleaning up

Local communities continue to

battle effects of major storms

During an emergency meeting last Finance Director Steve Smith.
Friday, members of the Westland City Westland officials have estimated that
Council agreed to allocate up to $1 million millions of gallons of raw sewage was dis-
in funding to clean up damage caused by charged into the Rouge River as the city
recent storms. sewage system was overwhelmed by the
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has declared torrential rains. Crews from DPW and
Wayne County a disaster area due to the DPS systems in Westland, Wayne, Canton
property damage experienced in the area. Township and Inkster have been working
The declaration authorizes the Michigan steadily on pick-up of water and sewage
State Police, Emergency Management and damaged property.
Homeland Security Division Residents from throughout the area
(MSP/EMHSD) to coordinate state efforts have already filed claims with the Federal
above and beyond what MSP/EMHSD has Emergency Management Agency for the
already been doing in conjunction with loss of property, officials said. Forms to
local agencies. report damage in Westland are available
Many residents throughout the area at Westland City Hall; Westland Police
experienced severe basement flooding Department; Westland Fire
following the heavy rainfall which was Administration;William P Faust Public
estimated at 6-inches in the area. Library;Westland Senior Friendship
Residents in Wayne and Inkster are also Center; Jefferson Barns Community
facing severe damage and loss of property Vitality Center.
ruined in the flooding. In Wayne, clean up kits are available at
Westland councilman Peter Herzberg no cost at the police department. The kits
and mayoral candidate Tasha Green cast include a bucket, mop, liquid cleaner,
the only dissenting votes on the relief mask, gloves and other items. Any Wayne
funding. Herzberg complained that the resident can pick up a kit from the lobby
meeting was not scheduled earlier in the at the Wayne Police Department 24/7. It is
week while Green said the $1 million was not necessary to request a kit, simply take
too much to immediately dedicate to the one while supplies last, police officials
effort. That amount was proposed by city said.

Lawsuit the “culture of personal power Nocerini Westland DPS crews continued picking up storm related trash from curbs throughout
the holiday weekend. The damaged items are being taken to the city DPS facility, bot-
exercises is tolerated, acquiesced to or
ratified by Rhaesa, Leslie and city council tom two photos, and the Hawthorne Valley transfer site for removal. Officials said that
DPS personnel have been working 12-hour shifts since the storm struck last Saturday
FROM PAGE 1 members which encourages further abuse morning. Several areas of Wayne continued to report power outages this week.
of power.”
Leslie. Despite Hughes' complaints The court documents state that this
through his union representative about policy allowed Nocerini to “steer appoint-
the obvious conflict of interest in an inves- ments and promotions based upon her
tigation of the city manager being per- personal whims and to refuse to imple-
formed by individuals she directed, the ment or follow objective criteria in the
investigation proceeded and claimed to selection of appointments or promotions
find no wrongdoing on Nocerini's part in in the city.”
the chief's selection process. Rhaesa denies the claims in the law-
In Hughes' lawsuit, he claims that suit and said, “The lawsuit is completely
Nocerini “has a reputation of using nepo- without factual or legal merit, and will be
tism, personal favoritism, intimidation aggressively defended. Testing for the
and retaliation in conducting City of police chief position was done by EMPCO,
Wayne business.” which is an independent entity.
The court filing references an inde- “Officials from EMPCO have provided
pendent investigation of Nocerini con- a letter outlining the process and have
ducted in 2018 by a third-party profession- confirmed that the allegations being made
al which documented a “pervasive cul- regarding the results of the assessment
ture of mistrust, spying, favoritism, nepo- for the City of Wayne's Chief of Police posi-
tism, intimidation, retaliatory conduct and tion are erroneous,” Rhaesa said in an
other forms of corruption in the conduct email to which he attached a copy of the
of City of Wayne business, primarily by EMPCO letter.
Nocerini.” “If a conversation did take place
The 50-page report documented multi- between an EMPCO assessor and a third
ple examples of misconduct and misman- party, the information provided was in
agement by Nocerini following interviews error, or it was misinterpreted or miscon-
with about 30 individuals. The members strued by the third party,” the letter,
of the Wayne City Council opted to take no signed by Castle, states.
action regarding Nocerini following the “The current Chief scored the highest
report, despite multiple corrective recom- in the EMPCO testing and was unani-
mendations by the investigators. mously selected by the City Council,”
The current lawsuit further claims that Rhaesa concluded.

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