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August 18, 2016
OFFICE OF THE WAYNE COUNTY DRAIN COMMISSIONER
NOTICE OF DAY OF REVIEW OF DRAINAGE DISTRICT BOUNDARIES
AND REVIEW OF APPORTIONMENTS
Notice Is Hereby
Given that on August 31, 2016, the Wayne County Drain Commissioner will hold a
Day of Review of Drainage District Boundaries and a Day of Review of Apportionments from 9:00 a.m.
until 5:00 p.m. at the Wayne County Department of Public Services - Road Division, Central
Maintenance Yard, 29900 Goddard Road Extension, Romulus, Michigan 48242.
The Day of Review is for the purpose of reviewing and revising the boundaries of the Drainage Districts
below. Maps depicting the proposed revisions to the boundaries of each Drainage District can be
reviewed at:
.
The Day of Review of Drainage District Boundaries is an opportunity to review the Drainage District
boundaries with the Drain Commissioner or a member of his staff. The Drain Commissioner, engineers
and other staff members will be available to assist individuals throughout the day, and make revisions
where necessary. There is no need to schedule an appointment for a specific time on the Day of Review.
The Day of Review of Apportionments is an opportunity to review the apportionment with the Drain
Commissioner or a member of his staff. The Drain Commissioner and other staff members will be avail-
able to assist individuals throughout the day, and make revisions where necessary. There is no need to
schedule an appointment for a specific time on the Day of Review. The computation of costs for the
Drains will also be available at the Day of Review.
Drain assessments will be collected in the same manner as property taxes. If the assessment period is
greater than one year, you may pay the assessments in full with any interest to date at any time and
thereby avoid further interest charges.
Persons with disabilities needing accommodations for effective participation in the Day of Review
should contact the Wayne County Drain Commissioner's Office at (313) 749-8340 or through the
Michigan Relay Center at 7-1-1 (TDD) at least 24 hours in advance of the Day of Review to request
mobility, visual, hearing or other assistance.
You may appeal the Drain Commissioner's decision to revise the district boundary to the Wayne County
Circuit Court within ten (10) days. You may appeal the Drain Commissioner's determination of appor-
tionments to the Wayne County Probate Court within ten (10) days.
A general description of the lands by section number proposed to be added or deleted from the Drainage
Districts as recommended by a licensed professional engineer or surveyor for each of the Drains is as
follows:
Kenneth M. Kucel, P.E.
Wayne County Drain Commissioner
Telephone (313) 749-8340
P
LYMOUTH
Student station honored
For the third consecutive
year, the students and staff of
88.1 The Park, the student-run
radio station at the Plymouth
Canton Educational Park, are
being recognized alongside the
elite broadcasters in the country.
The station was named a finalist
for the National Association of
Broadcasters Marconi Radio
Award for Non-Commercial
Station of theYear.
The Marconi Radio Awards
were created in 1989 and are
named after inventor and Nobel
prize winner Guglielmo
Marconi. The awards recognize
stations and individuals for
excellence and performance in
21 categories. They are among
the most prestigious awards in
the broadcast industry, accord-
ing to Station Manager Bill
Keith.
The Plymouth Canton station
is the only high school operation
to receive a nomination in the
history of the Marconi awards.
Three college-level student sta-
tions and one professional sta-
tion round out the 2016 class of
non-commercial finalists. The
awards will be presented in
September at the awards cere-
mony inNashvilleTN.
“We're excited to be a finalist
for the third year in a row. This is
an incredibly prestigious honor
for our hard working and dedi-
cated staff,” said Program
Director AmandaBarberena.
“We couldn't achieve this
without the support of the
Plymouth-Canton Community
Schools, the board of education,
administrators and staff. We're
lucky to have been part of such a
great community,”Keith said.
The student station has been
operating for more than 44 years
and is owned by the school dis-
trict and operated by students at
Canton, Plymouth and Salem
high schools.
Northville Fire Department
unit reported arrival at the
scene. HVA paramedics were
still not there and the only life-
saving efforts were being pro-
vided by the first-arriving police
officers.
Repeated inquiries contin-
ued over the radio as first
responders and firefighters
questioned the whereabouts of
HVA. CPR efforts continued
while dispatchers repeatedly
radioed HVA to question arrival
times and remind them CPR
was in progress, a message that
the medical situation was
extreme.
“And no one's there?” was
one reply from HVA.
“Umm…Oh, I see the prob-
lem…” HVA at one point told
the dispatcher that the ambu-
lance was at Eight Mile and
Beck Road and that, “they were
coming from the Wixom area.”
There was no plausible expla-
nation of the earlier erroneous
report that the ambulance was
already on the scene.
“Hang on aminute, I'll let you
know where they're coming
from for you. They're at Beck
and Curtis-I'll upgrade them for
you,” the HVA dispatcher tells
Plymouth dispatch during the
radio transmission.
Established protocol dictates
that HVA dispatch operators be
patched into every call on every
medical emergency run, as was
the case in the June incident.
HVA asks the caller to repeat
the same information taken by
the Plymouth dispatch and then
assigns any available ambu-
lance to respond. The two dis-
patch centers are in constant
contact, however, they operate
on different radio frequencies
and Plymouth dispatchers do
not monitor the HVA radio traf-
fic.
By 3:40 p.m. HVA was at Ann
Arbor Trail and Deer Street.
HVA arrived on scene at 3:41
p.m. 24 minutes after the first
frantic 9-1-1 call. The patient
had expired despite the best
efforts of the police and on-call
firefighters to provide first-aid
at the scene.
This incident was not an iso-
lated case. There are other doc-
umented cases of delayed emer-
gency response to cardiac arrest
victims by qualified emergency
medical technicians involving
the Northville/Plymouth Fire
Department and their respec-
tive supporting ambulance com-
panies. Previously documented
by The Eagle is the 2013 case of
a Plymouth woman who died
after a delayed 911 response
time of more than 25 minutes,
while officers performed CPR.
In another incident in 2014, The
Eagle reported on the critical
care to a 67-year-old Northville
man who also suffered cardiac
arrest. By the time the
Northville Fire Department
Basic Emergency Medical
Technicians (EMTs) got to the
station and drove the ambu-
lance two blocks north to the
man in critical distress, 10 min-
utes had elapsed from the time
of the initial 911 call. It was 14
minutes before the back-up ALS
ambulance arrived with needed
paramedics.
According to experts, an
intravenous line with medica-
tion is required, a function
requiring certified paramedics,
inmost cardiac incidents. Police
officers are not required to have
that certification or training.
The universal factor in patient
survival, according to national
standards, is the necessity for
paramedics in the immediate
first 6 minutes of the medical
incident. A shockwith a defibril-
lator within the first 6 minutes
could likely restore heart
rhythm and a victim can still
survive if qualified paramedics
restore breathing and are able
to administer key heart-starting
drugs. Experts say sixminutes is
the determinate time limit in 99
percent of cases of patient sur-
vival. Only paramedics can, by
law, administer drugs to victims.
Most medical experts also
agree that at least four respon-
ders, at least two trained in
Advanced Life Support and two
trained in Basic Life Support,
are the minimum required to
provide the necessary life sav-
ing measures to cardiac arrest
victims.
Northville-Plymouth Fire
Chief Steve Ott said he had no
knowledge of a death in the city
related to fire department
response times. Ott said he
knew of only one case with an
unusually long response and
said it was, “due to a train block-
ing the track.” There was no
mention of the event at the June
6 meeting of the Northville-
Plymouth Fire Advisory Board
where Plymouth City Manager
Paul Sincock discussed HVA
response times and distributed
a chart showing the HVA “frac-
tile” response is 10 minutes 94.4
percent of the time.
“Other area departments
operate on the same or similar
models as we do,” said Ott, ref-
erencing Novi, Salem, Lyon
Township, Van Buren, Romulus
andBelleville.
The five month Northville
Fire Department-Plymouth
Station Run-Time Report, dated
June 1, 2016, shows 21 incidents
where the fire department
response time was 10 minutes
or greater, excluding HVA spe-
cific response data.
HVA refused comment
regarding the Maple Street inci-
dent. Public affairs spokesper-
son Joyce Williams referred to a
prepared statement supplied by
Communications Manager Jane
Giffin.
“We're not a government
agency and we are not required
to provide any information. In
fact we don't give out anything.”
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