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NORTHVILLE
NORTHVILLE

City, township offices are closed to public

Northville Township officials Emergency crews and first business hours to fulfill requests
have closed all public entrances responders will remain on duty ” made by appointment, such as
to municipal buildings - except 24/7, but both the police and fire This action is to protect providing documents, accepting
by appointment because of the department headquarters are the public and keep our workforce safe. cash payments, and offering
COVID-19 pandemic and the closed to the public. The other services that can't be done
Michigan Department of Health Community Center, Youth We understand this move online or through the drop box,
and Human Services Gatherings Network and Recreation Center will be disruptive for many. officials said.
and Face Mask Order. at Hillside are closed. The public can visit the
“Our staff remains committed Parks and Recreation pro- Northville COVID-19 page for
to providing our residents with gramming will be postponed percent increase in cases, 140 business that can't be completed news and updates about city
the most efficient services possi- except Senior Yoga, Toddler percent increase in deaths and online, officials said.and cau- services.
ble; we continue to work inside. Yoga, Kids Power Karate and 114 percent increase in hospital- tioned residents not to include For more information, resi-
At township hall, you may use Youth Dance which will move to izations in a 14-day period end- cash when making payments. dents can call (248) 449-9905 or
our Drive-Thru, Drop Box or a virtual format. Senior trans- ing Nov. 13,” officials said. Those who must pay cash should send an email to
make a payment online at portation will continue. Liquid As the Dec. 20 deadline of the call to schedule an appointment. info@ci.northville.mi.us. The
www.twp.northville.mi.us/Pay. nutrition pickup and the medical latest order approaches, the situ- The temporary closure of city main number is (248) 349-1300.
Building permits may be loan equipment program will ation will be monitored and any hall to citizens will be re-evaluat- For department emails, view the
dropped off in the Drive-Thru, continue by appointment only. changes according to the pre- ed on a weekly basis, based on directory. More updates are
emailed or completed online. “This action is to protect the pared announcement. State COVID-19 restrictions and available on twitter and
Residents may conduct business public and keep our workforce Northville City Hall is open by how the pandemic is impacting Facebook. Emergency notifica-
over the telephone or U.S. mail, safe. We understand this move appointment only. the Northville community. tions from Nixle will also be post-
too. Our main line is (248) 348- will be disruptive for many. One Residents can use the drop Most staff will be working ed to Facebook. To sign up for
5800,” noted an official statement key factor in this decision is box at the circular drive and in remotely. There will be some this free service, visit the Nixle
from the township offices. Wayne County, “has seen a 115 the vestibule for any payments or staff in the office during regular website, officials advised.

Concerns Police males to claim they are female Effects Under 40 Leaders in Minority

on a day-to-day basis in order to Health Award by the National
FROM PAGE 1 FROM PAGE 1 gain entrance into women's FROM PAGE 1 Minority Quality Forum; she also
facilities,” she said. She noted is a Fellow of the American
asked the officials. highly critical of the policy. that the policy was similar to have to fight this disease.” College of Emergency Physicians
His concerns were reiterated “The transgender is guiding those in other districts where no She said that her department (FACEP).
by Ricky Joellen, who lives on children down a path of destruc- sexual predator issues in the and the state would be utilizing Previously, Khaldun was the
Brandt Street in the subdivision. tion and darkness. You are school buildings have been media outlets and local medical Baltimore City Health
He agreed with Carroll about the enforcing confusion and decep- reported. providers and health depart- Department chief medical offi-
speeding drivers in the neighbor- tion in young impressionable Plymouth- Canton ments, along with hospital lead- cer, where she oversaw seven
hood and said that “nobody stops minds. This policy is evil,” one Educational Park counselor ers and front-line providers to try clinics and a laboratory and led
at the stop sign. Through the walls comment read. Erin Demarest was in support of to educate minority communities efforts to address the opioid epi-
of my house we can hear them During initial discussions of the new policy. about the importance of getting demic. She has held several local
going 60 miles an hour.” the policy, some residents of the “I have seen first-hand the the vaccine. and national leadership posi-
“The police are not doing what district claimed it allowed for pain and embarrassment trans- Prior to her roles at MDHHS, tions, including director of the
needs to be done. This is absolute- the possibility of sexual preda- gender kids feel over something Khaldun was the director and Center for Injury Prevention and
ly asinine. It is getting dangerous, tors in lavatories and locker as simple as a substitute teacher health officer for the Detroit Control at George Washington
getting real dangerous,” he said. rooms being used by female stu- calling them by their legal name Health Department, where she University, founder and director
He said that he asked to speak dents. in MyStar,” Demarest said dur- oversaw a robust community- of the Fellowship in Health
to the traffic sergeant and had That claim was countered by ing the public comments seg- driven community health assess- Policy in the University of
called the chief of police and the research presented by McCoin ment of the meeting. ment, established a comprehen- Maryland Department of
mayor's office, but every time he who explained that there is a “Adolescence is hard enough for sive reproductive health network Emergency Medicine, and as a
was referred back to the police thorough process to identify stu- straight kids. These difficulties and led the Detroit response to Fellow in President ObamaDr.
department. dents as trans in the district. are intensified exponentially for the Hepatitis A outbreak. In 2018, Joneigh S. Khaldun administra-
Councilwoman Eva Webb “This policy will not allow many transgender students.” Khaldun was selected for the 40 tion's Office of Health Reform.
responded, “You should have pro-
tection. Our citizens passed a mill-
age for police and fire. We need to
have police over there to tone this
down.”
Councilman William
Wadsworth also responded to the
residents' concerns noting that the
subdivision “used to be my neigh-
borhood. I have a lot of friends
still there.”
He suggested a meeting with
Carroll, Pfannes and himself “and
get some action and get something
done, not just talking.”
Joellen said that his com-
plaints to the police department
were met with a standard
response that the officers are
“spread too thin, there are only
two officers on patrol.”
“If we keep ignoring it, it's not
going to get any better,” Webb said.
“Our residents passed a millage.
It's not that we need to give them
(police) more. They just need to do
what they promised,” she said.
Other residents spoke to the
council members reiterating the
uptick in crime in the neighbor-
hood while neighbors said they
have seen an increased police
presence in the area.
Bill Muggleberg who has lived
in Oakbrook for 53 years said he
has seen police more in the last
six months than in all the time he
has lived in the city.
“I've been seeing the cars,
these guys are working their tails
off, I'll give them that,” he said.
“Law enforcement is not the prob-
lem. We need to come together on
this problem. He suggested a
Neighborhood Watch effort in the
area.
Wadsworth said that the coun-
cil members needed a written
report regarding the situation.
“That was my home for 15 years,”
he said. He asked Mayor LeRoy
Burcroff if he would keep the
council members abreast of the
situation.
Webb thanked Muggleberg for
his assessment of the police pres-
ence in the area.
“With COVID, going on we have
to do things differently” she said.
“We are in a new era.”
Pfannes said early this week
that he had already spoken to sev-
eral of the residents, either in per-
son or by phone, and had conver-
sations with them in an effort to
allay their concerns.