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INKSTER - WAYNE - WESTLAND
INKSTER - WAYNE - WESTLAND

Westland is awarded ‘Safe Streets’ federal grant

Wayne, Westland, Garden City, Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) roadways. The funds will help grateful for the funding coming going directly to communities
and Inkster have each been grants. communities in the development to Westland from the Safe representing 70 percent of the
awarded $192,000 in federal The SS4A program grants go of road safety action plans and Streets and Roads for All pro- people living in this country,”
grant funding to develop and directly to regional, local, and improve unsafe roadway corri- gram. We will be able to use the said U.S. Transportation
join the Safe Streets for All plan. tribal communities for imple- dors by implementing effective money to work towards safer Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “We
The U.S. Department of mentation, planning, and interventions, officials said. roadways and protecting pedes- are acting to confront the crisis
Transportation announced $817 demonstration projects driven at “Our community has experi- trians in Westland,” he added. of safety on our nation's roads,
million from President Joe the local level to improve safety enced too many tragedies from “Through the Safe Streets and helping communities work to
Biden's Bipartisan and help prevent deaths and car accidents,” said Westland Roads for All program, we have reduce traffic deaths to the only
Infrastructure Law for 385 Safe serious injuries on national Mayor Kevin Coleman. “I am now announced safety funding acceptable number: zero.”

Retired

Members of the Wayne City
Council honored retiring Building
and Engineering Director Mike
Buiten and Department of Public
Works Assistant Director Ed
Queen. Buiten began his career
with the City of Wayne in 1998
and Assistant Director Queen
began his career with the City of
Wayne in 1996. Both will officially
retire Dec. 31. When presenting
them with retirement plaques,
Interim City Manager Ryan
Strong commented, “Ed and
Mike exemplify the term public
servant. They both care deeply
about this city and helping the
folks who live and work here.
They will be missed.”

Heroic helpers

Members of the Inkster and Dearborn
Heights police departments joined
forces earlier this month with a local
Target store for a special shopping trip
to Target. Selected families from the
City of Inkster were accompanied by
an officer as they shopped for
Christmas gifts. The trip was part of
the Heroes & Helpers program which
brought each of the families to the
store in a parade of police vehicles
with flashing lights. Each shopper was
able to choose gifts for those on their
holiday list with the guidance of one of
the police officers who volunteered
their time to help with the excursion.
The event was funded through dona-
tions and fund-raising efforts during
the year.