In Brief: Council Approves Police Car Purchases, New Tennis Courts
Dearborn City Council met Monday night. Among other items on the agenda, council approved building two tennis courts at Ten Eyck Park.
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Dearborn City Council held its regular meeting Monday night at City Hall. Here's a look at some of the agenda items discussed.
1. Funds from the Wayne County Parks millage will be used in part to build two tennis courts at Ten Eyck Park. The total cost is $85,550, awarded in a contract to Best Asphalt, Inc.
2. Four vehicles were purchased from the state with money from the drug forfeiture fund. The vehicles will be used by the Dearborn Police Department and cost $21,789 each.
3. The Henry Hotel purchased a new liquor license from the Pizza Hut restaurant on Michigan Avenue to replace their current liquor license. The resolution also approved to add a new dance-entertainment permit to the license.
The Henry's General Manager Bill Quiseng said Monday night that the entertainment license "is for us to have live entertainment in TRIA."
"If we do, the music will be low-key, acoustic guitar background," Quiseng said. "We have no immediate plans, but since we were requesting the purchase of the license, we wanted to go through all the obstacles at the same time."
4. The Kiwanis Club of Dearborn was granted permission to hold their annual Peanut Drive Sept. 8-11. The fund-raiser benefits several local charities, including the Dearborn Firefighters Burn Drive, Boys and Girls Scouts.
"Look for them in the streets," Council President Tom Tafelski said. "When you buy the peanuts, it really does go to support programs throughout the city."
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Dearborn City Hall
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Ten Eyck Park
Audette St & Croissant St, Dearborn, MI -
The Henry - An Autograph Collection Hotel
300 Town Center Dr, Dearborn, MI -
TRIA - An American Brasserie
300 Town Center Dr, Dearborn, MI
Christopher olind
1:57 am on Tuesday, July 19, 2011
That's a great idea is tennis courts not the existing pool but freaking tennis courts. A sport that is just as relevant as the language Latin. That Wayne county money could have gone anywhere in the park. Thanks mayor another bonehead idea. I just hope that the tennis courts will double as rollerhockey rink. That's what the asphalt should be dedicated to is a upincoming sport like online hockey. Not some pre world war 2 sport. Thank you city planners!!!!!!!!!
Ali
11:51 am on Tuesday, July 19, 2011
90K for Tennis courts at a park that not to many frequent? Find it odd. I promise to be a councilman in the NEAR future.
Marium Wilke
12:06 pm on Tuesday, July 19, 2011
can't save the pools but we can put tennis courts up that will produce a lot of revenue for the parks and keep our kids off the streets in the summer. Let's see how many people can play tennis and how many people can swim in the pool and can all the family members play at once at the tennis court. Another mess you got us into. Stick to the basics and build back the family foundation we soooo need. I think we need some new fresh blood in the powers to be.Bad Idea waste of our money again. We need to stop this from moving forward.......
Ellen Chapman
1:02 pm on Tuesday, July 19, 2011
How could you!!!!!! No more than four people can play on a court at a time. How many can swim at the same time? You owe the citizens of Dearborn an explanation, what were you thinking while voting?
Frank Lee
2:44 pm on Tuesday, July 19, 2011
The money for the tennis courts could have been used to upgrade and improve the pools instead our mayor spends it on tennis and more murder ball courts. Great job O'Reilly. If O'Reilly thinks he can just waltz into Sommers bench he is mistaken
Dearborn Taxpayer
5:53 pm on Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Does anyone trust this mayor and city council to do the right thing? I don't and especially don't trust that they will use the extra millage funds that they are asking for in November for to keep the pools open nor fully staff the police dept.