Dearborn City Council Candidate Says Community Pools Provide Vital Service

Editor's note: All nine elective offices in the city are on the primary ballot — mayor, clerk and all seven council seats. There are five candidates for mayor, three for clerk and 21 for council. Dearborn Patch will run profiles of candidates seeking the office of mayor, city clerk, and city council beginning July 12 and leading up to the Aug. 6 primary. 

Today we feature candidate Michael Albano.

Candidate Name:  Michael D. Albano

Office sought: Dearborn City Council

Occupation: Wireless Consultant

Education: Henry Ford Community College – Associate's Degree in business; Edsel Ford High School graduate.

Family: Alice Albano mother, Rocco Albano father (deceased), Deborah Albano sister.

Previous elected office: Timberlake Homeowners Association (THOA) president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer.

Current public service: City of Dearborn Telecom commissioner; founder and co-host of the Telecom Show on CDTV; Dearborn Federation of Neighborhoods Association member; appointed member of Dearborn Rental Task Force; Save Our Pools (SOP) member; contributing author to “Best Dearborn Stories – Volumes I and II, helping raise funds to save the Dearborn Historical Museum; author, freelance writer, and guest writer for the Dearborn Press and Dearborn Patch online newspaper about Dearborn related issues.

What are two key issues in Dearborn?

Saving pools and libraries, so that current and future generations of Dearborn residents can continue to reside in Dearborn.

I will spend whatever amount of time it takes meeting with city leaders to find room in the budget, as well as go after corporate and business sponsorships, as well as grants to save our pools, reopen Whitmore and Hemlock pools, and to reopen Snow Library, to name just a few, as there are many other issues I will also help address and resolve.