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Saline City Council unanimously approved two applications for upcoming events in the City of Saline.
The local Vietnam Veterans of America chapter will hold a pork roast fundraiser at the Saline American Legion Post 322, 320 W. Michigan Ave., on Aug. 28 from noon to 5 p.m. Besides food, the event will also feature a beer tent, veteran apparel and kids' events.
Council also voted to approve the UAW Car Show at the Local 892 union hall at 601 Woodland Drive from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., July 31. The event features food trucks, fresh-squeezed fruit beverages (adult), participant raffles, a 50/50 raffle, giveaways, a bouncy house, a DJ and more.
Council delayed action on a third application. MI Home Team Saline/Real Estate One is planning a food truck rally for Mill Pond Park from 4-8 p.m., July 30. The event will raise funds for Saline Area Socal Service by selling t-shirts and "taste the festival" tickets at the free event. Unlike the other two events approved by council, this one is on city property. Councillor Janet Dillon listed several concerns. Would there be portable restrooms? Was there a plan to clean up the park? Was there a plan for security? Or power and water?
"I want to make sure that we can kind of walk through that process before going forward," Dillon said. "There are a lot of issues that are putting the city on the hook if there are issues that happen."
Council had previously approved an application to permit food trucks at the park. The community event application is a different ask.
Clerk Terri Royal said the event raised questions in her office as well.
"To be perfectly honest. This is a first for me and this is why we are revisiting the community events and food trucks in parks. So we're all going to get together so that we're all on the same page and there's one application that does it all," Royal said.
Councillor Kevin Camero-Sulak asked whether other families would be able to freely utilize the park during the event.
Councillor Dillon moved to postpone the vote on the request until some of the questions could be answered. Councillor Dawn Krause seconded the motion, which passed by a 7-0 vote.
No, the motion to approve & adopt was made by Ceo, seconded by Lesch. If you're interested in an unedited/unredacted version of Monday's meeting, the link to the video recording of our budget work session and regular meeting is provided below -
Thank you to those Council members who support the citizens and the Rec Center.
Please note, the rec center now requires 1/3 to almost 1/2 of its operations be funded by the City of Saline taxpayers. Approximately 10% of our City population uses the facility, while 2/3 of the members are non-resident. It’s time the non City residents of the Saline community pays its fair share.
What happened with the funding for the needed repairs at the Recreation Center? With all of the programs and community services provided at the Recreation Center, the nearby communities spending tens of millions of dollars to build new Recreation Centers, and the number of members/high usage for the Center and part
Name all the municipalities of 10,000 people that have their own Rec Center with a pool. I'm generally curious.
Saline Area Schools needs to take over the Rec Center with a Rec creation millage and maybe a short bond issue, too, for improvements.
The mayor and city council love to spend taxpayer dollars frivolously. More and more $$$ into the rec center, that needs to stop. We still don’t have drinkable water and yet the city keeps raising rates. Can’t speak for everyone but I would much rather have clean water than a “lazy river!”
Sorry, Toby Crotty. Do not align to your assessment or thoughts. While nearby communities are spending tens of millions of dollars to build Recreation Centers (because of their value to citizens and communities), Saline is in the fortunate position of already having a very good facility in place which now needs to
You avoided my main point. The rec center is a nice amenity for those that use it. However, it is not a necessity. Clean safe water that we pay exorbitant rates for IS a necessity for EVERYONE!
The unprofessional behavior while in the supposed role of being a journalist when talking to that protester is ridiculous. The incorrect information and “facts” you spewed during the conversation are just par for the course. Thanks for showing up!
I agree with your comments about this journalist. I use the word journalist loosely here, as a journalist should be bringing forth the views of the people they are interviewing, not bringing their obvious bias into every forced conversation.
I understand the right 4 peaceful protests, why expose children to hate and show disrespect to our flag, what is that teaching the children. As a Korean Veteran I oppose anyone disrespecting our countries FLAG, shame on the protesters,