Lois Richardson D-1, um, where were you?

The City of Ypsilanti just had a pretty big vote ya might have heard. The City Council voted 4-1 to approve $274,000 to pay AATA in full for the 7 routes in an out of Ypsilanti that service 578,000 people each year, getting to and coming home from work, going shopping or other errands. Now, Brian Robb D-2 felt the city should have held out and seen what AATA was going to ask for first before committing that much money. We disagre with him on this and want the busses funded fully BUT he makes a good point, a very defensible point and one that who knows, um, Trudy Swanson and Lois Richardson could have chimed in on. But they were nowhere to be found. Now we're SURE they'd both have a good excuse for not being at one of the more important City Council meetings this year and giving the 1st Ward NO REPRESENTATION on this vote. Basically the 1st Ward had no say on this topic.

If it were us and we lived in the 1st Ward, we'd be on the phone right now finding out why they weren't there and what was so pressing they would both miss the vote.

Betcha Megan Turf wonders why too.

EDITORS NOTE--We were informed by Brian Robb that Trudy Swanson is recovering in the hospital and has a fine excuse and thusly we took her name off the headline.

We wish Trudy Swanson the fastest recovery

Got something to say to the authority figures?

Then SAY IT, citizen. I hope this bunch answers their emails, Barry LaRue never answered mine when he was simply keeping a chair warm on City Council.

Tell 'em Johnny sent ya

Mayor & City Council

City of Ypsilanti
One South Huron Street
Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197

City Council Meetings are held on the first and third Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers.

Mayor
Paul Schreiber
Mayor@cityofypsilanti.com

Please contact the City Clerk's Office at (734) 483-1100 for an appointment

Mayor Pro-Tem
S.A. Trudy Swanson, Ward 1
satswanson@hotmail.com

Council Members
Lois Richardson, Ward 1
loiserich@hotmail.com

John Gawlas, Ward 2
jgawlas@cityofypsilanti.com

William Nickels, Ward 2
kbnickels@aol.com

Brian Filipiak, Ward 3
bfilipiak@cityofypsilanti.com

Brian Robb, Ward 3
brobb@cityofypsilanti.com