Catch up on the news and features you might have missed last week.
Here's a chance to catch up on what was going on in Berkley and Huntington Woods last week:
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The city has adopted a new ordinance that allows for local enforcement of the highest penalties possible for convicted drunken drivers with excessively high blood alcohol levels.
Huntington Woods has adopted an ordinance that allows for local prosecution of "super drunk" drivers. Michigan’s recently enacted “super drunk” law boosted penalties for people convicted of driving with blood alcohol content (BAC) levels far surpassing the .08 legal limit. Mayor Ronald Gillham said that by approving the new ordinance to locally incorporate the law, Huntington Woods can impose the stricter penalties on a citywide level. “It’s a matter of being able to put a new state law onto our books so we can enforce it,” he explained at the recent City Commission meeting. Huntington Woods City Attorney John Carlson said the super drunk law works to create a separate classification for drunken drivers. “This second category would be for …
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A public hearing will be held for residents to voice their thoughts on the city budget.
The Huntington Woods City Commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the City Hall Chambers. Tonight’s meeting will open with a report from Teen Council members giving an update on the Huntington Woods Teen Council activities and events, though a majority of the meeting will center around the city budget. A public hearing will be held to receive public input on the proposed budget for 2012-13 and the commission will need to vote to adopt the city budget for the upcoming fiscal year that begins July 1 and runs through June 30, 2013. In addition to budget talk, a few other matters will be addressed during the meeting: Visit the city of Huntington Woods website for more information.
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The following information was supplied by the Huntington Woods Public Safety Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
A man who was speeding on I-696 and pulled over in Huntington Woods was arrested on a charge of operating while intoxicated, a Huntington Woods Public Safety Department stated. At about 11:30 p.m. March 15, a marked Huntington Woods patrol car observed a Cadillac CTS sedan traveling westbound on the freeway at 99 mph according to a radar reading, a Huntington Woods Public Safety report stated. The Cadillac blew past the patrol car, which was parked along the embankment, and never reduced speed. The officer followed the suspect vehicle, which exited at Coolidge and pulled over at the corner of Coolidge and Victoria. The officer stated in his report that upon contact with the driver there was a strong smell of alcohol and the driver’s eyes …
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The following information was supplied by the Berkley and Huntington Woods public safety departments. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Public Safety officials in Berkley and Huntington Woods have been busy with a variety of reports since Nov. 10, including the following. A resident called 911 to report that a metallic brown/tan, four-door 2012 BMW 528i with a New Jersey license plate was stolen from his driveway in the 1200 block of Harvard in Berkley between 7:05-7:09 a.m. Friday. The resident reported that he left the vehicle, which was being used by his employer, in his driveway to warm up while he went back inside the house to get a child car seat. When he returned, the vehicle was gone, the resident said. There was no known suspect. A Berkley Public Safety officer reported that at 11:18 p.m. Nov. 10 he observed a silver SUV swerving in and out of its lane as it …
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