28 Nominated To County Economic Development Plan Panel

Twenty-eight persons were nominated to the county's Office of Economie Development Plan Committee by the county's Administration and Intergovernmental Relations (AIR) Committee Tuesday. The nominations must be formally approved by the Board of Commissioners before becoming official. The commissioners earlier t h i s year named 48 persons to the committee. The OEDP Committee is charged with formulating an economie development plan f or the county. That plan will thenjbe forwarded to the j eral governmè'nt as part of an application for a federal grant under the 1965 Economie Development Act. That act provides áreas j with higher than the national average inemployment rate with federal grants to private industry to expand or build f acilities in the area and thus I ptamanentiy reducing unemployment in the area. While the county initially I I assumed responsibility for the formualtion of the plan, the commissioners this year assigned creation of th plan to the Ypsilanti Industrial Development Commission, a branch of the Ypsilanti Chamber of Commerce. I The OEDP Committee is I I selected by the commissioners I but consists of a core of perI sons f rom the Industrial I Development Commission. I Those persons nominated by I the committee Tuesday aree: I Dr. Raymond W. Barber, I superintendent of the YpsilanI ti public schools, Ypsilanti; I Albert Belskus, the Eastern Michigan University ofñce of minority affairs, Ypsilanti Township; William L. Gag n o n , Ypsilanti Township supervisor, Ypsilanti Township; Walter Greig, Cleary CoUege president, Ypsilanti; Booker Hopkins, Second Baptist Church, Ypsilanti; Clarence McFall, director of the Office of Economie Opportunity, Ann Arbor; Diana ParRs, planning commissioner and township trustee, Superior Township; Wayne Powell, publisher of The Press, Ypsilanti; David Romain, planner, Ann Arbor; L. Alan Toth, county commissioner, Ypsilanti; Herbert L. Wingo, director of Ann Arbor Model Cities, Ann Arbor; William E. Winters, county commissioner, Ypsilanti T o w nship; Gerald E. Faye, educator, Ann Arbor; Dr. Meredith Klaus, educator, Ann Arbor; Gene Farber, attomey, Ann Arbor; Leonard Stark, mortician, Ypsilanti; Henry Ritchie, Ypsilanti Township torney, Saline; Ed Pear, attorney, Ann Arbor; Zeke Jabbour, contractor and developer, Ann Arbór Township; David Ponitz, president of Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor; Vivían S t u m b o , housewife, York Township; Delores Brice, United Auto Workers, Superior Township; Lean Gunn, librarian, Ann Arbor; Thomas J. Fegan, county planning director, Ann Arbor; Roy Smith, Saline city manager, Ypsilanti Township; Cari Brower, reltor, Ann Arbor; and John B. Collins, attorney, Ann Arbor. In other business : Following a request from the county Committee on the Status of Women Employés, Drew Williams, county personnel director, reported one employé in his office has been assigned to work on an affirmative action program for women and minority county employés. Williams said Rena Seldon, county manpower I ordinator, will be working on I the affirmative action 1 gram in addition to her otherl duties and that he hopes to I have a draft statement aboutl the policy ready for the com-l missioners in two weeks. Committee members werel invited to attend the nextl meeting of the county's Com-l mission on the Status of Wo-I men to answer questions I about what the commissioners I expect from that group. Thel commissioners were also told I there were four vacancies onl the commission w h i c h the I commission would like to fill I for itself but which several I commissioners objected to as I long as the commission remains an official county body. Cmsr. James Cregar, DYpsilanti, said he believed that if the county officially sanctions the group, the vacancies should be füled by the commissioners in the same fashion as the original selection of the committee.