Monday, October 14, 2013

Detroit City Council Rejects 30-Year Lease for Belle Isle

Detroit council rejects 30-year lease for Belle Isle

4:22 PM, October 14, 2013

The Detroit City Council today unanimously rejected a proposed lease of Belle Isle to the state that was signed by racist Gov. Rick Snyder and his black-lackey Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr and instead approved its own version of the lease.

The council approved a 10-year lease instead of the 30 year proposal Orr and Snyder signed.

The council will now be required to submit its alternative lease proposal to a state panel.

In the Snyder-Orr deal signed Oct. 1, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and other state officials, Detroit would lease the 985-acre park to the state for 30 years, with two optional 15-year renewals.

The move would supposedly save Detroit between $4 million and $6 million a year in upkeep and allow the state to invest $10 million to $20 million in upgrades in the first three years.

The DNR would run Belle Isle as a colonial-style Michigan’s 102nd state park. If council can come up with an alternative lease, a state panel of gubernatorial appointees will pick between the two plans.

Before Orr was appointed, a proposed 90-year lease of Belle Isle to the state was blocked when council refused to bring the lease up for a vote.

The racist governor Rick Snyder then withdrew the offer.

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