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JUNE 19, 2024 Vol. 22, No. 14
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BY MARY BETH ALMOND malmond@candgnews.com
SPORTS SEASONS COME TO A CLOSE ABOVE: Detroit Country Day celebrates a goal during its matchup against Grand Rapids Catholic Central in the Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 2 state finals June 7 at the University of Michigan. Scorers for Country Day were junior Mary Pavlou (3), senior Emma Arico (3), senior Hadley Keating (2) and junior Olivia Winowich (1).
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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP — Bloomfield Township is working on a new long-term strategic plan to serve as a guide for the area for the future. “A strategic plan is important because it allows the community, as a whole, to decide our vision for the future together. … It helps us develop the goals and the plan needed to successfully achieve that vision,” said Township Supervisor Dani Walsh. The township’s last strategic plan was created over 15 years ago, in 2009. “At that time, it was based on the recession and everything they were dealing with,” said Walsh. “We had the recession, then we had growth, then we had a pandemic. We also had a budget crisis in 2019 — so a lot has changed in the township.” The township hired Berry Dunn as its strategic planning consultant — in an amount not to exceed $97,300 to be paid from the American Rescue Plan Act funds — and is beginning a five-year strategic plan to lay out the priorities that officials said will guide policies and budget decisions from 2025-2029. Trustee Stephanie Fakih, who served on the strategic planning selection committee, said the strategic plan and the master plan are often confused. “The strategic plan is, where do you want to be? And the master plan is, how are you going to get there?” she said. “At the strategic level, we need to engage the community, because we want to know, where does the community want Bloomfield Township to be?” Strategic plans make good business sense, according to Walsh. “When ARPA came, we were given $4.4 million, and nobody had ever sat down to look at all the needs to see, if we had some free money com-
LEFT: Detroit Country Day sophomore Addison Davis celebrates after Country Day defeated Forest Hills Eastern in the Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 2 state finals June 8 at the University of Michigan. For more, see page 11A. FOR LOCAL TENNIS TEAM SEASON WRAP-UPS, SEE PAGE 10A
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