Whats he doing speaking in Royal Oak?
Whether or not they agree with what he had to say, or even know what he said, there are VersagiVoice readers who wonder about the propriety of Ferndale’s city manager speaking at a meeting of a Royal Oak neighborhood association about a Royal Oak matter — in this instance the impact of widening I-75. Voice did a little digging. A sampling of Royal Oak elected and appointed personnel found no one who had been alerted that Ferndale city manager Tom Barwin was going to make the major presentation at the meeting. Nor, apparently, was that fact mentioned on any literature announcing the meeting. Civic activist Dale Savage, who organized and facilitated the meeting, tells VersagiVoice that he thought of Barwin as a regional authority on SEMCOG, not as Ferndale’s city manager, when he invited him. (As this is being written, Voice has not received a reply from Barwin to a request sent him through Ferndale’s website.) Of significance in all this is the existence of the International City/Counc
