Woods council applauds Waeiss for
award-winning 'lifestyle' video

The Grosse Pointe Woods City Council kicked off its Monday (March 1) meeting by congratulating Sandy Waeiss, communications coordinator for the city, for winning recognition from the Michigan Recreation and Parks Association.

Waeiss, the Woods' communications coordinator for 25 years, won an MRPA marketing award for a 30-second spot about the city featuring the mayor as its spokesman. “Grosse Pointe Woods Lifestyle” can be accessed from the first page of the city website.

“The finished project reflects all of the wonderful things about the city of Grosse Pointe Woods,” said Waeiss.

Waeiss is responsible for the Woods' quarterly newsletter, annual calendar and information on its cable access channel.

The mayor also presented an Eagle Scout proclamation to Matthew Warnez and named March 3 Matthew Warnez Day. Warnez is a member of the National Honor Society, varsity tennis team, jazz band and chess club at Grosse Pointe North high school.

City Administrator Mark Wollenweber and councilman Arthur W. Bryant, both former Eagle Scouts, extolled the virtues of Boy Scouting’s highest award to Warnez.

Bryant stated that 11 of the last 12 men who walked on the moon were Eagle Scouts and added that when the first of them, Neil Armstrong, said, “the eagle has landed,” those words had special significance for his fellow Eagles.

In other business, the council:

• Moved to support an emergency operations plan be signed by Mayor Robert E. Novitke and forwarded to Wayne County and the Director of Public Safety as part of the Wayne County Local Community Support Plan in case of local and area disaster.
• Requested that acting city attorney Charles T. Berschback work to clean up the financial advisor agreements for Mesirow Financial Inc. Both Novitke and Coucilman Todd A. McConaghy suggested a modification toward a reciprocal and hold-harmless indemnity agreement, and the council supported the motion.
• Moved to support authorization for Anderson, Eckstein and Westrick to prepare bid specifications at a cost not to exceed $150,000 for the city’s water main project.

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