Friday, February 22, 2013
Mayor Kip Walby spoke about the city's repair of its water tank, which saved residents $350,000 annually, among other topics.
St. Clair Shores Mayor Kip Walby spoke Thursday at his first State of the City address at the Senior Center for Active Adults. Walby said the city put a considerable amount of money in the bank after it paid all of its bills, retirees and pension expenses earned by city employees, according to The Macomb Daily. Walby was elected as mayor in 2011 and served on city council for 12 years before that. He is also a member of one of St. Clair Shores' oldest families. He said, to an audience of fellow council members, residents, business owners and Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel, that the city has $15 million in the bank, according to the article. Walby said the city has made numerous changes like laying off half of its assessing …
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
St. Clair Shores anticipates a $1.2 million surplus for the 2011-2012 budget.
The city of St. Clair Shores had projected a shortfall in excess of $800,000 for the 2011-2012 budget, but is now anticipating a $1.2 million surplus. Mayor Kip Walby announced Monday that the city will not have to dip into the rainy day fund for more than $800,000 to balance the books for the budget year ended which ended June 30. "We are not short more than $800,000. We are going to take $1.2 million extra and put it in our rainy day fund," said Walby. "We try to be very conservative in what we do." Walby added that "good stewardship" of the budget by city council and administration during the year led to the surplus and a "financially strong community we all can be proud of." "We have tried to shrink the government and we have done that…
Friday, March 30, 2012
Mayor Kip Walby interviewed former Tigers trainer Pio DiSalvo for the April edition of the "Mayor's Corner."
Every month St. Clair Shores Mayor Kip Walby interviews a different elected official or department head within the city during his "Mayor's Corner" television show. This month his guest is a Grosse Pointe Woods resident who frequents the Dockside Cafe and had a front-row seat to one of the the greatest baseball seasons in the history of the Detroit Tigers. Pio DiSalvo, the retired Tigers trainer, sat down with the mayor—and later Patch —to talk baseball. The 73-year-old Pennsylvania native had a close relationship with players, coaches and future coaches of the Tigers from the 1970s through today. As a young athletic trainer, who learned his trade while serving in Germany with the Army, he met an equally youthful Jim Leyland who was then …
Monday, November 14, 2011
Five things to get your day, and week, started.
Here are a few items to get your week started. 1. The National Weather Service is forecasting a 90 percent chance of rain to start the work week with a high near 54. Rainfall amounts could be between a quarter and half of an inch. 2. Mayor Robert Hison will pass the gavel to incoming Mayor Kip Walby at tonight's City Council organizational meeting at 6 p.m at City Hall. 3. St. Joan of Arc Student Council is raising money to buy turkeys for the homeless and needy. "Turkey Bucks" donations are being collected this year and will be divided equally between St. Vincent DePaul society, All Saints and Loaves and Fishes in Detroit and St. Benoit parish in Haiti. 4. Practice begins today for high school bowling and boys basketball. Good luck this…
