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DeSoto Ellsworth resident asks city for boulders after fence theft, opposes renaming of park
Summary
Betty A. Varner, president of the DeSoto Ellsworth Black Association, told a Detroit committee the park's fence was mostly removed after theft, asked for landscaping boulders or city help to secure the park, and said members do not support renaming or removing a sign honoring Gwendolyn Lanier.
Betty A. Varner, president of the DeSoto Ellsworth Black Association, told the Neighborhood Community Service Standing Committee that most of the fence at a neighborhood park has been stolen and asked the city for assistance to secure the site with landscaping boulders.
Varner said the park's sign honors the late vice president of the association, Gwendolyn Lanier, and that association members do not support changing the park's name or removing the sign. She said community members have worked on plans for a corridor (recorded in the transcript as "finger corridor") but that no funding has been provided; she asked the council and city staff for financial assistance and thanked Council member Coleman Young III and his chief of staff for earlier help trying to obtain boulders.
Varner identified herself and her role as president and used the meeting's public-comment period to request help from anyone listening who could assist in obtaining boulders or city support for the park. She concluded by thanking the committee for time to speak.
Her remarks were public comment only; the committee did not take formal action on the request during the meeting and no funding or assignments were made on the record.
