Letter to the
Novi News 2/23/06:
I believe that it is important
that we all stay connected to reality.
City Council Meeting
10/18/04 as Laura interrupts the Mayor while he explains his reasoning behind
supporting a contract renewal for the City's legal services :
Mayor
Csordas: I've come to find out that being the mayor is a 24-hour-a-day job...
Lorenzo: Sucker! {giggles / laughter}...
City Council Meeting 10/18/04 as Lorenzo discusses how a new City contract for
legal services could be nullified, and finding that the City's attorney cannot
give advice on the topic because he is on the "other side" of that contract:
Well,
we find ourselves in a difficult position tonight {giggles}...
City Council Meeting
8/23/2004 on consideration for the City of Novi to partner with the Novi
Community Schools to install a sidewalk, in reference to
our
Editorial of 8/11/2004, where she suggests that the school pay for
part of that sidewalk:
... we're
not going to the children and asking them to donate their cookie
and milk money. This is a school board that obviously has
a lot of money, probably more discretion of spending money than
we do.
City Council
Meeting 8/23/2004 on the City Manager's proposed annual increase:
The previous motion that I made is the only
motion I will support.
I would hate to have this go as the budget did.
My position is clear and it's not going to
change.
City Council
Meeting as reported in the
Detroit Free Press on May 6,
2004 in regard to the Hooters controversy which escalated into
the threat of legal action against the City of Novi:
"Would the tank tops be
referred to as low-cut?" Lorenzo asked Charles Lane, the attorney
representing Hooters.
"Depends on what is
considered low-cut," he replied.
"Scoop-neck?" she pushed.
"I do not believe they are
crew neck," he answered, "but they are not very low, either."
On it went, Lorenzo
dissecting the image of the Hooters girl, and Lane defending it.
April 28, 2004
Detroit News regarding the Hooters
controversy. Follow-up
investigation using data from the
State of Michigan showed that the average Hooters restaurant in the
metro-Detroit area has fewer liquor law violations than many
respectable Novi restaurants:
But Lorenzo said the
Hooters record of liquor violations should give the city solid
footing against any lawsuit.
“If that isn’t a basis for
denial, I don’t know what is,” she said.
June 26, 2002
Detroit News regarding the vote to
close the Sandstone debacle, where Lorenzo explains why she
boycotted a meeting to decide the fate of the North Novi Park (nice
example for Novi's youth...):
"My vote, which would likely have been a no vote, wouldn't have
made a difference"
