Two Council Challenges

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person or on the phone, insisting on answering questions only by email.

In north-side Ward One, Briere, fifty-eight, emphasizes her responsiveness to constituents and her cooperative attitude on council. Identified with a small group critical of mayor John Hieftje, she questions whether some council business is conducted "away from the public eye." But Briere, who works at Ypsilanti's Corner Health Center, says she works well with Hieftje--most recently on homelessness--and sees herself as an independent thinker. "I'm me," she stresses. She is dubious about a possible city income tax and supports retaining Argo Dam.

Her challenger, Polish-born Mitchell Ozog, fifty, writes that he was briefly imprisoned in the early 1980s for his support of the Solidarity movement. He moved to Ann Arbor in 1989 and now edits a Masonic magazine. A former Republican First Ward precinct delegate, Ozog lists his "major city concerns" as limiting the use of eminent domain and reducing "unnecessary business operation regulations." He opposes a city income tax and sees no need to remove Argo Dam.