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♦ All informational items were gleaned from a variety of sources and the City maintains no responsibilty for factual accuracies.♦ ♦ Did you know that 11-3-09 (election day) marks Wixom’s 22nd anniversary of the Council/Manager form of government?♦ ♦ Did you know that the weight tax on trucks in Michigan goes to fund libraries, not roads?♦ ♦ Did you know that the 6% sales tax collected on gasoline goes to the state education fund?♦ ♦ Currently, the average Michigan driver pays 2 ½ cents per mile traveled into the states road fund ♦ ♦ The charter of the Village of Wixom was adopted by the Charter Commission of the Village at its regular meeting held on April 11, 1957. ♦ ♦ The original charter of the City of Wixom was adopted by the Charter Commission of the City of Wixom at a regular meeting held on February 25, 1958. ♦ ♦ Michael McDonald was elected as Mayor of the City of Wixom at the November 2, 1993 election and served seven (7) consecutive terms as Mayor until losing this seat to Kevin W. Hinkley at the November 6, 2007 election. ♦ ♦ On May 19, 1958 an election was held in the City of Wixom wherein Joseph Stadnik was elected Mayor, receiving 302 of the 466 votes cast for this office. ♦ ♦ On May 19, 1958 Gunnar Mettala was elected to the Wixom City Council and served as a Wixom Councilmember through 1985. His last Council meeting serving in this capacity was the meeting of December 19, 1989. ♦ ♦ At an election held on November 7, 1972 a proposal to change the charter by extending the terms of office for the Mayor and Councilmembers from the Monday after the election to the second Monday in January following the regular City election passed. However, another proposal on that ballot to change the charter by extending the Mayor’s term of office from two years to four years failed. ♦ ♦ City general elections were changed from April to November in 1973 ♦ ♦ A revised City charter proposed by the Charter Revision Commission of the City of Wixom was passed by electors on November 3, 1987 and changed the City of Wixom from a strong Mayor form of government to a City Manager form of government ♦ ♦ While a City Manager Search Committee labored through the hiring process for Wixom’s first official City Manager, Assistant to the Mayor, Keith Salo, served as “Interim City Manager” from January 4, 1988 until this designation was withdrawn on September 27, 1988. Finance Director, Kevin Brady, served as Acting City Manager from September 27, 1988 until the first City Manager assumed office on October 25, 1988. ♦ ♦ The first City Manager hired by the City of Wixom was William P. Barlow III who was appointed on September 2, 1988 with a start date of October 24, 1988. Barlow took his Oath of Office at the regular Council meeting of October 25, 1988. ♦ ♦ At the regular Council meeting of January 17, 1991, J. Michael Dornan was appointed to replace Bill Barlow as City Manager and has been serving in that capacity since that time. ♦ ♦ The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon. ♦ ♦ By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with multi-colored yolks. ♦ ♦ 40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans. ♦ ♦ Animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike! ♦ ♦ Dragonflies can travel up to 60 mph. ♦ ♦ The average 1 1/4 lb. lobster is 7 to 9 years old. ♦ ♦ Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn’t a federal crime to assassinate the President. ♦ ♦ Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats! ♦ ♦ Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women. ♦ ♦ McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys! ♦ ♦ Nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween costumes. ♦ ♦ A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year. ♦ ♦ Apples are actually part of the rose family. ♦ ♦ 'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth! ♦ ♦ According to legend, there’s a Superman in every episode of Seinfeld. ♦ ♦ Polar Bears can eat more than 50 lbs. of meat in one setting. ♦ ♦ The average American consumes 9 pounds of food additives every year. ♦ ♦ One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed. ♦ ♦ 68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air! ♦ ♦ Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker. ♦ ♦ The Pacific island of Nauru’s economy is almost entirely based on bird droppings. ♦ ♦ If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger ones will rise to the top. ♦ ♦ Iron weighs more after it rusts. ♦ ♦ The venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion. ♦ ♦ The Big Dipper’ is known as The Casserole’ in France. ♦ ♦ If you’re over 100 years old, there’s an 80% chance you’re a woman. ♦ ♦ Although the Gettysburg Address is now considered by some as one of the greatest speeches every written, not everyone thought so at the time. Even Lincoln himself, as he stepped down from the podium said "That speech won't scour. It is a flat failure." Some newspapers printed comments like "We pass over the silly remarks of the president..." and "The cheek of every American must tingle with shame". ♦ ♦ The first submarine to sink an enemy ship was the H. L. Hunley during the American Civil War-On February 17, 1864 ♦ ♦ George Washington was the only president to win the election with a unanimous vote in the electoral college. ♦ ♦ George Washington was the only president to not live in Washington, D.C.  In fact Washington, D.C. was not even the nations capital until after John Adams was elected president. ♦ ♦ As a young man, Washington had red hair. As he grew older, he powdered his hair rather than wear a wig as was popular at the time. ♦ ♦ One of the most lasting impressions of Daniel Boone was his coonskin cap. In reality though Boone wore a beaver hat ♦ ♦ Bolivia holds the highest turnover of governments. Since their independence from Spain in 1825, Bolivia has had almost 200 governments. Since 1945, Italy saw more than 50 governments and more than 20 Prime Ministers. ♦ ♦ Half the world's population earns about 5% of the world's wealth. ♦ ♦ India is the world's largest democracy with more than 600 million voters. ♦ ♦ The system of democracy was introduced 2 500 years ago in Athens, Greece. ♦ ♦ The youngest active system of governance is communism, which was introduced in 1848 by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. ♦ ♦ The oldest existing governing body operates in Althing in Iceland. It was established in 930 AD. ♦ ♦ Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) was the first woman to run for office of US President. She and her sister were the first women to run a Wall Street brokerage (1870). ♦ ♦ The United Nations organisation (UN) was founded in 1945. ♦ ♦ The Organization of American States (OAS) was founded in 1948 to promote peace, security and the economical development of the western hemisphere. ♦ ♦ The European Union was founded in 1957 as the European Economic Community. It then became the EC (European Community) and in 1993 the EU (European Union). ♦ ♦ In 1975, Emil Matalik put himself forward as US Presidential candidate. He advocated a maximum of one animal and one tree per family because he believed that there were too many animals and plant life on earth. ♦ ♦ About US Presidents and Vice Presidents - ♦ ♦ George Washington was inaugurated for his first term, on 30 April 1789, at Federal Hall in New York City. His second inauguration took place in Philadelphia. ♦ ♦ Thomas Jefferson was the first to be inaugurated in Washington DC. Jefferson also was the only one to walk to and from his inauguration. ♦ ♦ William Henry Harrison had the shortest term of office as president. He served from for 32 days, from 4 March to 4 April 1841. ♦ ♦ Franklin D. Roosevelt had the longest term of office: 12 years. Roosevelt had three vice presidents serve during his four terms: John Nance Garner (1933-1941), Henry Wallace (1941-1945), Harry Truman (1945). ♦ ♦ 14 of the 45 vice presidents have become president: ♦ ♦ 5 vice presidents have been elected to the presidency: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Richard Nixon, and George Bush. ♦ ♦ 4 vice presidents assumed the presidency after the president was assassinated: Andrew Johnson, Chester Authur, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson. ♦ ♦ 4 vice presidents assumed the presidency after the president died of natural causes: John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Calvin Coolidge, and Harry Truman. ♦ ♦ Gerald Ford assumed the presidency following the resignation of Richard Nixon. ♦ ♦ Only Richard Nixon served two terms as Vice President and also was elected to two terms as President. ♦ ♦ The US Presidential candidate with the highest popular vote ever was Ronald Reagan. In 1984 he secured 54,455,075 votes. Reagan was also the candidate with the highest electoral vote: 525, in 1984. In that year he equalled the 49 states that Nixon carried in 1972. ♦ ♦ The candidate who ran the most times was Norman Thomas. He ran six times from 1928 and didn't win any. Thomas ran for presidency in 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944 and 1948. ♦ ♦ Funds raised by the US Presidential candidates 2000: Ralph Nader - $5,989,559,Al Gore - $133,113,452,George W. Bush - $187,202,363 ♦ ♦ George Washington was the first president under the US constitution of 1789. However, the US was an independent nation for 13 years before the Constitution was signed. For one year during this time John Hanson served as "President of the US in Congress assembled." Technically, John Hanson was the first president of the United States. ♦ ♦ In 1750 there were about 800 million people in the world. In 1850 there were a billion more, and by 1950, another billion. Then it took just 50 years to double to 6 billion. ♦ ♦ There are more than 600 million telephone lines, yet almost half the world's population has never made a phone call on a land line. However, more than half the world's population has made a cell phone call. There are more than 2 billion cell phones in use. ♦ ♦ More personal telephone calls are made on Mother's Day in the USA than on any other day in any other country. ♦ ♦ Most reverse charge calls takes place on Father's Day. ♦ ♦ One in ten people in the world live on an island. ♦ ♦ The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven. ♦ ♦ If you count the seconds without stopping, it would take you eleven-and-a-half days to reach one million, and 32 years to reach one billion. ♦ ♦ In the US, murder is committed most frequently in August and least frequently in February. ♦ ♦ In 1870 there were more Irish living in London than in Dublin. ♦ ♦ In 1870 there also were more Catholics living in London than in Rome. ♦ ♦ The chance of being born on Leap Day is about 684 out of a million, or 1 in 1461. Less than 5 million people have their birthday on Leap Day. ♦

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City Takes Over Refuse Billing from RRRASOC

 

In a move to contain costs through increased staff productivity, waste/recycling billing will be transferred to the City from the Resource Recovery and Recycling Authority of Southwest Oakland County (RRRASOC). Learn More

 

Washington Summit

Wixom Officials Head to

Washington D.C. for Summit

Meeting with White House

Congress and Brookings Institution.  Learn More

 

Peddling, Soliciting, Etc. in the City of Wixom

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Peddling, Soliciting, Etc. in the City of Wixom

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2010 Summer Concert Series

The City of Wixom Summer Concert Series begins

 June 10, 2010  and ends August 12, 2010

7 pm

See Line Up

 

Ozone Action Season

Ozone Action Season Begins May 1st!

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Controlling Our Water Rates

With the knowledge of how rates are derived, we can modify our use

patterns to control rates.

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Sponsorship Opportunities

The Stage is set for you! The City of Wixom is planning for a spectacular year to include several special events and activities. We invite your business to become a sponsor of the 2010 Special Event Programming.  Click here for an application and more information on sponsorship opportunities.

 

Renewable Energy Park Contact Information

The Wixom Renewable Energy Park will bring jobs to Wixom and the region!  The City of Wixom has received numerous and varied contacts from citizens and businesses alike inquiring about job availability and/or contacts that may be available with the companies involved.  Please utilize the links below and look here periodically for updates. Learn More;  Earth Times Article

 

Videos Coming Soon!

 

The City has partnered with CGI on the production of promotional videos for the community.  Keep your eye on this site for these new features which should be available for viewing early this summer.

 

 

From the Mayor...

 COFFEE WITH THE MAYOR

 

July 26, 2010 @ 7pm

Coffee Beanery

(N. Wixom & Pontiac Trail)

 

Learn More

See all Mayoral Messages 

 

From the City Manager's Office...

 OAKLAND COUNTY GREEN COMMUNITY EXCELLENCE AWARD

Mayor Hinkley and City Manager Mike Dornan were presented a Proclamation honouring the City as a recipient of the “Oakland County Green Community Excellence Award” Read More.

See all City Manager's Messages

 

Visiting the Wixom Website...

My's in Wixom

Shop Wixom!  Support your neighborhood businesses and save.  Money savings coupons and offers can be redeemed at local Wixom businesses.  Select and print your coupons where applicable.

See current offers

 

Go Green

Seasonal tips, smart energy practices, 50 ways to save water, factoids and more.
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Emergency Response and Preparedness

 Wixom Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Launched

The City has launched the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program.  Our program is patterned after the nationwide CERT program whose goal is to train community volunteers to assist during a catastrophic event. Read More

 

Severe Weather Awareness

OUTDOOR SIREN WARNING SYSTEM 

 

May–November,

1st Saturday at 1:00 P.M.

 

More information on Severe Weather Awareness can found by Clicking Here  

 

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