By By JOHN EBY / Dowagiac Daily News
CASSOPOLIS – Eight days after Dowagiac Commissioner John Cureton publicly lamented the Michigan Department of Community Health's inaction and urged the Cass County Board of Commissioners to rescind an action made Oct. 20, 2005, the transfer of substance abuse administration from the Lakeshore Coordinating Council to the Kalamazoo Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services was approved effective Oct. 1, 2007.
Lakeshore Coordinating Council, or LCC, is a five-county alliance based in Grand Haven on which Cureton and Commissioner David Taylor, D-Edwardsburg, represent Cass County.
"Isn't it interesting that eight days after I made that proposal, the state approves the transfer after sitting on it for 15 months," Cureton said Thursday, adding, "I think I should get some credit, even though it wasn't the result I was aiming at."
He was the lone dissenter in an 11-1 vote favoring the transfer.
"I didn't realize I had such power in Lansing," he quipped.