Greden Approved as Housing Commissioner

At its Jan. 3, 2011 meeting, the Ann Arbor city council approved the nomination of Leigh Greden to the Ann Arbor Housing Commission. He replaces Jayne Miller, who previously served as the city’s community services area administrator, before leaving that post in February 2010 to take a position leading the Huron-Clinton Metro Parks. Miller had been appointed to the housing commission after leaving the city, in connection with the wholesale replacement of the entire housing commission board in March 2010. Miller’s tenure with the Metro Parks was brief, and she subsequently took a job in Minnesota as superintendent of the Minneapolis park system, which began in November 2010, making it impossible for her to continue to serve on the city’s housing commission.

Greden previously served on the city council until he was voted out of office in the 2009 Democratic primary, due in part to voter dissatisfaction with his use of electronic mail during council meetings – for communications that ranged from sophomoric humor to possible violations of the Open Meetings Act and campaign finance laws. After leaving the city council, Greden also left his job as an attorney with Miller Canfield to take a position with Eastern Michigan University as that institution’s head of government relations.

This brief was filed from the boardroom in the Washtenaw County administration building, where the council is meeting due to renovations in the city hall building. A more detailed report will follow: [link]