8.14.07By Daniel Duggan
A meeting of the leaders of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians last week brought a shake-up in the management of the Greektown Casino in Detroit.
Aaron Payment, who has been chairman of the Greektown Casino Board of Directors since 2004, has been replaced by Fred Paquin, a member of the tribal board of directors and Sault Tribal Police Chief.
"This isn’t something that is going to change the operations of the board in any way," said former Deputy Detroit Fire Commissioner Marvin Beatty, the only nontribal member of the Greektown Casino Board.
Payment, however, claims the vote was improperly held and intends to challenge it tonight at a meeting of the tribal board.
He said the vote was cast by the board that oversees the Greektown Casino on Thursday, not the tribal board itself. Though the casino board is made up of the 13 members of the tribal board and Beatty, Payment said three tribal board members were not present to vote at the Greektown board meeting. Technically, the vote should be cast at a meeting of the tribal board, which will be held tonight.
When he was elected by the Sault Ste. Marie tribe as chairman in 2004, the board passed a resolution that the chairman of the tribal board will always be chairman of the Greektown board, Payment said. It takes a vote of seven to undo a prior resolution, he said. Thursday’s vote was five in favor of ousting Payment, three against and three abstentions.
Beatty was one of the abstentions
"I’ve been satisfied with Aaron Payment’s leadership but not dissatisfied with the idea of Fred Paquin being chairman," Beatty said.
Beatty declined to comment on why some board members were not happy with Payment’s leadership.
Payment will remain chairman of the Sault Ste. Marie tribal board. His four-year term for that position expires next year.
He said the five board members are part of a political faction with the intention of installing him as chairman.
"If we’re to demonstrate to the business world that we are a stable organization, we shouldn’t be able to let a political coup by five angry board members jeopardize the stability of the Greektown casino," Payment said. "I hope our council will move to stabilize this so we don’t have a black eye."
A message was left for Paquin but was not returned.
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