A bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. is on display outside the A.J. Cooper Municipal Complex in Prichard, Ala., where the City Council meets. Retirees attended a meeting of the Prichard City Council to try to motivate the council to pass a budget that includes money for the resumption of their payments, Thursday, December 16, 2010. The city of Prichard, Ala., stopped making pension payments to its retirees.