001It's 6:30 p.m. I'd like to call to order the Charter Township of Oxford Board of Trustees regular meeting for Wednesday, June 10th, 2026, 6:30 p.m. Will we all please rise and pay respects to the flag? >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Uh could you note the role please? >> Noted. There is a forum. >> Thank you. Item uh four, approval of the agenda. >> I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> I'll support. >> I have a motion by Treasurer Ferrari. A second by Trustee Coven. Are there any questions? >> Hearing none. Uh all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. >>
002Those opposed? Hearing none. Item five, approval of the consent agenda. I'll make a motion approve the consent agenda as presented. >> I'll support. >> I have a motion by Treasurer Ferrari, a second by Trustee Coven. Are there any questions? >> I have one one comment just to note for the public record that I am part of the AI committee. My name was not is not listed as part of a member of the committee on that. So, I just wanted for public record. >> Okay. Thank you. We'll make note of that. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? Hearing none, roll call. Trusty Wagner, >> yes. >> Treasure Ferrari, >> yes. >> Clerk Wright, yes. Trusty Licolo, >> yes. >> Trusty Coven, >> yes. >> Supervisor Curtis, >> yes. >> Okay. Item six, public comment on
003items not on the agenda. This is time for the public to come up and speak. You have three minutes to talk on items not on the agenda. Are there any public that would like to speak? Yes, ma'am. Come on up. You can pull that down. >> Right there. >> Okay. My name is Colleen Marsh and I've been um a resident of Oxford for 24 years. Um I also uh am a teacher at Lakeville Elementary. I teach special education. Um I live um San Street, 485 San Street, I backed up to the Oxford Township Cemetery and um in late April, I believe um a chain link fence was installed um in my yard. The pictures are are forthcoming. Um my concern is um I this is from your ordinance. It's section 4.19. Um the as you
004can see there's no green screen um uh in my yard. The the fence is an eyesore. It's awful. I hate it. But um it is it's it's there and I can't argue that. But um section section D of the ordinance um 4.19 um I'll read it verbatim. It says all sides of the cemetery shall be screened from any residential view by providing a continuous and completely obscuring wall or fence six feet in height measured from the surface of the ground. The planning commission may permit a chain length type fence adequately screened with deciduous and evergreen material. Um I did speak to I believe Mr. Wright um a few weeks ago um he was you know I didn't know if there was a landscaping plan um which I think would be part of the um fence
005proposal. Um he said he was going to u meet with the board and get back to me and he did. Um but he did say that I was welcome to plant anything I wanted on my side of the fence but at my cost and I feel that that um the the cost of the landscaping um should be uh installed and funded as part of that project. Um my other concern is the lack of communication from uh Oxford Township and the board when you do these projects that really affects me and my neighbors. There was no notification. The only reason we knew that this was happening is we saw people in our backyard. We saw stakes going up. This was in the fall, I think, was when things were the [clears throat] proposal was started and
006I had written um an email. I sent two emails. I never get a reply. Um and then in the spring, we saw that there was some activity going on and we learned that the fence was going up and I spoke to Mr. um Jack Curtis and he was I'm gonna be kind of rude and um you know uh just said uh he couldn't understand why we me and my neighbors um why you people don't understand the need for the fence and he said it was you know to um uh prevent trespassers going into the cemetery after hours which I can tell you that nobody trespasses from my end there's three entrances right off of on Verdict Street That's if you're going to have trespassers after hours, they're not gated. So, that would be um where
007you if you have trespassing issue, they're not coming through my yard or my neighbor's yards. And then the fence, as you can see, has these gaps. There's a big cottonwood tree um on our property line, these big gaps, and so trespassers can get right through there. >> The three minutes is up. We captured all your comments. If you have any more, please put them in writing. We have your stuff here. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public? Sure, sir. Come on up. >> Hello. I'd like to thank you this evening for having me here. My name is Joe Kristoff, resident of Oxford Township. Um, I'm requesting a specific review of Oxford Township Ordinance Section 6.2J in uh entitled accessory solar structures, which became effective in December of 2025. My request is to
008add a limited exception where rooftop unsolar is inadequate due to the shading cost or design of the roof which makes it prohibitive for stolen energy system. Um so the current current ordinance ordinances are as stated rooftop solar is allowed in all zoning districts. Ground mounted solar is including on verandas or pergolas is excluded in several residential districts including R3. Again, that was approved in December of 2025. So, this creates a problem for homeowners whose roofs are not suitable for meaningful meaningful solar production. So, question is why? Number one, roof may be shaded. Number two, roof may face the wrong direction. Number three, the roof may have limited usable space. Number four, fire setbacks, bend, stormers, valleys, roof shape, and or structural issues can significantly reduce panel count. Okay. A rooftop system technically be allowed but
009may still f provide pro provide meaningful solar uh energy system. So key points a oneizefits-all rooftop system does not account for sight specific issues right solar production depends heavily on location orientation shape usable area and system design so what works on one house may not work on other houses and that's the problem with section 6.2j >> that was 6 2J. Yes. Yep. So, I'm not asking for unrestricted ground ground delays. What I'm asking for is an objective exception where an applicant can show that rooftop solar is not realistic um uh or an adequate option. The township could still require normal permitting, safety re etc. um you know for this. So an ordinance setback already includes standards for front yard setbacks, sideyard setbacks, distance for buildings, maximum height, lot coverage, etc., etc. So you already have
010ordinances um in place. It's just that section 6.2J becomes a problem. Um so my suggestion to you guys would be to um put a provision in there where if a homeowner can demonstrate one or more of the following. Number one, rooftop insulation is infeasible. Number two, rooftop insulation that's substantially shaded. Number three, and practical, structurally impractical. Number four, rooftop installation would materially reduce annual production would inter materially increase cost or rooftop installation simply cannot accommodate the energy needs of the household. So in closing, I'm asking the planning commission to place this issue on future agenda and to review a limited text amendment to section 6.2J. 2J. Um, and that amendment allow ground mounted ground mounted solar or rooftop solar is inadequate subject to safety and zoning standards. Thank you for your time. >> Joe, do
011you have a script written out? >> Um, no. Just holding notes. [laughter] I can email you guys if you want. >> Email me and I'll send it out to the >> So, Jack Curtis, supervisor, email you. And >> J Curtis, Oxford TWWPI.gov. >> Awesome. I'll have to get that later. Thank you. Appreciate it, guys. Thank you. >> Any other members of the public like to speak? Yes, sir. Mr. CJ. >> Hi, CJ Cario, communications and grants manager. I just wanted to say we kicked off the um 2026 historical marker season on May 31st with the uh dedication of the brace fever boulder, the uh our monument, the lone ranger, the radio, the lone ranger from 41 to 54. I wanted to thank Supervisor Curtis, Trusty Wagner, and Clerk Wright for attending the ceremony. Uh it's
012nice to have the support. And I just wanted to announce that uh in June, we're going to have two more unveilings. One on Saturday, June 20th at 10:00 a.m. That's going to be the unveiling of the North Oford School Marker at the North Oford Cemetery. And then on Monday, June 29th at 11:00 a.m., we'll have an unveiling at 111 South Washington Street for a marker honoring Dr. Betty's Corbett who was Oxford's first female physician. So I encourage the board members and the public to attend both. Thank you. [snorts] Any other members of the public like to speak? Seeing none to item eight, presentation 2025 audited financial reports. >> Excuse me. Point of order. >> Yes. Oh, we skipped right over this trustee comments. Sorry about that. Um, item seven. I don't know why I clicked
013on it. Item seven, board of trustee comments. Um, I'll start with one tonight. CJ failed to mention we have the easement agreement with the DNR signed for the uh Levis's link pocket park. Um CJ, I'll have some more better news here shortly, but we at least now have an easement agreement with the DNR. So, we'll start with Katherine Trusty Coven. >> I have nothing to say. >> Trustee L Piccolo. [clears throat] I have uh just one item that I thought maybe we should be the this board should take under consideration or at least the ordinance committee. Um, I see where we've finally completed the safety paths and I know other jurisdictions are starting to look at this and I'm thinking that we need to start looking at the use of ebikes on that safety path
014as because I I mean I've seen people cruise around 40 miles an hour or higher through those on those paths and and I just don't feel that it's going to be and as as we deliver going farther I think we're going to see more and more of that happen and So trying to maybe find a way to restrict the use of that for ebikes, whether it's the class level or something along those lines, but something to maybe sent to the ordinance committee to review. >> Okay. Sergeant Dhy's in the room with us tonight. He's held a couple classes on ebikes. Uh the trouble is we need to teach parents about ebikes, I think. Um any trustee Piccolo? >> Not at this time. Thank you. >> Uh, clerk Ray, >> uh, just to let the public
015and the audience know that the absent board of ballots are scheduled to be going out the last week in June for the August 4th uh, election. >> Thank you, Treasurer Ferrari. >> I just want to remind everybody, no hats is a Saturday at the middle school. Anybody's interested, go to noaz.com. >> And Trusty Wagner. >> Yeah, thank you. I would like to address for a moment the solar the ground mounted solar panels. I was contacted by a member of the community. So I actually went through and mocked up a limited system. This one was four panels. It would it would pay for itself in five to seven years. the costs have really come down as long as you didn't have to try to mount the panels on the roof because that's really super expensive. So,
016and it would save, you know, somewhere between 10 and 20% off your off of your electric bill even in a limited installation. And the ROI on this is around 15%. So, as prices come down, it starting to make a lot more sense to to allow some kind of limited installation. So, as part of the ordinance committee, we're going to we're going to be looking at this and I'll be bringing it up with our planner as well. >> Thank you, Trusty Wagner, our electrical engineering. >> There you go. >> Some fun stuff. >> Okay. Uh now we can go to item eight. Sorry about that. Uh presentation of the 2025 audited financial report. >> Good evening. Again, my name is Reena Evans. I'm with PSLZ. It's my pleasure to be here this evening and present to
017you the Charter County of Oxford's annual audit financial statements for your fiscal year ended December 31st, 2025. Uh the once again, the township did receive uh an unmodified opinion, which is the highest level of audit opinion possible. Uh no exceptions, disclaimers, except anything like that. Nothing like that to uh report this evening. So clean audit opinion in layman's terms. Uh going over a few of the highlights this evening. Um property taxes of course your largest source of revenue. Um increased uh yet again this year uh 8.7% taxable value increase. That's obviously not your not your bill rates but your it's all pure taxable values uh that went up and and caused the increase in your revenues this year. Uh the year before was 8%. Both solid years. um as you know you're limited to a
0185% increase uh or the rate of inflation um and you're at eight 8%. So that obviously is um homes becoming uncapped extra you know additional development within the township. So all those are very positive things for the property values within the township. Also state shared revenue increased slightly 2% this year. U we're not sure we're going to see that uh in the coming year. uh we'll be lucky if it's flat. Uh if not, decrease a little bit. But um the I believe you're prepared for that and your budget reflects that uh appropriately. Uh the story, you know, I like to tell every year recently is uh interest income uh that the township has earned. Um still very significant and but we did drop from the year before, but last year the year be fiscal year
01924 was kind of a banner year. uh township was earning 5% and we've never seen those kind of returns on on the township money. So, uh Treasurer Ferrari is taking advantage of all the allowable uh instruments and doing a great job with that. So, but we went from 5% the year before. We averaged about 4.2% this year, which again is outstanding. Um but we, you know, dropping from five to 4.2 is is still a slight drop, but um hopefully this, you know, we don't know if this is going to continue. obviously depends on economic conditions. Uh but we're taking advantage of it while while we get it. Uh this year you did add uh $377,000 to general fund uh bottom line to the fund balance. Uh you had significant transfers out of the general fund,
0201.2 million out for major projects like the roads and safety paths. Uh major capital improvements this year. Seymour Lake and Mount Pleasant safety pass, the fire department train tower and some deposits on vehicles. Uh the new township hall electronic sign outside is in this audit. Uh the cemetery, we finished the police substation expansion. Uh and Stony Lake Park new playground equipment. Always like to report on that. So all in um $2.2 million in capital improvements. So you've been busy this year. Um in the water and sewer funds, an additional 1.2 2 million of infrastructure improvements accomplished this year. Uh you've paid down no new debt. Uh paid down 990,000 in principle this year. Um and uh lastly, I would say the um you're always interested in the pension plan, the defined benefit pension plan. You
021are at 89% funded this year. That's up from 83% the year before. um your you did have a so the net pension liability is the total pension liability that the actuaries calculate and we subtract out how much you have in trust for the pension plan and the difference between those is your what we call our net pension liability and that came down almost half a million dollars this year. So um very happy to report that. Um we had net investment gain this year on those on those funds at MUS uh $600,000 this year and um because we are a one-year lag on the uh how we are reporting the actuarials um I can peek at the following year because it's every year on December 31st um and we had a nice gain uh as of
022123125 it must have been a really good day in the stock market so I should have a good report for you fingers crossed for next Um so bottom line if I bottom line it for you uh two things. One um I always like you to keep your eye on the pension plan which you're at 89% funded. That is not by accident. You you contributed a lot of extra over a series of years consecutive years. Last year was probably the first year you didn't but with that along with net investment income is is actually really moved the needle. So I think you'd be really happy at 89% funded. Um, and the second thing, um, I just wanted to point out, I know you have your eye on the ball, but I did want to point out
023to the board, um, the the police special revenue fund, um, still okay, but obviously you had large contract increases, um, passed down from the county this year. Um, and but your millage rate was already set. So, and that mill rate, I think, goes through 2028, I believe. Um, so that's kind of set. You can't go up from there um until that renews. But you should I kind of did some projections u barring any huge increase more increases from the the county. I mean you should just make it in uh 2028 without any deficits. So but again I need you to keep your eye on that. I know you do especially at budget time um and when and the uh you know when you're setting the mill rates. So with that, I'm happy to answer any
024questions. >> Um, we'll start with Trusty Wagner. >> Sure. I have a couple questions. So it's pretty rosy picture you painted for us. Thank you. Were there any weaknesses or deficiencies identified at all anywhere? >> The the story really is that you have accomplished so much in the capital department. That's really what the the township has focused on the last few years. And so um operationally it's been very stable, very steady. you have experienced staff um that know you know you don't they know what you know procedures and policies that are set set forth. Um we get incredible support from the administrative officials if I come to them with anything. Um you know it's you know their ears are open. They want things you know fixed right away. We didn't have anything to fix this
025year but we do talk about regularly about things like grant monies that come in because they come in with extra strings that maybe you're not familiar with. So the the open communication I get regular calls from from both the staff and the administrative officials. So we get to the end of the year with with the nice report and um it it truly is a good picture. >> Okay. And besides keeping our eye on the police, is there are are there any other funds we should be paying attention to? the no that was uh that was really and and it was there is some of the um like I said it was the end of the police substation expansion so there is some capital outlay in this year that's the end of it but I pulled
026that out when I did the analysis so I'm looking truly at the contract costs and um everything else in there is very stable steady um and we can control so we can't necessarily control the uh what's been handed down to us >> okay um any financial risks that we should be looking at over the next five years. >> Um, so I, you know, along with that last question, now that I'm thinking about it, so the sewer fund, uh, again, another item out of our control as far as the debt being handed down to the township, uh, from the county level, um, it just, you know, it it seems like it's never ending. Um, they I know they keep in regular communication, but yet things just seem to appear on appear on your plate. Um and
027it's and it's been seems consistent every year there's yet another debt issue. So that is something that um you know to impact on the sewer fund. Um you know I know you're doing your best with the you know keeping the rates very steady for the residents the best you can. Uh but that's really as far as risk or you know something to to watch for. I would definitely my second thing would definitely be the uh the sewer fund. >> All right, my last question is there's a the concentration of credit risk cut. Can you explain that or is that what does that mean for us? >> So um the the type of fortunately the township does not get into all kinds of crazy investments. you are within, you are in compliance, you are within the
028boundaries of what state treasury says that you can as a municipality can invest in. That's why treasurer Ferrari does a really nice job. He keeps up on that. Um, and he it's only he keeps everything very safe, liquid, uh, but taking advantage of the best rates without getting into any gray area, anything crazy. So to, you know, achieve these returns is is really phenomenal. um concentration to credit risk is um so if you had all your money in one all your eggs in one basket um you know that's something that you would want to be aware of um right now you are heavily into the Michigan class uh fund but that is um allowable it's not FDIC insured but it is um you know all allowable instruments for the state of Michigan and everyone on
029that board is a state of state of Michigan official of some sort. So um pretty low risk uh but big returns. >> Okay. If I remember the report correctly, it said 97% of our funds are invested in in that particular vehicle. Should we be looking at any other kind of diversification or or along with that? You do have funds obviously Oxford Bank, Flagstar Bank, you have some with the county Oakland county's pool uh which is similar setup to the class fund which you were heavily invested in the county funds but they started they were they were long-term when they should have been shortterm when all these rates changed a few years ago but class Michigan class fund was in the short term and that's why Treasure Ferrari jumped on that and kind of switched gears.
030Um you would have had a very different outcome if you had stated the county. Um the count is actually it's taken them a few years, but they're kind of reversing course. They're we're just now seeing their rates uh come back up. Um but, you know, respectfully, it is uh you're looking at the return, but obviously the safeguard of the of the money is your foremost concern. Um because it's taxpayer money. Um you want to be safe, you're liquid, he can get that money out of there within 24 hours. uh if he sees rates changing or anything risky or uh and uh you know and trust me he he'd be we'd all be getting a phone call and he'd be you know he'd be uh rehearsing course. Okay. >> So I am very comfortable with the
031fact of how liquid it is and I many communities are invested in that. >> Okay. I mean diversification does reduce risk. So on so I it kind of caught my eye when it when it mentioned that this was a concentration of credit >> in some communities go the other extreme of 100% FDIC insured. >> Sure. >> You know and you know when when savings accounts were giving 0.01% interest you know you could take that position as well. So I feel like you're somewhere in the middle. >> Okay. >> But I I am comfortable with what you are in. Um and again I mean the many uh trader furry does buy certificates of deposit um when the rates are good and right now it's been the short-term CDs uh that are giving the good rates not
032even the 12 month it's like the three now it's the six month that have just turned to the six month um so he's watching that trying to take advantage of that and he is trying to get you FDIC coverage u flags had some nice they call them um insured cash suite accounts where you can put larger amounts of and they're all FDIC insured. So, he's got a a balance of vehicles. >> Okay. Thank you very much, >> Treasure Ferrari. >> Following up kind of what Rain said, the good thing about mission class, they're diversified themselves. We get a list of all their holdings. Each time I review their holdings, it's always in the top-notch commercial paper, Republicans, everything's all top-notch. Mission class itself is diversified, which is what I like. It's not just one institution.
033Something happens that institution, you've got some issues. So mission plan has been pretty good for right now. As you know, that stuff can always change. >> Then when after today's audit, you're going to file with the state and everything. >> Yes. I wanted to wait till after the board meeting in case anyone >> Yeah. I've already filed a qualifying statement. The state's received that and accepted that. >> Oh, great. >> Sorry. >> Uh clerk, right? >> Yeah. I actually saved the board probably 45 minutes because I talked to Randy yesterday for about 45 minutes on this. But my my only uh I guess something to point out in next year's audit on page 48 of the audit, there's two new gazsbies that will be coming into effect for the township. It's a financial reporting model
034improvements. That's Gazsby 103 and Gazsby 104 will be disclosure of certain capital assets. So I'll defer to R to uh discuss those or we'll see what the next years are. >> Thank you. Oh boy, here we go. Trustee L Piglo. Um, actually everybody else has stole my thunder, so it's probably probably best that I was last on this. Um, I did a couple qu I kind of follow along the credit risk side of it and really wanted to know if there's alternatives to diversify out of the out of MClass that would be, you know, maybe a little bit higher higher maybe risk but better return. I don't know if there's anything that's that's out there. That's one thing that I've been looking into. But um one of my questions goes to the the pension liability
035and some of the assumptions that they made. Are you comfortable with the assumptions that were made relative to because they have in their um a 2.5 inflationary rate on the in in you know as we all know inflation's above 2.5 on average. So that changes a little bit of the outlook of our our liability if we we were to go to a higher inflationary rate, right? If we were to So who sets that? Is that just the actuary or is that is that something that we set with the actuary? How is that determined? >> Um so first of all, it is advertised over a longer period. I think it's maybe I get a look into it, but maybe it's not a full 30 years, but it might be like 18 years. So they're not looking
036at at this window. much larger window. So, um they actually go in the edge report, they go into some depth about why they feel it's uh still appropriate at the 2.5%. Um as far as the um who sets the rate technically um and I respectfully uh you know technically it says that the that the board is setting the rate that the client is setting the rate on the actuarial assumptions. However, in reality, uh, MS, the Michigan employee retirement system, um, mun municipal employee retirement system is, um, their actuaries because they are dealing with, and I can't tell you how many municipalities in the state of Michigan, it's a lot. Um, probably a thousand. And, um, that are in in this pension trust. So, they are doing it for that whole group. uh we don't really
037have a a say in that uh necessarily, but if you you know the the only way you could get out of that per se would be to just change out of the MS trust and hire your own actuator. So we're not advising that. Um but technically the client sets it, but in reality MS does it for you. >> Okay. And then um I think that I was really kind of blown away by just a 1% change in the discount rate. The impact that that's over almost a million dollars I believe in in and I can't find the actual footnote here, but there was a footnote on where we had to do. Yeah, it was on footnote for those that have fallen. >> I think it went from 7.18 down to 6.93%. >> Yeah, we we
038assumed a a Yes. from a seven from a 6.18 to to a 7.18. If we did that, it was a decreased it down. It was almost a $1.4 million increase in their liability. >> Oh, the the sensitivity calculation >> down%. What I assume that's just to point to the reader that that it gives them a range of that that I mean I know our our liability is is a is a guesstimate at the at at really I mean a calculated guesstimate of of what we think based on assumptions and so forth but the discount rate what determines that >> so so it's um actually you bring up a very good point so it's actually very an interesting calculation that we're required to put in the footnotes of here's your here's what your that pension liability
039is. Um, and if you if we used an assumption that was 1% less or 1% more, here's how it would recalculate. And as as uh Trusty Piculo said, it's like a million dollar swing either way. So, I mean, that's that's you wouldn't expect that. I mean, it's it's really enlightening to see that. Um, who sets that? Um, apart from the the MS actuaries, uh, the state of Michigan, the legislature, uh, probably just a little less than 10 years ago decided to get involved and they have what we call uniform uniform, um, assumptions that we have to follow or the actuaries have to follow. So, you have to be within a range because they don't want municipalities going to any crazy, you know, you know, if someone want say we're at 7%, I mean, someone might
040want to use 2%. And that doesn't seem reasonable uh for a pension liability. Um but but if you lowered your discount rate to 2%, look at what a better, you know, net pension liability you would have. So, they don't want people playing games. So, they give us a narrow window, the actuaries a narrow window to choose from, and you have to be within that range. And actually that's an additional report that will be going to the state uh this week um on the retirement system on the pension plan. So we have to report to them we report to them basically the numbers that are in your footnote but also using the uniform assumptions to make sure that we are within the the appropriate window and the state likes to see that. >> In your final
041question and and I focused a lot in on the liability because I think that's always the biggest challenge for any any organization is because it's always to In my opinion, it's always been a moving target, right? It's always changes and and so forth. What I know we stopped this year in extra funding and additional funding above and beyond. And I don't I wasn't on the board to make that determination at that time, but your recommendation going forward, should we consider I mean, where were depending on which way you look at this and the assumptions, we're really close to getting this paid down. We're getting this down to zero or being to an overfunded status, which would be amazing. But should we still continue or think about continuing to preund or fund this above and beyond
042the required just to try to bring I mean, where is in your opinion in in doing this? Where is that strike distance of where you think you're close enough that you don't need to do any more preunding? You should be able to let the market come up and down on it. I feel if you're 89 90% uh you're there. However, as you know, this is a soft number. Uh this is a moving target. Uh some years we have net investment income. Just a couple years ago, we actually have significant net investment loss because it's valued on the last day of the year. Um the um uh as far as the what we're funded this year, I actually looked at your total pension liability to kind of see um it actually increased uh $693,000 this year.
043So, and it wasn't your pool of people because sometimes if you have aging uh you know pool of people, it may impact those numbers. So, I kind of want to keep we will keep an eye on that. But it again, we're still at 89% funded. Uh I see a significant net investment income for the coming year. So I think we're good for a year or two, but you know, obviously again soft number. This could change. Um we'll just keep an eye on it. But right now, I think this year, next year, I think you're good. And the appropriate time is at budget time. Uh you want to kind of look at that and see feel if you feel that you would are starting to think about putting extra money. You know, that's the time to
044put some money in the in the line item and prioritize it. So I think you're good for a year or two, but definitely don't take it off the table going forward. >> Thank you very much. >> Custo, >> I just want to make a comment. You mentioned the sewer fund. We are well aware that there will be debt incurred coming. We know we were we're in close contact with the county. They have informed us that it's coming. So we are >> Yes. So just so we're going to I'm sure we'll be in touch regarding that. Rainey, you know that we watched that M fund. Uh Trusty Payne is no longer with us, but I'm sure I can still her hear her telling me when we were at 64% and we started attacking it, we're now
045at 89. So, it's been it's been a hard long road to to pay, but we're we're on the right track, I think. >> Yes. No, I I would sleep well at night at 89%. Thank you. Any other questions for Rick? >> I move to receive and file the Charter Township Oxford audit financial report the fiscal year ended December 31st, 2025 as presented. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion by Treasure Ferrari. A second by Trustee Cole. Any further questions? Hearing none. Roll call. >> Treasure Ferrari. >> Yes. >> Write yes. Trusty Wagner. >> Yes. >> Trusty Piccolo. >> Yes. >> Trusty Coven. >> Yes. Super Curtis. >> Yes. Thank you, Ra. Great job. Um, okay. Item, make sure I do this right, David. Item nine, uh, board members, uh, in front of you tonight,
046we have A, B, and C. Uh, these are ordinance amendments to adopt certain state law offenses locally as identified by our township prosecutor and the Oakland County Sheriff uh, office. We met, we reviewed some of the lower charges that uh that the uh sheriff has to confront daily, weekly, and in order to proficiently handle those matters, it was deemed that uh our courts are filled with more felony prosecutions than these lower offenses. So, with that, I bring up attorney Jake Murs, uh, who was working with Sergeant Dherty and Lieutenant Patterson to make their jobs easier in in, uh, identifying and enforcing laws, and we've made some offers of recommended changes to the ordinance. >> Uh, yes, thank you, Jack. Good evening, members of the board. Uh, what Jack said is pretty much it. There were
047a handful of township ordinances or uh state law uh statutes that were identified by the sheriff's office and brought to my attention that are common reoccurring offenses within the township that would be better served uh we think locally through a ordinance adoption as opposed to going through state law. uh the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office, which would have to handle these charges normally, often is dealing with much more complicated and um overwhelming felony matters that come out of other communities. And therefore, it sometimes makes more sense if the sheriff's office can issue local citations that come instead through me instead of going to the prosecutor's office. We have more direct dialogue often so I can keep better track of them. we can get them in front of a judge more quickly and hopefully enter a resolution
048more quickly, not clogging up the courts, which makes them happy and allows them to issue their citations more efficiently. As I said, uh normally there's a complaint and warrant process with the state prosecutor. Often the state prosecutor is a rotating individual, so they're not always keeping up to date with the cases. Uh the other u little caveat or benefit to is if it is passed locally, the township retains a much greater percentage of the fines from the uh locally um adopted ordinance as opposed to going through state law. Um so there's a handful of those if anyone has any questions about them. >> Well, let's go through first 9A ordinance 114.001 001 animals. Um, you know, without going through the red line, it was in your package. What is the critical um takeaway here in
049this ordinance? >> Uh, so for the animals ordinance, this is the one exception to the general rule where we're adopting state law. This one I borrowed from local municipalities that also utilize the sheriff's office, such as Rochester Hills. I looked at Auburn Hills and just some other local communities. Uh, this is the basic things that are already in the state law provisions for dog law, but really aren't worded quite as clearly. They just were looking for something for dog at large and leash laws. U, these are pretty common throughout many other municipalities. It's just something a citation that's pretty simple that keeps people or makes people understand that they can't just let their dog run free and get out of their own yard and then be a potential risk to people in more ways than
050one. Uh similarly the uh I mean they both pretty much affect that same thing and this has been a common complaint by the sheriff's office because they often if these go to the prosecutor's office under dog law they often will involve animal control even if animal control isn't fully necessary. Animal control in my personal experience can often complicate things. When this is more of just uh a singular issue, no one was really hurt. They can just issue the ticket to be more efficient with reminding people that they need to keep their animals under control and not make them a risk to the community at large. >> Uh any questions? Trusty Wagner, >> how will this ordinance [snorts] impact those with these these long retractable leashes? >> Um, I guess to >> because it say there's
051in there something about a six foot limit now, but everybody I see walking their animals down the street, they're using these long 15 foot. I would say from a practical standpoint, it wouldn't really affect them much because the whole purpose of those in my personal experience seeing them is that they can retract and they can bring the animal under control when it's necessary. So, you kind of live in the best of both worlds. What it says here is six feet. And I guess Sergeant D could speak more to that if that's an issue. I don't think that's the type of thing that they are issuing tickets for and citations for. It's more of people that have long leashes where it doesn't allow them to control the animal. Also, a retractable leash would bring in the
052animal pretty quickly. I don't know the maximum extension distance that the common ones that are sold are, but I don't think it would impact them unless they are abusing those and not retracting them and then just using it as a long leash. >> Okay. So, they would be forcing to get rid of them in >> No, they would not be forced to get rid of them. >> Fight. >> Yeah. >> Go ahead. Go ahead. Okay. No, I I had I had a a question on this as well, but I discussed this with attorney MS on uh the enforcability of the animal ordinance the way it's written and uh I was reassured that this can be uh minister or sheriff department if at their discretion. So I'm all I'm all set. >> Thank you trusty low
053piccolo. >> No comments on this one >> and trusty coin. Sorry. >> No, it's okay. I just had a question with this one. You put the NCL language in the definitions, but you never actually incorporate it by reference into the full ordinance. Is there a reason for that? >> That was just moving the definition from the original section below and just making it I debated taking the whole thing out. But at the end of the day, the dog law is still in effect. And I thought there's no harm in leaving it there so people understand when they go to look at our ordinances that the dog law still exists. Michigan dog law can still be enforced by the sheriff's office. It's not hurting anything one way or the other. >> All right. Um, let's go
054to B. Ordinance 43A. Offenses and miscellaneous provisions. >> Were there any questions on that board members? >> Hi. >> Yes. >> And and maybe it's my not understanding of the legal terms, but I I read in here the definition of a minor is 18. Why? Where is the definition below 18? I guess or is that just not you know what I'm saying? >> I know I understand the confusion there. This comes with a certain level of complication with how the courts handle jurisdictionally the uh people under the age actual minors as we more commonly think of them. So the state law as it uh passed by the legislature recently made it so that these vape products are not available to those under the age of 21. For the purposes of this statute, that means that
055anyone under the age of 21 is a minor. The reason that the township has to cut that off at 18 is that there's jurisdictional limits as to what a local ordinance can be prosecuted under. That has to be turned over to state law and done through the probate court, which we cannot do as a municipality. We're limited to a certain subset of the ordinances. There's a much bigger system with the circuit court when it's an actual minor under the age of 18. >> You knew I wouldn't understand why. I appreciate the explanation. Thank you. >> Y any other questions? None. Ordinance 126.001 traffic and vehicles. There any questions board members? I move to approve the first reading of the amendments to ordinance 114.001 ordinance 438.005 or 126.001 the second reading of the ordinances for July
0568th 2026 Oxford Township Board of Trustees regular meeting authorize the township clerk to publish and post all required notices in accordance with Michigan law. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion by treasure Ferrari, a second by trustee Cole. Final questions. Seeing and hearing none, roll call. >> Clerk right? Yes. Trusty Piccolo? >> Yes. >> Trusty Coven? >> Yes. >> Trusty Widner? >> Yes. >> Ferrari? Yes. >> Supervisor Curtis? >> Yes. >> Thank you very much, Chief. Thank you, everyone. >> Okay. Uh, moving on. Item 10, Fire Department Chief. >> Good [clears throat] evening, board. Uh, just to give you some updates on things that are going on. Uh things have been pretty pretty controlled with us right now, but just so you're in the loop, uh we have submitted for or in the process
057of submitting for uh multiple grants. Uh we've submitted for a grant uh through the state of Michigan to uh try and obtain money to purchase more fire gear for our uh part-time paid on call members. We have we are in the process of uh and CJ Carnakio is actually uh acting as a a reviewer for us in house uh with our grants for a safer grant uh to try and get us some uh personnel full-time uh because the the numbers that we're seeing dwindling in our part-time and paid on call membership uh which would cover the cost of these people for a while and we actually already have some budgeted starting next year but if we can get it covered through a grant to save us uh five years of that funding or portions of
058that funding. That would be awesome. Uh we've also are in the process of applying for an assistance to firefighter grant uh for a new tanker truck which would save us probably about $800,000 to $900,000 off of what we have uh down the line in our budget. Uh and we also are in the process of applying for a regional fire grant for new cardiac monitors uh with a host of other departments in northern Oakland County, which if we get that one will save us a little over $350,000 in budgeting that we've uh we've got set aside for the coming uh year. Uh also, um just some in-house stuff. We're currently taking bids for concrete and paving work. Uh uh the the parking lot at station one is in really bad shape. uh our handicap accessible ramp
059and the the sidewalk to get into the station is is deteriorated pretty badly. Uh we do have that money budgeted, but we're probably going to end up trying to do that over probably this year and next year to kind of break it up a little bit. Uh we're also taking bids for uh some concrete work to have a fuel pad added at the rear of the fire station out near the gravel by our training tower uh because the cost of fuel is just killing us this year. Uh we've made amendments a couple times now to kind of stay with that because just fuel has just gone through the roof. And what we found is if we put the uh the pumps some pumps in in station one, we can get the fuel at a purchase
060price at that day and that's it. And then it sits there until we need to get a refill and the the uh tanks would be put in basically on a like a $1 lease through the the fuel company and then we just pay for the fuel as we are now. Whereas right now we're literally going to Sonokco or to Meyer and we're uh we go through that whole process and we're playing paying market price and then still getting trying to get our taxes refunded and so it's going we're looking at that option and it it that's going to be coming hopefully soon. Um and then uh we've got tough muting this weekend which is going to keep us busy. Uh as well as we're hosting the uh flag retirement ceremony for the American Legion and
061Boy Scouts that'll be at station one on Saturday. Um, and again, I know we've talked about costs from the county. Uh, those unforeseen that drives me crazy, too, Raina. Um, uh, I got myself put on the radio technical and policy committee, uh, which will help. I may not have much of a say as far as what the dispatch costs are to us and things of that nature, but at least I'll be able to see things coming before they come. Uh, get a little earlier and get involved there with the on the county level. Uh that's part of my uh having my position as again as the vice president of the Oklahoma County Fire Chiefs Association as well. So I kind of get that inside scoop hopefully and be able to have some say as to
062how things go as far as like the dispatch costs and things of that nature for us moving forward. And then the last thing I got is uh we should be receiving uh two ambulances that were ordered what a little over two and a half years ago. We should be getting them uh in the next couple weeks. Uh, Captain Fector, Lieutenant Jaru are going down. Uh, the company's flying them down to Florida to do the final walkthrough. The trucks are actually completed. Uh, they're going to do a kind of a final inspection there. Then they'll uh ship them up here to uh the Grand Rapids area where they'll do their final uh what they call their white glove inspection and then they'll be released into us after that. So, we hope to be seeing those here
063really quickly because uh just getting the one a little over a year and a half ago has saved a significant amount of money in our uh our budget in regards to maintenance and and repairs. So getting these other two here will finally kind of help save some of that. >> Super. >> Yeah. So all in all pretty good. >> Thank you, Chief. >> All right. Any questions? >> Any questions for the chief? >> Yes, clerk. Right. The the vehicles that will be replaced, you're just going to auction them off or something? >> Actually, no. We uh we worked the deal with the company that we're buying from. They're going to take them in trade to help us offset the cost of the the fourth ambulance which is still another a year and a probably a
064year and two months away. So that'll help us there. So and then it also saved us on the idea of uh putting them out on the open market again. So and doing that they actually gave us a little better deal too. So >> thank you. >> All right. Thank you. >> Okay. Item 11 sharp engineering report. uh board members in your packet was the uh sharp engineering report. Uh engineer sharp is here tonight with us if we have any questions. >> Trusty Piccolo. I was going to ask uh uh the engineer to to maybe last week or last month I had asked a question regarding the safety of Oxford's water system relative to in light of the lake Orient situation and so and and part of that is just for public information to know that
065what our systems about and to make sure that we are not going to run into an Orient type catastrophe. And so I figured this would be a good time for you to maybe just comment on that for us. >> Sure. I'll try to summarize all that. Um the communities that you talked about down to the south, they're all connected to uh the Detroit Gleewell water system. Um those municipalities that had issues, you know, few weeks ago, there's really a sole source of water that comes up to those communities there. So when that break occurred, through all the papers and so forth. There was no other way for them to get water. Um, here in Oxford, we have our own system. We are not connected to the Detroit or GA system at all. We have our
066own pumping facilities treat the water appropriately. So, in a situation, you know, where a well goes down, you know, it's a well, we have certain well sites. Um there are backup wells within Oxford that will you know redundant to continue to provide you know water to the community there. So we should not have a a situation like that. I mean not to say that there could be a main break on drain or road that would put residents without water for a short period of time but nothing for like two weeks or like that. Um and just to follow up a little bit on that, we do have some interconnections both with the village of Oxford and with Orient Township. Um we offer, you know, to supply orient township or a portion thereof with some water
067during that situation uh to try to assist them. And these interconnections are common throughout all of Michigan. However, because of the flood crisis that happened years ago, uh there are many loopholes and requirements now. You can't just open a valve nowadays and start providing water to the adjacent communities. It's pretty much a no, which is very unfortunate that in my opinion, Eagle would let rather see a water people be without water at all. On the flip side, I do understand their concerns, you know, about potential chemistries of the water and so forth. But yeah, unfortunately that probably wouldn't happen. So likewise couldn't supply us water. Does that summarize? >> I appreciate that. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Any other questions for engineer sharp? Seeing none, we'll move on. Item 12, unfinished business. We
068have none. >> [clears throat] >> Uh item 13, new business. Item 13A, uh Love Inc. First amendment to the memorandum of understanding. Uh board members, Love Inc. is requesting to amend the memorandum of understanding to increase the uh funding contribution from Oxford Township to $16,000 annually. That currently is at 15,000. Uh the attached is the first amendment that we have to the uh memorandum of understanding. Uh the uh Kelly firm did review this for us. Uh theou is drafted and did not have any concerns. Uh I hope you've read it all. This is taking care of our uh taking on the uh responsibilities for meals on wheels. So this memorandum covers it. However, this year we're asking for an additional $1,000. >> I move to approve the first amendment to memorandum of understanding the love
069bank of North Oakland County, the charter township of Oxford of our supervisor Jack Curtis to sign the first amendment to memorandum of understanding condition and receive receipt of our current certificate of liability insurance. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion by treasurer Ferrari, a second by Trustee Coleman. Are there any questions? Yes, trust. >> Not knowing what they they do, who monitors the the service performance? Is that something that we've been monitoring and we're happy with? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> But yes, other questions. Seeing none. Uh yeah, we have a motion. Roll call. >> Uh Trusty Coven, >> yes. >> Trusty Wagner, >> yes. >> Trusty Leo, >> yes. >> Quick, right? Yes. Treasure FY. >> Yes. >> Supervisor Curtis. >> Yes. >> Item 13B, Rap Dewey Subdivision Sanitary Sewer Project Bid Award.
070Trusty Wagner. >> Yeah. Thank you. Um, I will like to invite Jim, our engineer, to the to the podium and he can describe the bid process, the the participation we had, the the result as compared to his original estimate and kind of give us the big picture. >> Thank you, Trusty Wagner. Um, in your packet you have our, you know, our letter. Um, we did design this uh Brad Dwey project. We've been talking about for many years and finally got the thing out to bid. Um we estimated the project at around $2.2 million or so in there. Um there were seven biders of the project. The low bidder was about was LB Ainian sons at 1.95 roughly million dollars. The other biders were very close 2.2 2.2. I mean six of the biders were very
071very close to each other. There was one bidder that was out in my field. But bottom line, we were very happy with the with the bids that we did receive. Generally on your grouping as that type, that means that they're already doing the same plans and, you know, bing out the same type of thing. Um, we did check the references. All the references look good. They've been in business for a very long time. They do very large projects as well. So, you know, I haven't worked with them personally, but they have very good reference, very good reputation. Uh the project is going to be up at the Brad Dwey area. It's a little tricky. The area of work is very confined up there. The rightways are very very tight. Um but everybody knew that going
072into it. So yeah, we uh are providing a recommendation that you proceed with LDI stemians at the base bid of 1.95. I guess we talked about the grant slightly as well. Um of this money right here. or or of the the total cost of the project, CJ was able to secure a grant for 1.75 million of that. The township has a commitment of about 437,000 >> $37,000 in there to bump it up to the uh to the 2.1. Again, if the project comes in slightly under, then we may have to do the paperwork to make that, you know, to balance everything out because we have to have 20% contribution. But, you know, as with most projects, there's a few extras along the way. So, we'll kind of wait till the end of the job to
073see. So, I think that we're right in that ballpark with the, you know, the $2.1 million that we had allocated for and a bit of 1.95. We're right in that ballpark. So, we should be pretty good. Any uh let's have some conversation. Anybody questions? Trust cl right. Yeah, because of the uh see the terrain, I'll call it that. Um we probably need some assistance of phone calls coming to the township of issues that are going to be arising. So that's going to be a big issue in my opinion because of the delicacy of the project itself. you know, basically one lane traffic down Brad or Roy >> and discussions have been had about that. Um, you know, exactly that situation and whether it be notices that come out from the township, whether it be a
074meeting that the township desires to have here, inviting all of the residents from there, you know, a phone number of a person, whoever that person may be. Um, I think that that's all very good. I think we want to be in good communication with the people out there because yeah, it's going to be pretty tricky with the limited access that are in those areas. So, I'm open to any of that and we'll just >> whoever the the committee decides or the board or whoever, then I'm on board with that. >> You heard me ask the developer, have you been in there yet? and they said yes and they were comfortable with 25 foot easement and cars parked on the streets and the houses but engineer sharp myself Tim London Mike Irady I don't know Curtis
075you got some calls on this water main project out here anytime we go near residents homes it's an afterthought they always call and complain or are concerned with something so I'm trying to work with Jim the water sewer committee to set up phone calls uh directed phone calls to an individual rather than shotguning everybody. I know we're going to do uh the public forum probably in a special meeting uh when the uh contractor gives us a we're going to start date, right? >> We'll uh we'll hold a special meeting and do that. So, there is a lot of communications that needs to be done. agree. >> Any other questions? >> I move to approve the recommendation from Sharp Engineering award the Brad Dwey subdivision sanitary sewer project LD Gustini [clears throat] and Suns the base
076amount of $1,952,230. This $1,952,230 amount to the expense of the sewer fund account number 590527962.033 RA Dwey sanitary sewer extension. I'll second. >> I have a motion by Treasurer Ferrari, a second by Trustee Coven. Are there any more questions? Hearing none. Roll call. >> Trusty La Piccolo. >> Yes. >> Treasure Ferrari. >> Yes. >> Trusty Wagner. >> Yes. >> Trusty Cen. >> Yes. >> Quick right. Yes. Supervisor Curtis. >> Yes. >> Thank you, Jim. >> I'll reach out to the contractor and start the next phase getting all the bonds and the insuranceances and things like that. Well, >> thank you. Thank you. Item 11 C. Uh board members, I put on the the agenda tonight so we're all aware of it. Item 13 C is survey and post no parking signs on the township property
077at front gra. Uh currently we have uh three open ordinance violations. I know the sheriff's department's been up there. We found vehicles with that have just been abandoned there. But in preparation for this sewer project uh in this tight quarters, we own that piece of property that is possible for yarding up of pipe equipment. Uh it's up on the screen right now. It's not a a buildable lot, if you will. It's a uh a piece of property that was left over after everything was divided up. And what I would like to do, it's been surveyed, but we have to identify the pins. I'd like to place no trespassing or no parking signs with temporary fencing on it and uh the removal of all unauthorized objects. What our plan to do is tomorrow identify the pins,
078drive stakes in the grounds, Tpost and let let the residents know that it is being identified as our property. We're going to notify all residents no parking and that we want to get that done by July 1st because uh we're going to tag the trailers, the uh cars and the campers by July 10th. And after July 15th, we'd like to start uh ticketing because these people just leave this stuff there. Our ordinance officer has written letters. We've had them uh ticketed and pulled out and they just keep coming back. But an awareness that this property is going to be used for this construction uh is is uh of the utmost importance at this time. I moved to authorize supervisor Jack Curtis to coordinate the surveying place of no press trespassing and or no parking signs
079fencing and the removal of all unauthorized objects as he deems necessary in Oxford Township own parcel as part of the Brad Dw subdivision sanitary sewer project. All cost should be expensive sewer account fund 590-527-9621033. I'll second. >> I have a motion by Treasurer Ferrari. I have a second by Trustee Coleman. Are there any questions? >> Trusty Wagner. Uh, two questions. Once the vehicles or whatever they are have been taken, what is the time frame for getting them removed from that point? >> Sergeant Dy, once a vehicle is t Come on up to the mic, please. You're not shy. Uh once a vehicle is ticketed, what is our next step? >> Uh typically within 48 hours that vehicle has to be removed unless there's some kind of uh edgimate circumstance that would require a sooner removal.
080Uh generally what we would do, we'll put a orange sticker on it that says this vehicle needs to be removed by such and such date and attempt to contact an owner if no owner can be located and that vehicle is then more likely going to be deemed abandoned and they could be immediately removed. >> Thank you. You're welcome. Um do you have any more questions anywhere else? The one thing I forgot to say is once this program is all done, we're all cleaned up, we're all out of there, this board's going to be challenged with, my opinion is getting rid of that piece of property. Whether we dee it to the folks, whether we just deed it to the parks, but we have to just get rid of it. This has been a bone of
081contention with the residents and with the township, with the sheriff, everybody. It's just a piece of property that's sitting there. And once if the contractor uses it, it's going to be a real nice flat parking spot. >> So, one more question. >> Yes. The temporary fencing you talked about, it's going to go around the whole property. >> It It'll go around the whole thing. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Y >> Okay. Do I have a motion? >> Motion. Oh, yeah. Treasure. Trusty Cover. Okay. Um, roll call. >> Trusty Wagner. >> Yes. >> Treasure Ferrari. >> Yes. >> Brook. Yes. Trusty Piccolo. >> Yes. >> Trusty Coleman. >> Yes. >> Supervisor Curtis. >> Yes. >> Okay. Motion carries. Item 13D, salary increase for deputy supervisor. Trusty Coleman. >> Yes. Uh board supervisor Curtis asked the compensation
082committee to review um the deputy supervisor's salary specifically with respect to the other deputies and we noticed there was a large disparity. Um, we also noted that the deputy e supervisor was top rated in our previous review. Um, I should note that supervisor Curtis had asked us to review this previously and since we were rolling out a new meritbased review process, it got overlooked. So based on that, we do recommend that we increase the deputy supervisor's pay to $82,000 per year effective July 1st, 2026. >> [snorts] >> I'll second that. >> Oh, I didn't make a motion that >> I move to approve the recommendation of the township board compensation committee increase the deputy supervisor Danielle Smith salary to $82,000 per year effective July 1, 2026. >> Second. >> I have a motion by treasure,
083second by trustee Lo Piccolo. Are there any questions? >> I have a question. >> Yes, sir. >> What are we increasing it from? from to 82 9,000. >> Uh, roll call. >> Trusty Coven, >> yes. >> Trusty Licolo, >> yes. >> Write, no. Treasure Ferrari, >> yes. >> Uh, Trusty Wagner, >> yes. >> And Supervisor Curtis, >> yes. Item 13 13E uh trustee or township board meeting regular meeting start time change to uh from 6:30 to 6 uh p.m. >> I move amend the charter township board trustees meeting start time from 6:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Beginning with the July 8th, 2026 regular meeting. Meetings will continue to be held on the second Wednesday of each month at the Oxford Township Clare J. Sanderson meeting room. >> I'll second the motion. >> Okay. I have
084a motion by Treasure Ferrari, a second by Clerk Wright. Clerk Right, you have your hand up. >> Yeah, just with with the motion there that's uh in in place. Uh this doesn't address special meetings. So um it's going to just affect the regular meetings. Correct. >> Okay. >> Supervisor needs to call one. >> It says meeting start time from 6 to 6 to 6 July 826 regular meeting. >> So the implication could be that if you call a special meeting up >> well you could set it when you call the >> set it for seven if we want more residents there. Okay. It's just our regular. >> Any other questions? Yes, Trusty Wagner. >> So, what problem are we trying to solve by moving our meeting from 6:30 to 6? >> I was asked to
085put this on the agenda and I did it. >> I understand. It's a question. It's it's someone asks the question and I put it on the agenda. Am I solving a problem? Uh I just get home earlier. I guess I don't have an issue with meetings running late. We don't you know where where are the efficiencies by doing this? All right. So that's one question I had. We had any residents requesting this change. I could ask them, but there are none. >> Will a 6 p.m. start time make it harder or easier for residents to attend? >> Uh, if you want my opinion, um, it depends on the resident. Uh if you go home and have supper, you can turn it on through OCTV and watch it on YouTube. Uh if if it disrupts somebody's
086dinner, they Yeah, they they couldn't make it in here. Uh sometimes traffic is bad and our consultants that come from the south, they have to rush to get up here and leave earlier. But that really doesn't I don't believe it hampers anybody. But that's my opinion. Okay. In my opinion, I believe most people do not work in Oxford. they commute and make arriving, especially trying to go up M24, you know, during rush hour like this in order to try to make a meeting, get home, be with family, it's going to make it harder for residents. So, they're going to be um the accessibility is going to suck. The other qu the other thing I would like to point out as a trustee I personally have personal commitments which makes it difficult to even make the
0876:30 meeting the six o'clock meeting is going to be that much worse >> understand >> but >> yes >> I but I think the bigger issue in this is the accessibility to the residents >> okay >> treasure ferrari >> I think we try if it doesn't work we change it back >> right Trust Piccolo had his hand up first. So, Trusty Piccolo. >> Um, I concur with with Trusty Wagner on on the accessibility. I mean, anybody that's come in from Troy or anywhere from the south, Lepier Road could take almost an hour to go from 75 into downtown Lake Oran. So, I concur with the um the the accessibility at 6:00. Um, I'm not sure what 6:30 moving it earlier solves any problems or anything like that. I I guess if we can do maybe
088under the suggestion of of Treasurer Ferrari, do we do we put this on a limited basis to see how it works? And if so, do we amend the motion to to put it under a limited time frame for for 3 months or so to see where and then reevaluate? But I I think that it it it prevents residents from getting here on time. But again, I don't know how many residents show up on a daily. We had two questions here at 6:30. So, okay, Trusty Coin. >> Uh, I just I mean, I don't I don't commute from the south anymore. Um, we did have a recent meeting where the SAD was noticed to the public at 6 p.m. and they were all here at 6 p.m. So, um, I'm not sure how it will affect
089them one way or the other. >> Uh, Clicker C right, you had your hand up. >> Yeah. If you look back in history, um supervisor in the 90s, we start our meetings at 7:30. >> Some of those meetings went till close to midnight, >> try 2 a.m. >> All right. I know I put one to one o'clock for the board for good or bad but in originally we morphed on to 6:30 p.m. but I think to your point Chris if you look in the audience of people that show up to our meetings I don't think the half an hour is going to make one difference or another because depending on the people or the issue at hand more people will show up to our meetings and you know based on what we've heard tonight we
090have a couple people that are concern about our cemetery, concerned about solar panels or whatever that might be. But I I I think that if if it's of interest to a person, they will likely make efforts to attend a meeting and give their opinion to the township board on what they like or don't like about what we're doing. To supervisor Curtis's point, too, you know, they they can actually live stream and not even show up to. So, um I have no problem with six o'clock to try doesn't work. I think we need to switch back. >> Okay, I'll look for a motion. >> Already there. >> Have one more. I have one more. >> Who seconded it? >> Hey. Yes, Trusty Wagner. >> So, just kind of put this in perspective. I think moving the
091start time earlier will make it harder for residents to attend. I I don't think we should be in the business of making it difficult for them. It does not improve the efficiency of the board. It could also make it harder for our own consultants and legal councils if since they support multip they'll have to find a way to get here on time as well. I mean, as a trustee, I mean, I'm I'm was elected to represent our residents, so it's going to make it tough for me to do that as well. You know, we're here for the residents of Oxford and anything that reduces the transparency of this board, anything that makes it harder for them to make their voices heard by reducing accessibility really is a big no for me. You know, we should
092be looking at ways to improve accessibility, not reduce it. >> Okay. Okay. Roll call. >> Treasure Ferrari, >> yes. >> Wright, yes. Trusty Wagner, >> no. Push Piccolo. >> No. >> Trusty Coleman. >> Yes. >> And Supervisor Cruz. >> Yes. >> What was the vote on? 42. >> Two. >> Say yes. We'll try it. Doesn't work. Change it back. >> Item 14. Uh, items removed from the consent agenda. We had none. Item 15, public comment. I don't see any members from the public. Uh, item 16, board of trustee comments. Uh let's start with Trusty Coleman. >> Happy Father's Day to all fathers. >> Oh, thank you. Uh Trusty Le Piccolo, >> I think as the fire I just wanted to remind again as the fire chief had had indicated that uh the uh Oxford's turning
093150 years this year. So they're joining with with the America 250 and they'll be having one of their signature events will be the flag burning from 1 to 4 at the fire station. So encourage everybody to bring their old flags to have them to go through a for formal ceremony and to uh enjoy. >> Thank you, Clerk. Right. Uh no comments. Thank you. >> Treasure Ferrari. >> I've got we looking at doing a sewer ordinance change to possibly address the sewer tap issue for people in Bra Dwey. I've gotten the input from Trusty Coven and Trusty Wagner and Water and Sewer. We're scheduled meeting upcoming with Supervisor Curtis and Kirk Wright to go over what we need to have changed, give that to our attorney, and bring it back to the board for their consideration.
094>> That's it. And that will be coming back in July because the we need to expeditiously make this easy for the customers to tap into our sewer. Um board members, um I had a lot of stuff going over this past week. I'm not going to dig into all of it, but you know, once in a while you hear me make levity about our attorneys, about our engineers, about our CPAs. We have our auditing firm, uh, Rangus here, who's a CPA. We also have a CPA on this board. We have an attorney on this board. We have an engineer on this board. And we have people that want to get things done. So, we're not doing this stuff just to make somebody's life mad bad. We're doing it for the health, safety, and welfare and the
095fiduciary responsibility and making things done right. So, I thank our board members. I thank all the deputies and all the employees in the township that worked so hard. Uh about a year and a half ago, I came to the board and wanted to hire a person. We have now done BSNA cloud. We have done many process improvements. Tim London has has dramatically increased the efficiency in the building department. I know that Sarah Davis has worked diligently to get our BSNA things done. Um our clerk's department with the uh um removing of one of the precincts and uh keeping track of absentee voters. This board and our employees here work sweat hard, I call it, every day to bring our township into the future. We're a growing community and we're faced with a lot of issues
096and I thank all the experience that comes here and the experience in our township for doing what we do best and that's working for our residents. Thank you. Item 17. >> I have a comment. >> Oh, yes, sir. I'm sorry that didn't get you. >> Okay. >> How did I miss you? >> Or is this a doover? >> No, >> I'm sorry. >> Well, I just want to say happy Father's Day, too. Echo that. >> David, that's twice you caught me busted me tonight. >> I'll make a motion to adjurnn. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion by trustee or treasure far and a second by trustee Colden. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> Those that say nay can stay here. >> Thank you.