001Today is the uh August 18th for the board meeting and it's 6 o'clock. If we could all stand for the pledge, please. And we'll start. I pledge allegiance 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. Thank you. Okay. Could we have roll call, please? >> Supervisor. >> Yes. >> Treasure McDonald >> here. >> Absent >> here. >> Mary Frost. Jenny >> here. >> And welcome Jenny. >> Thank you. Jenny's our brand new trustee. Okay, so we have a quorum tonight. Any announcements or reports or anything? Department reports as usual available in my office or with my deputy supervisor Jamie. Uh petitions? None. Order of business. Approval of the agenda. >> I move to approve the
002agenda as presented. >> We have a motion in support. Do we have any comments? Not hearing any. Can we have a roll call, please? >> Jenny House. >> Yes. McDonald. >> Yes. >> Bennett? Yes. Supervisor Pearson? >> Yes. >> Okay. Consent agenda. >> Yes. It's very brief this month. The approval of the July 21st, 2025 minutes and approval of the June invoices. >> Okay. Motion would be in order. >> I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda with the July 21st, 2025 minutes and the June invoices in the amount of $720,893.97. >> I'll support. >> Okay, we have our motion to support. Any comments? >> Not hearing any. Could we have roll call on that, please? >> Karen Bible. >> Yes. Yes. >> McDonald. >> Yes. Supervisor Pearson. >> Yes. Move on to item
003number two. >> This is the public hearing and resolution to establish a special assessment district requesting township improvement revolving funds for the Peninsula Drive project and SAD to include a public road. Um this is the public hearing and resolution establish uh SAD requesting the township improvement revolving funds for Peninsula Drive project and the SAD. The road commission of Oakland County reviewed and approved the construction of the plans as required by law for the named roads. The township after due diligence reviewed a special assessment role prepared for the purpose of deferring maintenance costs of the public road known as Peninsula Drive. The uh township received petitions signed by more than 50% of the record owners constituting more than 50% of the total frontage of the proposed SAD located within the township requesting the amount of $2,46.98
004uh per parcel for each of the next 10 years winter tax 2025 through winter tax 2034 inclusive to pay for the improvements and a 5% collection fee for the township. Proper notice of the hearing has been estat published in the Oxford leader and the proper notice was mailed by first class mail to each property owner within the proposed SAD. The office of the supervisor verified and determined the petition for the Peninsula Drive SAD was properly signed by the uh record owners of nine parcels with 12 out of 14 signatures obtained based on the township tax roles or 85.7% and attached the petition for the township determine the same. This is where we have a public hearing once again and I will open up the public hearing at this time and this is where we listen.
005uh we don't really uh talk uh back or answer anything, but we want to hear what you have to say. This is your time and I'll open up the public hearing and we'll call it um 6:05. And if anybody would like to speak concerning the SAD, please uh just come up to the podium, tell us uh your name and your address and um and uh and go ahead and tell us what you think about your SAD. And I'll ask one more time if anybody would like to uh uh talk about their SAD or have any comments about it, please come forward. Everybody's happy. Well, I will then close the hearing at and I open up to the board now. Does the board have any questions? If the board doesn't have any questions, a motion will
006be in order. I'll make a motion to approve the resolution to establish a special assessment district requesting the township improvement revolving funds for the peninsula peninsula drive project and SAT to public road. >> Make I'll second that motion. >> So we have a motion and we have a second. Any further comments? Not hearing any. Could we have roll call, please? Yes. Jenny Eller. >> Yes. >> Karen Gwell. >> Yes. Mike McDonald. >> Yes. >> Bennett. Yes. Supervisor Pearson. >> Yes. >> Resolution is so moved. So that is uh all set to go. You don't have to stay any longer if you don't want, you know, because that one's one. I have another one coming up right after. But uh >> Pardon? >> Yes, you can. Joe, >> you know, the last time I was here,
007somebody whispered, "These guys are all friends of Bruce. That's why they get what they want." Well, let me say something to everybody here. I'm proud of Bruce's friend. No one does more for Addison Township or super any township than Bruce Pearson. Doesn't hire kids to do a lot of stuff. Does it himself. So, I'm proud to call you my dear friend. >> Well, thank you, Joe. Okay. >> Okay. Well, we'll move on to the next item then. Thank you very much for coming though and uh we'll get uh going on your uh project. I got to find what I did with my agenda now. I must have buried it somewhere. It's right there. Oh, there it is. Okay. Now we'll move on to what is that item number three. This is the public hearing and
008a resolution for authorizing SAD for Burns Hill and Lena Hill uh private road in Addison Township. Uh the township of Addison, Oakland County, uh Michigan after due and legal notice reviewed a special assessment role sad prepared and submitted by the residents for the purpose of deferring maintenance costs for Burns Burns Hill and Lena Hill. a private road in Addison Township. The township board received petitions signed by more than 50% of the record owners based on the tax roads of Oakland County constituting more than 50% of the total frontage of the proposed SAD requesting that the previous approved SAD established for 2022 through 2026 be rescended and replaced with the proposed SAD in the amount of $510 per parcel for each of the next five years for the purpose of road maintenance and common elements and
009a 10% collection fee for the township. Proper notice of the hearing has been published in the Oxford leader and mailed by first class mailed to each property owner within the proposed SAD. The office of supervisor verified and determined that the petitions for Burns Burns Hill and Lena Hill SAD is properly signed by the record owners of 15 parcels with 17 out of 21 signatures based on the tax rules or 81% and attached the petitions for the board to determine the same. The special assessment role shall be designated as Burns Hill and Lena Hill Road Maintenance and the district against which it is spread shall be designated as properties abuing the private road known as Burns Hill and Lena Hill SAD as submitted on the petition. This is a public hearing where we listen. And at
010this uh particular time, I will open up the meeting here at uh we'll call it 6:08. >> Sure. >> And if anybody from uh uh Burns Hill or Lena Hill would like to speak on the SAD, how are you, doctor? >> He's our local veterinarian. >> Burnsville. >> Yes. >> I live at the corner of Burnsville and Lena Hill and I'm wondering how you're going to do anything with the road, the pile of rocks in front of my house. >> Is well, >> are we talking about the SAD or are we talking about the rocks that were left over from an incident? >> You're talking about um or doing the gravel on the road, right? >> Well, maintenance of it. Yes. >> So, are you going to go around that big pile of rocks? Well,
011that's a whole separate matter. That happened to be an incident with a barricaded gunman and and and different stuff like that. And and um right now they're working on that. The um homeowner is uh working with the sheriff's office on um fixing all of the issues that were created by that incident. And um I'm sure that we're going to have that resolved shortly, but that's a separate incident from this. >> Okay. Thanks. Is there anybody else that would like to talk about the SAD? >> Before you close, I need to for the record mention that Elaine Ning did write in an appeal and also documentation that the township board received this morning and this will go into the record of the public hearing. Yes, I I read that also. >> Okay. And everybody got a
012copy of it. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Right. >> Okay. And I think that's something that um that uh the man who is in charge of the SAD should address that those issues there. We should make sure that everybody's represented if they're going to all be contributing to the SAD. So, um that's something I will try to follow up on. Okay. If anybody else would like to speak Um, okay. I will close the hearing. We'll call it at 611. Okay. Any comments from the board on this? This is the first reading of this. >> Any comments? No comments. >> Um, I would mention that there is already currently an SAD in place. >> Yes. And it was mentioned in here that that one is to be >> dismissed and this new one in place. So
013there won't be a do they will not overlap. They will the old one will come off and the new one will take its place. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Well, a motion would be in order if anybody's interested. If we're not going to have any comment, >> I'll move a resolution authorizing the SAD for Burnsville and Hill and Edison Township. >> Also, >> and we have support. Any further comments? We have a motion and we have support. No further comments. Could we have roll call, please? >> McDonald. >> Yes. Bennett. Yes. Supervisor Pearson. >> Yes. Okay. The resolution is so moved. There'll be one more hearing next month on that. Um and now that we're out of the SAD, I will tell you that yes, that's an incident that we are working on and there should
014be some other land reclamation that's being in the done in the process. And um we have a sheriff's liaison officer in Pontiac who is working with the wife there to resolve these things. And if you notice, some of the equipment just got removed because it got sold. So now there's some money to work with and and there's more to come. So that's what the issue is. Um okay, good. >> Nobody has any money. Okay. Um and um that that court case is ongoing and um people have been deemed to be incompetent. So I don't know where it's going to go, but the sheriff's department is trying to help out on that. So thank you. Okay. Now we'll move on to um number four, the cemetery. Uh let me see. Wave purchase ordinance and authorize the
015clerk to seek proposals for the roof of the cemetery uh maintenance building. Uh we received an update on the maintenance building. Uh that's straightforward. I think the estimate will be well under 10,000, but we need to cover the ordinance in case it is not. Uh we're looking for a motion to wave the purchasing ordinance and allow the administration to seek a minimum of three estimates uh for roofing at the cemetery maintenance building is number one. And then we're looking for a motion to authorize the administration to seek a minimum of three proposals for shingles on the maintenance building if under 10,000 and allow the supervisor to proceed with agreement if over 10,000 bring the estimate back to the board. So, we'll have to first of all vote on the first one. Anybody have any comments
016on that. Um, I would say um I looked I know that building isn't very big there. Um I don't think it's going to cost that much. It might be worthwhile looking at putting a metal roof on that. It might be cheaper. Um that's something to look at instead of shingles also. But um uh I just and um that might be something you might want to look into or whatever if you want us to look into it. >> And uh I mean um >> worried that some of the boards might be bad as well. So that's why I'm kind of like it could be over 10, it might not be over 10 because the boards are probably bad. >> Mike and I were in there recently um and we looked at it. I mean, it's an
017old building. It's, you know, it is what it is, you know, but um sometimes you can just put a metal roof over that and eventually you might want to >> I think we should go both ways because the will last longer. >> I'll make a motion to w the purchasing ordinance and allow administration to seek a minimum of three estimates for roofing at the cemetery maintenance building. >> I'll support that motion. >> Okay, we have a motion and we have a support. Any comments from the board? Not hearing any. Uh, could we have I think we'll need roll call on that, please. >> Yes. Jenny Allen, >> Yes. Supervisor Pearson. >> Yes. Okay, that passes. Now, we're looking for a motion uh to authorize administration to seek a minimum of three proposals for the shingles
018or metal roof on the maintenance building. If under 10,000, allow the supervisor to proceed with the agreement. If it's over 10,000, we'll bring it back to the board. Did you make that motion? >> I'll make that motion. >> I'll support it. >> Okay, we have a motion and we have support. Any comments? >> Not hearing. Can we have roll call on that, please? >> Jenny, >> yes. >> Karen, yes. Mike McDonald, >> Yes. Supervisor Pearson. >> Yes. That motion passes. Okay, we'll move on to item number five now. Appointments of the township board liaison to the planning commission for the board uh board term the planning commissioners a partial term commencing now and renewed on October 25th 2025 for three-year term and Joel King and Mark Smith renewed on October 25th 2025. Mark Smith renewed
019on the ZBA for the uh planning commission term. Park Committee, Charlie Pingian, October 25th, 2025, renewed for three-year term. Um on the Township Board, uh liaison to the planning commission, Floren, uh Jenny Eller. Um and then uh the planning commissioners, a partial term commencing now and renewed on October 25th, 2025 for a three-year term. I'd like to recommend Cliff Cameron. Cliff Cameron, uh, Linda Garrick, um, when, um, she, uh, gave up the ghost and resigned, she lived up in the far northeast corner of the township. I try to spread all of the people in the four all corners of the town. Um, uh, Cliff Cameron has been, uh, he he grew up here. He is also a re retiree from the United States Air Force and he's back here now. and uh he's uh doing
020a lot of farming up there and he runs a business up there and he's helped out the township a few times. He's uh I've been in contact with many times. I think he would be great. I did contact him and he would love to serve his community. Um so that's who I am recommending. Um so Joel King and Mark Smith renewed uh on October 25th, 2025 for a term. Mark Smith renewed for the ZBA uh PC uh park committee Charlie Pingian uh October 25th 2025 renewed for three years. I'm looking for a motion. >> I make that motion to approve the appointments as stated um for Jenny Aller as a liaison for the partial planning commission term clame and to renew Joel and Mark Markson CBA and then the park committee Charlie support >> and
021we have support. Any comments? Not hearing any. I think we just need to uh All those in favor say I. >> I. I. >> Anyone oppose say nay. >> And the motion passes. Thank you. Okay. Uh this one is item number six. Authorize a planning commission to review of the 4.44 44 wetlands protective protection ordinance. Um uh I believe Pauline is uh asked this is an older ordinance and it should be reviewed and changed um that for some of the updates um that we'd like I guess the township professionals and the planning commission to work on this. Um maybe Pauline can tell us what has changed that um that we need to update. need to be updated and some of the practices need to be updated. This was in effect probably when we first um
022adopted ordinance 300. So it's over 20 years old. So we do need to go in and update. And I think I found one other one that I next month that we should review for an update. Um, so this one is going to probably go to the engineer and legal first um so that they can determine what areas need to be changed and then after their review um the planning commission will get a red line version and they can see the areas that need to be changed and then also make suggestions. >> Mike, go right ahead. >> Um Pauline, I'm trying to get my head around this. So, have there been changes in the law um that aren't included in the ordinance? >> Do a full review on this. This is beyond beyond me. This is
023going to the engineer in legal who is a wetland who's environmental attorney. So, we need to let them go through it and determine what areas need to be changed. >> Okay. Um it's so that wasn't really instigated by this is just housekeeping basically. >> We started reading it and realize this needs to be addressed to review it. >> Okay. But I mean has I'm I'm not understanding it myself but I mean the laws the laws changed or and we just haven't caught up. Is that what it is or >> Well, they're citing quite a few laws and then there's areas in here which the will be well versed in and like I said I didn't go through this this is a lot of pages our attorney said we need to update this and that says
024you need to update this I take them for their word >> okay that helps thank you >> well I just didn't know that our attorney asked us to do this so if he did then that's fine >> I'll make a motion to authorize the public to review the 44 protection ordinance >> support >> okay we have a motion in support. Any comments? >> Yes, it does. You would know to the law >> without putting something in there stating or as amended or 20 years a long time. >> It is. >> Okay. I got to get the vote in here. >> Okay. >> You said any comments? >> Yeah. >> Well, I said any comments, but Okay. But I still got to say all those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? Thank you. Okay.
025Uh now uh how about uh public forum? Anybody in the public would like to speak? Not hearing anybody. I'll ask one more time. Anybody in the public? Okay. Nobody there. Uh Edison Township Board. Uh you guys have any reports on any of the missed >> the meeting last. >> Okay. Uh legal communications. We did have the one >> was Yeah, that was uh supervisory report. The only thing I have uh that I want to add here is that um you know we had the hail damage here. Um we did have damage on the roof here at the township. We did have uh I called our insurance company MMRA. Um they sent their adjuster out and yes, we have damage. Um they've authorized uh to uh have all the shingles replaced. The rubber roof is still
026good. We knew that because we had somebody look at it also. Um, but if you go up top, all the condensers on the air conditioners are destroyed. They got beat up bad. And so the insurance companies already authorized those to be replaced. They saw that also. And um, so right now, um, they already have an estimate. It's $60ome,000 just for the roof, the shingles. And now we're just waiting for the um estimates to come back on the condensers, but they got everything got beat up to a pulp up there from the the hail and so did everybody else in the area. So I just wanted to update everybody on that that we are working with them. Normally I don't um turn in claims that are small. We fix them ourselves, but this one was a
027awfully big claim and um and the insurance company agreed with us that it was damaged. So other than that, that's all I have. So um I'd be looking for a motion for adjournment. >> Can I say one thing? >> Yes. >> So I just want to thank you um Supervisor Pearson and this board for this appointment and your show of confidence. I will continue to familiarize myself with your structures, the policies, the ordinances that we function as under a board so that I can make educated um decisions of the matters that are brought before us. and I will uphold the integrity that I know that this board is to function in to the betterment of our community. So, thank you. >> Well, thank you for taking the job. Okay. Because it's not often you get
028all these qualified people that we have, you know, so thank you very much. Um, so motion for adjournment. >> All those in favor say I. I. >> Anyone oppose? Nay. We are adjourned. Next meeting that's going to be September 15th.