001I'd like to call to order the Charter Thompson of Oxford Board of Trustees regular meeting, Wednesday, July 9th, 2025. If we could all please rise and pay respects to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the 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. Uh noting of the role. Noted. There is one. Thank you. Item four, approval of the agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the agenda with the following amendment. 14 foya appeal determination. I'll second. I have a a motion by Treasurer Ferrari, a second by Trustee Coven. Any questions? Hearing none. Uh all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed say nay. Hearing none. Item number five, approval of
002the consent agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. I'll second it. I have a motion by Treasure Ferrari and a second by Trusty Shapiro. Um, any questions? Hearing none. Roll call. Trusty Charles, yes. Trusty Wagner, yes. Trusty Shapiro, yes. Treasure Ferrari, yes. Write, yes. Trusty Coven, calling Stacy. Yes. I was listening to an iPad. Um, item number six, public comment on items that are not on the agenda. There are members of the public that would like to come up and speak uh to the board. Uh, you each get three minutes to talk and the board cannot answer your questions, but we will definitely address them in uh board of trustee comments. Hello. Hi, Donnie. Hi. Thank you for allowing me to speak. Um I'm Donnie Steel. I'm the state representative
003for as what you guys uh nicely call it lower Oxford which is Lake Orian. Lake Orian, Auburn Hills, Bloomfield, and a little bit of Oakland Township. And I just wanted just to kind of give a little state um update. I'm trying to do my rounds while we're on summer break. Um letting the townships know that we're working towards uh a budget. Um, we were hoping to get a July 1st deadline on our appropriations and on public transportation of the subcommittee for transportation of the budget and uh we were unable to come to an agreement in July and we will be going back in July and August and hopefully get something of course by our deadline which is October 1st. Um, as a chair of the appropriations for the transportation, it's really important that we fund
004our roads. We're trying to add $3 billion to the budget for our local roads, which would be from the driveways to the highways. And I think that's um most concerning to uh our townships, especially sometimes I think that the subdivisions get neglected. And it's our goal to be able to add more money to the transportation budget without raising taxes. And that's our goal. And I just wanted to be an advocate for that. And if you could call your senators and let them know that we've passed our bill in the House to be able to have funding for the roads and the Senate should be able to participate as well would be nice. So um if there's anything that I can ever do, please feel free to reach out with me, Donnie Seal, state rep for
005district 54. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any other members of the public like to speak? Hello, my name is Christina Collins. I live on Tan View. I know this um situation has been brought up many times and I'm sure everybody's aware that Tan View is a very popular cut through. I just wanted to share an incident that happened a few weeks ago with my 89year-old parents who were coming to visit to me in the middle of the day. Um my Mom had to swerve because a car was coming the opposite direction. She was heading toward Seymour Lake Road and a car was didn't see a girl on a bike because we do not have sidewalks. And saw her at the last second, moved directly over in front of my parents. Thankfully did not hit
006them headon going 25. My mother was who knows what the other person was going. My mom went off the street into a mailbox. Thankfully, I wasn't out walking cuz that's the side I walk on facing traffic. Um, I've asked about this before. I stopped several sheriffs and really this happened. I'm a school teacher. I believe all kids and but I know when they're not telling the truth. Uh I asked him about you know the situation and he said to me was a younger gentleman is sitting and I usually give him a thumbs up when I see him sitting on the road and I was relaying to him the situation that often I have to jump onto the grass because cars come right at me very fast and he said you know sometimes people are kind
007of in a hurry just to go get gas or get to work and I just shook my head thinking that's a law officer that just told you that there is a sign or a type of sign that's different than one that I put out there two or three times a year. Um they have them out in Novi where my son and family list them out there all the time. You can see it very far away because it flashes like a police car and when I see that I think oh that's a police car. If they are better check my speed. Is there any way we can petition to get something like that that lights up that makes people stop? The other sign doesn't do a thing people kids look at and go wow I'm going
00830. I'm going 35. Big deal. It doesn't take their license. It doesn't take a picture. Anything can be done like that. Have you ever heard anything like that? We can't answer. Okay. So, that's my question. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hi there. I'm I'm going to jump in. I'm Lisa Bey with um Stony Lake Village. Um we've spoken before. The community is really really concerned about the Aldi going in and the amount of traffic it's going to cause. Right now it's difficult to get out of driveways. It's difficult to cross the street. It's such a cutthrough like tan view. It's it's unbelievable how much traffic we get. We've already been told by the road commission that we have too much traffic for how many people live in our community and there's a lot of
009concern about this Aldi going in and what that's going to drive. I spoke to a gentleman at the road commission who told me that that will actually drive more traffic into our community. So, I'm just hoping that we all realize because we will have some very upset residences if it goes in and this starts to happen. We already have we got to call the sheriff department all the time. We have similar things happening where kids are coming through so fast they're riding on on almost onto the sidewalk. Um there's it's it's just a dangerous dangerous thing. We've had our vendor cars hit and damaged, hit and runs. We've had vendors cars hit. We've had vendors say they're afraid to work in our community. So, it's a it's a very real issue and I I I
010hope that as decisions are made, there's an understanding that we're going to have to address that. So, just we take it. Thank you. Jim Kendall Stony Lake Village. Uh this occurs here checking on the uh traffic control from two years ago that never got publicized. I was speaking for uh Maryanne. Um any news on that? I'll answer that in trustee comments. Second. Thank you. Good evening. Thank you for hearing me. Another concerned resident lives in Waterstone named Shane Senda. Speaking on behalf of myself and my wife. Again, just concern over the roads who own zoning from C1 to C2. Really also concerned on the there seems to be lack of transparency. I speak for many of my neighbors that had no idea that this was even being discussed the last several months. I understand there
011was a publication in the uh local paper. Many of us don't get that or don't see it. Um there was a comment made in one of the previous meetings that there's only been about a dozen or so letters of opposition received. So there's kind of a you know this perception that there's not a lot of community opposition to this but I can say that I think the numbers are a lot higher than that. Um again really our concern is you know similar to the previous the amount of traffic in the neighborhood. Um even my wife just recently a couple weeks ago had to call the sheriff's because of the speeding car. She almost got hit my dog by a vehicle going 40 to 50 and a 25. Had to jump out of the way. Um
012really really unacceptable. I think the additional traffic from the office is just going to make that situation even worse. Also just the tranquil nature of the community. Um really C1 probably appropriate but C2 um just not really the you know the environment in that neighborhood behind the subdivision entrance. If it's on M24 really think that's more appropriate place for understand there's concerns with actually being able to fit that or not. Um but it's really different in the McDonald's area that's there M24 it's behind the this the subdivision entrance this being within the neighborhood. I think it's really going to drive down the property values and the peacefulness and the beauty of our the golf course community as some of you are familiar. Um also the concern with the blight if the business were to fail
013nothing against all these hope they are successful wherever they do land. Um but that is a potential we see many vacant buildings throughout Oxford. We would really like to see those buildings populated first before we build new infrastructure in the area. Um just again my point being that really don't see two businesses belong within the subdivision as for additional transparency. Uh prior I think you'll get a lot more concern within the the community rather than the dozen or so that have voiced concern up to this point. So thank you for your time to hear my concern. Appreciate it. Thank you. Hi there. My name is Michelle Culver. I'm a resident in Waterstone. Also, I live at East Peninsula Peninsula Court, so further away from the Market Street entrance. I am in favor of the development.
014That property has been zoned commercial since we built in that neighbor 20 years ago, and it was one of the things that brought us to Oxford. Um, it's crazy that there's such opposition, but I think there's an equal amount, if not more, support for it if you follow the social media channels. Um, Aldi is a great company. I switched from Shopping Amire 5 years ago, and I've saved a ton of money. We have a lot of families in this environment with um Hidden Lakes and some other communities that need options for grocery shopping. It's also another convenient option and helps with um competition. Meer continues to raise prices. They continue to have problems with product. Um if they're not opposing it and Boulder Point's not opposing it, then this community should rally around the fact
015that Aldi wants to bring their business our community and help serve the residents here as best as they can to give them other options for choices without without having to drive outside for traffic and cost and the availability of affordable groceries um moving forward. So, I just ask that this board in this community give them a chance because they've done some great things nationally and an average shopper only saves four grand a year and that means a lot to a lot of people in this community and can make a huge difference um in the type of people we attract because there's more choice and bringing more options to our community is never a bad thing. So, thank you for your time. I'm usually here complaining about something, but in this case, I came out because
016I knew this was on the agenda and I follow local stuff and I want to support them to the best we can because we haven't had any proposals for that piece of land in 20 years. And so, we should be happy. It's not a strip mall. It's not another dispensary. It's not pawn shop. It's not a gun shop, etc. So, thank you. Anyone else in the public like to come up and address the board? Seeing none, we'll move on to item number seven. Presentation, uh, township sign proposal, allied sign. Uh, who's going to take that from the capital improvement team? Okay, I will. Nice to volunteer. Yeah, nice for me to volunteer. Um board members, the capital improvement maintenance committee was tasked with researching companies that design and install electronic messaging signs. The township hall's
017current sign located at the entrance here on Dunlap is deteriorating. Photos depicting the deterioration are attached in your packet. Uh rather than seek potentially costly repairs for the current sign, the committee decided it would be best to upgrade to a new sign with EMS capabilities. Electronic messaging sign would allow the township to share information regarding events, closures, meetings, and other news with motorist and pedestrians and cyclists traveling along Dunlap Road and the safety pass. Uh the committee received three quotes and after reviewing three proposals, the committee is recommending the project be awarded to Allied Signs Incorporated. A representative al of Allied Signs is here uh to answer any of the board's questions. So to that I'll entertain questions. Any hands up? I move to approve the quote from Allied Science, Inc. an amount not to
018exceed $50,000 to design and install an electronic messaging sign EMS for the township hall and to remove the current sign the amount to be expensed to account 101265976.0000 0000 additions and improvements. I'll second that. Okay. I have a motion by Treasurer Ferrari, a second by Trustee Wagner. Um, a comment. I would you like to introduce yourself? Yes. My name is Bob Wjouro with Allied Signs. I'm here in front of the board to answer any questions you guys might have. Um, I am the person that designed the sign that you guys approved and had time to review. Um, I also brought out a demo sign of EMC sign that we're proposing for the monument sign for the township. It's out in the parking lot running right now. If some of the board members would like to
019go out take a look at it, that is what you're going to get. The quality of sign and the information is it's unlimited on that sign. We program that sign for your township website information and stuff it obtains to the city or township. So it's running right now if you guys would like to take a quick look at it and if you have any questions be more than happy to answer them. Board members if you'd like to take five minutes go well first off clerk right you had your hand up. I just wonder if this proposal goes through, what what's the uh time from start to finish? Uh once permits approved and issued, we're looking at four to six weeks. Okay. Trusty Charles, you do the kind of signs that one of the residents was
020talking about earlier for streets. Oh, um speed sign. No, no, this is a commercial sign. This is a full message center sign. Uh basically what we have here is a total programmable TV. You can l literally put any messages, uh videos, pictures, graphics on the sign from anywhere in the world. Adjustable lumens on it. That's the sign that's in front and driving. Yes, I did have it out there for a little bit. Hoping to catch some people pulling in board members. We could take five minutes and go out and take a look at it if you like. If not, we'll just move on. Video on that. Live video. Go ahead. I mean live video like you could broadcast this meeting. Yes, you could. Pay attention people. Well, you know, my only comment is um you
021know, it's kind of under trustee comments. We are underway with paving Dunlap Road right now from where it stops all the way to M24. This is going to be paved in 2027. As you can see right now, the stakes are in the ground. So, as we move forward with an east, west, north, south, uh, cutting off cutthroughs through Stony Lake and things like that, it it's advantageous for it to get a a a message board out there, if you will. So, um, if everybody's done looking at the sign, I will call the vote, please. All right. Trusty Coen, yes. Clerk Wright, yes. Treasure Ferrari, yes. Trusty Shapiro, yes. Trusty Wagner. Yes. Trusty Charles. Yes. Supervisor Curtis. Yes. Thank you very much. We'll be in touch. Thank you. All right. Board members. We'll move on to
022item number eight. I'll make a motion to be an open session. I entertain a motion to take a roll call vote regarding calling a close session for the purpose of to consider disclosure contained in the township attorney for an opinion letter exempt under MCL 15.268HH as attorney client privilege include the township board according Smith and parks director uh Cast. I have a motion by treasurer Ferrari, a second by trustee Charles and attorney Ellis too. Yeah, naturally. Um, roll call. Treasure Ferrari? Yes. Clerk Wright? Yes. Trusty Coven? Yes. Trusty Charles? Yes. Trusty Wagner? Yes. Trusty Shapiro? Yes. Supervisor Curtis? Yes. Okay. Uh, members of the public, we're going to go to close session. We're back in session. Go ahead, Joe. I thought you you have that. I thought J 14E. Yep. Or we got to open
023go back into open session. Oh, we have to go back to open session. I'll make a motion to return to open session for the purpose of possible board action with regard to the above close session item. A second. Um, I have a motion by Treasure Ferrari, a second by Trustee Shapiro. Uh, any questions. Uh, roll call, please. Trusty Shapiro, yes. Trusty Wagner, yes. Trusty Charles, yes. Trusty Coven, yes. Court Wright, yes. Treasure Ferrari, yes. And Supervisor Curtis, yes. Uh item nine, board of trustees comments. I'll start with trustee Kovven. Uh nothing at this time. Clerk right? No comments tonight, sir. Uh Treasure Ferrari, nothing at this time. Trustee Shapiro, I just want to thank the public for their attendance tonight. Thank you. Trustee Wagner, no comments. And Trustee Charles, do I have to make up
024for everybody? Uh yes, of course. DDA. The trolley isn't operating right now. There's some mechanical issues if you're looking for the trolley, which is as Katherine is indicating with their body language. That's pretty common nowadays, unfortunately. Uh, speaking of the DDA, Thursday night, tomorrow night is the first um concerts in the park and the u what do you call the thing in Washington Square, the U farmers market, so to speak. That's not the exact title, but close enough. Uh, Oxford as youth assistance. Um, we're doing roundup at Goodwill store. If you're buying something there for July and August, uh, you pay for something, you want to round it up, it goes to the, uh, youth assistance. And the last thing I'll mention is on July 19th at Kensington Church and somewhere down south of us,
025I think our friend here said lower Oxford. Uh, Kensington Church, we've done no HAS day, which has been a phenomenal success. We had the last one middle school. We had over a thousand people show up. About 37.8% were from Oxford Township. So, it was a a nice event and I would encourage people to get other gas cans, paint cans, and all that kind of good stuff in a very safe way. All set. Oh, thank you, Trusty Charles. Uh my comments are I'm going to address a speed study. Um I've been in communication with Maryanne Kaint's uh emailing. Uh, I am meeting with uh Chad, Sergeant Chad Lindström from the Michigan State Police and uh Mohamad Assan from MDOT on July 22nd to kick off a speed study on M24 from Ray Road to Harriet and
026this is two years in the making. I found it and driven a spike into them. Uh board members, um budgeting season begins now. our first meeting. I'll probably be August 13th. Uh we need to get our L4029 in by September 30th. So, please be aware that uh the board meeting on August 13th and we will probably have a special budget workshop on August 27th so we can uh meet the requirement of the L49. Uh, let's see. Tan View cutth through traffic. Um, I want to make a note. This township and the board members have been trying for the last 10 years to work with MDOT, the road commission of Oakland County. And you can see it took two years to do a speed study. I've worked on this Dunlap road paving for eight years. and
027we have it coming in 2027. Working with the federal aid committee, monies will soon be announced and allocated to paving a north south route. Uh letting a cat out of the bag that's Sanders Road. I think that'll alleviate a lot of cut through if you will. It won't solve the problem and it won't solve the problem of people speeding, racing, and using public streets. Um, so we do have many things in place to address uh getting people to go down roads other than subdivisions. I will investigate a speed sign actuated by and put into tan or t on tan view. Uh, I know it is a problem. I drive it frequently just to make the people behind me upset when I go 25 miles an hour. I understand it. Our sheriff understands it and the
028last three tickets they wrote were from residents on Dan View. So, we got to watch. Um, uh, let's see. That's that's about all my comments I have. So, we will move on to uh the second reading. Zoning ordinance 67A.042 042 resoning request for parcel 04-22-151-015. Any questions from this board on the second reading? Look for a motion. I move to approve the second reading of the resoning for tax partial 042251015 from C1 local commercial to C2 general commercial district based upon a finding that the applicant meets all factors required for reszoning as set forth under the township zoning ordinance uh ordinance number 67A.042. I'll second that. I have a motion by Treasurer Ferrari, a second by Trustee Wagner. Are there any questions? Seeing none, roll call. Treasure Ferrari, yes. Trusty Wagner, yes. Trusty Charles, yes.
029Trusty Coven, yes. Clerk Wright, yes. Trusty Shapiro, yes. And Supervisor Curtis, yes. Okay. Uh item 11, Fire Department Chief, you have some Good evening. Uh yeah, just some updates. uh been quiet for us the last couple months, so that's always a good thing, too, right? Thank you. Um but just wanted to pass on some stuff that we've got going on. Uh we're we're exploring some potential growth to our high school EMT program. So that's something that's in the works right now that we're working with some other districts on. Uh we're excited about that. Uh Assistant Chief Esper and Captain Fector are actually down in Ohio tonight uh doing the final check on the engine that we ordered almost three years ago. Uh if and they they finished it this evening. Um it's going to be
030scheduled to be delivered up to the dealership in Romeo uh next week. Uh so then they'll do their white glove kind of final check on it on Monday or Tuesday and we'll possibly be taking delivery by Wednesday. Hopefully if all goes well, knock on knock on wood, right? That's um additionally I just finalized the uh delivery and buildout of the training tower and now that everything is done on the site prep uh the foundation has been poured and set uh it's got to wait about 28 to 30 days to cure uh but they'll be coming out uh and I know CJ Carnaka has been included in the email so he's aware uh so that we can set up uh when we do have a ribbon cutting if you will and kind of a showing off
031of that training tower that we've got that again funded almost completely with uh zero uh funds from our budgets or yours. So, uh another really nice thing. Um and then uh we also recently submitted for some grants uh that just came through again that the safer grants and the um the fire grants for equipment has was reestablished um after some um a lot of lobbying I'll say that by the fire service n the national level. Uh and so that is back up and so we were able to get our grants submitted. So again, keeping our fingers crossed maybe we'll get one this year from the federal money. Um and then uh we were we were hoping to do a swearing in tonight of our filling up one of our vacant spots, but we uh there
032was a delay in the getting the uh background checks and the psychological uh report back. Didn't meet the deadline. So next month we'll be doing that. So that's that's all I've got right now. Things are looking good. kind of it's kind of nice to see things moving along that we've been kind of setting money aside for on other things like the engine and that. So that's all I got right now. One question, Chief. Will that additional staff bring us up to full staffing? It does, but I've also there's some other things going on. So we'll see what happens. Fine. Thank you. Don't let all the cats out yet. No, that's it. Yeah. Anything else? Nope. Thank you. Any questions for Chief? No. Oh, no. Okay, seeing none, uh, board members, item 12, sharp engineering report.
033Uh, I gave Jim a pass tonight. Uh, in your packet is a detailed report of all the projects and a status of where they're at in the township. If you have any questions, I'll be glad to take them to Engineer Sharp and report back to you. Item 13, unfinished business. We have none. Item 14, 14A, uh, smart municipal credit and community interlocal agreement. Uh board members attached is the agreement with smart to transfer the smart credits directly to North Oakland Transportation Authority. Not I move to approve the municipal credit and community and local agreement between suburban mobility authority for regional transportation Oxford Township as presented. Authorize supervisor Jack Curtis to sign the agreement on behalf of the chartered township of Oxford. Second. I have a motion by treasure Ferrari. Was that trustee Wagner? Trustee Shapi.
034Trustee Shapi. Board members, any questions? Hearing none, roll call. Trusty Charles, yes. Trusty Wagner, yes. Trusty Shapiro, yes. Treasure Ferrari, yes. Court Wright, yes. Trusty Coven, yes. And Supervisor Curtis, yes. Uh, item 14B, Clinton River Watershed Council Agreement. Uh board members, the storm water education for our MS4 permit agreement for services with the Clinton River Wershed Council expires on September 30th, 2025. Attached is a contract extension to be approved and a letter from the Clinton W Clinton River Watershed Council explaining all the services provided. Are there any questions? Can I ask a question? Yes. In the letter on which page is it here? I don't know. Section seven, there's a discussion of early termination fees. Yes. Is that something that we can negotiate? They seem pretty steep. We we have yet to terminate with Clinton
035River water. Okay. And uh the training that is required for to meet our MS um MS4 permitting for soil erosion, we're we're not going to leave them. Right. Okay. We can't get the education anywhere else. Can't get it anywhere else. Proprietary. Yeah, I was going to say the same thing from talking with Mr. London. It's worth our while as we'd have to do it on our own. It would cost us a lot more than farming out for these folks. Yes. I move to approve the contract extension agreement between the Clinton River Wershed Council, the charter ton of Oxford for services for storm water permit for a period beginning Octo October 1st, 2025 expiring March 31st, 2031 and authorized supervisor Jack Curtis signed the agreement on behalf of the charter township of Oxford. This agreement shall
036be expensed to account number 101447821.004 Engineering Storm Water Management. 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 Charles. Yes. Trusty Shapiro. Yes. Trusty Wagner. Yes. Court Wright, yes. Trusty Cen, yes. Treasure Ferrari, yes. And Supervisor Curtis, yes. Item 14 C, procurement policy amendment. Clerk, right? Uh board members, I put this uh uh item on in the board packet because in our procurement policy, the way we do bids is only by mitten and some of the bids we don't get any back because of that because some of the vendors are not aware of mitten on that. So what I'd like to do is propose an amendment to the procurement policy. So with that, I'm going to move to approve an
037amendment to section 9 of the Oxford Township procurement policy read all RFPs from Oxford Township will not will be posted to the Michigan Intergovernmental Trade Network Mitten for an assigned period of time. If only one RFP or zero RFPs are received by the deadline date to receive bids, the Asher Township Supervisor is authorized to communicate with vendors for their consideration to re to provide a bid. I'll second that. I have a motion by clerk right and a second by treasurer Ferrari. Are there any questions? Yes, trustee Charles. Is there a list of vendors who might not be aware of mitten? We find them all the time. And I'll give you the perfect example. When you go to look for a mason to repair stone walls, those people are so hard to find and get, they're
038too busy to go and admit. They work all throughout the communities and they do a great job, but they don't go to mitten uh to um it's not like building a building. It's like a specialty and uh a fence company. They would be uh you would get many bids back because they watch municipal fencing contracts. But masons, uh, that type of work is is so unique that they're so busy, they don't go looking for work. They want to know where the work is. If you want them to do their work, they'll bid on it, but they're not going out searching it. And the prime example is our stone walls in the cemetery. We sent them out to bid and got zero bids back. So, I called like five or six people that are Masons. And
039now we have two bids coming in. Maybe maybe you know they'll come in and get a bid packet. Yeah, they'll come in and get a bid packet, but whether they bid or not is up to them. So, but the point is that the supervisor and this change would be allowed to search beyond mitten. Uh, yes. I'm not approving them. I'm just saying, hey, I know you're a Mason. We have this work to do. would you please come in and pick up bid specs and they come in and pick them up. You know, we had that issue with the DDA with the gazebo from the last meeting where we got one bid. It was $100,000 more than what we estimated. Yeah. So, we're back to ground zero. Okay. I have a motion and a You do
040second. Uh roll call, please. Treasure Ferrari. Yes. Trusty Shapiro. Yes. Trusty Wagner. Yes. Trusty Charles. Yes. Trusty Coven. Yes. Court Breit. Yes. And Supervisor Curtis. Yes. Item 14D, zoning map amendment request for parcel 04-07-3000-00009. Trustee Wagner. Yeah. So, at our June 26th planning commission meeting, a petitioner for the parcel, which is located at the north northeast corner of Hummer Lake Road and North Baldwin Road, was asking for reszoning from SF2 Suburban Farms to R3 uh single family with with a plan to potentially build uh I I believe seven single family homes. The planning commission recommen has recommended recommended to deny that zoning request and uh and what I would like to do is to move to accept the recommendation of the planning commission and deny the resoning request for parcel number 047-3000-00009 [Music] located on
041North Baldwin Road in Oxford Township from SF2 Suburban Farms District to R3 three single family district based on the findings of the fact outlined in section 18.6 of the zoning ordinance as set forth in the record of the planning commission meeting minutes. Second. I have a motion by trustee Wagner and a second by Treasurer Ferrari. Uh I'm going to start off with first off I want to thank the planning commission. I watched the video or I watched the the the um meeting via the web and um it was pretty canankerous, but you know, the planning commission stuck to their guns and they they did what was right according to the master plan. While that board is made up of residents from our community, they were faced with some uh pretty harshing uh comments made out
042in the hallways right in front of the board. And I want to thank them and apologize for the rude resident that came in seeking the zoning change. So, um I I thank them all personally, but in front of this public, you know what? This is a board that volunt that doesn't volunteer their time. We pay them to come in and do things, but you don't have to come in and harass them. If you have something that would you'd like to do, treat them with respect. It's our community leaders that are sticking their time out for you. So, it was um it was well thought out and planned, but I apologize for the resident that came in. So, with that, I have a motion and a second. Roll call. Trusty Charles, yes. Trusty Coven, yes. Trusty
043Shapiro, yes. Trusty Wagner, yes. Treasure Ferrari, yes. Court Wright, yes. Supervisor Curtis, yes. Item 14E, consideration of the FOYA appeal. I move to uphold the Michigan Freedom Information Act disclosure denial as to FOY request number 2025-34 on the basis that pursued to MCL 15.235, 235. The tachest certified to the public record does not exist under the name given by the requesttor or another name reasonably known to the public body. Second. I have a motion by Treasurer Ferrari and a second by Trustee Wagner. Are there any questions? Hearing none. Roll call. Uh, Trusty Shapiro, yes. Trusty Wagner, yes. Clerk Wright, yes. Treasure Ferrari, yes. Trusty Charles, yes. Trusty Coven, yes. Supervisor Curtis. Yes. Item 15, items removed from the consent agenda for action or discussion. We had none. Uh item 16, public comment. You have a
044the public has another chance to speak at this time on anything we said, did, or we can help you with. So, please come on up and we'll address your concerns. My name is Brian P. I live school and just trying to understand the process here. We we heard you pass the second reading of the zoning for all these. What what happens next? I know you'll speak to that in the commission. Yes. Hi. My name is Rebecca Cox. I live in Baldwin talking about that parcel from 14D. I'm the neighbor that was opposing it and I just wanted to say thank you for denying that. And also um yet I didn't know the rules and I had gotten up. So I was a little bit of a um I interrupted the meeting and I apologize at
045that time. I just want to apologize. No need. Any other members of the public like to speak? Seeing none, item 17, board of trustee comments. Trustee Charles, no further comments. Trusty Wagner, no comments. Trusty Shapiro, no comments. Treasure Ferrari, no comment. Clerk Wright, no comment. And Trusty Coven, nothing. Okay, I have one comment. What happens next? It's not what happens next, it's a process. The process for reszoning properties is not with this board. The process for reszoning properties comes from a recommendation of the planning commission. The planning commission goes through an engineering report to make sure that all services can be provided. The planning commission gets a report from the road commission, from MDOT, from attorneys, from planners. uh all of that stuff is done at the planning commission for a recommendation to or to
046approve or to deny. So at the planning commission is the only time we hold a public hearing where those comments are captured. And when a reasonzoning change like that is done, we notify by law the residents that are 300 ft around the surrounding property. Um, you'll see that uh social media, you'll see that homeowners associations, you'll see that uh groups of moms get together and talk about these things, but the knowledge of the government is what's missing. This is a meeting in public of this board. It's not a meeting for the public. We talk about everything that goes on in this meeting. However, the work is done before it gets here. So, if the engineer had storm water runoff problems or the engineer didn't have reus for water or the attorney said, "No, you can't
047do this because there's a covenant on the property." Those things are all worked out at the planning commission level, they give us a recommendation. our first reading. If there's concerns with legal or engineering, we can go back and and and ask those questions and address them at a second reading. It gives this board an opportunity to make sure everything was crossed and dotted. So, when it comes here, it's only for these board members to address the recommendation of the planning commission. So, I hope that clears it up, Brian. But, um, these meetings are a lot of work when at the committee level, at the commission levels, and when they come here, it's just to make sure that they've done all the due diligence that those committees and commissions asked to do. So, I hope that
048addressed your concern. Other than that, that's all I had. I'll make a motion to adjurnn. I'll second. I have a motion by Treasurer Ferrari and a second by Trustee Wagner. Any concerns? Shapir, I'm sorry. Vote on it. Okay. No. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Those opposed. Hearing none. You can stay here if you'd like.