001Okay. I'd like to call to order the charter of Oxford Board of Trustees regular meeting Wednesday, April 9th, 2025, 6:30 p.m. If we'd all rise and please 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. Thank you. Noting the role, please. Noted. There is a quum. Thank you. Approval of the agenda. Um, I would like to move to amend tonight's agenda by removing items 10 A and 11H. I'll second the motion. Okay. Any questions? Let's come up to 11H. What is that about? 11H was a scheduling of the first reading of the watercraft ordinance. ties back. Just all tied back to 108. Okay. All right. No other questions.
002Uh, roll call. Trusty Charles. Yes. Trusty Wagner? Yes. Trusty Coen? Yes. Treasure Ferrari? Yes. Yes. And Supervisor Curtis? Yes. Item number five. Supervisor Curtis, I also like to make a motion to amend the agenda. Oh, did I did I I guess we do. Can we do redos on those? Can we do a dual He's doing Yeah, he can make sure. Would you like to amend so for uh to amend uh section 11J to add a third item and that is payment of the loan request building permit fund. Okay. So, it' be item 11 J three eyes. I'll second that motion. Okay. I have a motion by trust, a second by treasure. Are there any questions? Question. Would you uh just give us the title of what you're asking me to put on it again? Yes.
003Payment of the loan request to building permit. Gotcha. Hearing no other questions. Roll call. Clerk Right. Yes. Trish Furry. Yes. Trusty Coin. Yes. Trusty Wagner. Yes. Trusty Charles. Yes. Supervisor Curtis. Yes. Any more amendments? Vote. Thank you. Item number five, approval of the consent agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. I'll second that. I have a motion by Treasurer Ferrari and a second by Trustee Charles. Are there any questions? Hearing none. Roll call. Trusty Coven? Yes. Trusty Wagner? Yes. Trusty Charles? Yes. White, no. Uh, Treasure Ferrari, yes. and Supervisor Curtis. Yes. Item six, public comment on items not on the agenda. Uh this is for members of the public to come up to the microphone and speak. If you have a topic that's not on the agenda, step right up
004to the mic, please. My name is Darren Hafley. Pull the mic down so we can hear you, please. My name is Darren Hafley. I represent uh American Legion and the VFW right now. Uh I am proposing right now to you guys uh to uh start the Purple Heart uh city or township, if you will. I'm asking you guys to uh allow me to uh go forward with that. Okay, Darren, I'm gonna I'm gonna answer that in trustee comments, but we'll get we'll get you an answer. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public that have comments on items not on the agenda? Seeing none, board of trustee comments. We'll start with clerk right tonight. Uh no comments at this portion of trusty comments. Thank you. Treasure Ferrari. Okay. Bestie Coleman. Yeah.
005Board. Um, the personnel committee has been working really hard to identify some areas where we can improve some things. And in doing so, we've come up with somewhat of an exigent circumstance where we found an employee who is not backed up in any way. And if she fails or she wins the lottery and, you know, moves to the Bahamas, um, we're potentially at risk of violating our agreement under the collective bargaining agreement. she's a fire department employee. So, um we are working very hard to come up with some creative solutions. I don't know if Chief Injustic will speak about this as well, but we've wor we're working with him to come up um with some creative solutions for this. However, I just want to point out um a lot of us were at the Michigan
006Township Association meeting last week and it was made very clear to me that employees of the township are actually employees of this board. This board is the one that employs most folks. It's not any lens department or, you know, any one person. So, it's not just the fire department. It's this board's responsibility. I just want to make sure that everyone understands that so we can move forward. We can kind of come up, we can work together to get some things done and solve the situation before it becomes a problem. That's all. Thank you, Trusty Wagner. We have a few comments. Um, first and foremost, I had the privilege of attending the unveiling of the historical Tai Cob mon monument at Stony Lake Park and this was made possible by her communications and grant manager CJ
007with more to come. Big thanks to CJ and and making it all happen uh at no cost to our residents of Oxford. So, thank you very much. Um, I was also happy today showing support for our local businesses at the Oxford Chamber of Commerce community breakfast and I certainly strongly encourage local buying and supporting our local businesses whenever possible. And then finally, I had the privilege of attending this year's Michigan's Township Association conference and expo. There I was able to take advantage of training to help improve my skills, maybe hopefully make me a little bit a little bit better of a trustee. and also meet with several businesses businesses that provide their services and and goods to local townships. Thank you. Thank you. Uh Trusty Charles a couple things. First of all, as uh Trusty
008Wagner said the MTA conference and Catherine as well was really good good information. Uh and Danielle, thank you very much for the packet you put together. It made things very smooth. She prepared a packet for all of us to check in. So we just showed up and gave the form and it was a done deal. Really smooth. So, thank you, Daniel. Um, downtown development authority. A couple things going on there. You might have known about the U at 60 uh East Berdick. There's a property that's being taken down. It's been there for years. A lot of people consider it uh undesirable. Maybe that's a nice word or not a nice word, but Sang Saran Construction is taking it down. Their estimated cost I read is around 60,000 bucks. and the DJs is we've created a
009grant program to remove those kind of structures which I think is really positive for the community. I think a lot of us would like to see these kind of things removed for the benefit of everybody. Um and kind of tagging with uh trusty Coleman was saying that the personnel committee the compensation committee met too and there's some overlap because Gather is also the same committee. Uh that's something we've been looking at. We had a nice I'd say good good meeting without having a lot of details at this point. And then thank you uh clerk for providing some additional information about the employee compensation package. And then last but not least, I see Linda Moran is here. So I'm going to pass the town on to Linda just a little bit. Linda, could you give us
010a little rundown on the option asking us not at this time? This is trusty comments. Thank you. I'll just say this. We're doing a bottle drive and Linda's been pretty active in doing that sort of thing. So, I appreciate everyone that's dropping off anything at the police department there so that uh the group has some more money to work with. Thank you. Um I have no comments at this time. Item number eight, fire department. Good evening. Good evening, Mr. Supervisor and trustees. Uh, as Trusty Coen had mentioned, uh, I worked with the, uh, personnel committee recently, uh, because of a noted flaw, we no longer have a backup to Lindsay, our business and finance manager. Uh, our previous, uh, person is no longer able to do that as a backup. So, if anything were to
011happen, we'd be in a between a rock and a hard place. Uh, I've spoken with the personnel committee and we think I think I have a a decent plan to move forward. I just want to make sure it's okay to do that. Uh, it would involve uh training one of the members from here at town hall uh and us covering the cost of those wages while they're over for training. Um, and then obviously covering their costs if a need arises where uh Lindsay's out for an extended period of time or or gets sick or whatever. and especially if a sick day falls on a payroll, we'd really be in a in a world of hurt. Um, I think we I've worked very closely with Lindsay. We have developed a manual, if you will, to kind
012of take the person or the candidate through the step-by-step process to get them up to speed. But again, we are the the the largest entity of people and payroll within the the township, and it's going to take some time. I would imagine it probably take a good uh I don't know 6 to 8 days of coming over few hours at a time here and there to get up to speed to the point where the person can also then do it on their own when you know with with oversight um you know and it covers everything from uh our earn sick time act now payroll pension um the the filing of our ENFS reports with the with the state and the federal reports, um the pension filing, I think I said that already, as well as
013uh their their 457 plans and the deferred comp plans of the various employees and and everything that entails all of that on our end of things. Uh I am actually meeting with attorney Olan tomorrow so that we can make sure we have everything covered from a legal standpoint as far as things like family medical leave, earn sick time act, and and everything that goes along with that so that we get the person all the information we can without leaving them in alerts if anything does happen where Lindsay's off for an extended period of time or anything like that. And I just want to make sure it's okay to move forward with that and but because it does involve tapping an employee from town hall and having them come over to the fire department to learn
014how to do the job and then uh be there as a backup when needed. Any questions or thoughts or No, we look forward to a some sort of a agreement or recognized. Yeah. And we know that we've and and we've already kind of developed a thought process without bringing up here, right? The how we would cover the cost of the wages for the employee when they come over to us. we cover those costs and then have a differential to cover the cost when they're doing it under training and then when they're on their own to do it too. It only makes sense. You're going to ask somebody to do more work. We're going to have to kind of cover that cost and it, you know, and be fair and be, you know, realistic about it.
015So, thank you. All righty. That's all I have tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Chief. Uh, board members, item number nine, sharp engineering report. In your packet is a report from Engineer Sharp on the projects going on in the in the township. Uh Engineer Sharp is here tonight. If you have any questions, uh please ask me and we'll have Engineer Sharp up to address them. Clerk Bright. Yeah. What what uh this just a request on on the municipal projects. I was wondering if we could add the uh estimated cost of these projects and what the cost has been to date on those to give us an idea where we're at. potential cost overruns. Sure. You know that and even if it's just engineers estimate y now case of grab dewy for example. Super. I can add
016that to the report. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Moving on. Item number 11 new business. Uh board members, in your packet is a letter of resignation from uh township trustee Jeffrey Avet informing the township board that he needs to tender his resignation from the Oxford Township Board effective today, April 9th, 2025. Per MCL41.56, the resignation shall be accepted when the be effective when the township board votes. I move to accept the resignation of Oxford Township Trustee Jeffrey Avette with regret effective April 9th, 2025. Further, a legal notice will be published in the Oxford Leader April 16, 2025, April 23rd, 2025. for an arrested residents that a resume and letter of interest shall be submitted in person the clerk's office by 400 pm Wednesday May 7th 2025 interviews and possible appointment will be scheduled for
017the May 14th 2025 charter towns for box report trustes regular meeting to fill the vacancy I'll second I have a motion by treasurer Ferrari and a second by trustee cold are there any questions I have a a quick comment that is if whoever is applying and they want a new perspective, feel free to reach out to me and I can give you some ideas what the scope of the Thank you for offering, Dave. Trusty Wagner. Sure. Okay. Any other questions? Um, roll call. Trusty Charles, yes. Trusty Coven, yes. Trusty Wagner, yes. Chris Furry, yes. Quickbrite, yes. And Supervisor Curtis, yes. Item 11B, Levvis's Link Park. CJ Carnakio. What do you want to tell us tonight? CJ, I believe. Sorry. Good evening, board. You can hear me. No, not really. It's not working. I can project.
018Um, I'm here tonight to talk about an exciting project. Um, project that been working on since last fall called Levis's Link Park. Now, this is going to be an opportunity to create a vibrant community space that promotes exercise, play, nature, appreciation, local history, and a program that's dedicated to improving hospital experiences for patients with special needs. Now, this all came about because I started thinking after building the Helen Smith pocket park here on the township grounds, I started looking for ideas of where we could put another pocket park and immediately the Polyan Trail sprang to mind. So I reached out to Linda Moran and she suggested a site and after visiting it um I thought it was perfect. It has a beautiful view of of Kanig Lake. You can see bald eagles there frequently. It's
019very peaceful. That's why the Polyand Trail chose to place a bench there. I went to work and came up with a concept plan and I consulted with both Phil and Lind uh Phil Castonia, our parks and recck director and Linda on this and they both liked it. Uh the proposed pocket park is going to be located on a.16 acre piece along Lakeville Road on the north side of the Polyian Trail east of the Kanig materials main entrance and west of Lakeville Elementary. Right now the site contains a bench and a bicycle rack placed by the trails management. So the pocket park is going to be approximately 100 to 150 ft long and approximately 30 ft wide. It's going to contain an observation deck with two binocular viewers where folks will be able to look out
020on the lake and the wildlife on the Kanic property, an outdoor gym and a push-up station. Um, eight pieces of play equipment, seven for kids and one for adults cuz why should kids have all the fun? And these pieces are going to complement the the Kanig site. four sensory rings, two benches, a bicycle repair station with air pump, trash receptacle, uh a history sign that's going to explain the history of the Kanig pit and it's significant in Oxford. It's been an active mining site since 1928. So, we're going to have a sign explaining that have some vintage photos on it and a park sign. I did want to note that the idea to have the observation deck was Phil Caston when I first brought this plan to in my original concept, he said, "Boy, you
021know, this would be a perfect place to have an observation deck." Went online, find these binocular viewers, and it's just per it's the perfect element. I can't thank him enough. And I think it really ties things together. The park's going to have an engineered wood fiber surface, much uh the same that the Helen Smith Park has. And this type of surface complies with the ADA because it compacts down and makes it accessible for wheelchair users, strollers, things of that nature. The park's going to be designed to serve people who use the Polyian Trail. It's going to benefit the existing users and I think it's going to attract new users to the trail. Now, the estimated cost um that I've worked on approximately 100,000 to build this park, right? Actually, a little over 100,000. and but
022all the purchase and installation of the park equipment and the construction of the park is all going to be funded through a combination of grants and donations just like Helen's park was. I've already secured uh 7,692 in donations. 4542 I have in hand. I want to thank Tire Warehouse and uh Health Quest uh physical therapy in Oxford for those donations. And I have another 3,150 in commitments from Turman's Tree Service, Oxford Bike Shop, and the Northeast Oakland Historical Society. I know one thing that came up I didn't address in your packet. Some people wanted to know about the maintenance of the park. Well, we're going to pay parks and wreck to maintain it like we do other services in the township when they have to clean up things on the safety pass or when they
023plow and salt our driveway and our our parking lot. But we can also look at as a another option to explore paying the Poly and Trail Management Council for Linda Moran the Poly and Trail Manager's time uh to help maintain the park or contracting with Linda directly as an independent contractor. Either way, Parks and Rec, it would handle the annual inspection of the equipment. Um play anything that has play equipment has to be inspected once a year. Helens Park was inspected last year. Parks and Red did did it. It's very minimal. It's $60 and really this is going to be minimal maintenance in the park. We're talking about changing the trash, breaking the um wood chips there, uh picking up litter, that kind of thing. I mean, right now, I do all that for Helen's
024Park. I don't have Helen I just took out the trash there today. So, it's we're these pocket parks are very minimal maintenance. We're not talking about intense uses here. And uh the most important part is the Levis's why it's called Levi's link. We're going to have an interpretive sign that tells why this park is named that. You may be wondering, uh, Levi is a tw is the 12-year-old son of Rob and Megan Wilson. Rob is the president of Big Michigan Materials and Kanig Materials. Levi was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, sensory processing disorder, and a pregnancy of speech. He works hard every single day to overcome his challenges. when I originally interviewed U Megan when they have a a week a yearly fundraiser out there called the Levis's Link Run. It this is the eighth
025year coming up for it, but it's only been in Oxford here since 2023. And really to tell talking to Megan just how inspiring it is for her and her husband to to see Levi, how hard he works to overcome his challenges and how he sees life differently and his journey has made them see life differently. And I love with my newspaper background, I love sharing those stories because we don't do enough to celebrate people with special needs, to celebrate the accomplishments they have and how and how hard they work to overcome challenges. And the Levis's Link program was established in 2018. It's a program designed to enhance the hospital experiences for patients with special needs who may become stressed during their visits to McLaren facilities in Port Hiron and Lancing. The goal is to make
026patients and their families feel as comfortable as possible so they won't be dis deterred from seeking medical treatment. So, as I said, since 2023, KAG has hosted the charity run to benefit Levis's link. And this pocket park is going to help increase this program's visibility and raise awareness among visitors and poly trail users. And it's my distinct pleasure right now. I'd like to bring Rob, Megan, Levi, and of course Noah, Levi's brother, and service dog Ryan, if I remember correctly, up to the podium to have them say a few words and to meet them. They can talk about the leaf Levi's link, the park, and Megan has some news about some expansion of Levi's link. I do. Thank you so much for having us here. I think to sum everything up, I want to say
027that we are so blessed and honored with the amazing partnership and friendship that we have found here in Oxford by moving the Levis Link run here. And most importantly, I'm here to announce that the program is growing by leaps and bounds this year. No longer is it just in McLaren Port Hiron and McLaren Greater Lancing. It is now coming to McLaren Le Pier. Nice. the McLaren Oxford emergency room, McLaren Oakland and the standalone emergency room is being built in Grand Ledge. So, the program is becoming very known. It's becoming very visible and we are so overwhelmed with happiness that such an important part of it is here in Oxford and to have the community's support of it. Do you have anything to say, honey? uh for my for my end I um can never speak
028about Levis's link quite as eloquently as she can. So I just like to speak on behalf of Kic Materials and uh this is something that that in the back of our heads as we've uh re rejoined the community in a in a little bit of a meaningful way. Uh, we wanted to I've always wanted to tip our hat to the history of of the KA sand and gravel site and uh and what it's meant to Metro Detroit and the Oxford community and uh I always driving home that way looked at that lake and that bench and uh then uh when CJ came up with this idea it just uh it fits so amazingly and so we're we as Kan are so proud to be part of the community and the the uh heritage here and
029um we're excited to have this and uh and our ownership could not be more thrilled to uh provide the uh the land donation as a a small token of our appreciation for the many years here in Oxford and the partnerships. Thank you uh CJ for for all your hard work and we're happy to be a part of it. Thank you very much. Thank you CJ. And uh now I'd like to turn things over to our attorney Britney Ellis. She's going to talk about the the legalities involving the land donation and the zoning. Sure. Good evening board. So if this board accepts this donation tonight, there are some things that need to happen before the deed will be acceptable. Namely, your engineer is going to create a legal description of a.16 acre parcel. Um, we're going
030to complete some title work looking at easements, just making sure that everything's in order, that this is an appropriate parcel for the proposed use as a park. Um, we will have to get a land division from Oakland County. So, you will see all of those conditions are in your motion tonight. Um, so upon with that being said, if you do go forward with that approval tonight, once we complete those due diligence items and we have the go-ahad from supervisor, he will be authorized to execute or to accept the deed from payment materials. So those will be the next steps. What members, are there any questions? I move to accept the donation of the 0.16 acre parcel Kenny Materials LLC subject to the following conditions. One, the property shall be used as a public park shall
031be designated at as Levis's Link Park. Two, acceptance is contingent upon the approval of a resolution declaring the site an essential service thereby waving local zoning requirements pertaining to minimum lot size. Three, a detailed survey and legal description of the property must be prepared by the township engineer prior to acceptance. Four, the township engineer shall review all existing easements, provide an opinion regarding their impact on the construction and operation of the public park. If the property is not suitable for use of the public park, the donation may be rejected within the township's own discretion. Five, acceptance of the donation may within the township's discretion be continued upon a satisfactory phase one and of necessary phase two environmental assessment. In the event significant contamination discovered, town preserves the right to reject the donation. Six, the property
032must be delivered free and clear of any undisclosed leans or acumbrances except for known easements. Seven, any further conditions deemed necessary by the board safeguard the public interest. ensure the public use and maintenance of the park must be met prior to the file acceptance of the donation. Eight, file acceptance is subject to the approval by both the township and county or land division and execution of a satisfactory warranty deed by Kic Materials LLC. Be it further resolved that upon satisfaction of all conditions, the township supervisor is authorized to execute the necessary documentation, the form to accept the donation, effectuate the transfer of title. I'll second. I have a motion by Treasure Fars, second by Trustee Coven. This time I'll take any questions. Seeing none, hearing none. Roll call. Treasure Ferrari. Yes. Cover. Yes. Trusty Wagner.
033Yes. Trust Charles. Yes. Court Wright, yes. And Supervisor Curtis, yes. I move to approve a resolution declaring 0.16 acre parcel parcel 0423476001 along Lakeville Road intended as a site for the new Levis's link park along the Polyan Trail as an essential public structure and service. This designation shall wave the zoning requirements 5 acre minimum lot size the suburban farm zoning district and other site plan requirements under the Oxford Township zoning ordinance. I'll second I have a motion by Treasurer Ferrari, a second by Trusty Coen. Any questions at this time hearing? None. Roll call. Trusty Coven? Yes. Trusty Wagner? Yes. Trusty Charles? Yes. Yes. Treasure Ferrari? Yes. And Supervisor Curtis? Yes. I just want to say thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Okay. 11 C, Parks and Recreation Fireworks Permit approval.
034Hi, Jeffrey. Going to come up if there's any questions, please. Thank you very much, Mrs. Wilson. Thank you. I'm Jeff Tinus, park superintendent for Oxford Town Township Parks and Recck. We're here tonight to get the approval for our fireworks show celebration June 5th and June 6th. I move to approve the 2025 American Fireworks Company contract for fireworks display scheduled for the annual secret celebration scheduled for Friday, June 6, 2025, Saturday, June 7th, 2025. Further, the Oxford Township Parks Recreation Department will continue to work closely with the Oxford Fire Department, Little County Sheriff's Office, ensure all safety and health regulations are followed as it pertains to the above fireworks event. I have a motion by Treasurer Ferrari, a second by Trustee Coleman. Are there any questions? Hearing none. Roll. No. Yeah. Roll call, please. Trust. Yes.
035Clight. Yes. Trusty Charles. Yes. Trusty Wager. Yes. Trusty Coverman. Yes. And Supervisor Curts. Yes. Okay. Item 11 Jeffrey. Thank you. Item 11D, planning and zoning. Uh tonight board members Matteo Pasqua from the Carlile working firm is here. Uh we have three items on the agenda to discuss at this time. I'm going to first address item 11D. I exactly said it. Thank you. I missed my That's your cue. Sorry. No, that's it. Good evening, board members. Matteo Plus, of Carlile Works, Carlile Wartman Associates. We're the planning consultants for the township. So, uh, as Supervisor Curtis had indicated, we have uh three things uh for the board's consideration this evening. The first one being that of some zoning ordinance text amendments. Um, so the three text amendments relate to animal definitions, state license, daycare facilities, and uh
036permitted and special land or land uses in the I1 and I2 districts. Um, we are recommending this evening that the animal definitions actually be tabled um as it relates to some very recent case law that came down this week. Uh, we no longer feel confident in those definitions relating to the outcome of that case law. So, we are asking for those to be tabled this evening. Uh the language was inspired by the mission state university extension that did offer some guidance on animal definitions. Um but that very well could change in the coming months based on the case law. So right now we are recommending tableabling that text amendment consideration. Uh I can take any questions on that or I can move to the other two and discuss all three at the end. So when
037you say table it that'll be brought back on May 14th. I would I'd recommend just tableabling it without a specific postponing it. Postponing then. Okay. Yes. Thank you. Yep. Uh, clerk right? Yeah. I move to set a first reading for zoning ordinance 67A.037 for the May 14, 2025 Oxford Township Board of Trustees regular meeting four proposed text amendments to article 2 regarding state licensed daycare facilities and for proposed text amendments to article 3 regarding autoconvenience marchs being special land uses. and to table a first reading of the proposed text amendments to article 2 zoning order 67A regarding animal definitions to a future Oxford township board of trustees meeting because you want to postpone correct not table no table to because it's an inde it's an indefinite time postponing this to a certain date okay I'll
038second it okay I have a motion by clerk right I have a second by treasure fra roll call trusty Charles, yes. Trusty Wagner, yes. Trusty Cold, yes. Trusty Ferrari, yes. Clerk Wright, yes. And Supervisor Curtis, yes. Now 11D2, resoning request for 970 and 990 South Leir Road. I see the applicants uh engineering firms here tonight. Uh so if you have any questions, Matteo, do you want to explain it? Yeah. So at their March 13th meeting, the planning commission held a public hearing to consider a resoning request for 97090 South Lier roads. They are adjacent parcels located on the northwest corner of Drainer and Leier. Uh the application uh was to go from an office zoning to C2. Uh the application did state that the the general intent of the resoning was to build a singlestory
039retail center with a drive-thru. However, no site plan has been uh submitted for the project. So this is really just a consideration for all the possible uses in C2. Uh again the planning commission we went through the review questions were asked. Uh but at the end of the day the plan commission did recommend uh to the township board uh to accept the resoning request uh from office to C2 for those two parcels. Okay. I move to accept the recommendation of the planning commission and approve the reszoning request for 970 and 990 South Lier Road parcel numbers 04-26-353-028 and 04-26-353-29 029 from office district to C2 community business district based on the findings of facts outlined in section 18.6 of the zoning ordinance as set forth in the record of the planning commission meeting minutes. Second.
040I have a motion by supervisor Curtis and a second by clerk right. I'll take your questions. Trusty Coven. I just want to make sure I'm I'm clear that if there is a drive-thru at this location, it's a special land use and it will have to go through other requirements rather than just planning commission and come back to us. Go through special land use have different restrictions or different um requirements that they have to meet in order to get there. So, the drive-thru for C2 is actually a permitted use. However, it does have additional regulations that relate to screening, landscaping that they will have to meet in order to get approval. What about traffic? Traffic's always always going to talk about traffic days. The thing with M24 is that that's what draws. I'm sorry. So, it's
041just a terrible intersection. Well, to that to to that point, the applicant at the planning commission meeting did come prepared to discuss it. Did talk about traffic with the commission. Um, and they're they're diligent about that fact. Trusty Charles, same concern that Trusty Coen has about the traffic problems. That's a notorious corner. Yeah. And I go by it repeatedly and it's always a problem. So you said diligent. Can you give us a little bit more insight what diligent mean? Because it's a horrible horrible corner and adding more traffic isn't a good thing. Yeah. I mean now I I can pass on the applicant. I mean from our perspective and what we see usually this early in the stage the applicants are not talking to RCOC or MDOT. They have and their design at least as
042it related to the retail center. Again, no site plan, just a concept was accommodating for the challenges of access to that site as best as they could. With that, I'd let Jim take good. Good evening. Uh Jim Butler with PA Group. Address is 1849 Pond Run, Auburn Hills, Michigan 48326. um as a part of our analysis of the site and we know the site is a challenge from a traffic standpoint. Um we went and had a traffic report done based on our retail center. Um what this report what we did with the site plan is we restricted the movement on to Leier Road to be only a right in and a right out. So, if you're going northbound, you will not be able to turn in left and you will not be able to go
043out to the left. Also, on drainer, there will be some what the study recommends is an improvement to the intersection, meaning we're going to have to pull back that left turn lane and expand it, expand the capacity there. So, we've had initial discussion with RCOC and MDOT, they're the ones that gave us the scope of the study. We've studied that. We've not formally submitted to them, but when we come forward with our site plan, we will do that. Thank you. Of course. Any other questions? Roll call. Clerk Wright, yes. Coach Ferrari, no. Trusty Coven? Yes. Trusty Wagner? Yes. Trusty Charles? Yes. And Supervisor Curtis? Yes. Thank you. You're welcome. master plan. Yes, clerk. Right. No, now now we set the first and second readings for the map amendment for the name. It's in the packet.
044Now, do we have to set those or do we just Yeah. The recommendation recommendation was to approve the reasoning and then set the first and second readings for the amendment. You could approve first reading tonight if this board wanted to. that come on up to the mic and tell us again please from from a legal standpoint like from a legal standpoint you can set you can have your first reading tonight and approve first reading since you've accepted the recommendation of the planning commission this board as a general matter you usually pass a motion to set first reading that's something we've discussed internally that procedurally may not make sense going forward so if you want to do your first reading tonight you may do so what Britney is saying is regular ly reset a first reading
045at this meeting and wait a month. We're wasting a month of everybody's time. No, I mean we're we're reading it. We're recommending it. Why do we have to do that again? We're going to do it again after tonight. So tonight can count as our first reading. Well, you need to pass a motion. So remember, you need to pass a motion for your first reading for your map amendment. Okay, Treasur Ferrari, I'll I'll make a Do we adopt the first reading? So, yeah. So, move to approve the first reading for the proposed zoning map amendment. And then you would say in further move to set second reading for what's your date? Next month? May 14th. For May 14th and authorize the township clerk to notice in accordance with state law. Okay. Sorry, that was a mouthful.
046I'll make a motion to approve the first reading of the proposed zoning ordinance amendment for 97990 South of Pier Road, also known as parcel 0426 353028 and 0426 353029 uh and set the second reading for Wednesday, May 14th, 2025. What was that last part reading? and authorize the township clerk to notice in accordance with state law. And authorize the township clerk to notice in accordance with state law. I'll second. We have a motion by Tre Ferrari. Hearing red and a second by trustee. Are there any questions? Hearing none. Roll call. Trusty Wagner. Yes. President Ferrari. Yes. Trusty Coleman. Yes. Ride. Yes. Trusty Charles. Yes. And Supervisor Curtis? Yes. Now we can move on to master plan. Item 11 D3, proposed 2025 Oxford Township master plan. Yeah. So here we are. Um over a year's worth
047of work in the making. And at the March 27th meeting, the planning commission recommended to send the draft master plan to the board for review and consideration. Um when this project initiated, the board elected to be the author uh the approving authority for the document. uh which you have a right to do by state law. So, where we are this evening is you've been provided with that draft um that was recommended by the planning commission and the kind of the two courses that can be taken this evening is that either you vote to send the master plan on to your neighboring communities, the county, and any other kind of vested interested parties, utilities, transportation authorities, things of that nature for a 63day review period uh in which it would come back to you with any
048comments from those parties. you can consider them and then from there the planning commission holds a public hearing and it comes back to you for approval or uh you can vote to send the draft back to the planning commission uh with any kind of comments, questions, concerns uh to which the planning commission would then consider, review, potentially direct us to make further edits and then come back to you again for the same vote. Um so those are the options in front of you. I'm happy to answer any questions uh that you might have as it relates to that. I have one. We all had got a jump drive and access to the link. We have all reviewed and looked at the document for spelling and or verbiage uh changes, minor as they may be. Uh,
049our our board can either vote tonight to have Matteo take all of our spelling corrections and minor verbiage changes, make those corrections, send them to the planning commission meeting, and then back to us on May 14th for the decision to send out to the other communities. Correct. So, if that is the position or that's the direction that the board's going to go in, what we would request is that any comments, concerns, proposed revisions are to us by Friday of this week. That'll enable us to then get it on the planning commission's next agenda to which then the planning commission can review those edits and then take their action from there. If the planning commission, give take, however it may be, is comfortable with what changes have been made, the master plan draft could be back
050to you by your main meeting. Yeah, we're not looking at dissecting this large document down to number of stones allowed in the gravel pit. We're talking about spelling errors. We're talking about words. We're talking about some pictures that are in there that are uh should be replaced with current pictures. So, it's nothing major in this document. I think we've all had a good chance to look at it. I provided my jump drive to Matteo today. Clerk Right. You gave him yours. I didn't know I didn't know what he wanted. I asked him tonight whether he wanted hard copy, email. Okay. I figured I'd wait till the whole board had a chance to I'll see you in 12 hours. So, I'll I'll get it from you then. I'll make a motion to send the draft master
051plan back to the planning commission with comments and revisions proposed by the township board. I'll second that. I have a motion by Treasure Ferrari, a second by Trustee Charles. I'll take any questions. I have one question. Yes, Trusty Wagner. Matteo, when once you get back these these edits and updates, are you going to verify that these are actually correct edits and updates to actually make? So, if someone says, "Oh, you know, we need a different picture." And maybe they told you it's the wrong picture. Are you going to have to verify that's actually correct? I guess I I guess correct might be a little subjective with what you're stating. I mean, I I think what we'll look to do is provide back to the planning commission the draft. I can give you an example. There's
052a picture of a business in the village that's no longer in business. Sure. I want that replaced with a business that's from the township that's still in business. And that's that's a simple change. Makes sense. I can tell you one change is it's not Seymour Lake, it's Seymour Lake. These are little things that we caught to try to get a a better perfect document out to the public. So, there's nothing major in there about changing land use or anything like that. It's spelling and minor changes. Okay. My concern is that we just don't introduce additional errors. That's all. Correct. Yeah, that's uh nobody wants that. Tail's willing to put his job on the wall. Again, again, the perfect is the enemy of the good. Yeah. Yes. Don't don't put that in the minutes. My job.
053Are there any questions? Hearing none. Roll call. Trusty Charles. Yes. Trusty Wagner. Yes. Trusty Coen. Yes. Treasure Ferrari. Yes. Portbrite. Yes. And Supervisor Curtis. Yes. Thank you very much. And just a thank you to all of you. Like it's it's been a long time in the making. It's We really appreciate it. My boss once told me that doing these projects is like giving birth and she's right. So, thank you very much for your time. I'll be seeing you guys soon. Thank you. Like a kidney stone. Maybe that's not a bad one either. Oh, yeah. Don't Don't say that. Item 11. Not even a request to submit zoning ordinance text amendment to the planning commission. Board members, in your package is a request to submit zoning ordinance text amendment regarding uh the township's performance guarantee in
054section 16.8 of the zoning ordinance. And what's happened is in the past the township has been operating thinking that we're going to collect a performance guarantee to complete a project. When we look at the completion of a project, that's not what the performance guarantee is for. The performance guarantee is to um ensure that the adequate security for uh the safety path, soil erosion, and traffic improvements and the other public benefits are made. We're not going to go on private property and finish a building, but we've been collecting a rather large sum of money for some of these projects. And what I was suggesting is that this go back to the planning commission so that they could work on that. I move to refer the attached redline revisions of section 16.8 performance guarantees of the township
055zoning ordinance to the planning commission for review and recommendation to the board of trustees. I'll second. I have a motion by treasurer Ferrari. I have a second by trustee Coven. Are there any questions? Hearing none. Roll call. Treasure Ferrari? Yes. Clerk Wright, yes. Trusty Cen, yes. Trusty Wagner, yes. Trusty Charles, yes. Supervisor Curtis, yes. Thank you. Item 11F, Seymour Lake Road safety path engineering design fees. Uh board members, um the design fees for the segment along Seymour Lake Road between uh Dunlap and Saunders was never specifically established. At the one time we established funds to do engineering from uh Brookfield out to Seymour Lake Park, but in conjunction with the installment of the 18inch water lane water man on Seymour Lake and Saunders Road, we would like to have the u uh safety path engineered
056and uh engineer Sharp has provided us a um an amount of $21,000 to accomplish lish that motion. Yeah. Yeah. I'll move. Yep. I move to approve an amount not to exceed $21,000 and authorize Sharp Engineering to facilitate the completion of the engineering design and doc design documents pertaining to the Seymour Lake Road safety path between Dunlap and Sanders Roads. this $21,000 amount to be expensed from the safety path account 297-852-821-0000 second. I have a motion by Supervisor Curtis. I have a second by Treasurer Ferrari. Are there any questions? Hearing none. Roll call. Trusty Wagner. Yes. Trusty Charles. Yes. Trusty Coleman. Yes. Clerk Wright. Yes. Treasure Ferrari. Yes. And Supervisor Curtis. Yes. Item 11G, the OACC interlocal agreement renewal. Trustee Coven. Okay. Board members. Um the interlocal agreement with the Oxford Area Cable Communications Commission um
057has expired. It expired on March 31st. So, we are looking to renew it. Um, manager Styles is here to answer any questions, but I can tell you it's essentially the same as it was previously. We added one small addition uh making a requirement that if one community does not submit their PD fees, then they will remove themselves from the commission until the fees are paid. Until the fees are until the fees are paid after a certain amount of time, you know, and and it was brought to light today. I I had a very studious employee bring to light today that peg fees are not negotiable. That's correct. Peg fees are not negotiable. They are to be spent capital expenses for public education. Correct. And somehow or another some townships and villages have been uh capturing
058some of those. So that's why this paragraph is now in there. That's one of the reasons. Um there was a motion made several years ago. It was a grammatical error in one township. Um and they made a motion to split the cable fees in half and um that's not been corrected. My question is who's taking this on to explain that to the other municipalities? Well, so currently because we lost so much money last year, people are going to streaming rather than AT&T, Charter, and um Spectrum. And so I'm asking the communities that give us half or a certain percentage of the franchise fees to give us all for the next couple years because there's language being written um and hopefully going through the legislature. In fact, I'm going next um Thursday to speak to our
059representatives uh to franchise those video streaming services like Hulu, uh Disney, Firest Stick, AT&T or Dish. Um, and then that will keep us going and those people can look I I will certainly address how those fees should be split. Um, they can look at in two years keeping 50% again. If they choose not to or if that legislature doesn't pass, we're going to lose funding. We lost 40,000 last year out of our last year budget and every year we're losing about 23% of funding because people are going over to streaming who are using our me those telecommunications lines that AT&T, Charter, and Comcast are paying for. So, if the legislature decides, and I'm I I'm trying to make this short, if they decide that they will not uh franchise fees all these streamers, then that
060gives AT&T, Charter, and Comcast a great argument not to have to pay franchise fees. Okay? So, give me a minute. Um, by next week, I will have talked to the other communities. I spoke to the village last night. They give us 75% I asked them paying full percent. They're looking at their budget next week. Um, Treasure Ferrari, that's always been something that's always been a sticking point with me from day one. We're like the mothership. We give 100%. Everybody else gives 75, 50, whatever they feel like giving. And to me, either you're all in, you're not kind of pregnant. You're all in it or you're not in it, you know? And that's always been it's but some communities have done it with Poly and Trail. They're in. They're out. They're out. They're in. They're out.
061I know. And to me, as part of cable, we should all be in it. If not, then we're not I mean, if they're contributing 50, why are we contributing 100? Well, sometimes the argument is that we we don't go to their communities enough. However, the downtown area, which we cover a lot, and the schools, which we cover, we've done over 380 programming this year that affects those outlying communities as well. So my I'm with you on that argument. I'm just saying maybe we could get Treasure Fry to help you. I can use all the help I can get. One more won't hurt. We've been arguing for 12 years at this point. So yeah, I can help take all the help I can get. Thank you. Trusty Coin, you want me to make a motion? I
062move to approve the interlocal agreement for the formation and operation of the Oxford area cable communications commission and approve the supporting resolution and authorize supervisor Jack Curtis to execute the agreement on behalf of the charter township of Oxford. I'll support it. Okay. I have a motion by uh Trusty Coven, a second by Trusty Charles. I have a question. The clerk right? I do have a couple items here. Um in that new section D there it talks about retaining and withholding PEG fees. Are PEG fees part of the franchise fees? No peg fees are separate. Okay. That's how that's how it is in the public education and governance. Yeah, that's how it's broken out here. So So based upon the PEG fees in 20 24 we're talking about $16,000 about that much. Okay. Um, so, so
063with this, it looks like if they decide to suspend the participation over six months, they may withdraw right out of OACCC. Is that a possibility? It could be. Yes. I mean, then then then you start seeing your your uh funds dwindle even more because then it goes right back to to the municipalities. The franchise fees do the peg piece. They have they are there for cable public education as you indicated indicated then so yes the franchise fees go back and and let me say let me add to this soap box um if should AT&T Comcast and Charter get approval from the legislature that they don't have to pay franchise fees because the rest of those streamers don't have to pay them. There's communities that are going to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars. Detroit alone
064will lose a million a year and those some communities that don't have television stations pay EMS, fire stations, police, they fix their sidewalks. So we all MTA is really behind um promoting us speaking to the legislature in Michigan. Several states are doing the same thing. However, the east coast is really fighting it. So, it's that's a new concept. Um, it's going to take a couple years to see what happens. Now, just another question on uh page four of the agreement uh in uh section 13 uh small item is it? Hey, small item two and three. It talks about dissolution and I'm just wondering um if that were to happen. It says all accounting shall be provided. This is over the life of the OAC item. Just wondering is that something that I'm sorry I didn't
065hear what you said in the in the dissolution section of the OACC it talks about assets being being distributed and the proportions are paid over the life of the OACC. So I'm thinking you know those records probably don't even exist but that's something that may have to be considered. They would exist for for accounting. They should exist within each township. Okay. And then last one each attorney would have to get together supervisor signing. Oh yeah. Yeah, that was just a typo. That was just a typo that in the and I talked to Dave Kenny today and he said that it was corrected out in the in the sign that supervisors for the bill should be president. It's fixed. So So that'll be corrected out. I have the original tonight. It's already been signed by Joe
066Mador if you want to sign it tonight or you want me to come back tomorrow. But that don't find out in a minute as we get all the rest. Right. Right. Right. But I'm just saying don't sign that page if you're going to sign anything. Are there any other questions? Trusty Charles, you also do. Sorry. You also do Addison Township Film. We also do Addison Township. What? Like what you're doing tonight. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We cover all meetings. All four of the communities, all four communities. Yep. Thank you. Uh, we have a motion. We have a second. Roll call. Trusty Charles. Yes. Trusty Wagner. Yes. Trusty Coven. Yes. Trustee weird. Trustees here. Treasure Ferrari. Yes. Click right. Yes. And Supervisor Curts. Yes. Thank you. Lost one. I appreciate your support. Thank you.
067We all do. Thank you. Item which is now item 11H uh 2025 road commission for Oakland County dust control program. Uh board members in your packet is the information from the road commission for Oakland County regarding the uh 2025 CLA program. The 2025 per foot application cost is the same as 2024 cost 8 cents. Uh the price is based on all public gravel roads in Oxford Township being treated and I'm seeking the approval for all five applications of chloride for 2025. I move that the charter township of Oxford contract with the road commission of Oakland County provide chloride services for 2025 and all public gravel roads in the charter township of Oxford. Chloride cost will be paid 100% by the charter township of Oxford for five applications. The rate of 8 cents per foot per
068application. The cost for the chloride service to be expensed to count number 20440969.0000 highway roads maintenance contracts. I'll second. I have a motion by Treasure Ferrari and a second by Trustee Coven. Are there any questions? Hearing none. Roll call. Clerk right? Yes. Treasure Ferrari? Yes. Trusty Coven? Yes. Trusty Wagner? Yes. Trusty Charles? Yes. Supervisor Curtis? Yes. Item 11 I. David. Let's test those MTA skills out. Water and sewer committee meet them. Meeting 11. I uh one I recommendation for waving sewer tap fees for Brad Dewey subdivision. Okay. So you'll see first of all you'll see on page 342 of your packet you'll see a little bit of background information of the Brad Dwey subdivision. For for what it's worth it's a it's a very old subdivision. been there. Um they all rely on septic systems
069right next to Stony Lake on the northwest side of the lake and there's certainly some potential concern with the state of repair, the age, etc. And being Stony Lake is one is a premier park for Oxford used by families, children, etc. So what we have here is a a package to upgrade or install a a sewer system and we'll which then will allow the residences to move off the septic systems and and be connected directly to the sewer systems. So, first one is the motion that the Oxford Township Board of Trustees agrees to wave the $6,000 for residential equivalent unit or reap fees for the estimated uh 78 property owners associated with the Bradley Sanitary Sewer Extension Project. I'll second. I have a motion by Trusty Wagner and a second by Trustee Colon. Are there
070any questions? Yes, Trusty Coven, I just want to make a comment that this is this is different than waiting for a developer that's coming in here. These people are in existing homes. They already have sanitary systems in their home and it's not a very wealthy neighborhood. So waving these fees, we are going to force these people to connect to the sewer. It's not an option for them. Our ordinance requires people to hook up if we set this up. So waving these fees is not the same as waiting for a developer who's going to build something and make a profit on that. This is different. It's we are we as the government are going to force these folks to hook up. That's one of the reasons that we suggest waiting these fees. Any other questions? Clerk
071right? I could I could counter a lot of points to that, but I I will not do that. I'll just uh go ahead and cast my vote accordingly because I could probably spend a half an hour on this subject. Thank you. Okay. Want to hear a couple tough one if you have a question? Yes. Yes, sir. So, um, you said that it's not a wealthy subdivision. Do we have any verification of that? Did you do a income survey? I drove through. Okay. Did you do an income survey? I know people I know people that live there that do not have a lot of loans. Did you do an income survey? I I know people. I didn't do an income survey. Okay. Oh, like I say, I've also walked through that, talked to them. Trusty Wagner,
072you have something to say. I'm not finished here, right? Um, the other thing is, well, I mean, I want to protect the environment. We all do because we know there's possibilities. That's not the only one in the township, by the way. There's other brownfields. Um, my concern is the lack of verification of things that you're bringing up as opposed to just walking through or observing home wherever else. Uh, even on the contamination, one of my concerns would be the future developers come in here and say, "You gave these folks 6,000 bucks." um why not me? And we can come back and say, "Well, we drove through a subdivision and we think that people don't have money there and we think there's contamination." So, I'm okay with doing this, but it's like the phrase from Missouri,
073you know, show me, you know, I don't I don't see any verification. This is just guessing, guessing. That's all it is. And there's no no to repeat, there's no verification on on any of this. So, anyhow, that's my my point on it. And the worry big worry is precedent for future developers that come back and look at this and say, "Oh, wait a minute. You didn't ask these people to prove anything." And if you look at the next item on our agenda, we have a poverty exemption and we ask people to show their income level to get an exemption. Why wouldn't we do that for this? Any other questions? I just have a comment. Sometimes it doesn't require verification. When you walk through a blighted neighborhood, you don't need you don't need proof that the
074neighborhood itself is low income and blighted. I mean, that is the obvious case when I walked through it last summer time talking to folks. The other thing is is that's important. Remember this is for the good of the community. This will help prevent any will proactively help any or prevent any issues with Stony Lake which is which is used by the community. Thank you. Are there any other questions? Hearing none. Roll call. Trusty Wagner? Yes. Trusty Coen? Yes. Treasure Ferrari? No. Clerk Wright, no. Trusty Charles, no. And Supervisor Curtis, yes. What we have board members is a draw. Um with an a non-majority vote, this motion fails. We'll wait for a new trustee. Wait for a new trustee if it want to be brought back. Do I have a question about that? Item 112, recommendation
075of a loan request from building permit fund to the sewer fund for the Brad Dwey project. the uh Trustee Wagner. Yes. So, the total cost of the program is 2.4 million with a $1.75 million grant, leaving us to come up with $650,000. The the motion here in order to get this project started, the motion is that the Oxford Township Board of Trustees authorizes a loan from the Ber building permit fund to the sewer fund for an amount not to exceed $650,000 to help finance the Brad Dwey sanitary sewer extension project. This loan will be subject to an annual interest rate of 1% and is to be repaid over a period not to exceed 5 years. Second. I have a motion by Trusty Wagner, a second by Treasurer Ferrari. Are there any questions? Hearing none, roll
076call. Excuse me. Just a point of clarification. I it I think it's stuck in everybody's head that this is the building permit fund. It's the building department fund. building permit when when we had to redo the the chart of accounts. It's the building department fund. Okay. Then thank you. So make that make that correction. Uh roll call. Uh clerk right? No. Trusty Charles. Yes. Yes. Trusty Wagner. Yes. Trusty Coen. Yes. Trust. Yes. And Supervisor Curts? Yes. Uh item 11. Uh three I David you trustee Wagner you asked that to be amended repayment. So now this addresses how we're going to fund those payments and uh and pay for those loan costs. So motion here is that the Oxford Board of Trustees agrees that the repayment of the Brad Dwey sanitary sewer extension project loan will
077be sourced from the sewer fund utilizing revenues received by the township for marijuana related businesses and the use of these revenues would commence on the year fiscal year 2026 and shall continue until the loan is fully repaid. A second. I have a motion by Trusty Wagner, a second by Trustee Coven. My question here before I call the role is um we have a five-year loan. Uh what if the five-year loan is not paid out by the marijuana fund? Are you going to take that from uh uh sewer funds? Sewer funds, right? That's correct. That that's that that's how it was stated in the motion. Okay. Thank you. I have a question, too. Yes, sir. Trusty Charles. So, does this obligate all the marijuana money to go there? There's no flexibility. Enough to make the payments.
078Enough to pay. That's not the question. Enough to make the payment. Yep. Roll call. Trusty Charles. No. Trusty Wagner. Yes. Trusty Coleman, yes. Treasure Far, yes. Clerk Wright, no. And supervisor Curts, yes. Okay. Are you done beating me up, David? Yes, sir. Item 11 J, 2025, poverty hardship exemption allocation application. Faradi board members uh myself, Trusty Charles and Trusty Wagner met with the assessing department and we have the changes for our hardship form for 2025. Uh couple of notes there that we had changed. If you take a look at it, the poverty guide is going to be 1.25 increase from one uh for the poverty and there's different forms are going to have them provided to us as well. The other key reason ask for that's the main change that we're done with that. Hold
079on here. I will make a motion to approve the Oxford Township 2025 poverty hardship exemption application as presented. I'll second that. I have a motion by Treasurer Ferrari. A second by Trustee Charles. Are there any questions? Hearing none. Roll call. Treasure Ferrari. Yes. Trusty Charles. Yes. Trusty Coven? Yes. Trusty Wagner? Yes. Clerk Wright? Yes. And Supervisor Curts? Yes. Item 11 K, uh, resolution adopting a policy relative to the review and granting of property poverty exemptions by the Oxford Township Board of Review. Treasurer Ferrari. Uh, this is following up to the last one we just had. This allows it to go in front of the board review with the guidelines that we've just adopted. I move to approve the resolution adopting policy relative the review and granting of poverty exemptions by the Oxford Township Board of
080Review as presented. Oh, sir. I have a motion by Treasure Ferrari, second by Trustee Coven. Are there any questions? Hearing none. Roll call. Trusty Coven? Yes. Treasure Ferrari? Yes. Clerk Wright? Yes. Trusty Charles? Yes. Trusty Wagner? Yes. And Supervisor Curts? Yes. Uh, item 11 L 2025 West Now Virus Program. Uh board members, we still have cases left over. Last year we passed out to our residents for those briquettes. So this year parks and recck is looking at uh replenishing what they had. So we're looking at allocating all the money to them to uh put those perats in our parks. Like to make a motion to purchase more cases of a natural XRP tablets for 3,91238 include shipping. So our project expenditure is 3,91238 and is to be expensed from the county westnau virus prevention grant
081account number 101 000072.006. I'll second. I have a motion by treasure furry and a second by trustee coven. I have a question. Um what is the total cost of treasure furry? $3,912.38 and the grass covering that. So the total cost to the township is zero. Correct. Thank you, Trusty Charles. So you're saying this will all go to the parks recreation department. What about residents who want to use it as they've done for the last We have those already. We have some in stock for the last couple years. So, we have plenty of people because I know people in my neighborhood since I live by the spring of ladies are always looking for it and we have them. Okay. Roll call. Okay. Uh, let's go. Clerk right? Yes. Trusty Charles? Yes. Trusty Wagner? Yes. Trusty Coven?
082Yes. Treasure Ferrari? Yes. Supervisor Curtis? Yes. I make a motion to adopt the resolution authorizing West fund expense reimbursement request as presented. Second. I have a motion by Treasurer Ferrari and a second by Trustee Coleman. Any questions? Hearing none. Roll call. Trusty Wagner, yes. Treasure Ferrari, yes. Trusty Charles, yes. Clerk Wright, yes. Trusty Coven, yes. Supervisor Curtis, yes. Okay. Item 12, items removed from consent agenda. We had none. Item 13, public comment. Hello again. Uh, I just wanted to say if you guys don't decide to move forward with pursuing Oxford as a Purple Heart City Township that I will be happy to donate my services to work with Mr. Cabelli. I don't know if any of you know him. He is a Purple Heart recipient himself. He proudly served his country. I did stories on
083him when I was with the Oxford leader. I'd be more than happy to help whatever you need with that project. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Any other public have a comment? Seeing none, board of trustees comments. Trustee Charles. Yeah, just want going back to Brad doing a little bit. If the committee meets, I would suggest maybe some guidelines such as we discussed with the poverty. We have some numbers to work with to see who might qualify for this. Thank you. Anything else, Trusty Wagner? No comments. Trusty Coven. Treasurer Ferrari. Oh, Cottman. Clerk. Right. Yeah. A couple things I want to address. Our committee reports. um in our packet um we had uh nine reports that weren't provided and this is was maybe a good example because of MTA but this board approved in May of
084last year a numeral amount of resolutions and policies uh setting the rules and regulations and parameters for committee reports and um to me it's like if we're not going to follow this stuff that we're doing then we might as well either follow them or put this on the agenda in May to revamp how committees are formed and what their rules and regulations and rules are. So, um that's that's one of my comments that um if we if we're going to do this as we approved as a board, let's do it. If not, let's uh change our ways of doing things as a committee. Okay? No sense in wasting people's time. Is that it? No. The other one is um I would like to request of the treasurer to include in the consent agenda packet the
085Michigan class report of the consent agenda because by the time we get treasures reports in our packet they're two to three months old. Our Michigan class report will be probably from the previous month ending such as such as uh this is the April meeting. We could see the cash flows from the March 31st month ending. So, if that's not too difficult, has no problem with it. It would be a good idea. Um, other than that, uh, just uh like to count up to uh CJ Kakio on his efforts on this Levvis Park. I think it's going to be a great addition to the community and uh I mean the guys just the end user trying to do good things for the community and uh it goes for a lot of other people as well that
086are not. But good job CJ. Well, it's my turn. I was going to ask uh Darren, I apologize. I didn't get back to you fast enough. Um I looked it up on Google and uh Purple Heart City Civic designate designation honors and recognizes the sacrifice of military personnel wounded or killed in combat, often involving initiative to commemorate Purple Heart recipients. So CJ, you stood up and raised your hand. I I appreciate that. I was going to ask you to do that for us. See what the cost is. See what we have to do. Work with Darren, the American Legion BFW, to bring our city towards a Purple Heart city. We need to know the numbers, Darren. We need to know who all of that information. CJ's volunteered to to grasp that us up for us.
087Okay. Thank you. Um secondly, um there is no excuse for no committee reports. If you haven't turned in a committee report, how about if we stop paying for people who attend those committees like we agreed on rather than stop the reports. Those committee reports are done to audit payroll. Okay? If you don't turn in a pay a committee report, your committee didn't meet and your people didn't get paid. So if your lack in turning your and myself included if I didn't turn one in my people don't get paid on that committee. So from now on we will as we voted to turn in our committee reports as an audit report to the payroll department as a as a as a knowledge base for us to know what these committees are doing. You don't get paid
088and you'll be publicly shamed. How's that? done scapping the corner. That's all I have to say. Item number I'll make a motion with 15. I'll second. I have a motion by Treasurer Ferrari, a second by Trusty Coleman. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Anybody that wants to stay say nay. Thank you.