001okay we'll start the meeting uh welcome to the Addison Township uh board meeting today is uh March 17th St Patty's Day 6:00 at the Addison Township officers at 1440 Rochester Road and uh at beautiful Lake bille even though we're let okay um anyways roll call please oh we could be pledge okay Ed you're our veteran stand with liy and justice for all our dear heavenly father we pray that your teaching will guide us in this meeting and in our lives help us follow your ideals that you said before us and be ready to carry on when we're called to do so in the lord's name we pray amen you we callete here here M here super here all accounted for announcements uh no Department reports as usual available in my office or contact uh Jamie
002my deputy and make those available any petitions no okay move on to uh of the agenda yes this came in late as well um it's in addition to the agenda number seven the 2025 Road chide program not to exceed 78,000 from 101 446 9342 okay so we'd like to add that as number seven right yes and with that I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as amended support okay we have a motion and support any comments not hearing any who we have call please Mary FR yes yes Lind yes yes yes yes supervisor yes okay move on to the consent agenda yes we have April approval of the February 18th minutes approval of the February 2025 invoices and a resolution adopting the participation in the 2025 West n prevention reimbursement program now for the
003uh consent agenda as well minutes I like to make a motion if no one to make a change to approve the cons agenda approve the uh 2025 invoices uh for February for $67,400 support okay we have a motion and we have support any comments hear any have roll call that please Linda yes Mar cross yes yes yes yes yes supervisor yes okay now we'll move on to item number two a resolution adopting the amendments to the employee manual chapter 4 chapter 6 and fire department exhibit one as you know um the state uh has been struggling with uh all of this part-time and U time off and U minimum wages and everything and um I know pauling's locked herself in her office they're trying to figure this stuff all out because they keep changing it
004but um anyway so I think they now have it partially down pth I don't know if there's going to be any changes to it but I'll let Pauline tell you a little bit about the changes uh as far as time off and different things like that if you want to go ahead and maybe highlight it we were really busy on making these changes um a lot of the changes the state made actually clarified provisions of the law that really left us in the air for some items so they clarified Provisions but then if the very end of the law they also made us add a few extra things so the first part part of the aspect we basically almost inserted most of the law except for areas that really don't apply to us and then
005the second part was in chapter six with the state amendments we also now had to have a policy that would tell the employees what are acceptable ways of calling in and also if they call in and it's let's say it's past their um start time what are we going to allow them to burn dur SI time which the answer is yes because we have to so that provision was changed to meet that area of the law The Next Step they also are kind of having us do and you'll notice it in the resolution um towards the end the further resolved this resolution is also going to serve as notice so they're giving us um five days to make sure that we notify the employees of the new changes so what we're going to do is
006pass the resolution and then I will also be sending to each employee is going make get a copy by way of email of the adopted provision as well as chapter six with the changes for how what's acceptable for an employee to call in any questions no well what I'm looking for is someone make a motion to move the resolution if I don't have any question question I'll make motion we Mo a resolution you read it thank you L okay so we do have a motion to move the resolution and we do have a second any further comments not hearing any call on that please yes car yes yes mik supervisor yes resolution is so moved thanks for all the work on that all okay move on to item number three review of the building official
007and inspector employment opportunities okay first of all I know that the board directed me to uh advertised in the MML for 30 days uh and uh whatever that something boy we did approximately 6 days our website it was on our website the whole time also we received five responses on two of which are the current temporary uh uh people who are doing the job right now uh one response was I'm not qualified didn't have a building official uh license and the other two I did interview um I think they were more in line with looking at um a full-time job we don't have that as such and as of right now um we don't have um a building official in the office okay it right now it's uh working out very well that um code
008enforcement up in theer uh handles that part of it and they have been answering all of the questions and they don't charge us for that and as of right now we're saving about $40,000 and they're doing an excellent job our inspector um which is Mike new Meer is out there and he's been doing an excellent job and he uh responds immediately all questions and shows up at the scene and Lonnie Hayes who is a the building official uh in leir he answers all the questions on telephone and and meets with the people what they wish um and so he does that at any time where we had somebody in the office and uh we never seem to get anything done because people would come in and basically want us to show them how to build
009their own house and we can't do that okay um so we do tell people that we prefer that they have a contractor or at least know what the code is to build a house um so right now um Jamie says we have no complaints Harley and these uh two people are handling this uh perfectly and they go out of their way to answer everything so what I'm looking at is I don't think we after talking to the other two interviews interviewers they were expecting to I think have office hours and have an office here and for us to pay him to sit in the office but I I'm basically looking at just appointing uh Lonnie Hayes as our building official and Mike new me uh as a building inspector and continue the way we are
010now instead of on a temporary basis because like um Jamie um mean and she's very Adept at um my super uh Deputy supervisor she's very Adept and she said this is working out fantastic and we're saving an awful lot of money and on top of that the building has slowed down a little bit and that's probably because of the economics and and the other townships are in the same boat so my recommendation is uh don't reinvent the wheel we have a great system building okay uh the Pierce handling it being on the zba how would they handle that a build a person wants to build something that is not within our uh rules do they give it to Jamie and then Jamie calls them and tells them that goes to our planner he goes to
011the planner okay and so we have to have a denial as through the CBA we have to have a denial by the building official before we get it so they the planner will then send it up to here so um every time somebody's coming in they have to complete his own compliance application yes zoning compliance application automatically goes to the planner he does a review that isent to the official the building official then denies or approves but it's based on the plan review so the building official is still revie those and he he is getting a s dollar amount for those RS so I mean if he approves it of course we never see it but denied it's denied by the the old build building official would be very detailed it did not meet this
012ordinance it did not meet this they do the same thing correct oh perfect okay who's doing f depend upon what plan it is so the building official will probably do most of the plan reviews um and then Mike is the uh inspector where he physically goes out and does the inspections the plan reviews typically don't go to the planner building and I will say yeah and I will say uh for the first time we are completely caught up when somebody body sends in a set of plans they're usually he has them handled within one or two days we were sometimes four five weeks out because there were so many but um he's so efficient even on the weekends he looks at him and has them ready by Monday I I got to give the guy
013credit he's are we doing everything electronically then yes and but they come in all the time so I see them all the time but um I mean I hate to say but they a joy to work with uh it just it I mean um if you came in and asked Jamie what her preferences are CU she basically runs the whole she's got it it's running like a Swiss watch now whereas before we were we were quite far behind because every time our building official would come in the office and start going through stuff and everything he'd be interrupted all day um whereas these guys handle it on their own time and it's much cheaper before we had um a building official that did Building Inspections so we had one guy and we had that contract
014now we have two people how how is the pay is it going to be under our building official inspector contract or so the fees aren't going to change from their temporary and the only reason you don't have a draft contract is it's being renewed for the earns at time act so we are cre a new employment agreement for them but none of that is going to change so they're they are they receive payment based on what applications they receive so there's always a p percentage 7525 and then for the only compliance permit I don't have that breakdown in front of me I can send it tomorrow but everything is a like a commission based payment to them and then if there is a time where Bruce needs them to come in and meet then we
015have that r that we approved um every year so is that a contract that we riew definitely okay so our action then would be to approve um I forget that it's Mike and L yeah that's as far as Lonnie Hayes and Mike Newman yes to be the build official and bu inspector um based off of the current w second we got thirds here okay mik okay um really it's working out extremely well I have to say that they're a pleasure to work with and they come in and it's never problem if I call them and ask them a question they call me they answer the phone it's great um so we do have a motion we have a second are there any other comments on this call please Mar yes yes yes your yes yes
016superv your yes and that passes and the money we're saving we can use on other things the which is great so so does that automatically Point m with the review of our attorney's so will be they have to take another o another the board um which I see where you're going I don't know your motion hold on a second yeah let me ask that let me see I do need another motion then don't I do I need another motion to I think she can just looking for a motion to appoint Lonnie and Mike as the yeah there two two items so the second motion would be to appoint Mike uh m is building official and as the inspector with their last news and Survey okay honnie Hayes as the building official and Mike new Meer
017as a building inspector and we need a second and we have a second bright couldn't say yeah he can't do two things at once okay so okay so we have another motion uh any comments on this for hiring the two of them let's roll call on that please hang yes yes yes L yes yes yes supervisor yes okay and that passes thank you spring cleanup uh as you see I think you I'll have the paperwork here once again it's always a Saturday before Mother's Day um uh it's getting harder and harder I know to find anybody to to do U the cleanup for us at a reasonable price and this company does it at a reasonable price but I see that um they're they're not going any farther than a one year at a time
018now because um I don't know what that entails but right now it's uh at least we have a one-year commitment from them um so what I'm looking for is um if you notice on the cost there it's just what the costs will be um because last year I believe it we have that price was at the 8,133 last year or not or not the estimate this year he's giving us an estimate but we just need to approve his rates because his estimate could vary depending to find how many people actually appear at Spring Cleanup so we're approving the contract um and then his 2025 cost okay and if as you see on there we're you know we're asking uh that um you know of course the valid driver's license again and uh no commercial contractors
019I did add and of course the no has handles the paint gasoline and different things like that $100 fee for the freeon if it's a refrigerator has to be tagged but I am at I would like to add because last year we had a little uh uh little issue with uh building materials people were saving up like um materials from a deck and unfortunately when they bring in all that womanized wood and everything they filled up a compactor quite rapidly because it can't break it down that much so I I'd like to just add that no uh building materials or deck boards are the womanized deck boards because you can't burn those and that's why they're showing up for for us and um those I believe that's part of a contractor they should be taking
020that away when they come and put a new deck on so i' just like to eliminate those so that we don't have to pay for an extra compactor that's we we got charged I believe an extra $850 last year because somebody brought in trailer loads of uh wood decking and it filled up one of those immediately so I'd like to eliminate that also um fre on he increased 105 so the notice is going to leave 105 [Music] 105 I'd like to make a motion to approve the one-year agreement with the rates as shown for the 2025 um estimated cost the date um proposed is May 10th and um being public notice with those two amendments secondment okay we have a motion and we have second any comments okay not hear any we have roll call
021pleas yes yes yes yes yes yes supervisor PE yes and that pass us now we'll move on to this is the Appo to appoint Mike McDonald to the open County Materials management committee I know that uh Mary uh really really really wanted this one but but I want more free time so but Mike is uh um volunteered that and he understands it as you know many many years ago back in before 1988 when Mike was a Township supervisor they tried to put a dump in Aton Township right on the Oxford Township border and Mike was very uh instrument Al in getting that denied and this is um basically the beginning of where Oakland county is looking for another place to put all the garbage so Mike is very attuned to this so I think he
022is the best man to uh or best person to uh put in that position um so um who would like forun I make a motion to appoint m b to the OC materials management committee oh second okay and there'll be no discussion on this just everyone vote so could a great job all those in favor say I I anyone oppos can't say no thank you but we you are the best person to put on there you've been through it before and you know what everybody's up to on this everybody's looking for a place that dump their garbage okay item number six computer upgrade estimate uh our office has window 10 program on October 25th is the date for Windows 11 our computers need attention okay looking forward it's uh better for us to be first
023on the list to get everything updated uh through our it firm and their recommendation I think is four computer replacement and nine upgrades estimated at $99,500 um all right you want me make a quick comment been there done that their price is very fair and when you have Windows 10 and you find out that your software stopped working you will think oh my gosh why didn't we approve that a long time ago no we want to be first on the list there so this is an item that's already budgeted i' make a motion um to approve the estimated 9500 up to 95 UPG the computers uh not to exceed 11,000 just in case to 11000 looking for a motion not to exceed 11,000 it's budgeted at 144 so we're good okay for 11,000 and we
024have that second and any comments on that not hearing we have Ru call on that please yes and yes yes yes and that passes uh Road chloride uh last year the road chlorid uh went very well there's all kinds of new rules now that uh EPA everybody has put on the choring of the rows and the row Commission adheres of those I only allowed to put so many gallons per mile and um the good thing about last year having the road commission do it is that when they graded the roads the chloride trucks are right behind them so they get it when it's um still soft and it absorbs into the gravel which um in past sometimes they didn't have everybody drove over the gravel roads and then the chloride uh showed up but uh
025right now the road commission coordinates very well with their graders so um they didn't raise the price uh it's the same price is last year so I'm looking for a motion to approve the 2025 chloride program not to exceed uh 78,000 from 101 446 9342 I I just have a comment I think this is always added to the agenda every year does they tr get to us or no well I'll just explain that they just get it to me um last week they automatically say now we're going to go offer bids for Grabel we need it to today that you're going to sign up did they do that to everybody yes so it depends when your board meeting is too it just so happens that we get them right after agenda and it's like well
026we could wait but then if Bruce needs to say we need corai just wondered why if this is always something their emergency becomes our emergency is what happens what it is is they have to put the bids out in the past like for the gravel they would just start putting the bids out sometime at the beginning of Spring and then they wouldn't gravel until fall they found out that that was a mistake because then they got into rainy season and we had nothing but mud so now they've pushed everything up and they make it an emergency for us so that they can get their bids in and then they start grabbling during the summer when it's still dry so that's and the Chlor riding I think that they have to get everything approved to figure
027out what price they're going to charge so soon as they know what the county uh approves on the price then they hurry up and send it to us so so the chloride price has not changed for last year the price did not change now and and does this include in gravel well that's what the tri party okay the tri party I just sent in that we will be doing the tri party with them so this is just ch this is just chor we on I was wondering yeah and I met with the road commission earlier this week or last week rather and um uh we agreed that um right now Frick Road needs some attention and texer road so that's where the gravel will be going there's a big soft spot right on uh um
028oh well I get yeah if you tell me where right now the frost is coming out of the ground I I got a little bit of lesson they told me that I asked when when is the frost out of the ground they said soon as Lakeville has no ice on it that means the frost is out of the ground so as you notice this weekend the ice is gone off of Lake Bill and so the frost is out and army Road between the two uh Upper Lake MD Lake and Lower Lake M fell apart they're up there now trying to salvage it and it fell apart and of course down by Indian Lake so I've been on the phone with them and they're doing a lot of favors for us and trying to fill these
029in and I'm sure up on cord Lake there's going to be some bad spots the new yeah yeah so they did a good job over there they really did um I did check big Barney is charging 12 cents a foot for their customers so this is still a good de for yeah I um but they only get private I mean they would only do private roads and that I yeah I I I do not want to deal with big baring I had a well no I wasn't suggesting we should I'm just saying that it's a very competitive price he wasn't very Cooperative what I tried to stop the trucks from coming through the town when it was sold and that company has been sold now um and the old the old company had grandfather greats
030but that big bar is now has moved up to driving because uh they used to drive through our town all the time and um I just offered that by way of financial comparison for no I agree I just said I had to uh I I did not have a very good rapport with big party he's out of how or something and he uh he thought that he could keep operating out of our town and Kash to that yes I know you communicate with the road commission a lot the the team that I met would you let them know thank you very much for working so hard in our Township they to get everything done I just had a um can do it I just had a meeting with Colin who is our superintendent out of
031the Clarkston in 24 garage and Jason who is our foreman and I gave him big adab boys but I don't like to say that too loudly cuz the last people I did that they all got promoted and then I lost so I have a very good rapport with these gentlemen and they have done a great job and um I know it's very hard right now because with the frost coming out but they have the all the roads passable which is okay uh we don't have motion oh I need a motion I'll make it uh I make a motion to approve the 2025 program for not to exceed 78,000 from I work down a bunch of numbers I'm sure they're wrong but ending in2 101 1446 9342 right okay I'll support and we have support any
032comments motion on a second okay Ru call please Mary Frost yes yes super yes and that passes okay we come on the public for anybody in the public or public from the cameraman any comments no comments okay so we have no nobody from the public that wants the comment Addison Township Board anybody on the board uh any reports you know what I write this down Planning Commission um has asked to hold a public hearing on two ordinance amendments um what next month then sorry WR down open SP we have the waste water and the waste and then we have and then we have article 24 okay okay um M oh something oh I just uh we haven't met in a while for the O area cable commission but our interlocal agreement which is a 10-year
033contract is pretty much expiring this month so that is going to be presented with word it's going to be kind of late but car's been sick and so uh just so you know that it's coming it's there's not much change to it so I see it next month meeting on Monday so I just want let the board know that I had about seven responses for the positions at Addison Township and we held interviews last week and hopefully by this week we might have new employees okay Mike's been trying to get in there then you just saw me and I oh no he's going to say something so just keep going just keep going U on the thank you for your uh support on the Oakland County Materials management um they are their stated purpose is
034to reduce and recycle um to increase that in the county they got a big Grant from the state but um ultimately it comes down to um talking or or actually doing and in 30 some years they haven't done anything really to help Solid Waste um I think this is more of a financial incentive um than anything but um I appreciate the opportunity now I will report back regularly and regarding the sisma um there's going to have a community habitat Improvement projects that applications will be in June or between June and August and I'll update the if we wanted to participate in something like that if we if we could get um them involved again up with the frag Mes in the park that about 15 Acres there that would be great because the uh the
035first applications uh did really well I'd like to follow up with that if there's uh if they're looking they're always looking for a place to do that so I I sent you a um United States geographical survey is doing a Craig mighty's uh testing with a new herbicide so if you're interested it's a grant um so I sent it to you maybe no it was just before the meeting I just got it today so um yeah there's maybe a couple opportunities yeah I can I ask what is that frag I don't know that's frag tall stuff that takes over the Cattails oh okay you're talking about the the stuff that they put on the English cottage Cottage houses that's what that's called right yes and a different term and different people that's what they use
036it for that's not I know that's why I wanted to know what it was I didn't know that I do need new roof there's a lady up on Railroad that does those people well that Mighty is an invasive species that came in with the Freighters okay the ballast water but U okay um what oh no Mar you oh well I went to a Sim Cog U meeting in Pontiac a couple two three weeks ago now and uh they were Pontiac is very happy they're very proud of being Pontiac and they're doing a lot of work down there and U nothing that really I don't think we would have wanted to do or anything so but we got to keep knowing what they're up to oh exactly okay um we don't have any more reports and
037any uh Communications no communication supervisor report I just wanted to say yeah we did have a little electric outage for a while um of course it was only by Mike's house you know was he doing but they did finally get it done but yeah the rest of the Township there was a big area that we had about 5 hours of but in Leonard there for whatever reason they had a lot of tree damage farther out in the township that stopped the electricity in downtown they were around what 26 hours and 28 hours but anyways the road commit the DTE did get that fixed the roads I have given I did have a meeting and I did give them a lot of Kudos that every time I call Jason he answers the phone and if I
038say hey I have a really bad Road um uh he gets out there and says I'll do my best right away and he does so um I I can't thank them enough because in the past they would have pick up the phone now I have a direct line to them and and they've been terrific so and they everybody in the township calls and thinks that Bruce could do Miracles but it isn't Bruce it's I have a good rapport with the road commission and I have a meeting with them set up with um the the heads of everybody in the road commission like I said I don't like to give too many Kudos because if you remember Chris D who used to do a really great job for us now he got a he got a
039promotion and I lost them and then I got a couple bad ones and now I got rid of those and I have good ones again so I don't want to make that mistake again but anyways um I'm working on an sad Peninsula Drive Right now the residents want that paved um I've met with everybody the state everybody on there and uh the residents uh want to do an sad and um so what we're looking at right now is there's a Spillway that they need an easement they're working on that now and uh they're going to put a drain that on one section that goes out right now what happens on that road of course is a chloride and the gravel all CL into the lake and when it does that it also goes through everybody's
040garages so we've had engineering drawings that the residents requested uh the road commission's involved they've tilted the road away from the garages and they put manhole cover two of them to catch the water send it to the lake which will solve everybody's problem and it will make it easier for the township then we don't have to grab on chloride Peninsula it's the same as what we did in monotic behind Louis restaurant there or the the Lakeville station now and that worked out beautifully and um everybody's happy there and so those people um are just emulating what they did on the grad so and um so then there's one or two more rows we only have two more rows that actually gravel rows that flow into the the lake Gravel Ridge and then um anadale anadale
041is waiting for a house to be completed at the very end of the road and I think they would like in the future to pave theirs and Gravel Ridge is also contacted the me and they would like to start getting preparations to have that one paid that would be the last of the RS that would be putting chloride into the lake so I think it's a good thing for Lakeville Lake and the environment so um I'll keep you updated on how we progress on that so great all three of them could do it at the same time would say everybody a lot of money well the problem is I don't know how much money we have CU you know the we have to pay the board created 43 30 some thousand and monatic is paying
042theirs off okay every year it's a seveny year they're already into like the fourth year or or so of that uh next we have one more payment on the township building here okay so next February we will be weow $100,000 and we're done and uh we have one more year on pays well next February will be our last payment you said one more payment so is it we already paid this year oh you pay a year in advance there's one payment left there was a 10e payments and so um you know like back if you remember when we did this we had the money to do this but rates were so cheap I said keep our powder dry and now uh that same money that we have we can get close to 5% and I
043think we're paying two and something on the loan so it was a wise move so more money then for to use for these ath well that night then we have more money freed up and every year as the other ones are paying them off then we have more money to it's and to me it's it's a win-win because it's improving the whole Township and the environment and the lake and and yet the residents are actually paying for it it's just that we have to pay the bill right when it comes in and then collect the money from them over seven years so anyways other than that I don't have anything else in the supervisor's report and uh so looking for a motion for adjournment make motion tojn I'll second okay all those in favor say
044I we are adjourned uh next uh month April 21st 6 o00 is our next meeting