001I don't even know where i' like to call to order the Charter Township of Boxford Board of Trustees regular meeting for Wednesday March 12th 2025 uh board members if you please turn your mics on will call to order the meeting uh by first paying respects to the flag I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the repu for it stands one nation God indivisible withy and justice for all thank you uh noting of the role not there is a quorum thank you approval of the agenda I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as presented I'll second that I have a motion by treasur Ferrari and a second by trustee Charles uh are there any questions hearing none uh all those in favor signify by saying I I those
002opposed hearing none approval of the consent agenda I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda with the following Corrections for the water legal fund bills of 495 uh move that from the water fund to BTA 25-1 and the building permit fund and for the Brad Dy sanary sewer there's for invoices on those that are for Parks and Recreation so that invoice will be $255 for parks and rec $780 for sewers I'll second I have a motion by treasure Ferrari and a second by trusty colan are there any questions hearing none roll call trusty Charles yes trusty Wagner yes trusty covin yes trust Ferrari yes right yes trust yes and supervisor Curtis yes item number six public comment on items not on the agenda it's time for the public if you have any comments please
003come on up to the mic good evening good evening I'm I'm Brian clut here I'm your library director I see some new faces uh up here welcome um as your director if there's anything that I can help you with in your processing the work that you do here um on the Township Board I do more than to help you because aside from running the day-to-day operations behind the scenes of the public library I'm also your librarian um I also want to just make everybody aware of the fact that the construction at the library is pretty much wrapped up we're done we have minor incidental things at this point the punch list is completed at this point as well um we will be replacing uh windows on our circulation Lobby um they say this month but
004things tend to be behind schedule these days um but as soon as we have the dates on that we'll have to shut our circulation Lobby off to the public we'll route people through another part of the building um but we won't have to close for that but we'll make sure that we put all that out on social media so you're aware of the the transition to go to where you need to go to get into the library all right so thank you thank you any other public members like to speak on items not on the agenda seeing none Bo of Trustees comments start with truste tonight nothing at this time Clark R I have nothing to offer at this time thank you treasure Ferrari nothing please trusty Colin nothing at this time trusty Wagner I'll
005talk a little bit about what some of the activities have been involved with over the last month try to make things a little bit interesting so as a member of the hardship uh committee we we reviewed and and finalized our property tax relief uh guidelines as part of the safety path uh committee been working on finalizing the safety path master plan which will show up as part of the uh the overall plan master plan activities um part of as part of the water and sewer committee we've been working to fund and approve grants to expand our sewer system and so good work's going on there also part of the Cooperative invasive species uh Management Area committee so we actually attended a discussion an interesting discussion with the do Mike Shuster he's an e ecologist and
006in particular he he talked about using grassy seed mixes to to uh to help control Buckthorn so if anybody has any Buckthorn issues that's the uh research you did actually looks pretty effective and in this grassy seed mixture is actually sold by ml court so pretty interesting stuff also had the opportunity the privilege actually to attend the oxar Addison used assistant annual lunching meeting and where they discussed a lot of the activities around our yeast support for last year uh very impressive and they're actually currently looking for additional volunteers to help support their activities so please please reach out to them um also attended a uh discussion on a trail water land Alliance meeting so they talk they talk basically free areas uh Community habitat improvements um using actually using High you know this high
007technology liar to serve our Park and trail infrastructure and they're also working on a bird City designation program so if there are any bird lovers out there reach out to the Oakland bird Alliance um they're looking for volunteers um also attended a meeting of Southeastern Michigan council with governments so they support Southeastern Michigan and lot they reviewed a lot of legislative activity that's ongoing for example a lot of developments coming out of laning including the implementation I'm sure you've heard of minimum wage and tip increases as well as a road funding plan that's all for me thanks okay thank you uh trusty Charles that's it David um couple of things you mentioned the Auer as and youth assistance that was a nice meeting thank you for attending uh we do have a fundraiser coming up
008if anyone has cans and bottles I want to dispose of that's one of our fundraisers for Oxford Addison which as you point out is a pretty good organization I think one of the best one of the best here in Oxford um you mentioned sem cob the semog meeting we had I was at the city council in ponac a couple weeks ago that was a great meeting and I did have a chance I think supervisor Cur would like this to uh speak with a couple of the representatives or Commissioners for the open County Board of Commissioners and address some of our concerns about the enormous increase that uh we suffered from with the Police contract that just came up with polite conversation but at least they brought it to their attention which they are very much
009aware of um I think by now most FS have SE we've got no has coming up um I saw that a few places posted and if not I'll get the information those States com com up and I guess that's it for now thank you that's it I can do more but we'll get out here midnight thank you um I have three items one the substation buildout is coming to a close rapidly uh we're waiting on the installation of our uh the lockers the new additional lockers uh today I the pods with Personal Touch moving we uh we got the things in the three new rooms but there's much more work to do because with our recycling of some of the boxes one side says treasure one size says accounts uh for the clerk so we
010have a mess we'll go through that um we're going to do the punch list here probably the week of the 24th and the last thing I want to talk about is be prepared we have an assessor contract coming up another Secret contract from the County Commission um where they won't let it out until after they've had a chance to manipulate it make sure it's making enough money for the county uh so that's coming forward we may even have an opportunity to back in the assessing business again other than that oh one more thing um I'm going to ask this question I'll love Brian and maybe you can say yes or no does a library still have subscription to the uh Grant portal that you had before yes we do okay thank you so CJ can
011use that if we have to figure it out thank you okay item number 8 a for County Community Foundation I see someone in the audience go ahead CJ okay uh good evening board members um I just want to introduce this is Kathy Dickens she's the executive director of the for County Community Foundation and I just wanted to sing their praises a little bit because in the last 5 years since I've been here um they've awarded us five grants totaling over $53,000 and that's allowed us to add equipment to our senior center establish a community garden in the park that provides free vegetables to those who are experiencing food insecurity and local seniors install free smoke alarms and free carbon monoxide alarms in households containing seniors individuals with disability lowincome persons construct the Helen Smith Park
012out here our 20 uh 2400t pocket park and most recently last year expand and enhance the pickle ball courts in seamor Lake Township Park for county has been an excellent partner Cath and I have an excellent relationship and they're a valuable resource and she's here tonight to tell you a little bit about their organization Brian's on that board too so we got to kind of be nice to yeah absolutely um so I am here as the executive director of for County Community Foundation and Brian has come along as a important trustee and also a fund holder uh on behalf of the library he holds an endowed fund and the work of the foundation is just really fun to talk about so I really appreciate any opportunity that I get uh people joke with me I'm
013a retired School principal so I've done a fair amount of discipline in my life and U now I get to go to work where it's a birthday party every day I keep get to um and I don't personally but um our board loves to review a good Grant and uh you've had many of them written uh for Oxford projects uh by the likes of CJ and the other nonprofit leaders area so my job here today really is to make sure that I leave with you not scratching your head and asking the question for County Community Foundation what's that I've never heard of that I really like that uh whole um uh curiosity or uh um I just like that to go away when people say you're the best hidden secret around we don't want to
014be a hidden secret everyone can be involved in their Community Foundation uh so what our work is essentially is we're a conduit we're a pip line if you will between people who want to see good things happen in their community and are willing to put a little money forth towards it um and then nonprofits uh City uh municipal government schools who libraries that want to do good work we're that pipeline we move the money along from the people who want to have the good things done to the entities in your community that do the good work excuse me and also wanted to say that um Oxford now has a fully endowed Community Fund um thanks to a little luncheon we had here a few years back and uh Jack was kind enough to put me
015in touch with somebody who shopped us with a 50% um so essentially Oxford has its own endowed fund its own Community Fund so you know if anyone were um in love with this community and I can't imagine anybody wouldn't be what's not the love and they want to donate um once in a lifetime once a month uh once a year to their Community they could use the Oxford Community Foundation to do that because all the dollars donated to that fund come right back to the community so it'd be my um greatest wish is to kind of get people acquainted with that fund and all of the good that it could do uh park benches uh projects for little kids at the school food pantries Library essentially any project that touches your community that does community
016good we want to be a partner in um and we wish to grow that fund as you can tell uh by what CJ had said um you know we' granted quite a bit but boy oh boy we could do a lot better and so you know more grants to us to review uh more donations to us to to give back to the community again um utilize our services so um we've been around since 1987 and have served Oxford since 1987 we started with a sale of a hospital at 2 and A5 million in '87 and we've grown it to around 25 26 million while giving back to our larger community area $13 million in scholarships and grants and a lot of our work is in Scholarships in recent years we have about $630,000 that we
017give out in scholarships each year and I I would say um not not many of them in the Oxford Area could we grow that could we do a lot more um and establish a lot of Oxford scholarships of course I'm sure there are students who love to go to college and people who' love to help them get there and so that's certainly a field that we could grow into as well as all the other beautiful projects um so with that I could go on forever but I would have Brian would you have anything to say as a trustee and were a u the the fund holder of the Oxford Public Library ow fund kathen Brian I would like to entertain any questions walk away tonight case we do have some go ahead sir um for
018the sake of time I just want to say that it's been a pleasure serving on the 4 County Community Foundation board um it has opened my eyes to the philanthropic World in many ways that have been so rewarding um not just on a local level but in the entire region um the library what got me introduced with for county is when I was a director at Emily City um we received a number of Grants through Fort County Community Foundation over the years but more so when I arrived here in Oxford we had two endowments they were really endowments in name only they were not what I would call Bonafide endowments um we the board and I discussed uh where to put that those funds uh we merged those funds together into one uh fund and
019we met with um Folks at the for County Community Foundation we discussed things with the southeast Michigan foundation and we felt that war County Community Foundation was our local foundation and that is where we wanted our funds to go since we moved those funds I think it was somewhere around 35 $40,000 um that has grown into about um hundred close to $150,000 in a very short period of time so that leverage that we have together um in making the foundation work and making the money work for our community has been a huge value so and and likewise if there's anything I can um help be the conduit between the township and the foundation um obviously I review a lot of those grants so I have to be careful about how I go about doing that
020but needless to say if there's anything that you have questions on I'd be happy to answer those as well thank you at this time any board members have any questions for the caty your bre yes David truste Wagner thank you yeah um maybe two quick questions one is there's a website for your organization absolutely and I brought with me some literature and some business cards I'd be happy to approach and kind of just hand you you can pass along the you talked about the scholarships those are those are also listed on your site and those are searchable they are our scholarship window uh currently is closed and we're going to be reviewing them soon but um again we have $630,000 in scholarships you know that are set up per the donor's uh wishes and Mission
021and so those donors in large part are from our other communities we don't hold I think there might be two scholarships that touch Oxford but the only reason that is is because we haven't had any donors come forward uh to initiate one I see got the same um Mark did you know Mark were you there when he was there um it doesn't ring a bell I mean it's been years since Mark was a trustee so gota yeah I've been with the foundation since 2019 okay that was before yeah there's been some wonderful people uh representing the foundation any other trustees Jeffrey thank you very much I look forward to our annual lunch oh absolutely I I love that you can pass along the invite to your colleagues here might I approach one end or the
022other and I'll take them and okay we'll pass them out from there thank you Kathy thank you appreciate your time today all right you set right on top of now got itk you board members thank you very much um next up is uh 8B Metronet internet streaming and phone service presentation I have the seales brothers back here that are going to come up and speak if you'd come on up to the Lector and introduce yourself this is Telly Whitfield from Metronet he uh met with Danielle and I a few weeks ago and has an interesting proposal about bringing high-speed internet to Oxford with fiber infrastructure so we met with him thought it was a great presentation and we wanted to bring it to you tonight to to hear more and possibly take some action in
023the future I see they left the brochure on each one of Trustees here good evening supervisor Curtis and board members um first and foremost I really do believe it's it's appropriate that we're dovetailing with the Community Foundation presentation um because I spent 25 years working in local government management and I know one things for sure is that communities do not stay static right so when you have communities that are investing intentionally investing in themselves that's really a positive thing so I commend the Community Foundation and I commend sorry I don't understand and I commend sir and I Comm I commend all of you um for continuing to invest into your Community to make it even a better place to live here in Oxford Township uh again my name is Telly Whitfield I do appreciate the
024opportunity to come before you um and let me tell you a little bit about myself and then I'm going to tell you about Metronet so again I spent 25 years working in local government public management I um worked in three different states and five different communities I always saw myself as my professional work was really a Ministry because my professional Mantra was to build communities fast forward to 2022 um I had the opportunity to join Metronet and Metronet continues U my professional Mantra of building communities this time I have the opportunity to build communities leveraging the infrastructure of the future and now with fiber internet um so when I was with the city of fville North Carolina fille North Carolina is the sixth largest city in North Carolina or as we'd like to say and
025we put it in our budget document the sixth largest city and the ninth largest state and the greatest country in the world we've been in the news uh recently with the change with Fort Brag from Fort Liberty back to Fort Brag um when I was there as the assistant city manager there Metronet came um into our city after doing some due diligence and said one statement to me we want to privately invest $7 million into your community to build a fiber infrastructure network if you guys are familiar with of Jerry Maguire in the movie you had me at hello so over the next couple years we were working out because we were the first um municipality in the state of North Carolina that Metronet was interested in um so obviously we took our time to
026make sure we understood one why why fed Bal but two what does this mean for us and doing that research we realized how important in was to have fiber into our community now note I said 2019 is when Metronet came to us something happened in March of 20 2020 it was called Co the pandemic changed the world right literally stopped everything and we realized how important it was to have technology people working from home schools with um um virtual learning and asynchronous learning tele Med um in addition to just quality of life aspects as well and of course the economy one of the things I like to talk about um now when we go into different communities is you realize the economy pre pandemic and the economy post-pandemic is different because a lot of folks
027didn't go back to those jobs because now they were using technology to change the economy right a new industry was established so I say all that to say um the infrastructure of today and tomorrow is really around fiber highspeed Broadband which is through fiber so who is Metronet metr is actually the largest privately owned fiber to the home internet provider in the country we were established in 2005 in Evansville Indiana so we're a Midwest based company but as I talk right now we're in 18 maybe 19 depending on the time of day 19 States we're about to go into our 19th state and we have over 300 communities in which we either are already providing service or we will be we building the infrastructure to provide service um in in a very near future along
028with me today I have my colleague Ben ruset Ben is actually the regional vice president of regional of of um New Market development and he is um in this area he's been working in the um Midwest area for quite a long time um Metronet actually has infrastructure um in the state of Michigan already we're in western Michigan um Ben was partly responsible for obtaining some of those markets and what we're interested in now is moving into the Eastern portion um of the state of Michigan so over the last uh six months or so we've been going through our due diligence Market evaluation process and looking at essentially two major clusters of communities in which we believe are underserved with the opportunity to have highspeed broadband internet and that would be por portions of Oakland County
029and po portions of mome County I'm going to talk a little bit more specifically about um um those two markets and um as we move forward but I'd like to um reemphasize that we love to invest in communities that are investing in themselves and so we we saw Oxford Township as an opportunity to bring fiber infrastructure into this community and provide services for your residents and your businesses so again um Metronet is the largest independently owned Pure Play Fiverr all we do is Fiverr that's what we do we do Fiverr internet Fiverr um telephone services we did build our first um Network in 2005 in Green Castle Indiana um and again now we sit at over 2 million residential and business subscribers and again we're in um 18 about 19 States I I also say
030that I'm not I wasn't a math major in college so I know that if you actually do those purple States in there it doesn't add up to 19 but I promise you we're in 19 States um because we're actually starting in Nevada um very soon and Kansas is actually not even know um added to that um as well so we're we're growing as a community next slide please so y fiber um it's really simple quality of life imperative your residents deserve um competition in the market to have a a quality service for what internet is um what's the difference between fiber and traditional cable coaxial cable um the difference is speed the difference is reliability um the difference is redundancy so let me talk about those those things speed what we have is the ability
031through fiber to have your upload speed symmetrical to your download speed so for in for instance if you have download speed with your internet right now you you may have let's say 100 um for your for your download speed for your upload speed you might be getting 25 so therefore you get that little Circle of Death right you get degreg of service also what happens with traditional cable is if when you're on your internet is that when folks come home from school and folks come home from work you start to see that degreg that latency that lag so what you may have had at 10:00 in the afternoon when at 10:00 in the morning when other people are gone you don't have that same speed um with fiber you stay consistent throughout the whole time
032it's very reliable um and it's it has what we call redundancy the way we build our networks um if there is unfortunately a um utility strike on one place we can actually locate that isolate that in U situation and then run the fiber the opposite direction to make sure that we maintain um service for the prop hundreds of people secondly economic development in my old days of working um in local government I also worked a lot with Economic Development A lot of times when you have businesses that are coming into the community and when you have local community um um businesses would like to grow our small business um base would like to grow one of the things they want to know is what is our infrastructure do we have fiber that can actually grow
033that why is that important because it's important for efficiency and business out but as fast as we can get things in and out um it's really important next slide please so as I mentioned that's why we Rique because we have symmetrical service and it's fast one of the things that's great about Metron that is um we we we we talk um about how great the product is I truly believe that the product sells itself that's not what I'm here to do is sell a product um but what I want to talk about is the organization that builds the product and we've been recognized um by the by multiple industry standard standards as one of the best one over the last two years in 2023 and in 2024 we've been um recognized as the fastest ISP
034in the country um and that's through PC Magazine um and also we have one of the safest um products as as far as the way we um build our um infrastructure and so we're recognizing ized by um those who are protecting the public infrastructure so we're really excited about who we are and we stand by the values of who we are um as we grow over 2 million subscribers we're still a small business and we have that small business value a family-owned value to the organization thank you so a road to a gigabit City okay um a gigabit City being being that the opportunity for over half of your residents to have access to at least one gig uh gigabit of speed in your internet okay that is something that's very aspirational for many communities
035um for various things one obviously for quality of life and livability um we have a lot of folks that um do a lot of streaming at home as well as gaming at home so that's really important from that perspective and then obviously as I mentioned from the economic development perspective as well um so here's kind of the out if you will of of um of the process of becoming a gigabit City and I should I should go back and state one thing is that um here with with this particular build we are very interested and excited um about let's say three years ago um when I was first coming on board there was a lot of speculation again we're coming out of Co there was a lot of speculation honestly everyone in their mother um
036had um interest in in in building infrastructure you had the beat money that was coming down it was really kind of a an exciting place to be that being said there were a lot of unmet promises that that occur during that time frame um what we've been able to do over the last year and a half with the growth um that we've gone we've really been very strategic in our approach and looking at our markets and when we look at our markets and when we come out and we have conversations like the conversation that I had with CJ and Danielle um we are seriously interested Ed and very close to investing in the communities so when I mentioned Oakland County and mome County right now we're interested in in investing probably about a hundred million
037or more into these communities to privately fund a full build of a fiber Network to service these communities obviously a Township would be a portion of that um and that's and that's um why I'm here so how do we move forward with our gigabit Community the first part is the partnership the partnership is what I call a low a lowercase p partnership and that's really that communication um to to engage with um the elected officials but also to engage with the administrative staff so we understand um permitting we understand your uh uh Certificate of Insurance and bonding requirements we also understand the fabric of our construction and St and the construction standards and the commity Community standards of what they're looking for um when we're talking about a build of this size um secondly is
038the communication piece we overc communicate here's the difference between Metronet and some other providers we're here we didn't just go out and and try to pull permits I know here in the state of Michigan it's fairly unique that we have What's called the Metron Metro act um which is kind of a global permitting process that um local municipalities opt into um going through that process often times you may have never seen the organization to come before you before they go and and you have a Metronet excuse me a Metro at permit that's in front of you um that's not how we behave that's not how we want to be seen because we recognize that before we actually get a subscriber we actually have to make sure that we know the the community the community feels
039comfortable with us and when we start to do the investment in that Community Building um that first shovel that's in the ground or that first um strand that goes onto the polls that we're going past our future customers and we want to have that relationship and we want them to know who we are um so that's why that Communications are very is very important pre and post the build in addition while we're actually going through the process we have a three-pronged communication notice um process that I'll go into a little bit detail later I would love to to say that you close your eyes and for 10 seconds and you wake up and we have fiber internet all across the community but obviously it's a construction process I just list in a little bit earlier
040as you were talking about some of the expenses that you had to to take care of to take care of the business of the of the community um when I was doing capital projects in my former life I would have loved to just do a complete build of a sewer project or of a pavement condition project but but money is an object right um particularly when you're talking about the people's dollars so therefore we look at um doing a capital project over a five or sevene Horizon and we find ways to fund that well we're very fortunate because we um have private investment that we get a a large fund of money to construct at the beginning of the project that then lends us to say we want to make sure that we are working
041with the local community because we don't want to ingate the local community and go in the big swoop so we will partner with them to talk about how it's going to be built in segments and making sure that you're walking along the path the same way we are as well in particular um when there's utility locating capacity we want to make sure that you guys are comfortable as we're moving forward as well so that's part of that um communication and the construction process the other piece is really important for us is restoration um we are working in the public right away and the util easements however most residents and I know this from my years of working in local government don't know the difference between what's my private property and what's the public right away
042right so in addition to that communication portion of that we want to make sure that we're restoring all of the area as soon as possible this is a metric um that is one of our key performance um indicators for our senior leadership in fact on a quarterly basis B can attest to this on a quarterly basis we get that review we just happened the other day when the CEO of the company talked about our restoration efforts um and then finally release we release as we go so what we're looking at here for Oxford Township we've actually identified roughly 4,000 households and businesses that we believe are underserved um with fiber with um their internet capacity and we would love to provide fiber internet to those 4,000 um residents and businesses those properties that's what we
043call the pass anytime that you have access to fiber internet um pass a property we call it a pass either from a residential household or from a business Community we don't wait till all 4,000 of those are complete tested spliced and then lit up before we actually release for service we release in what we call small neighborhood polygons or lcps that then we'll have folks that um can have their service up immediately once they're ready to go you don't have to wait for the end thank you Mr right so again the partnership is about transparency it's about accountability I like to say it's about vulnerability because we'll talk about where we are where we're going um we'll also talk about the unfortunate mishaps that may happen because it is construction we can't just close our
044eyes and and wake up in 10 seconds and say wow wow the project is done and sometimes we have a colleague that says human beings do human things human being things and sometimes accidentally they do things wrong um and so we have to deal with those as well so we acknowledge that there's utility strikes but we're also accountable to those utility strikes as well um the one thing we also like to do is make sure that as the elected um body you're not inundated with additional calls from the community about what's going on so we have A- 1800 number that's a state side number that's our call center is actually in pukan Kentucky um and that people can call and it's just about construction doesn't say anything about um the product it talks about the
045construction project and says that if we're here um in your area we're permitted by the local municipality to be there um and this is what we're trying to do um we're going to be working in the right of way um if you have for example um an irrigation system or if you have an electronic fence for your pets we want you to call us so that we can Whiteline those and make sure that we're not not interfering with your property as well so we want to do as much as possible to make sure that we have Goodwill and awareness with our residents and obviously not inundate the elected officials so here are some quick examples of what that communication plan looks like um the first letter goes out approximately 45 days U from the start
046of construction so if you lived at 111 smart Street um we would send out a letter now granted I know how how many times I go to my mailbox um I think my kid goes to the mailbox looking for letters more than than I do um but that's our first forray into the communication so um if you can go back yeah thank you um so we that letter that's up on the northwest side there um the with the purple heading that's what that letter looks like and it talks about who Metronet is that we are permitted to be in the right away once we actually have that access um and then um how you can get in touch with us as well the next next thing that happens about uh a week or so a
047little over a week until we're actually in your community is we'll have a postcard that goes out to that same address that postcard will say that construction is underway typically that means we may be in the in the uh the neighborhood adjoining or we may be on the next street um but we're coming to you very um very soon and again it's a reminder it's so for some folks it might be the first time they've seen it but it's a reminder that we are in the area and then finally we'll have the week of and typically this is when right before you start to see the utility locating that occurs in the community um and I'm mainly focusing on underground utilities right now um but obviously we also work from an aerial perspective because we
048follow power um but in this instance if we're doing an underground um construction right here in the right of way what we do is we'll put um lawn darts out in the in each of the uh properties to let them know that within that n um couple days we'll actually be going in and then I want to remind everyone that we do the restoration as well we also put out signs for egress and Ingress to make sure that people are just not noticing that we're in the community everyone that works for us um will have PPE and they'll have notifications along with ID cards that say that they're working for Metronet and all of our trucks also have the signage on them as well one of things that we do um I'm going to briefly
049jump over this one so you're perfect um is because of what I stated earlier around the idea that not a lot of folks really understand um what a RightWay is or what an easement is that we have these um educational um videos that we do share with communities that many of them have actually had as a link on their site to educate the population about what's going on so we that's just another resource that we have yes sir thank you this is actually an um an actual build that we have this is Finley Ohio and if you remember me mentioning that we we build in um neighborhood polygons or what we call lcps you can kind of see how that's mapped out right there so as we move forward there may be in the upper
050left and I I can tell you I can't see those numbers very well either but in the left upper leftand corner there may be an LCP there or neighborhood there that has 300 to 500 um um properties that are in that area and then once we complete that LCP um we actually turn on the switch and there and that's um it's available for service as we move forward um and I I will say this that we've gotten approval internally um from our board to have funding for construction um the Oakland County build um that we've expressed interest in we've already designed um for a majority of that build that initial build um right now includes um Bloomfield Township West Bloomfield um Waterford Township Commerce Township Independence Township and the City of Bloomville Hills the second
051phase of that Oakland um build would include hopefully Ox Township Oran Township and the City of of of Auburn Hills um and so that first um build has been designed um a build that you guys would be involved in has not been designed designed yet that would be premature U we wanted to make sure that we had the conversations with you guys um pre uh prior to doing that um I mentioned in the state of Michigan we have Metro act permits in applications we have submitted Metro act um applications for six of those jurisdic in that initial build and I've already received back um Bloomville Township um that has approved they've taken formal action and approved our build um so the next stage for us then would be to have a kickoff meeting and start
052the process around permitting um locally we've also had conversations with the roads commission um in Oakland County because I know they also have responsibility for a lot of the RightWay access um one of the last things I want to talk about is what our um what our equipment actually looks like many people are very familiar with uh telecommunications and I think the mark of telecommunication seems to be pedestal Farms um that's kind of the upper middle there um our actual U infrastructure goes in the opposite direction we are flush mount we go down with it so what you see down um right beside the pedestal Farm in the middle is what we call um flower pots um um and they go into the ground and then we can pull them up um in addition we
053have the vaults there um all of that again is flush mount um we think aesthetically it looks much better for the community um it's also safer for us because unfortunately how many people have seen the utilities that have the guts hanging out or the top of the pedestal um that hasn't been taken care of and it's very difficult to get somebody to come out to do that um I will also reference the fact that when when we do have a build we have local staff that will be here in this area not only as we build but after we build because we want to install as well so we'll have folks that will be in the community U moving forward and last slide um well second and last slide apologize um this is kind of
054the ABA thing um I heard you used to be a principal I used to teach um so I'm going to bring it back full circle here uh we want to be invested in the community we want to be a part of the community um that's really one of our core values as a company and so when we go into a community one of the things this is I think the part that Ben really loves the most about uh our company is that we have a presence in the community we have a community engagement um division that's very active and they do charitable organizations they contribute to community foundations um we we do fairs book fair s um financial literacy classes um as well as computer literacy classes we sponsor parks and wck teams things of
055that nature um so we we want to be a part of the community um and that's really who Metronet is and and I think more than anything I want to go back and that's why I was really excited and thank you whoever set the agenda up because it was perfect to talk about the investment in the community um and I'll reiterate this is that communities don't stay static they don't either they're invested in and they grow or they go in the opposite direction so I commend you for the work that you're doing to invest in your community and we want to be a partner in that going forth thank you for your time and I'm open for any questions that you may have tell if I may tell me absolutely okay um I really appreciate
056you coming here and explaining what Metronet does I'm pretty aware of what goes on my son lives in nville Florida mhm and one day they came in and put 10,000 flags up everybody wanted to know what that was going on they put fiber internet under everybody's driveway in the front yard I went down there in February the orange and yellow flags and blue flags are up again another fiber company came in and ran right alongside the next one but what they did is what you're doing you're coming in and telling the community that that's what you're going to do once permitted once you engage your communities you're enrolled in already you're going to pull the permits you're going to work in the right ways all the laws and legalities with the old franchising of uh
057cable that's all gone and done so you're moving forward and you're just telling us you're moving forward we would love for it to be a hospitable relationship let me and I you know what and I think you made an excellent point that I didn't mention and that's um the situations that you referenced around um people building over top of each other one of the things that we have as a business practice is Metronet doesn't overbuild fiber um it doesn't make any sense from a cost modeling perspective um as well as just from the perspective of you're you're ticking off the community right and so therefore in areas that already have a active fiber plant we will not build um we have not done that as as a as a business practice um because it it
058just doesn't make any sense Jing um I'll take question truste Charles a couple how does your company leave money we sell so we're rooted to tutor so we own um we own the fiber and we actually sell the product so we are internet service provider so who are your purchasers who's buying from you who's giving money like Netflix or what you talking no so so now we're we independently owned we're independently owned um that being said it has been public now that we um we have a joint venture moving forward with T-Mobile um their expectations is that they're getting into the fiber business so we would be a wholesale provider U for T-Mobile as T fiber okay who who owns the company you it's privately owned yes so the selli family um is um are
059the the the the founders and the and still part owners of the company and then we have you know two private Equity firms in addition to the joint venture that we'll be moving forward tell them Mission you guys in excuse me what's you mentioned you have a yes what what city what town yes we are in Grand rapis we are in Portage we're in um Kentwood um we are in Lancing and East Lancing did I miss any Ben Wyoming Wyoming we have approximately 250,000 um passes in the state of Michigan already are you do the village of offer too yes that is my that is my intention yes I'll be there tomorrow morning what's the uh from when you start to when you finish what time is there what's the excellent time excellent question we
060have the resources to build and let me Lo excuse me let me localize it to Oxford um Township right now with about 4,000 passes or so um that we can be in and out of 4,000 passes based off of the um not being too burdensome with um um with utility locates and things of that nature from the local government um but we can be in it out in a couple months with 4,000 passes so if this goes through why would you start off so that uh we're probably looking to have this project as I mentioned this has this um uh second portion or second phase of the Oakland County build has not been designed yet um I'm probably about 6 to8 weeks away from design um once it's designed then um we'll have to to
061obviously make sure that we have our Metro acts approved and things of that nature um I would look at by the Fall we could hopefully start construction that would be a fair schedule any other questions Jeffrey so with my understanding thank you for the presentation how do you bring the fiber into the residence so running underneath and is there something that's adjacent to the outside of the house like a normal utility how does that work correct so um note I didn't and that's a very excellent question so what I talked about mainly was the network infrastructure and building the network um and all of that's going to be on the public right away when we do installs that actually is when we go into the private property and then what we do is drop Berry
062it's typically around what been 10 10 to 12 inches Underground when we go into the community do you want to come up here and talk a little bit about the technology sure thank you put you on the spot yeah thank you thank you for having us we really appreciate the time to be able to answer your questions so um as Telly mentioned all the infrastructure is going to be laid during construction process once a resident says Hey Metronet we'd love to to give you a chance and have you installed we'll come out those little Round Disc boxes that were flushed to the ground those are called flower pots there's going to be one close to that home we're going to bring the line out of that box and then that's going to come right to
063the resident's home we're going to come up typically to wherever the current utilities run into the home that way we're not creating an additional space where they don't want us but resident can tell us hey actually don't want you over there we want to move over here they'll give us an idea where they want that box that box is going to house what we call splice box that's going to be where we splice the cable that's going to go into the house and then the one that comes outside that way if damage is on the outside we don't have to go in the house if it's in the house we just pull that line and and replace that got um that is fiber all way into the house so then we'll Place what's called an
064o or an optical Network terminal that replaces what you're used to seeing in traditional cable a modem we don't have a modem we have an optical Network ternal that's what makes our service so powerful is it's actually fiber all the way into the house it's fantastic and then one other question you mentioned I think it was 4,000 passes so how did you determine that number and I I asked that because some of the communities you know you might have fiber running down the main road but then it's not going in to some of the subdivisions that are down there so if there's fiber running down that main road are you are you going to say I'm not going there no no so we we uh we are aware that there's a other provider in this
065community that has fiber um but they are not in all of the neighborhoods correct so therefore we are really focusing on the neighborhoods that do not have um fiber currently and that are currently not on the plan for that that provider that's get to there you're going to lay next out the fber but into the community is where you so so um I may have talked earlier about the Rings for example the Rings are typically going to be around County on County Roads um your main thorough fars Etc that's where you see um where the Long Haul fiber comes through into a community right so you may see that connection there but then obviously they'll split off into actual neighborhoods that's an outstanding question I can help I know that this Township is on fire
066but our industry is not and the love those giant CAD files is always a a a bone of contention when Michigan edsc or Oakland County comes out here and they always complain that we can't download these Big C files to provide defense systems with trading back and for those are the areas you'd really hone in on first we already have it you're not going to hone in on us you're going to hone in on where where it's needed the most absolutely thank you any other questions from yes David yeah you talked about lcps what's the typical size of an LCP you said 3 to 500 homes 3 to 500 homes I mean it varies I I will say this that obviously density matters just for a cost to build perspective and um that that's a
067secondary part of the question that that's obvious secondary part of the the answer to your question um but yes typically it's 3 to five um and there'll be natural breaks like a main thare or you know a park or you know just National breakes that have that trusty Charles you had another question just uh what's what's the involvement for our homeowners outstanding question so obviously when we go and what the Metro act would cover and then the permits would cover would be public right away um for us to go into an HOA we'd have to have what's called a utility access agreement so we negotiate them separately um we would love to to have in additions um with with HOAs so when we when I mentioned the 4,000 um residential and household passes that's excluding
068HOAs right now because we can't we can't assume that without having a UAA okay currently our cable provider we sign an agreement they run the wire up to the house that's the same thing you're talking about there right okay any other questions well thank you Joe oh I'm sorry right um just just one quick thing you've given us a presentation what is the next stop set that us as a board to detering whether or not we keep the process going thank you so much I appreciate that so I mentioned internally um we have a couple things that we have to go through some Milestones so um one would be that design um because this particular area has not been designed yet um once we get further into that design concurrent to that I'll submit a
069Metro act um permit and application um to the board to take action um in addition I'll be talking to not only the or the team will be talking to not only um The Rose Commission of of the Oakland County but also to your staff to ensure that we have a better understanding of um your rways um and all of the expectations around an infrastructure build um but the next action would take from the board would be um having a Metro act that comes before you and then that would be how you move forward um I will say that we have engaged with Oran Township as well um I had a meeting that unfortunately had to be pushed back to April um to with them um but we've had uh lots of very positive meetings in
070this community to say the least I think we've heard pretty consistently that there's appetite for additional competition um in this market um and that's why we're here okay thank you gentlemen thank you thank you very much we appreciate your time right we'll move on item 9A Chief Fire Department recognition good evening um what I was uh what I had done was I I sent uh supervisor Curtis uh included him in an email um and just wanted you folks to know as well that uh some of our people did some wonderful work last week you might have seen it all over the news uh on a CPR save in Italia Gardens and uh while they were not recognized in the news story they did the heavy work and they did a heck of a job um
071and we had the family come out to and reach out to us this past week and I just wanted to let you know that we are doing good things uh and the crew that was involved happens to be on duty tonight and they're not able to be here so because of our job crazy right um but just so you know um and recently uh supervisor Curtis and CJ uh came with me to uh Oakland County uh where previous Crews were recognized again for saving lives within this community and it's so nice that the guys get recognized by somebody else and we appreciate that and just um know that we appreciate the support we get from this community and we we appreciate the support you guys give us and it's just nice to be able to
072give the guys and gals in this case um some recognition for what they did um and without you've got it up on the Monitor and it'll be on the screen so uh the gentleman is doing well and is expecting to make a full recovery and so I appreciate you putting that before the board so that people do know that we are here and we are working for you I got the email and I wanted everybody to understand that you and your Crews work hard to uh Keep Us Safe get us to where we need to be faster than we should well we're trying um there was one other thing um we were supposed to have uh uh the American Legion uh dinner this year and that got canceled du due to a bunch of illness
073at the legion um and we're going to be recognizing our one of our firefighters tomorrow um but but we're also going to be making recognition for uh somebody who really gave us a lot of support for the last year plus in my time here uh somebody who's helped us throughout the millage uh and all the work preparing for that uh during Fire Prevention Week showing up for all of our tours taking pictures uh posting on Facebook he doesn't know about this uh showing up to open house and being a good uh Samaritan for us a good servant for us he's there with shock with a firefighter he's at cider and donuts he came to our ice training recently uh and taking pictures and the most important thing recently is he's helped with the grants to
074secure the funds for our training Tower so on behalf of the Oxford Fire Department in recognition of CJ kakio for exceptional dedication and invaluable contribution to the Oxford Fire Department we just wanted to present him with a little recognition than CJ we need we need somebody else to take a picture I'll get I'll get one thank thank you very much um uh this this means a lot and you know really it's you guys do all the work and it's even from the newspaper to here it's always a pleasure to highlight good people doing good things so this this is this is very unexpected thank you thank you thank you DJ if you could just turn around I'm sorry I can get your picture I'm not as good as C let me get a close up
075beautiful thank you thanks thank thank you thank you very thank you and that's all I have for tonight thank you thank you CH like I said I'd hope the crew to be here but life happens right I can get him here no you can't right now actually so thank you thank you item 10 sharp engineering report board members in your packet was uh the memorandum from uh Shar our engineering uh where we are with all the projects going on in the community if you have any questions I'd be G glad to take them back to engineer sharp or some of our committee members can answer those questions if you have any seeing none we'll move on we have no unfinished business item 12a under new business allocation of Tri party funds uh board members uh
076for several years Oakland County Road Commission has administered the tri party fund this program purposes to fund Road Improvement projects in which the three entities listed on the sheet in your packet uh contribute onethird of the funds towards the project that's Road Commission of Oakman County Oakland County and the Charter Township of Oxford uh attached I gave a list of all the recent history of Tri party funds as allocated in the Charter Township of Oxford last year the roads committee regra over 14 12 miles we spent almost $400,000 on regra some of our roads that haven't been touched in over 50 years for 2025 you'll see $15,408 roads Highway and Roads committee met on February 26th and the committee is recommending that the budgeted Tri party F Tri party funds be allocated to the Dunlap
077road paving Ive that any 2025 Ro commission for o County Tri party program funds received by the chair T oxer be allocated for proposed 2027 dap road paving project I'll second that I have a motion by treasur Ferrari and a second by trustee Charles are there any questions hearing none roll call trusty on yes right yes treer F yes trusty cin yes trusty Wagner yes trusty Charles yes supervisor Curtis yes item 12b Oakland County Treasurer's Office forclosure prevention um I was asked by uh Oakland County Treasurer Robert wenberg to bring It Forward at our board meeting to talk about foreclosure prevention so the letter uh States the Oakland County Treasury office is in the final stretch of our for foreclosure prevention efforts the tax foreclosure deadline for 2022 Endor prior year is March 31st 2025
078that means if these taxes aren't paid by March 31st or any interested party hasn't entered into a repayment schedule with the treasurer's office by then the property will be foreclosed since November 24th the Treasury office has conducted over a thousand taxpayer assistance meetings to assist taxpayers in keeping their properties by working with them to get on a repayment schedule and or identifying resources that may be beneficial to them to get repayment a repayment schedule uh we are here to help and strongly encourage tax ERS to contact us before tax foreclosure deadline if they have delinquent taxes for 2022 or prior tax years taxpayers interested in scheduling taxpayer assistance meeting May call the county treasurer's office at 248 85861 or they may visit www.dove.com treasur treasure Ferrari in Oxford Township in Oxford Village will have one
079parcel that's hell outstanding I'm in constant contact with her at least once a week reminding here this has to get paid all the other ones you probably start off with about 10 or 15 I call them very regularly kind of remind them to get that paid if you got one person that's still that's on the list everybody else is already paid and she only ows about 600 bucks yes trust D Charles so just what you said there one person in the village and town that's it that's it one property that's pretty good excellent job okay that was for information uh item 12C adult use marijuana distribution uh board members in your packet the township recently received its 2024 adult use marijuana funds from the state totaling $174,600 cents I'm proposing the board allocate a portion
080of these funds for the construction of the Oxford Fire Department's training Tower since the community benefit agreements signed with the marijuana establishments in the township require their donations go toward the construction of the fire training Tower I find it appropriate that the additional Revenue we we received due to the presence of these establishments be allocated to the project attached to this uh 12C is the Chief's Chief Majestics uh cost breakdown for the tower per the community benefit agreement frequency Wellness that one establishment in the township that hasn't open has committed to contributing $100,000 to the project in anticipation of receiving These funds and in order to get the tower constructed this year I propose allocating $100,000 of the adult use marijuana funds to this project when frequency Wellness opens and they honor their $100,000 commitment
081that money would go back into the township fund for future allocation currently the fire department is responsible for $37,000 of the projected cost uh as you see in the breakdown below uh on the second page uh I propos the fire department utilize its millage funds for daily operation and the township allocates an additional $37,000 in these marijuana funds to cover the fire department's portion of the tower cost uh in conjunction to these costs talking with Chief Majestic I have a company that's willing to donate the land land balancing peer syncing and surveying of the land to ensure that there's no any additional cost for this foundation for the training facility and as soon as Chief gets me the scale plans they'll be out to State measure and start the process I move to allocate $137,000
082of AD use marijuana funds for the construction the oord fire department training C if in one the frequency Wellness facility opens ,000 Community benefit contribution be used to reimburse a general fund for future allocation this $137,000 is to be expensed to account number 206 357 96203 training Tower expenses I'll second that okay I have a motion by Treasurer Ferrari a second by trustee Charles I'll entertain any questions trusty Charles when does frequency Wellness anticipate opening they may not open uh their building is currently looking for uh while they hold a license with the state uh they are looking for uh a person to rent the building and open their cannabis dispensary should they are even entertaining non-cannabis U retail establishments we're working with uh Dr suder from McLaren hospital to try to put doctor offices
083in there and other facilities so if they don't open we will not see the community benefits money if they do and we see it we'll then Place those funds back for reallocation any other questions roll call please trusty cvin yes trusty Wagner yes trusty Charles yes trusty an yes work right yes treasure for yes and supervisor Curtis yes item 12d ordinance Review Committee request for funding trusty Wagner thank you um before I get to the motion so bit background so over the past couple of the orc committee meetings committee has been reviewing and building upon the work completed by the previous orc committee and as such your packet includes a prioritized list of new ordinance activities I think believe starting on page 204 Mr Mato p quala sorry if I butchered his namea okay anyway
084he has taken this prioritized list and developed a a work plan that estimates the effort required to complete each of the ordinance development activities I'm sorry trusty Wagner could you speak to your microphone please I'm sorry thank you and U his work his work plan is outlined starting on page I believe 199 of the packet in executing this work plan the orc intends to adopt a two-pronged approach so for ordinances without substantial concerns we'll go ahead and allocate the necessary time and resources to create the ordinance and conversely for ordinances that warrant for further consideration we will initially draft a framework for the board's revealing comment so this this approach will enable us to exercise greater fiscal respons responsibility by minimizing the time and expense allocated or associated with the ordinance development process with that
085any comments or questions okay I I'll take questions treasure Ferrari trusty Wagner one thing IID like to see when you have low priority Recreation amenities now required to be part of log essential developments let's see that moved up okay CU like we have caning property and all that if if I W that velops like have some type of recreation in that property all right we can bring that to the board or committee yeah we have to remember one thing that Recreation will be for that Community only it'll be on private property andless deemed to the township as a Township Park to which the Township Park director has no interest in them example motion clerk right yeah I think uh when I look through this list here I think think there's a lot of things here
086that I I don't necessarily think that we need to have explored and some of these and some of these I'm just not in favor of okay I make a motion to authorize ordinance Review Committee to do changes to the ordinances as requested for a budget amount not to exceed $16,750 I motions I have a motion by treasure Ferrari second man I have a second by trusty Wagner board members we're going to go through this list one at a time and determine which ones we want to do or we voting on doing all of them as specified because number one the one that really sticks in my clock clerk right is the tree or wood ordinance um we had this in front of us several times and it equated to several thousand of cost due uh
087to the residents uh homes that would it would cost to build a home there if we had all of the things in a stringent Woodland ordinance we have to be very careful so for an example that would be we would create a framework and bring it back to the board for review and comment before we spendour as moov by treasur Ferrari would come back to this board before they would be enacted I believe that's the normal process yes it is is that trust you Charles so every one of them that seems kind of a cers process well every one of them has to come back to us to begin with number one for public hearing uh number two for us to vote them in or out s um Mr Wright had some questions questions I
088guess I'm can you explain what you yes expound yeah well I spent some time with uh planner PES aqua and some of the things I didn't understand was the General requirement for private rols and I don't know how much dep you want to get the short story was is that somebody doesn't have access for for their residents and they're using a trail for the road and goes in in the setb that could be considered a taking because the township is going to deny the permit to build that residence on that piece of property so I'm thinking well that's kind of silly then uh industrial setbacks when you look at going from 25 to 75 ft on Industrial setbacks when you look the zoning in the township you have basically 120 properties there's a lot of
089them that it doesn't even affect them so you've got probably maybe 10 maybe 12 I don't know maybe there's more that would really affect having to set another ordinance just to appease these people from having to go to the zba for example uh Landscaping standards I think uh supervisor Curtis touched on this stuff too that you making people put in these these trees and all that stuff at the expense of opening their business it happened to what the culs it happen to yes yeah you know you're holding them up to do these things and you're putting all these items in place before you can get an approval uh Woodlands ordinance I've lived that industry in the surveying field and you know I'm thinking that developers want to preserve the trees but that's uh kind of
090H hypocrite on my part because we saw developments on E rain world just clearcut the whole properties but um I'm thinking you're just you're just taking on additional work and also a price tag to the resident who buys the residents in Oxford uh zoning that maintenance I see we need that that's a good thing traffic impact studies um seems to me the county does those and they're on their website even probably the state does those as well environmental impacts that's another thing usually these properties that get environmental impacts is like a phase one environmental you know you going to make them do another one I don't I don't know um zba actually mix Mi zoning you know back in the day we had uh gravel overlays for for mixed z um residential development recation requirements
091um that's what supervisor Curtis just alluded to so those are some of my concerns of saying you know what I think we need a little bit better uh idea of where we're headed here because when you look at the zoning ordinance it's it's so darn big it's so hard to understand probably for the planning Commissioners and for the applicants so I want I want a trailer on clerk R's uh statement for example the recreation in private subdivision we have one right now Waterstone I get 5 to 10 calls the police department gets 5 to 10 calls for people using the beach and Waterstone for people using the facility at Waterstone of the Gazebo you know these are on private property but I can't I'm an Oxford resident I can't stop there and use it but
092it looks like I can because I see cars parked there because I see people swimming there I can't stop there it's posted for residents only but I can't see it because I parked down here so it causes us a lot of problems with cost of sending the sheriff out cost to the residents who buy the homes cost to the developer doing the business all because we feel or we would like or we think so we have to be very careful about enacting some of these ordinances to satisfy by one two or three or 10 or 20 people's needs that's less than 0.0001% of the population of Oxford so we have to be very careful about how we Implement them and I agree with clerk Wright any other questions comments question would you truste Charles to
093that point would you uh suggest possibly that the committee go back and Rune this a little bit after we vote you know it's like we're allowing what we're doing here is every year the Planning Commission through its ordinance Review Committee comes to us with a list of things that they feel should be worked on based on inputs from citizens based on public hearings at development meetings based on Master planning this is what they feel should be done what should be done is what this board should do in look at all 22,000 residents and say is that what we want or is that what Jack Curtis wants is that what we need or is that what Jeffrey pette wants so how do we let them work with our attorney with our planner and with the Committees
094to develop these things should they come back with a list we'll know with a vote if there are no further questions I'll call the vote please trusty Charles no trusty Wagner yes trusty covin no treasure ferari yes right no trusty h no and supervisor Curtis no okay item 12 e 2025 Lake Oran schools Oxford Community Schools Oxford intermediate schools and Oakland County College summer tax collection agreements treasure Ferrari a board members in your packet is a request increase of the tax collection fees that we charge the school districts for summer tax collections in past years we've kind of kept held it steady uh but I think now is time to look for an increase and remember to we all in these agreements get any interest we in the bank as well I moved authorized Treasurer
095Joseph Chief Rari to execute the agreements for the summer tax collections on behalf of the Charter Township oord with Lake orang Community Schools appendix a Oxford Community Schools appendix b Oak Intermediate schools pening C Community College of penic d as presented the's agreements as appendices to the minutes I'll second I have a motion by Treasurer Ferrari a second by truste covin and if I may thank you Treasurer Ferrari for reviewing these funds that we charge these entities for collecting their taxes and paying their bills another Community close to us hasn't raised theirs in 10 to 15 years and $200,000 shortfall in working and paying these bills has been identified hopefully with raising these fees that we charge for collecting these fees just makes us whole we're not out to make money on collecting fees and
096dispersing them but we can't be doing it for free while they take our tax dollars so if there no oh yes trusty call I just want to make a comment in the memo it says all the entities are agreeable to this increase so they're aware yes they are trusty Charles I agree with this in fact it goes back to a comment early about us with a village of option we collect their stuff too that we should increase those what is the reason for different amounts for different entity uh based on the amount that's on the tax bill depending on the the percentage of the amount that's on the tax bill I try to make it you know because schools Oxo has a lot more on that tax bill like a community college so I try
097to make it pro rated based the percentage of ta I might just make it the same myself but I guess I can know what why around you know it's any other questions yes is it fair to sort of put this as the idea this is Rec cover Fe yes exact okay yeah for our work to collect the tax or Joe to disperse the tax payments to each one of those entities it cost us uh Personnel hours it cost electricity uh the building floor space and it it's it's a challenging operations if there are no more questions roll call trusty Anette yes CL right yes treasure Ferrari yes trusty C yes trusty Wagner yes trusty Charles yes supervisor CIS yes thank you treasure R thank you supervisor okay item 13 items removed from consent agenda there
098were none item 14 public comment oh I have one uh just uh thank you for uh uh helping out with the the funding there uh the for us that's going to be huge and we're going to be able to divert our 37,000 back towards uh uh outfitting the next new fire engine because we already so you need someplace else to put the money that we've already spent so thank you very much it'll be in your fun tomorrow morning thanks thank you sir any other public comment seeing none item 15 want a trustees comment I'll start with trusty Charles question for Mr Ferrari what's the status of our website we we we got a meeting coming up we we met with uh the group I think it was in your think we had an update the
099last meeting we met with the Shoemaker group try another meeting together with everybody got some homework we had to do and I think we're looking at the end of March I was trying to get I check with danl I get every schedule together and with vacations and the MTA conference coming up it's kind of tough to get every schedule look at the end of March because when I first suggested we set the website the target date was January so now we're into April looks like not an easy process trust lot lot of lot of players in the game trusty Wagner no comments trusty cin enjoy the nice weather I I will treasure Ferrari no comments the clerk right no comments tonight sir TR de I just want to say I look forward to attending my
100first Oxford chamber uh state of the community next Wednesday and uh those who will be attending with me thank thank you um I will not be there I'm going on vacation Friday I'll be back on the 24th of March um so my phone is going to stay here in Michigan and my computer will have a out of office but we have the most responsible Deputy supervisor available to handle any and all inquiries uh except running these meetings and we'll have none so uh I do request that uh trusty Wagner take back the ordinance review subc commmittee list and work with uh planner pakwa to come up with a version that the ordinance review subcommittee like to work on other net that's all my comments item 16 I'll make a motion to Jour second uh everybody
101in favor of adjourning signify by stating I I I those NES may stay here