Grant Township Board Meeting Minutes

GRANT TOWNSHIP REGULAR BOARD MEETING

Held at the Grant Township Hall

230 Gratiot Street

Copper Harbor , Michigan 49918

Minutes for Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Call to Order

Supervisor Meg Vivian called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. and lead in the pledge of allegiance.

           

Roll Call

Present were Supervisor Meg Vivian, Treasurer Karen Karl, Clerk Kelly Coltas, Trustee Gary Barker and Trustee Roxann Smith. 

  • Motion to adopt Agenda put forth by Coltas/Barker, all were in favor 5-0, motion carried.
  • Motion to approve Minutes of Regular Board Meeting of 08/11/06, put forth by Coltas/Smith.  All were in favor 5-0, motion carried.

Supervisor’s Remarks and Correspondence

§         Remarks

Keweenaw County Zoning Ordinance Update

The deadline is coming fast upon us; there will be a work session at the township hall on 9/13/06 at 7:00.  There will be the latest update in hard copy.  The public meeting will be on 9/26/06.

§         Township Building Signage

Thanks to Chip Sestock for help with the banner post and other signage.  He and his wife Nancy helped install and put decorative rocks around them.

§         Lac LaBelle Dumpster

Is open 27-7 for Lac LaBelle residents and will remain so unless there are problems.

Monthly Reports

Treasurer’s Report

           

  • Motion to accept Treasurers report as given Coltas/Barker, all were in favor, motion carried 5-0.

Utility Board

Discussed the block work at the Sewer Treatment Plant.  It needs to be addressed soon.  We have an estimate from Bill Silar.  It needs to be cleaned up and sealed.  The new software appears to be working well, our loss is about 9%.

DDA

U.P. Engineering gave a public hearing for a grant proposal for a streetscape.  The presentation showed what various other places have done.  The primary object is centered around safety and lighting.  U.P. Engineering will be back next month.

Public Safety

CH Fire Dept.

Regular meeting 4 members present went over the ISO 700 and 800 series.  The 1st Responders will be done by end of month.  Had call out to possible brush fire at the Fat Tire Festival but turned out to be a false alarm.   The truck was used to back wash the manhole at the sewer plant and take some scum off the back lagoon.

Had 3 medical assists

Assisted in radio communication for Fat Tire.

LLB Fire Dept.

3 fire call outs.  Brush fire had assist with Copper Harbor and Eagle Harbor .  Went through 16 gallons of foam and several hoses. The DNR will be reimbursing the Dept for shuttling water, the foam and man-hours.  The LLB Chief requested the man-hours get donated to the LLB auxiliary fund.  The tanker truck is down and getting fixed.

2 1st Responder assists.

 911

 As of the August 911 meeting it does not appear that there will be funding available for the off blacktop rescue equipment to be operated by the Ahmeek Village 1st Responder.  That is currently the long-term goal, short term is to provide a snowmobile and toboggan for south half of the county and a toboggan for Lac LaBelle.

The installation of the Sheriff’s Fire Dispatch equipment is scheduled for next week as well as the reprogramming of Copper Harbor and Eagle Harbor radios.  There was a problem found on the Eagle Harbor repeater.  The Keweenaw 911 Committee is addressing the issue of telephone system reliability. They plan to ask the ETSC to assist in finding a resolution.

Old Business

Employee Handbook: Have not made progress on the job descriptions, but are persevering.

Hunter’s Point

All existing trails are cleaned up; trash pick up is working well.  The two most asked for brochures at the Visitor Center are the Estivant Pines and Hunter’s Point.

Sharon Powers will attend a training Seminar on how to process Archival Collections.  She has put in hundreds of hours coping and transcribing the old records.

New Business

 The Supervisor handed out and went over the new Keweenaw Trails Executive Summary, and then asked if there was support for a resolution to adopt the Summary and support the application for Grants.

  • Resolution #23-2006

Motion to adopt Resolution #23-2006 the adoption of the Keweenaw Trail Executive Summary and support the application for Grants was put forward by Coltas/Barker the board was polled and all were in favor 5-0, resolution adopted.

  • Resolution #22-2006

Motion to adopt Resolution #22-2006 the approval of the Grant Township Board to grant the request of renewal to the Harbor Haus Liquor License put forward by Coltas/Karl the board was polled and all were in favor 5-0, resolution adopted.

Public Works Agreement, It is renewal time for out contract with the prisoners.

  • Motion to authorize the Supervisor to sign the renewal contract with Camp Kitwen put forward by Barker/Karl, all were in favor, and motion carried 5-0.

§         Motion to pay audited bills and adjourn Coltas/Smith, all in favor 5-0.

Meeting Adjourned at 7:13 p.m.

Meg Vivian                                                               Kelly Coltas

Grant Township Supervisor                                 Grant Township Clerk                                  


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