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GRANT TOWNSHIP REGULAR BOARD MEETINGHeld at the Grant Township Hall 230 Gratiot Street Copper Harbor, Michigan 49918 Minutes for Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Call to OrderSupervisor Ken Stigers called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. and led the assembly in the pledge of allegiance. Roll Call
Present were Supervisor Ken Stigers, Treasurer Karen Karl, Clerk Kelly Coltas, Trustee Ned Huwatschek and Trustee Art Davis.
Supervisor’s Remarks Board of Review met and had three petitions to review. Gary Barker Memorial: a great thanks to all who attended and help make it work so well. Revenue Sharing and PILT: the State is going to be restructuring how it distributes revenue to the Townships. The Township possibly will only get monies for specific items and possibly increase the local unit’s tax authority. At this point we have about a 20% cut in State revenue. Assessment Records: The Township is being sued by a resident for failing to produce records for a freedom of information request. There were three requests, one was filled, one was partially filled and one was completely ignored. The Township is considering bringing back the tax records in house, so as to be able to fulfill requests for tax records in a more timely fashion. The Supervisor would be in charge of the records. Monthly ReportsTreasurer’s Report
Utility Board Well field expansion: The Supervisor met with Rural Development and Traverse Engineering looking to expand the existing well field water supply, and improve some infrastructure. Rural Development needs more information. The project would be funded by water users only. Lac La Belle Compactor: There is a problem with the control panel of the LLB compactor and it is not fully compacting, which causes the dumpster to go out light (not full) which substantially increases out base cost. Mr. Harrer would like to have a training session to make sure it that the people working the compactor know how to tell if it is actually full DDA The DDA and County have jointly designed additional parking on 4th Street with 18 new spaces. The School Board had no objections to the plans so the Township would like to proceed with the project.
With the recent resignation of a DDA board member the Township had an unprecedented event of two highly qualified people apply. With careful deliberation the Board decided on Ray Chamberlain to take the position on the DDA.
Hunter’s Point Two Log benches have been procured and placed on Hunter’s Point. This is the result of a $100 donation by Gay Tucholski several years ago. Security chains will be installed this week. A bicycle rack has been ordered for Hunter’s Point. The cost will be less than $100. There has been no progress finding a solution to our Hunter’s Point funding situation. Currently Mr. Oja is ill and not available for discussions. If anything urgent comes up it may be necessary to ask for a special meeting before the end of the month. Public Safety CH Fire Dept: The regular monthly meeting for the CHFD for Aug was postponed until August 12th 2009 due to a live fire training/propane tank fire on August 5th 2009. Three members attended the valuable training at MTU. Three members also attended a state mandated drivers training class held on Saturday August 8th at Baraga FD. All members except Jeff Gilmore are now allowed to Drive Dept Fire Trucks. The Three still have to have individual instruction on operating each fire truck. At our mid July meeting items discussed were: a recap on July4th festivities. Keweenaw Trails runners help and upcoming events Hog fest and Art in the Park, Propane training, drivers training and radio operations for Copper man Triathlon. Page out for July and the first week of August have been 1st Responder 6 Wildfires 1 Water rescue at Ft Wilkins 1 Goodwill/special events 11 Tom Boost would like the Township to address some leaning trees over power lines by the fire department. LLB Fire Dept: Fire Calls: Smoke at Second falls on the Montreal River, assessed incident and stayed at Mandan until determined by DNR plane that it was not accessible. DNR took over. Service Calls: 4th of July Parade in Copper Harbor, 911 projects Door to door distribution of information on use of 911. EMS runs (FD assists) Assist on Traffic accident at bottom of LLB hill. Monthly meeting held on 7/1/09 at 6:00 pm: 911 project discussed and date set for July 11 from 9 to noon, hall expansion discussed, grant will be submitted to FEMA, this was done on July10th. Organize drivers for parade on the 4th. Monthly Training held on 7/23/09 at 6:00 pm 5absent 3 present, ran trucks and exercised trucks. EMS runs 2. 911 Meeting was held on July 30th in which general discussions were held concerning 800MHz radio calibrations and planning for the wide band/narrowband changeover. Old Business The Board members having review the Recreation Plan would like to set in motion the next stage, which would entail it being available to the public for 30 days. It will be available in the foyer of the Township hall and in LLB on the new bulletin board as well as being available on line through the Grant Township link.
New BusinessBrownfield Mike Musiel and Bill Griffen spoke to the Board on the Keweenaw County Brownfield Redevelopment. County has received a $200,000 grant to investigate possible contaminated properties and the owner’s request. The idea is to locate and rehabilitate the contaminated prosperities. This would open the door for redevelopment. Examples would be old rental properties, junk yards, or factories. The goal is to rehabilitate target properties to make them useful again. If anyone has a property they would like examined for this project please contact this group
Meeting adjourned at 7:10p.m. Ken Stigers Grant Township Supervisor |
