Held at the Lac La Belle Fire Hall

6314 Superior Street

Lac La Belle, Michigan 49950

Minutes for Tuesday, September 8^th, 2009

Call to Order

Supervisor Ken Stigers called the meeting to order at 6:04 p.m. and led the assembly in the pledge of allegiance. 

Roll Call

Present were Supervisor Ken Stigers, Clerk Kelly Coltas, Trustee Ned Huwatschek and Trustee Art Davis. Treasurer Karen Karl was absent

• Motion to adopt Agenda put forth by Coltas/Huwatschek, all were in favor 4-0 motion carried.
• Motion to approve Minutes of Regular Board Meeting of 08/11/09, and work session of 09/03/09, put forth by Coltas/Davis, all were in favor, motion carried 4-0.

Supervisor’s Remarks

Grant Township has a number of State owned parcels in the Township.   The State does not pay taxes, they give us PILT.  Payment in lieu of Taxes, it does not equal what taxes would pay and it’s being reduced.  Revenue Sharing is 6% less than last year and it may be reduced between 18 or 20% this year.

      On a lighter note the Fat Tire Festival was held this past Sunday and they   had 340 participants.  It was a nice event.

Monthly Reports

Treasurer’s Report

No Treasurers report, too early in the month to have statements yet. 

Utility Board

Still working on the Well Head expansion plan with the RDA.  No update yet.

LLB Compactor: Ned is organizing the key holders for the compactor to have lessons on running the compactor properly.  The Compactor has being going out to light on several occasions.

DDA

The parking lot on Fourth Street, the west side of the Township Park is complete, with a total of 18 new parking spaces.

Hunter’s Point: A new bike rack has been installed.

Public Safety 

CH Fire Dept:

No Report

LLB Fire Dept:

One fire call, a tree on a wire in Apache Lane in Bete Grise.  Established a safe area and assisted UPPCO.

Service Calls: distributed 911 materials to more residents in LLB area and assisted KCRC with removal of a tree on Bete Grise Rd.

Monthly Meeting was held on 9/11/09.  911 project to be worked on by Ned Huwatschek, LLB area, Wyoming and Delaware will be left as more material is needed.  Defibulator is ordered.  Three donations have been received.  Rippa products $200. Curtis $100. And Heikkinen $275.75.  This will be added to the proceeds from the rummage sale and steel collection of 2 years ago for this purchase.  Discussion on kayak sales, the sales have been good. Monthly training held on 8/20/09, ran trucks, and ran pumps on 1& 3 went over running procedures.

EMS runs 1^st responders: 2

1^st Responders:

South end 2

911 

No meeting

Old Business

Draft of Recreation Plan has been available, so far only one email comment.  If nothing more comes in we will hopefully approve the Recreation Plan at the October meeting.

New Business

Mercy is considering and Ambulance stationed in the North End.  To facilitate this we need to be able to have EMT’s and 1^st Responders.  Last spring we had two volunteers to take the EMT training; one has had to back out due to health considerations.  We have had another volunteer step up to take his place and be trained. 

• Motion to approve Jason Robinson to attend EMT training put forth by Coltas/Hewatschek.  All were in favor, motion carried 4-0.

If an Ambulance comes to the north end, it would be run by Mercy not Grant Township and it would service the entire north end.

PERN:

• Motion to have Supervisor Stigers sign an agreement to participate in the Propane Emergency Reponse Net.  They are there to help in case of a propane accident.  Put forth by Coltas/Hewatschek, all were in favor motion carried.
• Motion to audit this month’s bills next month due to the early date of this meeting and all bills not having been received yet.  Put forth by Coltas/Davis, all were in favor Motion Carried.
• Motion to adjourn Coltas/Davis all were in favor, motion carried 4-0.

Meeting adjourned at 7:06 p.m.  

 

Ken Stigers                                         Kelly Coltas

Grant Township Supervisor             Grant Township Clerk