May 12th, 2022



May 12th, 2022
It appears we have yet another meeting overshadowed by Jim Mead and his antics and total unwillingness to compromise or work with his board members on anything. Some discussion about the police dept (chief's contract will be expiring) and details regarding the state of the township board, but otherwise this was a relatively short meeting.

 Emmett's second annual Community Clean Up Day is on June 11th, from 8:30 to 12:30. You'll need to provide proof of residency on arrival. You can check the township website for a list of acceptable items:

Deb felt with the board not being unanimous about the millage that we would look at it next year and work with the staff to get some real numbers. Deb will be asking for a millage to be put on the November ballot that would support the pension fund for the police dept. This is how all other municipalities handle pensions and, if it passes, we may or may not need to ask for an increase on our operational millage.

It appears some members of the board are more interested in halting any progress towards our township. This isn't the first, or even the second time he's held up meetings to complain about things outside of his control. As a trustee, it's not his duty to concern himself with daily operations within the township or get involved in things he has no business, or understanding, dealing with. That is, literally, the Supervisor's job (hence the title, somebody who supervises) Also the only one to vote no on the team building session which was suggested to help members of the board work together better, as without cooperation nothing gets accomplished and the people of this township are done dirty.

This meeting did progress in some ways, however, with the passing of a vote to have the supervisor move forward with having the waterman loop designed. This has been taking far too long to be dealt with and it's a little comforting to see any headway being made in that regard.

 There were some other items voted on, body cams for the police dept, a cemetery ordinance, a consideration to change the offices hours back to Monday through Thursday, 7:30am to 5pm.  A shorter meeting than we've been having recently, though still longer than it needed to be.



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