This will be reviewed at Planning Commission February 1, 2022, 7 PM in Township Hall Board Room. Public comment is always allowed. Click on link below to read details or download if you desire:

Note: This post was updated/corrected on 1-25-22 in AM to revise calls to Lyon Twp. from 23,000 to 12,323. Lieutenant Dooley pointed our that I had the incorrect data. My apologies.

I was the only non-township official or employee present. See my summary

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Please read the brief article at the link below this chart.

Reading this excellent brief summary of the meeting only takes a minute and gives you excellent information about what is going on .

To be a little more informed read the part of the minutes that interest you, if you desire.

Click to access 640640926.pdf

To explore an agenda item in even more detail find the information that the Board used to inform their decison in the meeting packet supplied to them by Township Manager Kline

Click to access 639455708.pdf

See the agenda below. They estimate getting to Roads at 4 PM. In this meeting, the Board discusses the budget proposed by Township Manager, Adam Kline (hired, not elected) and while not usually recdeiving Board formal motions, Manager Kline may revise his proposals based on comments made by the Board. Then there is a formal public hearing, usually in the last meeting in March to get public comment and formally adopt the budget

Click to access 641442220.pdf

The 2022 proposed preliminary budget can be seen at this link to the 12-14-21 meeting packet starting on page 100. Roads are on page 108. (or see eye chart below)

Click to access 634879222.pdf

The proposed Toads budget (Dept. 449) is $381,000 with the bulk, $307,000 going for gravel and dust control on our dirt roads. All the Road Commission for Oakland County will do without extra funds from the township is periodically grade the dirt. No paving or pavement repair projects are budgeted by our Township as far as I can see. So this represents what our hired Township Manager is recommending to our Board.

Here is some detail from Manager Kline on gravel and limestone projections

For eight months since the grand opening Station #3 on the Moceri property on Silverbell near Kroger’s has been available for use for 5880 hours (245 days x 24 hours per day). For 5259 hours or 89% of the hours there has been no Fire Department Emergency Medical Technicians scheduled. For 287 hours 2 EMT’s were present and for 334 hours one was present.

It is difficult to see how this minimal staffing could have had much effect on improving reponse time to the southwest part of the township, the highest tax-paying sections, but with longest ambulance response times.

The above chart was prepared from the complete OTFD schedules for 2021 obtained under FOIA #2201.

For detail of each day see this chart.

Source data from FOIA #2201 available below.

From an earlier edition in April

The ZBA will be considering two requests. The first is asking for variance from the zoning ordinance for buildng a horse barn at a new home on west side of Sheldon between Mead and Snell. Below is the application. See details in the meeting packet pages 7-14 (link at end of this post).

The second from Consumers Energy for gas piping on the west side of Sheldon, 550 feet north of Mead. See full details on pages 15-21 in the packet a link at end of this post.

Link to full meeting packet on Township website.

Click to access 640115818.pdf

Click to access 640493422.pdf