Page 3 of the recent Winter / Spring Parks and Recreation Newsletter (link below) gives details of the many activities. Note that you can’t park at Bear Creek Park. You must go to Oakland Christian Church at Rochester Road and Snell Road corner and take a shuttle. Everything is free, including the shuttle.
Author: Bob Yager
Consider “lobbying” for Your Favorite Safety Path at Wednesday, February 2, 2022 Meeting, 6 PM, Township Hall Board Room (Main Floor)
The next monthly meeting of Safety Paths and Trails Committee is Wednesday, 2/2/22. This committee of citizens appointed by our Township Board of Trustees makes recommendations to the Board for safety path construction. With the Gallagher Road path coming to completion this year, they will be planning their next path. At the Septemember meeting they listed three they saw at that time as high priority to research. Contribute to their research by telling them your preference and why.
• Gunn Road: Adams Road to the Paint Creek Trail
• Adams Road: Gunn Road to Marsh View Park at Clarkston Road
• Snell Road: Rochester Road to Bear Creek Park
See their webpages for more information on this committee and its master plan.
http://www.oaklandtownship.org/township_departments/safety_paths_and_trails.php
New 5 Home Development Proposed for 28 Acres on Buell Between Landview and Hadden
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:
First Budget Workshop Meeting Completed 3-5 on Monday 1-24-22
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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Oakland Township Fire Department Tasks are Many and Increasing
Please read the brief article at the link below this chart.
1-11-22 Board of Trustees Meeting Summary, Minutes, Background Details
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.
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
An Opportunity for input on Township Roads Spending is the Upcoming Budget Workshop Next Monday 1-24-22, 3-5 PM
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
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)
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
Emergency Medical Technician Staffing at New Station #3 Has been Minimal since Grand Opening April 22, 2021.
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
Oakland Township Sentinel 