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Proposed 2025 Oakland Township Budget Available, Comments from you are invited at Board 11/12/24 Meeting or before.

Bob Yager , , ,

The proposed 2025 budget for use in the legally required public hearing is posted on the Township website at this link.

Click to access 2025%20Oakland%20Township%20DRAFT%20Budget%20For%20Public%20Hearing.pdf

Or go to the bottom of the home page and click on the “Township Financials” picture to see this and also lots of past years’ budgets and audit reports.

I think Steve will be interested. Yes I mean you, Steve.

I have not found time to review it.

I’ve also thought a gigantic excel workbook with 20-25 years of history in categories of interest would be useful in seeing trends, up, down or steady. I’ve found time to do that. Maybe someone will volunteer to start the Budget Committee of Oakland Township Citizens Advisory Board and put all this data in a form they think is useful. Usually no one comments at the public hearing and the board unanimously approves it immediately after the hearing.

There is no reason you can’t comment to the Board before the meeting by email.

Go to the Board of Trustees page (shown below) and click on:

“Please Click here to email the entire Board of Trustees”

Michigan Township Planning Recommendations for Oakland Township

Bob Yager , , , ,

The Michigan Township Association has a “Township of Excellence” program described in their brochure at this link:

Click to access toe_application_brochure_form_resolution_checklist_dec_2017.pdf

At one time former Trustee Maureen Thalmann suggested that we pursue this. Clerk Reilly suggested that pursuing it might result in no real improvements but just trying to get the award. I am unable to locate the minutes or video with their comments, so you will have to trust my memory, I will admit that that is what happens in some industrial quality certifications. One can fake compliance without substantial improvements.

However the items suggested make a lot of sense to me, especially this paragraph.’

I am unable to locate any information on strategic planning on the MTA website, but retired local resident Marty McQuade is an expert from his time as Vice-President and General Manager of Dupont Automotive Products. He put together a format and starting point draft for an Oakland Township Fire Department Strategic Plan in about 2017. His efforts were an offshoot of his help to Chief Paul Strelchuk in formulating a long-term capital budget at a time when we were between Township Managers and the Board was critical of Chief Strelchuk for unbudgeted large capital requests for expensive equipment. A Board subcommittee was formed to study Mr. McQuade’s proposals and it died there. The subcommittee was eventually disbanded. Perhaps Mr. McQuade could be persuaded to help.