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[0:01] Good afternoon. I'm going to come to the board to talk with you about the county floor. Please respect the pledge with me. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under the gun, individual, and legal, legal, and justice, or all.
[0:25] We can let the role show that all members are present tonight.
[0:31] And with that, I'll move on to approve the agenda. That's before you.
[0:36] I make a mention where you sub to agenda as presented.
[0:40] I'll support.
[0:41] I think we have a motion to support all of the favors of the I.
[0:44] Bye.
[0:45] Motion carries.
[0:46] Next is our first public comment session.
[0:50] It is for items that are on the agenda.
[0:53] And if you have comments to make, please state your name and address and keep your comments
[0:57] to within three minutes.
[1:01] Normal case, six, three, like the thing that you're getting in everybody.
[1:04] My comments are all supposed to be sickly.
[1:07] What's on the agenda of particularly resistive strategic plan?
[1:12] On the agenda of, we have public hearing.
[1:13] Could you please write non, if there's no public hearing?
[1:17] The public is generally confused,
[1:18] and sometimes our board is the commissioners,
[1:21] that if there's no public hearing, it should say the word not.
[1:23] It's very simple.
[1:24] Second thing.
[1:25] Solid waste.
[1:26] They're having a media on the 24th in,
[1:28] this is a good transparency issue.
[1:30] It was nice that it was out there on the website,
[1:34] and it says,
[1:35] to provide comments on what's proposed,
[1:38] but there's nothing there for me to read what's proposed.
[1:41] It's coming later, it's what I was talking maybe this week.
[1:44] So a little sentence to say,
[1:46] hey, future information will be forthcoming.
[1:49] This is to let people know.
[1:51] As far as your agenda item in reference to Greg's 20% stipend,
[1:56] for an I can agree and disagree a lot of things,
[1:59] but I listen to the recording of one that occurred
[2:02] in the change.
[2:03] And I have to tell you, going back, it's specifically he said that if there was a time in reference to his work being difficult to get a, this is my paraphrasing, I should say what he said.
[2:21] If it's excessive as far as this work goes, they would have to might look at other options.
[2:27] A 20% stipend going back to January, when you look at it, we had a full-time position.
[2:35] It still would be saving money because we had a hundred thousand dollars for that position.
[2:38] However, that motion specifically said that Greg was to be the code enforcement officer.
[2:46] That's what the motion was passed in November 10, 2025.
[2:50] We hired a separate person to do code enforcement, and that was, she does a half time, and she did half time assessing.
[2:58] So we already had a cost there. So we need to be realistic about what we're doing.
[3:02] And I'm not saying what he's doing is right around, though we all know how he felt about the money stuff.
[3:07] So I don't support it this time, especially as David pointed out in his memorandum, we need what.
[3:15] We need to look at the study and the results of before anything is done.
[3:18] That's my position on that.
[3:20] As choose strategic plan,
[3:24] where's the money for what you're going to do?
[3:26] And there's no discussion about money.
[3:28] Except I'm wrong because it does say, grow tax base.
[3:32] How are we going to grow the tax base?
[3:33] What are we going to do to do that?
[3:35] There's nothing fleshed out.
[3:37] So there's a little confused there.
[3:39] And then the fourth thing is the new position
[3:43] and assistant to the deputy treasurer.
[3:46] Well Mr. Ziber, I say, what do you do as a treasure?
[3:50] I mean, are you the one doing the deposits,
[3:52] or are you the one doing all this stuff,
[3:53] or are you the one, I know you flip CDs
[3:55] because we do hear those reports from you.
[3:57] Well, we have a township that has less than 6,000 people
[4:00] and we need an assistant to a deputy treasure.
[4:03] That seems rather excessive to me when in fact
[4:06] we need staff to you public safety issues.
[4:09] So thank you.
[4:11] OK, any other public comment?
[4:14] Go ahead, Joe.
[4:14] I think Joe Fredford, five, five, five, five, five, one, they go.
[4:19] Yeah, nothing specific, just after sitting here for a few years and seeing
[4:26] the fraudulent safety, millage that went through and the misleading of the public on that
[4:32] safety millage.
[4:33] And I'm not against the millage necessarily if it was transparent and we were told what
[4:39] was really going on.
[4:40] So I probably would have supported it had I known, but in lieu of that, I guess I'm not
[4:46] for any spending of money at all from this agency at all.
[4:53] None until we get something straightened out here.
[4:57] Transparency telling us what's going on.
[5:01] And I'm not against it because I know we need money.
[5:04] I know there's things that we need to fund, but that really
[5:08] sowered my opinion on how that whole fraudulent
[5:12] village went through and how it was covered up.
[5:15] And I'm not going to go into a different town or who did what
[5:19] but it was wrong and it's bleeding over and now we're seeing
[5:22] things that you want more money for and they might be
[5:27] legitimate but we need to get handle on this spending
[5:31] and not just keep spending. The other thing is I want to make sure that you guys
[5:38] recuse yourself. If you're voting on something that has to do with anything in your
[5:46] world that where you make money, you guys gotta make sure you recuse yourself. And I
[5:52] don't know that that's happening now, but we just have to keep that in mind. My folks
[5:58] who are on boards when I was growing up.
[6:01] They always recuse themselves for the littlest thing.
[6:03] They said, if it's a quacks like a duck,
[6:05] it's a duck, or whatever the saying is, right?
[6:08] So they always recuse themselves
[6:10] even when they weren't supposed to, probably.
[6:14] So let's just make two cents.
[6:16] Thanks.
[6:18] OK, and it'll go with them.
[6:20] Chapter 1871, East in 2008.
[6:23] I too, like Deborah, I have some concerns about the 20% stipend
[6:28] that we're talking about for a grain.
[6:30] I guess I just go ahead and understood it when he was absorbing that job, was that he was
[6:36] going to be able to easily absorb the job.
[6:41] If it has become necessary that his question is, is he working 20% more hours in a week
[6:50] than what the job that he's paid, that his primary job is, and that's where we come
[6:56] with the 20 percent statement. Just curious as to how the 20 percent came about and why now,
[7:04] nine months into the year that we're starting to get into this, okay, now we're going to go back
[7:10] in time and give a statement all the way back then. Just curious as to how it all came about
[7:15] in what the math is behind it because I I liked the numbers to match up and say, okay,
[7:22] normally he worked, we hired him to work for the hour, and we'd job and he's working
[7:27] at 50.
[7:29] Okay?
[7:30] You can put some math behind that and say that this extra duties is causing him some extra time and therefore we should pay him for it.
[7:39] I had no problem, that's what we had determined, but if that's not the case, and we're just given a 20% stipend, I'd like to understand where it comes from.
[7:49] That's all. Thank you.
[7:51] Any other public comment?
[7:53] Seeing none of those at first session, moving on to the consent of Genda,
[8:01] to conclude the
[8:02] massive of previous meetings of the regular meeting of August 10th, and the special meeting
[8:07] of August 14th, revenues and expenditures reports, bills payable, check register reports,
[8:14] and regular payroll of August 13th and 27th.
[8:17] I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented.
[8:24] We have a motion and support.
[8:26] All those in favor say aye.
[8:28] Aye.
[8:28] Motion carries.
[8:30] Next is a supervisor's report, which I have none.
[8:33] Clerk's report.
[8:35] All the clerk's department has been very busy preparing general action.
[8:43] November 3rd.
[8:44] The Election Commission, meeting will be held tomorrow, September 15th at kind of clock, and the meeting room in the township hall.
[8:56] The public accuracy test will take place at the Silver Creek School on the 13th of October.
[9:07] At 10 a.m., absentee ballots will start getting sent out on the 29th of September.
[9:19] Should I just report?
[9:20] I have one item, Dave.
[9:22] We had a certificate of deposit that matured within the last month for $250,000.
[9:29] The interest rate on that was 3.55%.
[9:33] We purchased a federal home loan bond at 4.5 of maturing in approximately 34 months, and that added additional
[9:43] 2,250 dollars to the offer.
[9:46] Thanks all of you.
[9:47] Thank you.
[9:48] Public hearing.
[9:49] We have none.
[9:50] Presentations.
[9:50] We have none.
[9:52] I'm finished.
[9:53] Business.
[9:53] Consider proposed.
[9:55] Resoning.
[9:57] 500 green garden road from H.E.
[9:59] 3D.
[9:59] H.E.E.
[10:00] for the second reading.
[10:02] And so you've heard this at first reading on five different
[10:04] ones, one of the group of all of that.
[10:07] How do you plan this next call, so that's another group of group
[10:09] all to find either a piece that's right, south of them,
[10:15] where the green field world comes in green there,
[10:17] and as you can see on the screen, up there.
[10:21] Apple can't look like to divide out a plan for one of their children.
[10:28] The interestingly as part of this, the test that the planning commission used for these
[10:38] resolving between egg districts, which has been the kind of the only kind that they had been dealing with lately.
[10:45] It was adopted at the last meeting as the view of the NAC, the plan and the plan to
[10:54] view the NAC, the standard, and the judge it does between the various egg districts
[11:00] when these come out so essentially as a continuous, with other eggs, when it looks on the same,
[11:09] what a result of these numberally configured additional carousels and an exhibit at that,
[11:15] that could be disrupted and other preventive uses of appropriate.
[11:19] So that's kind of going to be the standard for this year and these going forward.
[11:24] But there is a solution in your packet about five questions, five names that you're all in.
[11:30] Prove this, and five questions.
[11:32] I'll take
[11:39] a motion to the rezoning of 500 green garden road.
[11:45] Tax parcel, five two, bow two, one two five zero three loads zero zero.
[11:49] from agricultural three district to agricultural two district be approved. Is that right?
[11:58] You approve the second reading, adopt, adopt in the finding of a planning commission.
[12:03] I'll support. Can we have a motion and support? This is a roll call, though.
[12:07] Mark Stolder, I guess. John McGall, yes.
[12:10] The name of all those in you.
[12:11] Don't worry, yes. Ben Ciber, yes.
[12:13] Thanks, thank God, yes.
[12:14] They went just,
[12:16] which is very, it's next on the agenda as consider sale of surplus police equipment.
[12:22] No, no, no, no, no, no.
[12:24] Don't budget that, that's where it's going.
[12:26] Sorry, no, no.
[12:32] So, we're going to put the support.
[12:39] Okay, there's three different budget amendments.
[12:42] The first one is with the police,
[12:45] and there's three separate ones within the police.
[12:49] One's covering the community awareness fund, one's covering a grant for a new washer and
[12:58] dryer, and one's covering the MCTV over time, so that we can get to be over time
[13:05] line item.
[13:06] I don't know if you want to tell me to explain it a little more.
[13:12] So, the first two, the community awareness fund is my, I was donate to a spinal cord
[13:18] owner to put in their community where it's fun. These are the funds we use for buying stickers
[13:22] for kids, great candy and different things like that. So that way it's not taxpayer money,
[13:25] it's donated money. The second one is a grant. We wrote a list of fireballs to for a washing machine.
[13:31] We frequently have issues with police firing in the DPD who have a lot of stuff you don't want
[13:35] to take home on your uniform so be nice to go to the washing dryer out here. So that's what I wrote
[13:39] that grant. The overtime we work overtime under gifts up when that's kind of a traffic safety
[13:45] administration. We don't know that number every year. We just know that we're going to get
[13:49] out of here. We've worked a lot more than we expected this year. So we're just passing
[13:53] the other way that we were given back in our overtime budget. So this isn't as many of
[13:57] we received back minutes of a working overtime. Just wanted to put it back into the overtime budget.
[14:10] And there's that put motion straight to base for both three now. Do you like the whole thing,
[14:18] No, I think you can just read that first part of this.
[14:23] Where is the budget was adapted by the chocolate township board to govern all of it?
[14:29] Whoops, I'm just not.
[14:32] Sorry, sorry.
[14:35] Sorry, sorry.
[14:37] Prove the following budget amendments as presented.
[14:41] I'll start with that.
[14:42] Hey, we have a most been support for the budget amendments. This is the roll call of Mark Stongrake.
[14:48] Jolly Gallagher.
[14:49] When are you all saying yes?
[14:50] I'm saying yes.
[14:51] Ben's like, right, yes.
[14:53] And I can't go again.
[14:54] They've been saying yes.
[14:57] Next on the agenda.
[15:00] I'm sorry. Ours still on, for 3 different.
[15:05] That's the next one. This one is the fire department. One is for AED, AED, AED that are donated by Torvelle Foundation.
[15:16] What is a police and fire donation for Soss and a set of police and fire?
[15:25] Okay.
[15:26] Then, don't make Soss donating for Soss and accessories and then those are TEMPO energy grant.
[15:34] So these are the long-term capital projects we've been working on over the years to sort of replace
[15:39] some of this equipment.
[15:40] Unfortunately, we weren't budgeted for this.
[15:42] We're getting donations.
[15:43] The two-year-old foundation is giving us a $75,000 replacement of three AEDs that are all over
[15:48] 20 years old.
[15:49] We used significant cardiac emergencies.
[15:52] The SEMCO grant, we worked really well with the SEMCO energy.
[15:55] They have public safety grants.
[15:56] We've got to grant them originally for AEDs, but since I got fun, I've got a different
[16:00] way we're trying to push that into long-term spend and trying to re-eels for our trucks,
[16:05] 800s.
[16:05] As we're pushing 2025 years old, it's already become a tuning problem, whether or not
[16:08] fixable.
[16:10] And the final grant was for the police and fireball fund, all of our chainsaw's are all 15
[16:14] plus old and then are starting to give us major maintenance problems.
[16:18] That's grant will replace all of them in the amount of 15, 20 years for you to have to
[16:22] deal with them again.
[16:23] So, we're all non-budgeted things that we really get grant donations for, I just put it
[16:27] for sure, we're real full.
[16:40] We have a motion and support for the budget amendments, so I'll just roll all those, sorry.
[16:46] Mark Scholarakis.
[16:47] John McGall, yes.
[16:50] I'm running, yes.
[16:51] Thanks, I agree, yes.
[16:55] I think we have one more.
[16:58] It's with the reimbursement for elections from May, but the schools have any election.
[17:06] They have to reimburse the expenses to us.
[17:09] I don't know if you wanted to explain the snacks or am I doing okay?
[17:18] Well, especially for mailings and overtime,
[17:23] that goes to school system for us to, you know,
[17:29] It's sent to them and then they have to pay for the election.
[17:36] First of all, we put the money out and then finally we get paid for it and the end.
[17:43] That's.
[17:47] So it's just basically to reimburse our accounts again.
[17:51] So it's very striking, guys.
[17:52] I think it is a rather than a little bit.
[17:55] But I think it is a little bit different.
[17:56] I don't know if you are going to have a very collection of books.
[18:00] I will make a motion to approve the falling budget of a net message.
[18:03] Second.
[18:05] Again, we have a motion and support.
[18:06] This is the role of a workshop in RAKIS.
[18:09] Charlie, yes.
[18:10] I know you are listening, yes.
[18:11] I know you are listening.
[18:12] Yes.
[18:13] Yes.
[18:13] I know you are listening.
[18:15] Yes.
[18:16] We know.
[18:22] Now it is the set of last days.
[18:30] So unfortunately, my predecessors were a bit of quarters and we have light bars that are over than I am.
[18:37] We have radars that are over than I am.
[18:39] We have a ton of equipment that's just not feasible to use in more build-up reviews.
[18:44] It's specific to a vehicle in a year, which we can never use again.
[18:47] So we're trying to clean out the storage areas to drag it a little more around.
[18:50] So we thought if we didn't, we can't use any more
[18:52] why don't we explore and put on that list.
[18:58] I would make the motion to declare the attached items
[19:01] as surplus and permit disposable items
[19:04] as surplus inventory as presented.
[19:07] And allow the sale of items
[19:09] from the chocolate, township, police department.
[19:12] I'm public surplus.com.
[19:14] I'll support.
[19:15] Here we have a motion and support.
[19:18] All those in favor say aye.
[19:20] All right.
[19:20] All right.
[19:21] Motion carries.
[19:25] Next on the agenda is, consider the purchase of a 2020 seven-dodge to rain go for the
[19:31] police department.
[19:32] There's only seven-dodge.
[19:33] Oh, we got to get the other one.
[19:35] There's four.
[19:38] So, we separated this out, because we did the Resign 10 to the surplus of the vehicle, unfortunately
[19:45] and recently it started overheating, we brought over the duties in front of the blue head
[19:48] gasket.
[19:50] It really had 3 to 5,000 to the place that and they told us they would not do that work
[19:53] because then the other head gasket will blow
[19:56] in the rear gasket will blow.
[19:58] We called Fox the guy and he told us the exact same thing.
[20:00] We said they'd only do it if we didn't do it in the engine.
[20:02] So we intended to go into this next year anyways.
[20:05] I don't see it good for our taxpayers
[20:07] to put money into something that's just going to keep breaking.
[20:10] So this money is one of your targets or plus it.
[20:13] Tony, I think I know the answer, but anyway,
[20:15] so I saw that we had paid for new breaks
[20:19] for that particular model.
[20:21] That was probably prior to the time. Yeah, I'm fortunate. We get it that I found out about it on a Friday
[20:28] We brought it on the following Monday. They told us that it's
[20:32] That's why I assume you had that. Yeah, unfortunately we had to be at parts of the front end at earlier the shares well on that car
[20:37] It's it's 100,000 out of car. That's when the search starts to break but at this point if we continue to fix it
[20:43] We're just starting a lot of good money at that
[20:49] There'll be a chance it's the part of it for the balance of the U.S.
[20:53] and that will place it next year, which it was going to be replaced in the 25-7 budget year anyway.
[21:01] Being without it in the meantime.
[21:03] I'll make the motion to declare the 2022 Dodge Charger in the Touch equipment and serve
[21:09] plus and permit disposal items and the serve-plus inventory is presented
[21:14] and to allow the CF items from chocolate township police department on public surplus.com.
[21:21] I'll support.
[21:22] Anyway, we have a motion of support.
[21:24] You're in the vehicle.
[21:26] All those in favor say aye.
[21:29] I guess.
[21:29] I'm talking carries.
[21:33] Moving on is consider the purchase of a 2027 Dodge Durango for the police department.
[21:39] So this wouldn't be an actual purchase out of this budget cycle.
[21:41] This would just allow us to order it.
[21:43] vehicle and be available to the following budget cycle anyways we just want to make you get
[21:47] your permission to order this now so that way it's available in January unfortunately to January
[21:52] or when we're not getting it in June so it's just expecting the time I'm forgetting it.
[22:01] I'm curious is that price all in or do you have to customize it after?
[22:05] That is just a vehicle that's not for up fitting up fitting years we haven't gone out for quotes
[22:09] on that we're waiting till we've got approval before when we're up fitting quotes we'll bring
[22:13] It was back in the 1800s, I don't know,
[22:23] so there was a motion that that just authorized the purchase.
[22:28] Like, coming up.
[22:30] I'll make the motion that Chuck Lee Township Board approved staff recommendation that the Township Board
[23:03] We have a motion to support those in favor say aye.
[23:07] I guess.
[23:09] We'll see carries.
[23:13] Consider your approval of this strategic plan.
[23:17] Those more notes you have been planning sessions back to July now,
[23:23] So, I would like to sort of do this by back to move down there from there to give you
[23:32] plan which I might have been your first one, that is the College of the Sand, and the
[23:40] vendor prepared basic plan and what we do is we set it out to partner as to what we have to
[23:50] further comment about the one you've asked so far in the world, a few things added by
[23:59] partners to the one you've asked, but I just was allowing you out your goals and objectives
[24:05] that you had to say at lunch and so.
[24:08] Now, an acceptable form would be appropriate to be adopted at this point by the board, of course,
[24:17] about anything that you want to modify.
[24:24] So in my experience, these are the kind of things that are fun to make and then get lost.
[24:28] You know, keep eyes on them. So do we have a plan for how we're going to report out on those tasks?
[24:33] Yeah.
[24:33] Yeah.
[24:34] Yeah.
[24:35] And so one of the things we did had was, was the accountability for each task.
[24:41] There you can see one of your tabs have a kind of double goal with high stability, associated with the other one on that.
[24:49] I have itself, in the case, the patient will view the view of monthly for the first year as a daughter of one of your tabs by the rest, where the chief of them.
[25:00] And I think they have a bit of that year that, you know,
[25:03] so that they can come up with a new set of what you're tasked.
[25:07] So I can't read those at your goals and objectives
[25:10] to save for one month by one anyway.
[25:12] So I did just went back and back there in one of us
[25:15] and they were in a more very long report on it,
[25:18] a succession once a month, and stayed right up
[25:22] to date, cut through the one here tasked.
[25:26] So I thought it was a new set to have a career.
[25:29] It's just made it working the same way,
[25:38] the whole thing there, if you want.
[25:39] Pass it and that would be officially adopted as you play.
[25:44] I'm with the Chocolate Township Board, Dubs the Charter Township of Chocolate,
[25:48] Strategic Plan of 2026 to 2029 as presented.
[25:53] All support.
[25:54] Good.
[25:54] We have a motion to support.
[25:56] All those in favor say aye.
[25:59] Aye.
[26:02] Next is, consider stipend for township managers serving as a plain director and zoning administrator.
[26:11] And I'll answer any questions you may have on this.
[26:19] I sat down with Greg.
[26:20] We started this.
[26:21] I sat down with Greg because the hours were putting him.
[26:25] We're doing enforced by now has was never being done before.
[26:30] And it's good.
[26:30] I'm seeing in my area, some things are being cleaned up and it's good and he's putting
[26:35] in a lot more hours as the planning commission administrator than we force off, so that's
[26:43] how it came to wipe up this.
[26:45] I know how much work he's putting in because I'm putting in the same amount of hours at
[26:49] time.
[26:50] So I think it's deserved.
[26:53] I think he's doing a very good job and it's improved at the department quite a bit.
[27:02] And he's also on that he's doing his own aim too.
[27:05] Yes.
[27:15] Well, I'd make a motion that the chocolate and township board
[27:17] approves a spike in the amount of 20 percent of his base
[27:21] salary to compensate the township manager
[27:22] for also performing a role in planning director's own
[27:25] administrator, retroactive to January 1st.
[27:29] I'll look for your six.
[27:30] OK, we have a motion and support.
[27:33] All those in favor say aye.
[27:35] Aye.
[27:37] I guess, motion carries.
[27:41] Next on the agenda,
[27:42] Yes, consider preliminary discussion.
[27:44] We've got an additional year 27 budget.
[27:47] So this is a chance to check in as we're beginning
[27:50] to prepare the draft budget for 2027.
[27:54] We hope we'll have that to you.
[27:57] And I'll cover right now on that.
[27:59] So I'll have their work sheets out.
[28:02] And it's going up.
[28:03] I'm going up by the answer up.
[28:07] And I hope I can file a draft for you for October.
[28:10] It's sticking with the same time last year.
[28:14] As we did last year, I just wanted to check in with you at the
[28:18] seeding, at the secret place, and you really want us to be working on
[28:23] as we look through the budget to this point where we seem to be
[28:31] on track, which should be at about 67% of budget at this point and seem to be
[28:45] And I mentioned in the memo that really a future years, we should budget last year's revenues as the revenues.
[28:54] So, because that's really the way I want it.
[28:56] So, we started out with, you know, our property tax collections from the prior year.
[29:01] And that's only what I was, of course, a year in December,
[29:04] the bill, I guess, really relevant to the following year.
[29:08] A few things that, well, I'm not, no, you should be aware that
[29:17] the assessor is established, it's heavily factored for 20, 20, so that is a 1, 4, 6%
[29:25] so, again, all the uncappings that occur, that this is what happened when
[29:34] and propose a way that they have a way in my mind, right?
[29:37] So the fact that those two things working together
[29:40] is that when properties are on caped
[29:44] because they've been transferred
[29:46] and proposed a proposal a way, they go in market value
[29:50] and they're assessed at market value.
[29:52] The headly and on it says, nope, can't have that
[29:55] because that's an excess from the rate of inflation.
[29:58] So it comes and takes all those money.
[30:00] So we never get any additional revenue, no redist dollars in the Michigan policy. Other than that, the taxable value was added.
[30:10] So in other words, something new was built, or something it's found, which, having our deal with something tech, it's also resulted in, found a number of things that were there and that were not in the role.
[30:22] So that's been a good thing to answer the other things as well, but other than that, other
[30:28] than Newcastle value of being either found or added, we get no credit for other than, you
[30:35] know, the rate of inflation factor that we get, we get no credit for changes of the market
[30:41] type, and so this year or next year, as a matter of that, we'll be 1.46% of reduction again
[30:50] in our billet rates. There is a way to override it which could be discussed if you ever want to do that.
[30:56] I don't think it hits the new public safety billet age in 2020, Southern China. I think that was the case.
[31:03] But it will start reducing that all the time, as well, if nothing is done about it.
[31:10] That being one of the things I didn't make any assumptions about that.
[31:16] A few things that we will need to address next year is, you know, we have the classification
[31:23] compensation study for all the full-time positions, staff positions going on, which kicked
[31:31] off this morning.
[31:32] His mayor back went at the Sherrys, and some of them are going to be chosen for that, given
[31:37] and live went through all the job descriptions, made sure they're up to date, and given them
[31:41] the job that's going to be pulled back to positions that we have, including the one that
[31:47] we're speculating about creating and the future which I'll speak out in a second.
[31:54] And so they're off in the morning with that.
[31:57] I hope that we will definitely have it in time to incorporate the recommendations of the
[32:02] budget and I'm sure that that will be of some significant, you know, we've already
[32:09] sort of experience that with police and having to compete with other jurisdictions to retain the
[32:20] officers that we've been able to obtain. We are down one now of course and that means that we're
[32:26] going to have to more than likely put it down through the academy and so that will be an
[32:37] asked if it ran so that I'm clear what that will be available for next year.
[32:45] She mentioned the placement of the charger that was always planned.
[32:54] That'll be, obviously, of the flight flight set.
[32:58] We continued out to put on a side forum, new fire truck,
[33:05] And the relatively near future, we can get some from KBSC for that, and we have gotten some from them for that.
[33:14] But it is a daunting amount of things, so it's a multi-year effort to put aside enough to do what I actually do.
[33:24] And there are considerations on how much is that worth today.
[33:29] that would be a goal that we would replace this is how long
[33:33] to replace that.
[33:36] So that one words could stand for a while.
[33:40] That's a sale item, a simple sale item like that.
[33:44] If we were to don't sooner or later,
[33:46] I don't know if those are considerations.
[33:48] So we're not going to be talking about.
[33:50] And then finally, has been alluded to.
[33:54] We haven't, we haven't.
[33:57] You know, notes in our last audit about the Deputy Treasurer position, and we need to back that up, and so, just in general, there's a lot of work, you know,
[34:16] Suzanne puts in a ton of hours, keeping the books, and we could benefit from having a position that both assistant or
[34:27] with some of that financial record keeping
[34:29] and was there to back up the deputy treacher one.
[34:32] It's not a whole lead for others.
[34:35] Issues that prevent her from being on the child,
[34:39] deputy treacher's only a part time position
[34:42] as it is right now.
[34:44] I envision this as being a whole time position
[34:47] to see what the consultant recommends they cost.
[34:51] And I will inform whether you include it in your budget
[34:54] But there are a lot of things in terms of covering the front counter,
[35:01] and that system would be a financial reporting of a such person.
[35:06] If we could find such person, that will be a challenge finding a person with appropriate skills.
[35:13] If we could find such person, there's just plenty of things we do in the past.
[35:18] It'd be higher than any pressure.
[35:21] We used a system on it, the out there helping
[35:25] want the public, which is not in the case in recent years.
[35:31] And so I do think it is Maryland.
[35:36] But we will see, as we get in the budget process,
[35:42] what the cost is, and what you're doing.
[35:45] So those are kind of the things.
[35:46] course, of course, I'm sure health insurance will cost significantly more.
[35:51] As the past, we had double digits last year, fortunately only got the sound.
[35:56] I would like to stay back doing the days again in the 2020 sound.
[36:02] Those are kind of the things I'm looking at.
[36:06] It's new challenges to reflect myself budget, but I'm interested to hear you all have anything
[36:12] that we should be addressing.
[36:13] Yeah, but I don't mention it.
[36:23] I have nothing to do with that.
[36:24] Yeah, it's not.
[36:25] We'll proceed along that path and something.
[36:30] I hope that looks like a draft, which would be the next one.
[36:35] OK.
[36:36] Do you have anything else to report under management's report?
[36:39] Management's report?
[36:40] I know only what I was going to mention.
[36:42] I just did.
[36:43] Just that we've kicked off the classification.
[36:46] So I hope those results will be a bit quickly here.
[36:52] Okay, next is board member comments.
[36:55] Not so much of a comment as a question.
[36:59] Does anyone else have any issue with the page one of the wastewater treatment?
[37:11] The facility advisory board minutes, the first page, especially is giving me a headache.
[37:18] I don't know if you've looked at it in an all.
[37:21] Yeah, say by mine.
[37:24] It's a four minute.
[37:25] Okay, it's something just somewhat out four minute thing.
[37:28] And then it picks up after that.
[37:30] We need to be fine, but after a joint, but I didn't know if that was a technical error or what was going on there.
[37:38] It was a time. Okay, as long as I know it's not just me, I'm happy with that.
[37:43] I did not look at that page.
[37:47] I have no other comments, thank you. I don't have that same question.
[37:52] And for me, I have no public comment. This is a general session. If you have public comment, please rise to your name and address and keep your promise for free.
[38:09] See it?
[38:13] There's no reference anywhere as to funding. That's the first thing I said.
[38:20] In area three of that report, it talks about evaluating roads, some system to value our roads.
[38:28] Nationally communities are to install use of the space system, and we have free years used to use the space system.
[38:35] Why would we look at doing anything different?
[38:41] There's reference in there about the sewer crust and if you go back in the records for years
[38:49] you will have seen that I have said tell the people what it really costs so they don't
[38:54] get the astronomical increase that you did plus within the last year.
[38:59] That's gotta be maintained.
[39:01] You're looking at my funny bend, it was a huge, huge cost.
[39:06] You did that to take care of the system.
[39:07] understand why you did it, what I'm asking you to do is make sure that that cost is in
[39:12] their continually and if it's continuing to grow, that the people know. Garbage service,
[39:17] I don't understand why this township spends as much time at energy with Garbage service. It's not
[39:23] our business. We are not going to just tell them to take care of the garbage. I don't get it.
[39:30] As far
[39:31] as growing tax-based, I don't see how you're going to grow the tax-based. I'm going to say
[39:37] I totally 100% disagree with you in regard to, and I don't know if you said it this way on purpose or what, but no credit for changes in market value.
[39:49] That is 100% wrong.
[39:51] The reality is, if I have a home and it's based on a taxable value of $100,000, we could only wish.
[40:00] $100,000, and I sell it to Mr. Legala here, and it's for half a million dollars.
[40:05] My taxable value was $100,000.
[40:08] His taxable value might be close to the $500,000.
[40:13] Not exactly, because we don't follow sales, but it might be close to the $500,000.
[40:18] So that property gets my property gets uncapped when he acquires it, and now he's paying taxes
[40:23] on a property that's sold for $500,000, and it has to be assessed.
[40:28] So that's on cap. So there is a change in that cash bag. I don't know if you bring with that or not, but that's what happens.
[40:37] You're great. Okay, so the other thing is
[40:40] As for transparency goes we have got to do something in reference to recordings.
[40:46] I got you guys to stop clicking the pens and banging the tables and all that stuff for these recordings.
[40:52] But it's very difficult to hear people unless they have a loud voice like me that projects.
[40:57] And I strongly suggest that we look at doing something different to help that.
[41:04] In reference to public safety, it's in the strategic plan that, and I had to read twice
[41:13] because I couldn't believe it.
[41:14] I know it's AI-generated.
[41:16] But it talks about chocolate and talent-ship being involved with the Fish and Wildlife Service
[41:20] in regard for an AI perspective.
[41:23] Fischewala service and reference to CLA and CLA advertising.
[41:27] That market station, for Fischewala like service, was built ten years ago.
[41:32] I've never seen chocolate township involved in all except for what.
[41:37] Maybe you noticed that something is so the creak.
[41:39] I think that needs to be looked at more carefully because the information is not accurate.
[41:43] Thank you.
[41:45] Hey, any other public comment?
[41:48] See?
[41:51] I have a lot of neighbors that are very concerned about the garbage.
[41:56] I know you guys are looking at contracts right now.
[41:58] But some people have driveways that are quarter mile or real long and they're older
[42:04] and they have a hard time right now.
[42:06] They can throw a bag in their pickup truck on the way to town and deliver it to the end of the driveway.
[42:13] $10 a bag is way too much.
[42:15] It's way too much.
[42:17] And I know garbage services are expensive.
[42:20] When you look at those contracts, I think,
[42:22] the 31st of August, it was a deadline.
[42:25] But when you look at those in the future,
[42:28] take into consideration people with really long driveways,
[42:31] older people, or people and wheelchairs.
[42:35] And I know we want to go to all the plastic bins with the wheels,
[42:40] but not everybody can handle those in the snow
[42:43] in the different weather.
[42:45] So, I know we're trying to do the environmental thing, but it doesn't fit everywhere in our community so that I just wanted to bring that up.
[42:55] Thank you.
[42:56] Thank you.
[42:57] Any other public comment?
[42:59] Seeing in the process, I'd like to just follow a fair thing about tax provided.
[43:02] I'd like to watch all that understand that.
[43:04] That is exactly true.
[43:06] As an end of the digital, you get on a cab and then what happens is everybody else in the community gets a reduction of the military to
[43:15] to basically take away from the municipality
[43:19] the money that came in because you were on cap.
[43:23] So it's doubly unfair.
[43:25] It's bad for the individual and my view is bad
[43:29] for the municipality as well.
[43:33] That is exactly how the Huddly Factor is right now.
[43:38] Thank you.
[43:40] Seeing another public comment,
[43:41] I'll close the second session.
[43:44] And look for a motion to turn.
[43:49] We have a motion and support, all those in favor say aye.
[43:53] Aye. Aye.
[43:53] Thank you.
[44:04] Very good.