Midland County Board of Commissioners Meeting 9/15/26

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[0:00] Midland County Board of Commissioners meeting to order Tuesday, September 15, 2020, 26 at 9 a.m., Jim, would you come over Mr. Snyder, Mr. Salky, Mr. Malt, Mr. Gimbrow, Mr. Doryem, Mr. Smith, Chairman Bohn, here, all of our President. Commissioner Shokie, would you lead us in the invocation and the pledge of please?
[0:29] Your
[0:34] Heavenly Father, we praise you and thank you for your kindness to those in our county.
[0:40] We are very blessed to be thankful for the health, prosperity, and safety that we enjoy.
[0:46] Thank you for your patience with us.
[0:48] We often take these for granted until something in our lives is touched by issues of various kinds.
[0:55] Thank you for the township, the county employees.
[0:57] We serve the residents of this county and for the many employers who supply income and benefits for the constituents.
[1:05] Thank you for the present weather we've had the rain in the fall season that will be starting next week.
[1:12] We do indeed live on a delightful peninsula.
[1:16] We also agree with those affected by the two events that we remember last week.
[1:21] It's a September 10th, 2025, assassination,
[1:25] Charlie Kirk, and the radical Islamic terrorist attacks
[1:29] on 9, 11, 2011.
[1:32] Terrible losses whose impacts are still being felt
[1:36] with them in certain default posts.
[1:41] Again, we join with the many Americans
[1:43] and others around the world interceding
[1:46] for a speedy resolution of the conflict in Iran
[1:50] And this rounding area, we ask you continue to protect our troops and give our leaders
[1:56] with some regarding all actions associated with it.
[2:00] And your name we pray, amen.
[2:04] Congratulations to the flag of the United States of America.
[2:08] And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
[2:20] Okay, next on the agenda is the approval of the minutes for September 1st and September 8th of
[2:28] 2006.
[2:30] Mr. Chair, there is a typo and I'll just get with her on that.
[2:34] I want to make comments that I would like to make a motion to approve it.
[2:42] Sorry.
[2:44] All those in favour, please say aye.
[2:46] Aye.
[2:46] There was a pose the same.
[2:48] Okay, we will approve the minutes for September 1st in September 8th, and we will move on to the acceptance of the bills for the weeks of July 25th, August 1st in August 8th, 2026.
[3:03] Properly address, ladies and gentlemen, general bank claims accepted for the week of 72526-73126 in the amount of 426,035 and 42 cents.
[3:20] Total general fund expenditures of 143,544 in 78 cents.
[3:27] The address lays in gentleman general bank claim accepted for the week of eight one twenty six through eight seven twenty six in the amount of two million one hundred and six thousand four hundred and forty four thousand sixty seven cents
[3:42] full expenditure funds expended
[3:44] 12 general funds expenditures is eighty thousand four hundred and ninety three dollars and eighty six cents
[3:51] properly addressed ladies and gentlemen, general bank claims accepted for the
[3:56] week of 8,826 through 8,1426 in the amount of 8,812,441 dollars and 94 cents
[4:06] told general fund expenditures and 388,600 in the $117 and 72 cents we get
[4:16] motion to pay the bill, so we'll approve of all those in favor, please say aye.
[4:22] Aye. Aye. Aye. Those opposed the same. Okay, we will pay the bills. We do not have
[4:28] a special program of the day today, so at this point I would ask, is there any public
[4:33] comments? We have any public comment. Please come forward, state your name and then
[4:38] address and
[4:42] three minutes or less. Thank you. Good morning. My name is Jill Booth. I live in
[4:47] home or township. And last week I spent a lot of my time watching the Alison here,
[4:54] Alison and Quarry from Canada, which featured their worst vaccine injured. So I did a little
[5:03] research. Dr. McCullough was one of the closing speakers. He's a standing ovation.
[5:14] And his
[5:16] heard on COVID. It just encapsulating the whole beginning to end and how these
[5:28] vaccine enters are treated in Canada, but it also reflected on what's going on
[5:34] here. So I urge you, I'm going to send a copy of this speech to all of you, but I
[5:41] So, in light of this rollout, vaccination rollout, the county's doing, I want people to understand
[5:52] that there are harms, and they're not mentioned here, and they should be
[6:03] Dr. McCullough,
[6:04] one of this things, one of his points, where he does not matter for injury, because vaccines
[6:12] are applied to healthy people. One person is one person to many.
[6:23] For Michigan Stats,
[6:31] I'm sorry.
[6:36] Since beginning of COVID, there have been 865 reported dust in openbears.com. So along with that,
[6:49] I mean, that covers many years, but it's not insignificant, and I personally don't at least
[6:56] buy people that have had trouble sense, and it's very obvious it's very close after
[7:02] their injection.
[7:04] Many were forced to do it for work, so this is no light matter, it's divided the medical
[7:11] community. Dr. McCullough was very maligned for his among many doctors, but he's
[7:19] also cured a lot of people. So I urge you to read my paper, I'll send it to Jessica.
[7:30] Thank you very much. Is there any other public comment today? Seeing none, do you want to move on to a standing committee report from the one place?
[7:46] We need to report number one, happily address, ladies and gentlemen. We here in administration operations committee recommended approval of the grant agreement with the middle and area community foundation for an award in the amount of $15,000 to be used in support of the Sanford Dam.
[8:02] Stanford Dam Neural and Walking Project, we further recommend that the grant award be deposited
[8:10] directly into the Stanford Dam Neural and Walkway Project fund at the Midland Area Community Foundation.
[8:19] Respect, I'm sorry, respectfully submitted to that Snyder, Chairperson, Larry Shalke and Ken Malm.
[8:25] Mr. Schneider.
[8:26] Mr. Chairman, the Administration Operations Committee recommends adoption of agenda item 64.
[8:32] 4-8-25.
[8:34] Thank you.
[8:35] Do we have any public comment on this item?
[8:38] Commissioner Discussion?
[8:41] Yes.
[8:41] Commissioner Snyder.
[8:42] I just want to say if you have not saw the mural.
[8:45] Pictures are in person.
[8:47] I'm going to see it.
[8:48] It's beautiful.
[8:50] It's beautiful.
[8:51] Thank you.
[8:52] Thank you.
[8:53] Many thanks.
[8:54] Many thanks to the Foundation as well.
[8:57] Any other discussion?
[9:00] Mr. Malt.
[9:03] Mr. Gambrell.
[9:04] Mr. Dorian.
[9:05] Yes.
[9:06] Mr. Smith.
[9:08] Mr. Snyder.
[9:09] Mr. Shalki.
[9:11] Yes.
[9:11] Chairman Bohn.
[9:12] Yes.
[9:13] All cast.
[9:14] Committee report.
[9:15] Number two.
[9:23] We need to report.
[9:24] Number two.
[9:24] Properly.
[9:25] Resilies and gentlemen.
[9:26] We need your administration operations.
[9:27] Committee recommend approval.
[9:28] the revisions to the county policy 303.1 purchasing policy estimated by the Finance
[9:35] Structure, respectively submitted to our persons, to that Snyder, Larry Shalky and
[9:42] Ken Malm.
[9:44] Mr. Schneider.
[9:45] Mr. Chairman, the Administration Operations Committee recommends a
[9:57] question?
[10:00] Mr. Schultge is just a committee.
[10:03] Some of these revisions are to make it compliant,
[10:07] or to make it compliant with some of the grants,
[10:10] and some other things that I don't know.
[10:12] The finance folks want to explain more in detail,
[10:15] but then some kind of some typos essentially.
[10:21] So just some useful or needed updates in corrections from past.
[10:27] Yeah, so what Larry said, I think he and he covered it, but Tiffany did you want to say anything about it? No. Okay.
[10:37] Okay,
[10:42] heating up some tables from the last time we opened the policy in December of 24.
[10:48] And then adding some final language in order to, sorry. Thank you.
[10:54] Thank you. Any other discussion? Jim and Colourole, please.
[10:58] Mr. Kimbrell. Yes.
[11:00] Mr. Dorian. Yes.
[11:02] Mr. Smith. Yes.
[11:04] Mr. Snyder. Yes.
[11:05] Mr. Scholke. Yes.
[11:07] Mr. Malt. Yes.
[11:09] Mr. Chairman Bohn. Yes.
[11:10] Motion passed.
[11:12] May you report number three, please.
[11:14] Hopefully address ladies and gentlemen.
[11:17] We, your administration operation,
[11:19] given the and finance committee have reviewed
[11:21] the proposed service agreement with the
[11:23] the City of Midland County. The terms of the
[11:25] agreement is from July 1st, 2026, through December 31st, 2027.
[11:31] Under the agreement, the County will provide funding in the amount of
[11:35] $30 per day less oner payments up to 7 days or longer if required.
[11:41] Per annual brought to the sheltered by a court order. Employees of the
[11:46] County Sheriff Department or a person authorized in advance by the
[11:50] office of the Midland County Sheriff Department.
[11:52] We recommend approval of the agreement and the amendment, and that the Administrator
[11:58] Control would be authorized to make any necessary budget adjustments, respectfully submitted.
[12:03] Chairperson, Janette Snyder, Councillor Scholke, Commissioner Malt, Chairperson,
[12:07] Jim Brell, Commissioner Scholke, and Commissioner Malt.
[12:11] Mr. Snyder.
[12:13] Mr. Chairman, the Administration and Operations Committee recommends that
[12:21] Mr. Chairman, the Finance Committee also recommends the adoption of 88-9-26.
[12:28] Do we have any public comment?
[12:30] Mr. Chairman's discussion?
[12:33] Jim Cole, roll please.
[12:36] Mr. Doryne.
[12:37] Yes.
[12:37] Mr. Smith.
[12:38] Yes.
[12:39] Mr. Snyder.
[12:40] Yes.
[12:40] Mr. Shalky.
[12:41] Yes. Mr. Malt.
[12:44] Mr. Gamebrow.
[12:45] Yes. Chairman Bohn.
[12:46] Yes.
[12:49] That's it for our senior committee reports. We have an RPCs today. We have all the new old business.
[12:56] We do have a one item and new business that I would need a motion to bring up.
[13:00] So moved.
[13:02] All those in favor, please say aye.
[13:05] Those opposed the same.
[13:07] Jim, could you read the item and new business place?
[13:10] Your business number one, consideration of the reappeiment of Diane Brissot to the Department of Human Services Board.
[13:22] Mr. Chairman, I make a motion to adopt agenda item 89-9-26.
[13:29] Thank you.
[13:31] Do we have any public comment? Commissioner Discussion?
[13:35] Jim Cole-Roll, please.
[13:39] Mr. Doryne.
[13:40] Yes.
[13:40] Commissioner Smith.
[13:41] Yes.
[13:42] Mr. Cider. Yes. Mr. Shalking. Yes. Mr. Malt. Yes. Mr. Gambrale. Yes. Chairman Vone. Yes. And thank you, Diane, for your willingness to serve. Also, here. Thank you. Okay. That's it for our bit, most of our business. I'm going to move on to Commissioner comments and we'll start with Commissioner Malt today.
[14:07] It's pretty quiet, but a very productive meeting at Mithontonship the other night for the
[14:13] announcement issues that they're dealing with with a new fire station, but a very productive
[14:19] meeting.
[14:20] I enjoyed it.
[14:21] It went a little long, but it was gone good.
[14:25] Thank you.
[14:25] Commissioner Jim Braw.
[14:27] Thanks to Diane for volunteering your time again.
[14:30] It's a very helpful and as always, thanks to the people who run the county, Brigitte, and
[14:35] Jessica and Tiffany for a great job. Thank you, Commissioner Dorian. I would like to
[14:43] recognize the person to my right who is my attendant, Jacob Buster-Lose,
[14:52] who's doing a
[14:53] up job. Great. Commissioner Smith. Yeah, um, thank you. I-
[15:00] Just wanted to mention, in my other role, my other job, I see a lot of folks that tend to be in crisis.
[15:14] And by far the most folks that we see this time of year are kids and teens that seem to be in crisis that are struggling with changes in their schedules.
[15:30] struggling with being back to school, struggling with, you know, what does it mean to be back
[15:36] with friends for six hours a day? And sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad.
[15:43] And but it's definitely a time of transition and it's definitely a time where I see
[15:51] kids all across the state seeming to struggle in that transition period for a few weeks.
[15:58] And so I would just encourage people in the community and in our own lives to just reach out if you have a
[16:08] Keter, a team that and just kind of, you know, check in with them, see if they are nervous about school.
[16:15] See if they're fearful about anything and just see how you can best support the young person in your life.
[16:21] Thank you.
[16:22] Thank you. I appreciate it Jill's comments earlier on the vaccine rollout. We certainly want to make sure we mentioned, you know, the side effects.
[16:35] I know that people don't talk about it, but we certainly want to say, you know, it's a freedom of choice and you can, you know, study it out and make the best decision for you and your family.
[16:48] So I was very pro-vaccination until I had something very close to me happen and it wasn't reported so then I investigated some things and some of the things just aren't reported and that made me have a red flag so and you all know how I like to investigate things so I think we could do better with the system we have out there but I appreciate Jill coming forward and talking about a tough subject.
[17:15] Mr. Shofi.
[17:17] I echoed.
[17:19] Commissioner Snyder is comments.
[17:21] I also wanted to appreciate that when a public well-bringed comments.
[17:27] And because we do want that interaction and involvement in our company.
[17:31] So appreciate that. Thank you very much.
[17:34] The people would have, I don't know, it's probably not affecting all the people in middle and county directly.
[17:39] The ITC would have sent out in our in the process is sending out some notice that this is they're putting in it's the copper tin project and they're going to be putting in 347K or 345KV transmission line through parts of Midland County.
[18:00] And so there's a public comment period.
[18:01] These are going to be October 6th at the Great Hall, and there's several others.
[18:08] Those who are infected will see that brochure and want to make sure people are aware of that, so they can give their input.
[18:15] The second thing we would have got an email from Jessica Balti, MMP,
[18:21] or the material's management plan, and in there there was about giving public input.
[18:30] They had gathered public input from the public officials back in May or thereabouts.
[18:36] And in the eight-county area, I think they only had about 25, I think, is what they said.
[18:42] Public officials, I could have that number wrong.
[18:44] But so it was a disappointing input for that, and so I'm hoping we will get some MMP
[18:54] rep who will give some updates on what's going on, and what that totally what's in there
[19:00] that you've got in there is the actual plan that they're putting forward.
[19:04] It's like 153 page document, I went to take a look, which is about the size of our budget.
[19:11] So it's a big plan, but that's because it includes the specific plans for the different eight counties
[19:16] But that we will be making some decisions on that later
[19:21] But we should also if you can take a look at it and then because we're they're asking for our input as well
[19:28] And again, it's giving specific details on the plan
[19:31] So I encourage people to get involved with that and last I don't know if anyone be people
[19:37] So we've got the specialty infusion centers having their grand opening today this afternoon.
[19:44] So I'm going to want to come there on Jefferson Avenue, specialty infusion center.
[19:53] Thank you very much.
[19:55] And then I would just like to say thank you to the Midland Area Community Foundation for our grants.
[20:01] That's very nice and very much appreciated.
[20:04] So, we're going to move on now to commissioner meeting schedules and let's start with Commissioner Maltz again.
[20:15] Tomorrow night, I think everybody's invited to base city for the Walter County meeting.
[20:22] Looking forward to that and I have a couple of meetings next week with Health and Human
[20:32] Service Council and also looking forward to working with our being at my first meeting
[20:40] with thanks to Jessica with Judge Biel's cover court and so a bit of a challenge to get
[20:49] response, but we've only dead and so looking forward to attending the first, first of
[20:54] those.
[20:55] So other than that, busy at the Police Academy, I would just like to give a shot out
[21:00] for just a second, a young man that I work with, for actually over a year, is now our new
[21:09] Patrol Deputy in Bill and County, often his training program James Green, he started his
[21:16] first day money, independently of his training officers
[21:21] on the Cold for Midland County, pretty proud of young man.
[21:26] He overcame some pretty significant obstacles
[21:28] to be successful and that he got out to him.
[21:32] Thank you.
[21:33] Commissioner Dimbrone.
[21:35] At the Act 345 meeting this Thursday and support your hometown,
[21:40] hometown team, everybody should go to the Northwood Auto Show this weekend.
[21:48] We are going through what day.
[21:57] We will be going through October 6th.
[22:05] So I am also hoping to attend the multi-county meeting in
[22:10] a basicity tomorrow night, and then on Thursday, September 17th.
[22:18] From 3 to 430, I have an overdose fatality review board meeting that will meet in midlands.
[22:26] Um, and...
[22:30] And I'm going to Milwaukee but that's not super relevant. And then on Tuesday,
[22:40] October 29th at 5 p.m. I have a finance committee meeting in Isabella County for community mental health of central Michigan. And then at 630 I have their total board meeting.
[22:57] And that's also at the Isabella County Community Mental Health Office.
[23:03] And that is all I have to report.
[23:05] Thank you.
[23:05] Thank you very much, Mr. Slayer.
[23:08] Thank you.
[23:08] I'm also attending the Tri-County Commissioners Gathering that is Bay County,
[23:12] saying that in Midland, so important.
[23:14] We do that once a year and we were at the Matt conference talking to some of our
[23:20] Bay County Commissioners and they have some exciting stuff going on.
[23:23] So I'm excited to continue that conversation
[23:27] of best practices across the three counties.
[23:30] And Grascia asked if they could be invited to it.
[23:33] So I said, I will definitely ask if they were funny.
[23:37] So, and then on the 17th, I have the girls,
[23:41] I call it the General Employees Retirement System
[23:43] and 10 A.M. here.
[23:45] That evening, I have the S.L.I.B.
[23:47] at 7 p.m. in Jerome.
[23:50] And I'm gonna take a week vacation to that.
[23:52] important so yeah and so good luck to y'all but no I'm Larry's going to cover for me and I'm really
[23:59] sad to miss the courthouse 100 year celebration on the 25th I love all things to do with the courthouse
[24:06] and that is a big deal if you can go to that on the 25th I cannot and the 29th I are committee meeting
[24:12] So I'll announce human services at 11 a.m.
[24:15] A.n.o. at 2.30 a.m.
[24:19] And then a lot of that for me.
[24:23] Thank you.
[24:24] Thank you, Commissioner Schulti.
[24:26] I also plan to go to the Tri-Commi Commission
[24:28] meeting in the base of the tomorrow,
[24:33] and maybe we have a BPW
[24:37] board meeting, but we don't have volunteers.
[24:40] So I guess that meeting will be canceled.
[24:42] that it's on the 21st, otherwise, if I weren't.
[24:47] Wednesday, 9.23, I'll be going to the Homer Township meeting at 7 o'clock on the September 24th.
[24:56] That Thursday, I'll be going to the mid and county road commission at 9 o'clock at
[25:01] Sanford at their road commission in their, in Sanford, on that same day, I'll be going
[25:09] up to the mid-Michigan Community Action Agency for the board meeting there and far well for
[25:15] 30.
[25:16] I need to hope to make up to the Courthouse Centennial there and Friday the September 25th.
[25:24] And on Monday, I've gone to one of the, my hope, graduation ceremonies, and they're really
[25:31] kind of cool to see, I don't know if other commissioners have many times you've had a chance
[25:36] go there, there's one at two to three in Judge Harris's courtroom, and to see that, you
[25:43] know, they affirm the graduate and some of the family members. It's a good thing and just
[25:51] great to see the different candidates says they've made it through that whole process. So make
[25:57] that. And on Tuesday, 929, there's the finance meeting. So, announce about that. And
[26:08] A&O, it didn't A&O or 23. And that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you very much. For my
[26:15] meetings, I have the staff to do not want to clock. I have the land bank meeting, which is
[26:20] right here. And then I'm going to go to the track on and gathering, also on tomorrow,
[26:27] in 1916, 917, I have retirement, 930, I have the Great Lakes Bay Convention and Visitors
[26:37] Bureau, and I skipped over the Corals, but on the 25th I'll be attending the Corals
[26:42] too.
[26:43] So those are my meetings, and I believe, at this point, that's the end of our business.
[26:53] I'll make a motion to adjourn.
[26:55] Court on the favor, please say aye.
[26:58] Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.
[26:58] It was opposed the same.
[27:00] Okay, this meeting is adjourned until Tuesday, October 6, 2020,
[27:04] six to meeting a regular session of the Board of Commissioners
[27:07] and for the committees to resume their duties.
[27:10] Thank you, everybody. Have a great day.
[27:13] Thank you.