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Going to start with the pledge of
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to the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for it

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stands one nation under God indivisible
with liberty and justice for all.

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» May I please ask for a roll call?
>> Supervisor Riley

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» present.
>> Clerk Enzaldi

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» present. Treasure Epicanin
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» Trusty Erada Thompson
>> present.

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» Trusty Jeffford
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» Trusty Brabe. Trusty Kurami
>> present. Madam supervisor, you have six

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members present.
>> Thank you. We do have quorum. I ask for

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a motion for an approval of our agenda.
>> Madam Chair, I move to approve the

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agenda for September 9th, 2026.
>> Second.

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» Okay. Any discussion?
>> Okay. All in favor?

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» I opposed. All right. The agenda is
approved for this evening. I'm going to

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go ahead and open it up for public
comment. Any person may come forward at

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this time to address the board. Anyone
who wishes to speak is requested but not

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required to state his or her name for
the an address for the record. um you'll

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have five minutes to speak and then the
board um may choose to respond

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afterwards. If you do, we're asking that
if you do have something for the public

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hearing in regards to the data center
that you wait for the um the public

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hearing that will be next after this.

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» Good evening.
>> How do I do this? Just stand here and

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talk. Okay.
>> Good evening.

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» And um my name is Norma Smith Cost. I'm
I'm a dinosaur, but I'm not dead. Okay.

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And one of the things I want to please
ask you to remember is that there's a

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lot of senior citizens that live in the
Harwood subdivision that do not have

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computers and do not have smartphones.
Now, that ain't me. I got a computer,

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but they did not know about this meeting
because they're uninformed. So, I would

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like to please ask you
when you put out this wonderful thing,

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include something that's real important
like this meeting.

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please, because we can read, but we and
I can't tell you how sad it is that some

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of the people in my subdivision don't
know what's going on because they don't

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live in the digital world. And and I
kind of don't either, but could you

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please consider the people that, you
know, are like me that still read

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newspapers? And unfortunately, the Ann
Arbor News has just said, "Oh, we are

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not putting any printed versions out
anymore starting in December." So I

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said, "Okay, fine. I'm not buying your
No more because I'm not going to sit in

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front of a laptop and read the thing.
So, the Ann Arbor News has pushed senior

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citizens to the curb. Please don't
please don't push the seniors to the

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curb. We We like newspapers and we'd
like to get this wonderful Pittsfield

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notification of what's going on in this
wonderful township.

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Please help us inform the seniors who
are, you know, like a little more dense

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than me. Okay? and um let us all
participate because we all pay taxes and

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we care about each other. Ann Arbor News
doesn't care about us, but you must

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because I do. And I was 43 years
full-time employed at the university,

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not the University of Michigan, but as I
did work there 15 years. Midnights. Oh

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my god. But anyway, I'm a medical
technologist. I care about everybody. I

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want everybody to have the best health
possible, but they got to be informed.

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You can't be informed if you're not in
the digital world all the time. So,

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please, please consider helping the
seniors

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who don't have access to digital because
it's their choice.

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Please help the senior citizens being
involved in this community. Thank you

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for your kindness and thank you for
everything you do. And I always vote.

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Have never missed an election in my
whole life. Thank you for your kindness.

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» Thank you.

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» Good evening.
>> Good evening. Uh my name is Althia

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Battles and I am running for Washington
County Probate Judge and I just wanted

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to um approach the council
um to introduce myself and to introduce

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myself to the citizens of Pittsville
Township if that's okay. So my name is

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Althia Battles. I am currently associate
general counsel and a clinical social

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worker at the University of Michigan and
I have been uh in this role for I've

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worked at the University of Michigan for
over 35 years mostly as a clinical

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social worker then as an attorney and I
am now uh seeking the office of probate

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judge. I've been doing probate work and
and assisting with probate matters on

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behalf of Michigan Medicine for some of
our most vulnerable citizens now for

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over 10 years and I would love to
continue to do that work. The probate

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court is going to handle guardianships,
conservatorships, deceived estates, uh

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living wills and trusts, and some mental
health cases. Usually, these cases

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involve the most vulnerable in our
community, those who um suffer from some

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kind of either neurokcognitive disorder
or some kind of a um like maybe a head

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injury or who have developmental
disabilities that require the assistance

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of a guardian. There are what I'd like
for people to know is that there are a

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couple of new laws that have just been
passed that were passed in July that are

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going to really impact this seat and the
people of uh of county should know about

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those. They will involve uh whether or
not a guardian can sell a person's

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property and whether or not a guardian
can remove a person from their residence

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and relocate them. Those are things that
are now going to have to go before the

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probate judge. So that's going to create
more work and it requires more knowledge

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and experience to be able to do that and
that is what I have. I have uh 10 years

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of probate law experience and I have
been recognized as a national expert by

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um institutions and agencies like the
department of justice, the um most a lot

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of uh national academic centers like
Duke and um the New England Journal of

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Medicine when they need to have a
manuscript review that has to do with

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probate law. They call me and asked me
to do that. And so I think that that's

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the kind of person that we would want
representing our our our citizens and

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residents in county. And so I would love
to have the support of the people of

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Pittsville Township as well as county.
And thank you for your time.

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» Thank you.
>> Thank you for your service.

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Christina Luronus 151 East Textile Road
and um I'm glad to see our probate court

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candidate here. There's there's more
than one, but um it's it's such a

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crucial role. My daughter is
intellectually disabled and um you know

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the elderly often come in contact with
the probate court. So it's it is a

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crucial position. Um, I want I just
wanted to say that I'm glad that we're

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doing a data center ordinance. I think
this is what first reading tonight. Um,

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and I know that there's a public hearing
later, but good good that we're doing

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that. And I think that it went through a
lot of uh vetting through the different

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attorneys that worked on this. And I'm
glad we uh engaged outside counsel on

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top of our typical council for this. So,
that was important. Um, I want to say

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that I'm 100% opposed to the TIFF, the
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it's also known as the corridor
improvement authority. I think it's a

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huge mistake. I think it should not be
done. It's taking scraping money off of

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our general fund, our parks, our public
safety millages, and putting it into a

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sequestered account to be used at a much
later date so that we don't have access

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to those funds should we need them. I
think it's just an enormous error to do

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this. It was done, it was attempted in
the previous administration and then as

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it collected very little money, it was
uh just refunded to the various taxing

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authorities that participated except for
Pittsfield which picked up the tab for

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all the legal, the publications, all of
the costs that went into it, the

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different plans, the consultants were
all paid on this. So, it's just a a bad

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way to go to take our own money and to
peel it off of special voted millages

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that otherwise could never be touched
for anything other than what the voters

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expected them to be used for. Those are
those are special millages that cannot

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be used for any other purpose. And with
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authority, we're able to touch those and
draw them down for a different purpose.

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It's there's no question that state road
needs work. I don't think anybody doubts

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that. So do plat Washington a you know I
don't think there's a road in this

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township that doesn't need additional
work. But I think that there's a

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different way to approach financing.
When the Walmart was built, we

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negotiated 500, no, I'm sorry, $5
million worth of improvements that they

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paid for out of pocket. When developers
want to come here, they need to pay.

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This is an extremely desirable community
for developers to locate in. We should

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not be footing the bill for improvements
that they are requiring. And in fact,

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many of the developers on State Road
have paid to both put in center turn

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lane, additional lanes each time a
development goes in. They have been

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improving state road. Um it's true that
there's uh backups at the freeway

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entrances at 94, but that's Ann Arbor.
There's I think some confusion about

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where Ann Arbor's jurisdiction ends and
Pittsfield's begins. Pittsfield should

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not be doing this. This is a mistake.
I'm sorry that it's being proposed and

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I'm sorry that it's probably going to
happen tonight. I think it's a mistake

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and I'll continue to let the public know
about it. Um, I think the tax rate that

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you're proposing is far too high. The
total millage rate is 8.53.

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When I served in office from 2000 to
2008, it was always below six mills. We

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had lowered it to 5.95 mills early on
and cons continued that all the way

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through our administration 5.95 mills.
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the two special voted millages.
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or five mills. I could see that there
might have been a need for some

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incremental increase, but this over the
years almost each and every year we're

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hitting we're getting hit with higher
and higher and higher millage rates in

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this township to the point where it's up
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this time around. 8.53 miller

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taxable value are really going to get
hurt by this. There is a point where

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you're hurting people by the amount that
you're taxing them. you are hurting

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them. You need to cut back. You need to
figure out a way to cut back and live

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within a more reasonable budget. Um, I
understand that a lot of it's got to do

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with the special voted public safety
mill. We needed a new building. Then we

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better be looking at an end date for
when that's going to drop back down

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again once that building's paid off. Um,
and then for the the lady that spoke

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earlier, perhaps we could publish in the
Sun Times, that's the one paper paper

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that's still around here that A lot of
the municipalities publish their legal

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notices in the Sun Times and I know that
they distribute in Seline. Perhaps they

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could be encouraged to distribute in
Fitzville Township as well. Thank you.

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» Thank you.
>> Is there anyone else who'd like to speak

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Um is there any response they would like
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But definitely um noted about u making
sure that we reach our seniors and

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mailing things out. Um so
seeing none then we will

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» well I I would just like to make you
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as as the lady was speaking about how
some people are not technologically

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advanced and some people do not have um
access to uh what's going on. I don't

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know that um If anybody's ever suggested
like maybe we maintain a list if you are

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if you are don't have technology and you
want a physical paper copy. I don't

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know. It's just something to think about
for future like if you want to be on

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this list where you get paper but it I
would have to say on be half of the

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board it is kind of hard to know what to
publish or what to let the public know

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and what interest they're going to have.
We do a lot of things at this township.

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I feel like of course every single thing
that we do is very very important and if

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I could I would send everybody a daily
reminder of all the good work that we're

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doing. Um the data center is you know
there has been a lot of issues

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concerning the data center and so I know
it is important to a lot of people um

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you know and sometimes people do have to
depend on their good neighbors of course

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to keep them well informed. So just just
a few thoughts.

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» Yeah. And we do have a senior center
that actually does do a lot of mailings

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and things. So that's an option too is
to become part of the senior center and

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they going there they help you sign up
for things and help you do things. So

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that's also an option. I just want to be
clear too that there's no data center.

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It's an ordinance. Um and I know that
you didn't mean that but I just want to

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make sure that doesn't not approach by a
data center. There's no data center um

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that came to us. This is all
preventative. Um, so I want to make sure

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I'm I'm clear on that part.
Okay. Um, and then we will go over the

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budget um, in detail as we go to the
working session later. So that will

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address a lot of the issues that um, was
spoken about as well.

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» All right. Um, I would like to actually
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» We actually have to have a motion.
>> I have a motion to approve the agenda to

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to approve the minutes. Madam Chair, I
move to approve the minutes of the

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regular meeting held on August 12th,
2026.

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» Second.
>> Okay. And now we make a a friendly

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amendment. Um if we could strike out in
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uh remove reimburse some of the
purchases and replace it with see if we

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can reimburse ourselves or use money
elsewhere.

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» I accept the friendly amendment. And uh
does he mean second the friendly

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amendment?
Okay. Any other changes or additions,

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questions? All in favor?
>> I opposed. All right. The minutes are

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approved as amended.

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» Oh. Oh, yeah. Here it is.
>> Sorry.

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Thank you.
>> Thank you.

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» All right. Um, moving on, we will go
ahead and on to the, um, public hearing.

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We'll start with the public hearing for
ZOA number 26 uh 236

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data center ordinance. Um I'm going to
go ahead and call it to order at 6:45.

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And first I'm going to ask our uh towers
planner Ben Carile to come up and just

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give a little information uh overview um
about the ordinance and why we're doing

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it for both the first public hearing and
second public hearing. And want to make

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sure everybody knows this is a first
public hearing. There will also be a

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second public hearing. So your your
concerns and your um uh suggestions of

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the evening are are not too late. We
have time to incorporate and then bring

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them back as well. So um I will pass it
pass it over to our planner, Ben

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Carlilele.
>> Thank you. Uh good evening to the

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township board. Good evening to the
residents. Um,

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I normally don't do this when I come and
present to you a little more off the

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cuff, but I'm going to actually kind of
read from a prepared statement that that

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we had put together as part of the
planning commission discussion. Um, so I

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apologize uh, Commissioner Jaff. This is
probably the third or fourth time you've

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heard this, but I think it's important
just to give a background to where we've

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been and to where we are tonight. Um,
but I'm here to address uh the ordinance

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regulations regarding um high resource
demand facilities, which also includes

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the issues of data centers and data
processing centers. Um, I just want to

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remind the the township board uh as well
as the public that's listening that we

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have not received an application for a
data center. Um, nor have we received a

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phone call or an inquiry for a data
center. Um, as my role as a township

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planner, I'm usually the first in line
for when requests like that come in. And

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I can relate to you that we not received
one inquiry with regards to having data

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center. Um, but what we're doing is
trying to get ahead of the issue.

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Obviously, this is this is a hot button
issue. We've seen it affected many of

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our other uh adjacent communities. Um,
but we're trying to get ahead of the

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issue in case one does get applied here
in Pittsfield that we are well

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protected. Um, as um, Miss Loronis did
note, this was a very much of a group

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effort. There were a number of staff
with various expertise that were

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participated in the drafting of this
ordinance. was not uh a oneperson show.

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Um in addition, this did get reviewed by
three different municipal attorneys uh

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with their input as well and they think
this is as legally defensible an

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ordinance that we can put together uh to
protect to best protect the township. Um

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obviously data centers are an emerging
land use. They have very significant

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impacts to communities. They involve
large buildings, continuous operation,

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major electrical demands, including
water and cooling needs, backup

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generator, noise, security
infrastructure, and long-term questions

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about site restoration. Um, one of the
requests that we received not only in

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Pittsville, but a lot of the other
companies we work in is why can't we

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just simply ban them uh outright, just
simply not allow them? Um while that's

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an understandable reaction to the
current climate of what uh the data

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centers are being received um zoning
authority has legal limits. We simply

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just cannot ban a use that is a
permitted legal use. Um

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and we can't reg we can't write
regulations that are so strict to

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basically ban them outright. So we have
to craft an ordinance that is legally

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defensible but yet best protects the
township from any sort of issue that may

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come come about.
Um, we did that. We think we did that.

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We think we wrote an ordinance that is
as legally defensible but also as strict

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as possible to regulate the various
issues that may arise. I do also want to

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note that um this is a emerging topic.
Uh it's one that's changing literally

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daily right now with how it's going. The
other thing I want to note, and the

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township attorney would would I think
back me up um if we if we if she was

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here, is that there's no case loss yet
set for this use either. So, it may

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change how we regulate once case laws
established. So, this is a great first

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draft that's coming out, a great first
uh ordinance that the town should adopt.

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That doesn't mean that we can't continue
to look at this issue and revise it and

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amend it as other issues and topics
emerge because it will emerge just based

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on how things are going right now.
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we have approached the ordinance that um
simply that data centers are not allowed

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but we're going to regulate the
appropriate location the type of data

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center that we would allow um the review
process under which it would go under uh

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and standards that would protect the
public health safety and welfare for the

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community. Um I understand there are
some additional provisions that the

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board may want to consider the public
may want to consider. Uh we are

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certainly open to that. Um, but we do
feel right now as written, it really is

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as tight as it can be right now from a
legal dispensability standpoint. But

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again, we're open to additional comments
that may come through. Um, the draft

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ordinance does have a a purpose
statement. It's to establish a

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regulatory framework for the sighting,
design, operation, decommissioning of

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data centers while also potentially
balancing economic benefits with the

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protection of public health, safety, and
welfare. Um the ordinance does

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specifically identify concerns and try
to mitigate those concerns of

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infrastructure capac um capacity, new
impacts, electricity and water use,

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architecture and screening,
compatibility with the master plan, and

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who is responsible for decommissioning
should a data center come offline in the

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future. Um the ordinance begins by
defining the use including what a high

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resource demand facility is, what a data
center is, what a data processing

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center. It also includes um battery
battery energy storage systems which are

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often a component of a data center and
so it protects us from those types of

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uses either. Uh it ensures that the most
intense facilities are only located in

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the industrial districts um as a special
use that would allow the planning

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commission to have a up to have a review
of that. Um in addition because these

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are unique uses there is a provision
that actually requires it to get

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approval also by the township board. So
that is a little bit unique provision

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for this use that we don't have for any
other uses in the ordinance. So it

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ultimately this board would be the
ultimate decision maker if one was

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proposed in the township. Um it does
include a heightened review process I

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noted. Um, it also requires a uh
community engagement plan which does

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require uh neighborhood meetings um as
well as uh documentation of what the

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public input received as part of that
and that would be that would be

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submitted as part of the application and
that would be reviewed by the

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appropriate bodies yourself and the
planning commission. Um, the draft does

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include strong dimensional and sighting
standards including minimum lot size,

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height controls, lot coverage limits,
increased setbacks, green belts, and

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separation from residential and other
sensitive uses. Um, includes strong

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design standards, so they're not just
massive buildings. There is some design

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requirements. And it talks about the
screening of equipment uh the reduction

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of lighting impact increased landscaping
uh green and creative storm water

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techniques as well as construction
traffic and how the operation would

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actually be built. Um the operational
impacts of a data center are extremely

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important to regulate as much as we can
we can do possibly. There is federal and

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state law which we can't necessarily
supersede but we can bring up our limit

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as close to that as possible the local
level. So, we have performance standards

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in there for noise, vibration, generator
testing, air quality, cooling towers,

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thermal emissions, energy efficiency,
renewable energy, water use, and

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wastewater as well. Again, I'm not an
expert in any of those particular

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fields, but we had expertise in those
fields that brought those

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recommendations to the ordinance that
brought that all together. So, it was

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really a team effort. Um, in addition,
we addressed the issue of public safety,

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um, working with the public the township
public safety department. So we have

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issues with regards to security,
emergency access, fire protection. Fire

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protection is obviously a big issue with
these moving forward. Um has material

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planning, emergency response
coordination. Um as well as specifically

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if batteries included because that just
raises the level of the requirement for

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fire protection.
In addition, the ordinance does also

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allow the township um if one is
submitted to use outside consultants to

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review the project. Um there are
expertise uh that will be required to

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review the compatibility of the project
all the environmental issues we talked

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about operational issues. Uh so the
ordinance has a provision that that that

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that allows the township to hire outside
experts and that outside experts would

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be paid for by the applicant themselves.
So it would not it would be costneutral

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to the township uh with regards to
consultants use

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but overall the ordinance is really
intended to provide a clear and

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defensible framework. Um it does not
exclude data centers because it's

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legally we legally cannot do that. But
it does ensure that if they are proposed

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um they're reviewed carefully and held
to the highest standard that the

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township can to review those and protect
again the infrastructure uh nearby

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properties, residential re natural
resources and again the public health,

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safety and welfare. So in summary um the
the ordinance does three things. First

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it does recognize that the township
simply cannot outright ban a data center

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use. Um however it does direct the
facilities if proposed to what we find

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the most appropriate zoning districts
and subjects them to a heightened review

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standard. And third it creates a very
high level of detailed standards with

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regard to the sighting design
infrastructure environmental public

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engagement safety and decommissioning
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I'm sorry. So again um the goal is that
if an application is submitted the

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township has a clear defensible and
enforceable standards to enforce and

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evaluate the proposed project. Um, with
that being said, I'm I'm happy to answer

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any questions um either now or after you
hear from the public hearing and I'll be

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here for the rest of the meeting to
answer anything that may come up.

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» Thank you.
>> Thank you.

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» Is everybody come and speak on public
hearing

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up?

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Is there any comment um from our
Oh yes, you come up.

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Yep. Oh, sorry. You have five minutes.
You're welcome to to speak on the um

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subject of the data center ordinance.
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» Um this is the first I've heard about
the data center ordinance that you just

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described. It was pretty difficult to
keep up with everything sharing. Plus,

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you're backwards to us, so it was hard
to hear. Um being one of the seniors,

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uh is there a written um
like if this like how long have we been

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working on getting this proposal
together for example and and then is

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there something in writing that people
>> there's the yeah the draft ordinance is

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in is in the packet um so we can
certainly get you the packet and then of

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course
>> when we first walked in

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» um it's in the actual entire packet
Bryce can help you out he's coming up

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here um and then we also been working on
this for gosh we had put the moratorum

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in place back in November of 25 so We've
been working on it for quite a quite a

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time and it has gone through the
planning commission first and then

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vetted out there with public comment and
now has come here.

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» Okay. So um and now you're presenting
it. So you hear about it then you guys

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discuss it and then you decide what if
you want to propose alterations

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to the proposal if somebody came up to
us and said we want to build a data

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center here. Is that what
>> Yeah, I'm sorry. So how we and I know

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you know this when we do um public
comments you say everything I say and

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then we do it afterwards. So it's not a
>> conver those are my initial questions

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and nice to see you all again. Thank you
very much.

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» Thank you.
>> Is this for me?

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» Thank you.

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» Yes. Anybody else want to come up and
speak on the public hearing? Please come

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up.

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» My name is Raymond Vasser. Um I'm at 862
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I think some of my questions were
already answered in terms of uh no one

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has kind of approached
the township or a data center. Um and I

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would like to thank the planning
commission. The it sounds like they do

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all the eyes and crossed all the tees. I
I thank them for that. It's such it's so

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detailed. Um, and it's very prospective
and people are they were working very

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very hard to imagine what the problems
could be. And I I do see it I agree it

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appears to be more of a restrictive
document which I was happy to see. um in

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a recent article in the scientific
American they commented on New York's

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moratorum for one year and what they
were saying in that article was the

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reason for that was that there wasn't
any data actual data so that and and the

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data centers are not producing data no
pun intended

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they're not producing any um information
about how they're using it how much

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energy they're using, what's happening
to the water, what how much water

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they're using, and they seem to be
really closed down about sharing any of

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that information. And based on that, the
state of New York said, "No, we we have

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to wait and find out." So, I guess my
proposal would be, and again, with

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thanks to the planning commission, of
course, I've read every single word in

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the document, um, I like that it has a
very restrictive sound, but We don't

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know it's up against what and what
happens and what really goes on. And so

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what I would suggest is that the mor
moratorium be extended until we do start

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getting some information about how the
the data centers are impacting the

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community impact impacting the
environment the ecology. Um we don't

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know. I I couldn't find anything. I'm
not an expert. I'm casual,

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you know, web browser guy. Um, but I
couldn't find any information. And and

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they it's astounding how they are kind
of locking down the information. You

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can't get any information. So, nobody's
going to come to you and say, "Well,

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here on these 10 data centers, this is
how they used water. This is what they

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did. This is how it turned out. These
are the true impacts on the community."

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And all I know from my personal
experience is that um Michigan Avenue is

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not usable now for me. You know, when I
would take trips out to Hidden Lake

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Gardens and I I don't want to drive down
there to get caught behind one of these

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gravel haulers or you know going 60
miles an hour in downtown Seline and

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it's uh that impact is just incredible.
So again in conclusion I would say I

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would recommend extending the moratorum
until we are able to get more

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information that's very clear and again
my great thanks to the planning

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commission and it sounds like they
thought of every contingency but they

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don't know any reality.
>> Thank you.

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» Thank you.
>> Thank you.

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» Is there anybody else who'd like to
speak on the public hearing?

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I would like to um if I can um respond
to the information about the the

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moratorum. Um so you take it you said um
we at a suggestion of one of our

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residents actually put the moratorium in
place for a six-month period. Um and I

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think that was brilliant. That's the
beauty of having our residents being so

412
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:43,120
engaged because I didn't think of that.
It was brought to us and we went ahead

413
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:47,200
and put it in there. We extended it for
another six months so it would be a full

414
00:30:44,559 --> 00:30:51,840
year. The problem is is that um some
states can do it longer because the

415
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:57,279
actual state has a law um that kind of
follows that up. unfortunately would not

416
00:30:54,320 --> 00:31:02,320
be legally defensible because they do um
there's actually a term um demonstrated

417
00:31:00,159 --> 00:31:07,520
need is what the state of Michigan has
said and because the state has said

418
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:11,440
there's a demonstrated need and we had
basically what talking to all three of

419
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:15,120
the attorneys that we have talked to and
and outside attorneys more than that if

420
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:19,440
we did it for more than a year it would
not be legally defensible. So, um, but

421
00:31:17,679 --> 00:31:24,480
to your point, yeah, that would have
been the easy way to do it, but, um,

422
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:26,799
yeah, and I think, u, Mr. Carile has,
um, more comments and more knowledge

423
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:30,960
than I do on that.
>> No, no, I just your point's 100%

424
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:34,000
correct. Um, we we did talk about that
whether we should we can extend it or

425
00:31:32,559 --> 00:31:37,200
not, and we we realize that we really
couldn't do it. The state of New York,

426
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:41,039
it's a state it's a state action. So, it
supersedes local authority. The state of

427
00:31:39,039 --> 00:31:43,360
Michigan is, as far as we know, is not
in the position right now where they're

428
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:47,679
going to adopt a moratorum. So, really,
it's on the local level. And about a

429
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:55,919
year is as long as you could moratorum.
Um that being said though um

430
00:31:51,120 --> 00:32:00,240
Yaka is community utility authority um
has adopted a moratorum that runs at

431
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:03,360
least through April of 2027
>> for the water supply. Yeah.

432
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:08,720
» For the water supply and so um if there
is a data center proposed in Pittsfield

433
00:32:05,279 --> 00:32:13,679
that's in the Yucka district uh it would
be upheld to that moratorum until at

434
00:32:10,159 --> 00:32:17,120
least April of 2027. So that's just an
additional consideration that's also

435
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,440
going on at the same time that I want
the board to be aware of as well.

436
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,559
» Thanks.
>> And I and I do appreciate the other

437
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:27,760
jurisdictions around us that had to deal
with this um on the fly. Uh you know I I

438
00:32:25,279 --> 00:32:31,519
I feel for them. We had the heads up of
what's going on around us were able to

439
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:35,440
put in the moratorum to give us time to
pause and really really think about it.

440
00:32:33,519 --> 00:32:40,399
So um I feel fortunate about that. And
again I'm saying it here in public. We

441
00:32:38,399 --> 00:32:44,399
were we were not approached nor have we
um reached out interest. So

442
00:32:43,279 --> 00:32:48,279
if anybody like to make any other
comments during the public hearing

443
00:32:54,000 --> 00:33:04,399
» information or data regarding uh data
centers and I you know technology it

444
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:08,720
moves really fast and um who knows what
it's going to be like in 10 years there

445
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:13,679
may be no data centers and data centers
could be out in space for all we know.

446
00:33:10,399 --> 00:33:18,960
So I appreciate that. You know, it would
be nice to have some data to back up

447
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:23,760
like, yeah, it's not it's not going to
take that much water. Yeah, it doesn't

448
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:28,080
need that much electricity, but we don't
know. And I and I don't think there is a

449
00:33:26,159 --> 00:33:34,559
way right now because it's in its
infancy stage um to know how this how

450
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:38,880
this is all going to play out. But uh
luckily the supervisor and the planning

451
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:47,440
commission and the the planner, they've
all been working really I think um to

452
00:33:42,559 --> 00:33:55,200
make it so that you know it is rest it
is a little more restrictive um which I

453
00:33:49,919 --> 00:33:58,799
like and until up until we have some
data that we could say oh yeah you know

454
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:02,880
what we thought it was going to be a big
deal to have a high capacity data center

455
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:07,840
and really it turned out to be nothing
but we have these restrictions in place

456
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:13,919
and I do think we needed to do something
about it now because if we don't there's

457
00:34:10,720 --> 00:34:16,720
a chance somebody could come in and say,
"Yeah, you know what? I'm going to put a

458
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:20,320
data center here and I'm going to take
it to court. I'm going to sue the

459
00:34:18,079 --> 00:34:25,760
township. It's going to cost everybody a
lot of money." So, I appreciate um the

460
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:32,240
steps that uh this supervisor has laid
out and um and I agree with this

461
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:35,760
ordinance actually. And to your point, a
living and breathing document for sure.

462
00:34:33,919 --> 00:34:41,839
As we learn more, we'll be watching it
>> and as things evolve and state

463
00:34:38,879 --> 00:34:45,119
leadership changes and see what happens.
>> Okay.

464
00:34:43,119 --> 00:34:48,639
» A couple comments here as well.
>> You know,

465
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:51,839
looking at widening the aperture and
looking back on this a bit, there's a

466
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:57,280
reason that we had to consider this
ordinance. It's because our state

467
00:34:53,760 --> 00:35:01,440
legislature passed a tax abatement, a
sizable tax abatement that got rid of

468
00:34:59,119 --> 00:35:05,520
all the sales and use tax. So the Selen
data center that we're talking about is

469
00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:09,599
over $40 billion of investment made. And
how big is that tax investment? We'll do

470
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:15,440
6% on that $40 billion worth of hardware
in there. It's a $2.4 billion abatement

471
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:20,320
initially. And then those types of data
centers have to renew their hardware

472
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:24,560
typically every three to four years. So
you look at $2.4

473
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:28,640
billion dollar every three to four years
for the total duration of the benefit or

474
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:33,119
the abatement which is 30 years
currently. So these are sizable sizable

475
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:36,960
abatements. This is why Michigan has
been targeted for so many data centers

476
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:41,599
in congressional district 6 which we are
which is congressional uh congresswoman

477
00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:45,440
Dingo's district. There are four active
shovel like shovels are in the ground in

478
00:35:43,839 --> 00:35:50,240
data centers in this community alone.
There's 16 active in the state of

479
00:35:47,599 --> 00:35:55,599
Michigan. So I will also want to echo
the gratefulness I have to uh our

480
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:59,280
planning commission you know Carlile and
group all we can do is be as restrictive

481
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:02,960
as we can. We have done the mortorium
for this time but when we ask what else

482
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:07,599
can we do as a body what else can you
all do we can talk to our people at the

483
00:36:05,839 --> 00:36:11,200
state if there are other controls we
want to have there are things are being

484
00:36:09,599 --> 00:36:16,160
proposed right now there's a senate bill
that was just proposed gosh two months

485
00:36:13,599 --> 00:36:19,440
ago now that's a community benefits uh
bill and what that means is anytime

486
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:22,960
there's a data center that come through
like a planning commission or things of

487
00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:27,440
that nature for a local municipality we
would have to they would have to agree

488
00:36:25,119 --> 00:36:31,119
with the municipality for community
benefits

489
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:34,480
before they can be approved. So that
means we would actually have a seat at

490
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:38,079
the table for negotiation for things
before they're entering in our

491
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:41,520
community. So I just want to add that
that I I'm supportive of the uh

492
00:36:40,079 --> 00:36:44,960
ordinance as it's written. I think
there's a ton of work. We've been

493
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:48,560
working on this for a year, but there's
still more work to be done, not just in

494
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:51,920
this ordinance that controls what this
looks like now, but there are greater

495
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:56,400
controls that we can advocate at the
state layer. So, I'm happy to talk with

496
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:59,839
anybody here about how like who your
representation is, how we can do that,

497
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:04,320
and then we can also talk as a board
about how we can lend our voice to that

498
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:08,079
conversation. So, I just want to greater
contextualize this is why this is this

499
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:10,560
ordinance is needed. There's a lot of
big money that's coming into our

500
00:37:09,599 --> 00:37:17,040
community because they don't have to pay
taxes on the equipment at for now and

501
00:37:13,359 --> 00:37:19,760
for 30 years. And that that's not a
small change when you're talking about

502
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:23,040
projects of this scale. So that's why
we, you know, are being targeted and

503
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:26,880
that's why we're doing everything we
reasonably can to put in the controls in

504
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:30,200
place.
>> Thank you, Supervisor.

505
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:39,040
» Okay, I'm going to go ahead and give it
a last call. And if not, then I'll go

506
00:37:35,359 --> 00:37:44,640
ahead and close this
public hearing um at what time it is?

507
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:49,040
7:07
and go ahead and open up the next public

508
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:52,960
hearing 5.2.
ZOA26237

509
00:37:51,200 --> 00:38:00,240
moratorum language and again we'll do
the same thing um at opening it at 707

510
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:04,160
and then inviting uh our planner Ben
Carlile to come up and talk a little

511
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:07,040
about what this um particular public
hearing is encompassing.

512
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:10,800
» Yeah, thank you. I'll be I'll be much
more brief on this topic hopefully than

513
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:15,520
the previous one. U when we were looking
at the data center ordinance uh when we

514
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:19,119
brought in outside counsel uh they
reviewed it and they started asking us

515
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:25,760
about the moratorum that the township
adopted. Um we had to look at some of

516
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:30,320
our moratorum provisions and there's
nothing in the zoning ordinance that

517
00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:34,000
talks about the procedures and the
standards under which you would which

518
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:39,440
the township would adopt a land use
essentially a land use moratorum. Um the

519
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:43,119
township has been adopting moratoriums
for years. Uh we've never been

520
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:45,520
challenged on it. Uh but that doesn't
mean we couldn't be challenged. And

521
00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:49,839
there have been some communities lately
that have been challenged on the

522
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:53,680
issuance of moratorum because it wasn't
outlined in an ordinance that allowed

523
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:57,040
them to actually take that action. So
this is what this language does. that

524
00:38:55,040 --> 00:39:00,160
simply just
grants the authority we already have but

525
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:03,839
grants it in the or in the zoning
ordinance for to establish land use

526
00:39:01,839 --> 00:39:08,079
moratoriums and gives the procedures for
how to do it and gives kind of standards

527
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:11,760
under which you review moratorum. So it
just cleans up what we what the township

528
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:14,480
has done in the past but makes a little
more legal and defensible by actually

529
00:39:13,119 --> 00:39:18,160
putting it in the zoning ordinance
itself. Um it's not a huge it's not it's

530
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:21,920
not a procedural change anything we've
done in the past. It just codifies what

531
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:25,040
what we've been doing. So thank you.
>> Thank you. you're kind of button it up a

532
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:28,320
little bit is what it comes down to. But
I will go ahead and ask if anybody else

533
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:32,040
would like to uh comment on that
particular part of it.

534
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:42,320
Okay. If not, then I will go ahead and
close that public hearing um at 7:09.

535
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:46,480
Okay. Thank you very much. All right. Um
there are no communications. So I will

536
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:50,960
then go ahead and ask for a motion for
our consent agenda. Madam Chair, I move

537
00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:54,560
to consent agenda
7.1 to 7.13.

538
00:39:53,839 --> 00:39:57,920
» Second.
>> Okay. Any discussion?

539
00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:01,839
All in favor?
>> I opposed.

540
00:39:59,359 --> 00:40:05,920
» All right. Consent agenda is approved.
Uh moving on to department reports and

541
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:11,040
updates. May I please have a motion to
receive and file point 7 8.1. Man, I

542
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:17,520
move to receive and file the M's annual
actuarial oil valuation report as of

543
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:21,760
December 31st, 2025.
>> Second.

544
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:25,760
» Are there any questions on this one?
It's pretty. Okay. Um, all in favor?

545
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:30,640
» I opposed.
>> All right. Received and filed. May I

546
00:40:27,839 --> 00:40:36,000
please have a motion for 9.1?
>> Madam Chair, I move to receive the draft

547
00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:40,560
of fiscal year 2027 Pittsfield Township
budget. Second.

548
00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:44,400
» Okay. Any discussion on this one? We
will be discussing this in much further

549
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:48,079
detail. I don't know if um we'll invite
our um director of finance up or we

550
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:52,560
wanted to talk about this in general
during the working session, get more

551
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:58,240
deep into it. Yeah. And that makes more
sense to me, but

552
00:40:55,200 --> 00:41:02,480
» All right. All in favor? I opposed.
>> All right. Received.

553
00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:06,800
» May I please have a motion for 9.2?
>> M. Madam Treasur, I move to adopt a

554
00:41:04,319 --> 00:41:11,920
resolution to amend the fiscal year 2026
general fund, public safety fund,

555
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:17,280
building fund, and federal fores budget
budgets resolution number 26 to 24

556
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:20,079
» support.
>> Okay. And discussion on this one. Again,

557
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:23,920
we do have our director of finance if
there's um questions regarding this. I

558
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:29,040
know it was a pretty detailed memo, but
um if you like explanation, we do have

559
00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:33,359
someone here to do that.
Okay. Um may have a roll call for this

560
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,800
one. Supervisor Riley.
>> Yes.

561
00:41:33,839 --> 00:41:36,160
» Clerk Enzaldi,
>> yes.

562
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,680
» Treasure Epicanin,
>> yes.

563
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,200
» Trusty Erda Thompson,
>> yes.

564
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,640
» Trusty Jaffford,
>> yes.

565
00:41:39,599 --> 00:41:41,920
» Trusty Braybeck,
>> yes.

566
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,319
» Trusty Kami,
>> yes.

567
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:48,560
» Madam Supervisor, you have seven years.
>> All right. Thank you. Adopted. Uh, may I

568
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:53,920
please have a motion for 9.3.
>> Madam treasurer, I move to authorize the

569
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:57,839
supervisor to respond to foyer appeal
within 10 days of its official receipt

570
00:41:56,079 --> 00:42:01,760
in accordance with the recommendation of
the township attorney.

571
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:06,319
» Support. Okay. Any discussion? This is
something that when we have an appeal to

572
00:42:03,359 --> 00:42:10,319
a foya um it is the law says we have to
come to the board the approval and then

573
00:42:08,079 --> 00:42:13,280
yeah we'll look at the attorney on that.
All right. All in favor?

574
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:19,440
» I opposed.
>> All right. Authorization is granted. May

575
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:24,000
I please have a motion for 9.4.
>> Madam chair move to receive and file the

576
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:30,160
quarterly cash balance report second
quarter 2026.

577
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:33,760
» This over to you our treasurer.
Well, I'll be brief. Um, uh, rather than

578
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:38,720
walk through the whole report, I'll just
highlight a few accomplishments for the

579
00:42:36,240 --> 00:42:42,319
second quarter. Uh, during April, we
completed the settlement and

580
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:48,160
distribution of the 2025 winter tax
revenues to all tax units, closing out

581
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:52,240
the winner tax cycle.
We supported the township's equalization

582
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:57,359
process and monitored certification of
the 2026 state equalization ensuring all

583
00:42:55,520 --> 00:43:03,440
our taxable values were properly
established for the year. Uh also we

584
00:43:00,079 --> 00:43:09,119
administered the June 1st res exemption
deadline and prepared the summer tax

585
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:12,560
which we in process of collecting now
>> and busy.

586
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:16,319
» Yeah, it's been it's a busy month. Uh so
uh which which is ready for building

587
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:21,599
cycle. Um all in all the township has
maintained a strong financial position

588
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:26,240
with about 55.2 million in cash and
investments and our portfolio recorded

589
00:43:23,839 --> 00:43:30,480
approximately 210,000
investment earnings during that quarter.

590
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:35,040
Uh so while we are continuing to
prioritize our safety liquidity and

591
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:38,880
compliance
as we move into the third quarter our

592
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:45,720
focus shifts to the summer tax bill
cycle and collection cycle

593
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,720
investment management.

594
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:50,200
Any questions or discussion?

595
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:58,800
» All in favor?
>> I opposed. All right. Received and

596
00:43:55,920 --> 00:44:04,880
filed. May I please ask for a motion for
9.5?

597
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:11,359
» Supervisor. I move through the the
Relian fire apparatus proposal number

598
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:16,720
1402 for the purchase of one pier saver
custom chassis bumper frontline fire

599
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:21,160
engine for the fire department in the
amount to exceed 1 million31,67

600
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:26,800
subject to township attorney
>> second. Okay, this one actually I'm

601
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:30,400
gonna ask our um our fire chief and our
director of public safety, whoever wants

602
00:44:28,079 --> 00:44:33,440
to come up and and and speak to it um
and give a little background on this

603
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:36,880
because this is something that's kind of
um I need a little more explanation for

604
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,920
it.
>> Thank thankfully unique.

605
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:43,920
» Yeah, it's a little more unique, right?
Yeah.

606
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:46,560
» So, uh the this is for the purchase of a
fire engine and so there are a lot of

607
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:50,400
different fire apparatus, but the
backbone of a fire response, the the

608
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:55,760
frontline vehicle that responds for a
fire emergency is the engine from all

609
00:44:52,640 --> 00:45:00,400
three stations. So, NFPA standards call
for a 15-year

610
00:44:57,839 --> 00:45:04,079
limit in the amount of time that a truck
should be a frontline truck, then that

611
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:07,599
truck can be moved to the back. Um, it
be just a backup in case one of the

612
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:12,400
frontline trucks needs service. Uh, this
truck's been with us since 2010. It's

613
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:16,000
got over 135,000 miles on it. It's got a
lot of hours on it. It's been a good

614
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:20,240
vehicle, but at some point, the repairs
and and the cost of maintaining it and

615
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:24,000
keeping it going start to become
prohibitive. and it is now at an age

616
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:28,880
where we really shouldn't have it on a
frontline capacity anymore. So, there's

617
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:34,480
a process to purchase these vehicles.
Um, and we've been exploring that

618
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:39,760
through Pierce and their um and their
financial through PNC. Uh, but working

619
00:45:38,079 --> 00:45:44,400
with the finance director and the next
couple items you'll see we see an

620
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:48,160
advantage in doing an RFP. So, this is
for approval to sign the agreement to

621
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:52,480
make the purchase, but there will be
some additional steps. Any questions on

622
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:57,680
» I believe that we know I don't know if
the board knows we did not move forward

623
00:45:54,160 --> 00:46:02,240
with the aerial truck. So this is in in
lie of right now at least why and it's

624
00:46:00,319 --> 00:46:05,599
more of a long range planning because we
know that these vehicles aren't

625
00:46:03,359 --> 00:46:09,520
something you just buy on the whim. So
we need to really make sure that we are

626
00:46:07,839 --> 00:46:11,040
um thinking long range. This is part of
that.

627
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:14,560
» We shouldn't wait till the last second
and say oh we need to buy that new

628
00:46:13,119 --> 00:46:18,960
million dollar truck. We do need to make
a plan for this and really work it

629
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:23,440
through. But this vehicle is is at the
point where time and we're really we are

630
00:46:21,119 --> 00:46:28,079
working to make sure that we have a
forecasted plan to to replace vehicles

631
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:31,839
at the appropriate time
>> management there. Okay. Any questions or

632
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:37,040
comments?
>> All right. Um all in favor? I opposed.

633
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:40,880
All right. That's approved. May I please
have a motion for 9.6?

634
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:45,200
» Madam supervisor, I move to adopt a
resolution authorizing an installment

635
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:51,920
purchase agreement for frontline fire
engine resolution number 262.

636
00:46:48,319 --> 00:46:54,640
» Second. basically. Yeah. In tandem with
the other. Yeah.

637
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:59,920
» Correct. Correct. This is to work toward
the RFP.

638
00:46:56,560 --> 00:47:01,359
» Okay. Um, roll call on this one.
>> Clerk Enzaldi.

639
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:02,800
» Yes.
>> Treasure Epicanin.

640
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,400
» Yes.
>> Trusty Erda Thompson?

641
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:05,920
» Yes.
>> Trusty Jaffer?

642
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:07,359
» Yes.
>> Trusty Braybeck?

643
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,280
» Yes.
>> Trusty Kurami?

644
00:47:08,319 --> 00:47:10,960
» Yes.
>> Supervisor Riley?

645
00:47:10,319 --> 00:47:15,200
» Yes.
>> Madam Chair, you have seven years.

646
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:20,160
» All right. Thank you. That is approved.
And may I please have a motion for 9.7?

647
00:47:17,839 --> 00:47:24,640
Madam supervisor, I move to authorize
the supervisor and clerk to sign an

648
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:32,359
engagement letter within code to provide
municipal advisor services at a cost not

649
00:47:27,119 --> 00:47:32,359
to ex exceed 8,875,000

650
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:38,319
in connection with fire engine
installment purchase agreement process

651
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:41,599
subject to town.
>> Second.

652
00:47:39,599 --> 00:47:45,599
» Okay. Uh any discussion on this one?
This is in in conjunction with the

653
00:47:43,119 --> 00:47:48,240
actual thing uh the the process that
we're doing to make I'll explain it.

654
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:52,640
Sorry.
>> Correct. So again again these there are

655
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:55,920
multiple steps to including the
resolution but there are multiple steps

656
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:58,240
and there are some fees involved um to
make sure that we're crossing all the

657
00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:02,800
tees and dotting all the eyes and that
the final agreement does it falls within

658
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:08,079
the legal standard but then also is to
our advantage. So these steps while they

659
00:48:05,359 --> 00:48:11,839
do cost something will be financially
you know responsible for the township to

660
00:48:09,839 --> 00:48:13,680
do this as opposed to kind of easy
button with

661
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:18,240
» making sure we're getting the best rates
and yeah. So yeah, that that should be a

662
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:20,079
getting the best rate and the time frame
and everything will more than

663
00:48:19,359 --> 00:48:24,079
compensate.
>> Definitely willing to take extra steps

664
00:48:21,599 --> 00:48:27,359
to make sure that happens.
>> Okay. All in favor?

665
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:31,119
» I opposed.
>> All right. That's authorized. May I

666
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:35,119
please have a motion for 9.8?
>> Madam supervisor, I move to authorize

667
00:48:33,359 --> 00:48:41,599
the supervisor and clerk to sign a
subcontract Philip signing for signage

668
00:48:39,599 --> 00:48:44,960
lighting lighting installation as part
of the public safety facility

669
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:48,520
improvement project. A total not to
exceed $7,999

670
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:51,800
subject.

671
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:56,160
» Okay. And this is just a
>> little more basic. Yep. Just signage for

672
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:59,040
the front of the building.
>> Yeah. And this is just part of the

673
00:48:57,119 --> 00:49:03,200
project next door. And in the packet,
I'm sure you saw the picture. It looks

674
00:49:00,319 --> 00:49:06,079
pretty nice. So,
>> all right. All in favor?

675
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:10,480
» I opposed.
>> All right. It's authorized. May I please

676
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:14,559
have a motion for 9.9?
>> Madame supervisor, I move to authorize

677
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:17,599
the supervisor and clerk to signed an
agreement with digital protection

678
00:49:16,319 --> 00:49:22,079
systems for the purchase and
installation of a birectional antenna

679
00:49:20,240 --> 00:49:28,760
and cell booster antenna for the public
safety facility improvement project at a

680
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:28,760
cost not to exceed $79,425.50

681
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:34,319
subject to township
>> second.

682
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:39,280
» So we did discuss this a little bit in
our last meeting that this was another

683
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:44,079
um item that while we could have done
this under the blue scope contract, it

684
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:48,400
would have cost more but All things
considered and and full disclosure, we

685
00:49:46,720 --> 00:49:52,240
we should have done this we should have
done this a little bit earlier and we've

686
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:55,119
been operating currently with you know
like a

687
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:58,960
I don't want to call it makeshift. It's
a legit radio system within the building

688
00:49:57,359 --> 00:50:02,000
but cellular service within the building
is very poor due to the steel roof. It's

689
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:06,319
really the construction of the building
and once it was fully complete and

690
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:11,280
enclosed we discovered that we really
did need a booster for both cellular and

691
00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:16,599
emergency radio comms. So this is this
is the standard do that in a building

692
00:50:13,359 --> 00:50:16,599
like this.

693
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:24,079
» Okay. Any discussion or questions for
Director Gray?

694
00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:28,400
» All right. All in favor? I opposed.
>> All right. Moving on to 9.10. May please

695
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:32,400
have a motion.
>> Madame supervisor, I move to authorize

696
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:40,400
the supervisor
to sign an agreement with Lex for the

697
00:50:35,599 --> 00:50:45,880
use of policy daily software for police
and fire department. not to exceed

698
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,880
$49,33078

699
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:52,400
subject to township.
>> Second,

700
00:50:49,839 --> 00:50:55,280
any discussion or explanation why you're
here?

701
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:58,400
» Right. Sure. Absolutely. So, Lexapole is
uh known nationwide and I believe it's

702
00:50:56,880 --> 00:51:01,680
more than just nationwide, but Lexapole
has been around for a very long time. I

703
00:50:59,839 --> 00:51:06,400
think they started out as a policy
really just a policy um driven business

704
00:51:04,720 --> 00:51:10,319
where they would help agencies put
together a proper uh policy for both

705
00:51:08,720 --> 00:51:13,760
police and fire proper policy book and
make sure that it's up to date. And now

706
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:16,800
they have really excelled in that to a
point where they're giving regular

707
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:20,720
updates to your agency if there's a new
law passes and things like that. They're

708
00:51:18,240 --> 00:51:23,520
making suggestions to keep us uh
operating under best practices. And this

709
00:51:22,319 --> 00:51:26,720
is both for the police department and
the fire department. Fire chief and I

710
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:30,800
have both put in a lot of work recently
to try to keep our policies updated. And

711
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:35,520
this is really the next best step to
make sure that we are doing things uh

712
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:39,520
constitutionally sound and legal um and
and doing them timely, not just finding

713
00:51:37,839 --> 00:51:43,440
out months later and then having to make
changes. There's also a training portion

714
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:48,960
of this for the police department. The
fire department is already using Lexiple

715
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:54,880
for staff training and police uh lensure
is they're calling it still a pilot, but

716
00:51:51,440 --> 00:52:00,000
we were really moving toward um annual
training requirements which have been

717
00:51:56,480 --> 00:52:03,839
needed in multiple uh topics and that is
really it's gone live for the last two

718
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:09,359
years but it's really going to be um
mandated shortly and Lexapole will

719
00:52:06,720 --> 00:52:14,240
provide a lot of those CP C training
courses through this uh process so it's

720
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:19,079
really it's a benefit for for the police
department too fire department's been

721
00:52:15,599 --> 00:52:19,079
very happy with it

722
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:26,800
» so the annual cost for this it's I guess
it's an application right

723
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,240
» it's it's like a subscription or a
membership

724
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:33,760
» subscription
So um the annual price though I mean

725
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:38,240
this will include some uh implementation
fees correct. So

726
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:42,400
» my understanding so 10,000 of it or so
is um getting the system set up.

727
00:52:41,839 --> 00:52:47,440
» That's correct.
>> Your going forward cost annually is

728
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:52,400
going to be what 39,000.
>> It will be less. Yes. implementation

729
00:52:49,599 --> 00:52:55,520
cost uh for this for police and fire to
basically have all of their policies

730
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:59,599
brought up to date and in the system and
then the police department to get the

731
00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:03,680
training portion of of this package is
$10,652.

732
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:08,640
That is a onetime fee. So moving
forward, you're correct. This would be

733
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:12,800
roughly $10,000 less. And this isn't I
of course it's a um it's something

734
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:16,079
that's used widely, but this isn't like
an introductory fee. This isn't you know

735
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:19,599
we got you in there and now we're going
to raise the rate. I'm sure that there

736
00:53:17,839 --> 00:53:26,000
are increases annually like anything
else, but uh they do this on a uh a per

737
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:29,440
officer or per firefighter scale. So
until they change that scale for

738
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:33,359
everybody across the board, that would
be our fee.

739
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:38,359
» Okay. Thank you.
>> Any other questions or discussion on

740
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:38,359
this one?

741
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:46,079
» Uh let's see. All in favor?
>> I opposed.

742
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:48,079
» All right. I think we're done for now
and then we'll see you for the budget.

743
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:49,760
» Correct.
>> All right.

744
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:56,000
» Thank you.
>> May I please have a motion for 9.11?

745
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:59,920
» Madame supervisor, I move to adopt a
resolution to establish the author

746
00:53:57,839 --> 00:54:04,079
authority and design designating the
boundaries for the state street corridor

747
00:54:01,599 --> 00:54:06,960
improvement authority resolution number
26.

748
00:54:05,599 --> 00:54:11,119
» Second.
>> Uh we do have administrator Lion here to

749
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:15,839
enter any questions. Once again, this is
just um moving along uh the boundaries

750
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:19,680
that I don't think have changed from the
last time. So, there's no additional

751
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:25,760
costs and in doing that except for the
signs and that sort of thing. No lawyer

752
00:54:21,839 --> 00:54:29,599
costs and things. But, um also this is
um not necessarily saying that we are

753
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:32,079
doing this. We still have to go to the
county. There's still many other steps,

754
00:54:30,720 --> 00:54:36,400
but this is putting the boundaries in
place. One of the steps that has to

755
00:54:33,359 --> 00:54:38,720
happen within the process.
>> Question.

756
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:44,000
» Yeah, I do have a question about the
packet stuff. Um Director

757
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:50,319
» administrator
>> administrator line um the the chart that

758
00:54:47,119 --> 00:54:57,680
you had in the um in the packet. I just
want to make sure that I I understood it

759
00:54:52,559 --> 00:55:04,720
because um the labeling on the headers
was um PCT capture 25% and then CIA

760
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:10,000
capture 75%.
So I wasn't clear like are those labels

761
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:15,520
correct? Is the 25%
what we are keeping and not the capture

762
00:55:12,720 --> 00:55:19,880
for the CIA. It's just the collection of
taxes.

763
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:19,880
» Correct.

764
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:30,760
to
be shared between the CIA

765
00:55:33,359 --> 00:55:39,480
CIA would keep 75%
taxis.

766
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:52,000
» So it it it's going to depend on the the
growth amount. So if it's $100, say

767
00:55:49,599 --> 00:55:57,040
» the town, if we collect $100 just for
the township, for example, this is basic

768
00:55:56,559 --> 00:56:03,280
for sure.
>> Um the township is going to keep $25 and

769
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:05,440
then and that only represents the growth
section. Is that correct?

770
00:56:04,720 --> 00:56:13,040
» Correct.
>> Okay. And then $75 will go into the

771
00:56:10,799 --> 00:56:16,240
» the TIF or the the CIA.
>> Correct.

772
00:56:13,839 --> 00:56:19,440
» That's from the and and the county if
they choose to do it. Yeah.

773
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:25,359
» So, and then this is going to be
dependent on whether the county and the

774
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:32,559
county parks um
come come into our district or our CIA

775
00:56:29,839 --> 00:56:37,599
» if they choose to
join the CIA.

776
00:56:36,319 --> 00:56:39,839
» Yes.
>> Sorry.

777
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:42,160
» And I think that if they do that that
makes this worthwhile and if they don't

778
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:46,720
then I think that's another
conversation.

779
00:56:43,359 --> 00:56:52,079
» Yeah. So, so let me ask you this. So,
this uh resolution just establishes the

780
00:56:50,559 --> 00:56:58,319
boundary that they're going to look at
and then at the next or the next item is

781
00:56:55,599 --> 00:57:04,720
going to be establishing the board.
>> Correct. This establishes the authority

782
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:07,119
and the boundaries within that
authority. Okay.

783
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:12,720
» And that's it.
>> Okay. And

784
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:18,799
um Okay. So, I don't have any more
questions, but I would like to say that,

785
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:23,520
you know, just as my personal comment is
I I'm

786
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:31,200
going to vote no tonight probably
because I feel like for me it feels like

787
00:57:27,839 --> 00:57:36,960
it has a lot of holes in it. Um, I'm not
sure based on the calculations,

788
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:42,160
you know, how much each part of the
project is going to cost, where that

789
00:57:38,799 --> 00:57:49,200
money is going to come from, and
like our projections are based on this

790
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:55,760
2.5 incremental increase in our property
values, but with the economy the way it

791
00:57:52,079 --> 00:58:00,880
is and the market, we could have a
downturn. So, we don't know what those

792
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:06,079
pieces are going to look like and we
don't have any projections on those

793
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:11,760
pieces either which is somewhat you know
I find questionable and I feel like I'm

794
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:19,200
approving something that I really don't
have enough information on. I also

795
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:23,440
feel like
another big problem that I have with

796
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:28,079
this whole thing is you know we're we
have this expectation that there's going

797
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:34,480
to be an 80%
um grant fund, you know, that's going to

798
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:42,960
support this whole 58 or 60 million
dollar project and

799
00:58:38,319 --> 00:58:48,960
way and it will pay for a lot of this
project, but it's hard to say like

800
00:58:45,839 --> 00:58:53,680
that's not guaranteed. We already lost
out on a grant because we were it was

801
00:58:51,839 --> 00:58:58,799
approved, but we didn't get it for our
public safety department. So I find that

802
00:58:56,799 --> 00:59:05,680
you know problematic
and

803
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:11,040
you know defining this project based on
our grant and the grant that we could

804
00:59:08,799 --> 00:59:16,079
potentially receive.
You know I I feel like there's not

805
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:20,880
there's not enough numbers and I
understand we can establish this

806
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:25,280
authority that we can establish the CIA.
um this part is only talking about hey

807
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:28,640
we're just establishing we're just
setting the boundaries and we're going

808
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:34,240
to come up with this plan but I think
before we even do that I think we have

809
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:39,520
to have a better understanding of the
actual plan like how much is the

810
00:59:37,119 --> 00:59:44,880
cross-section going to cost where do we
think that the funds are going to come

811
00:59:41,359 --> 00:59:50,480
from what you know have we projected
some stress on those figures that we're

812
00:59:48,720 --> 00:59:55,760
using to
you know support this project because

813
00:59:53,119 --> 01:00:00,720
without those things you know if this
were a smaller project I don't think

814
00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:06,079
that it would be such a problem for me
but you know we are talking about a lot

815
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:10,799
of money not only a lot of money to put
into it but a lot of money that we need

816
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:15,760
to get from other people and a lot of
resources to maintain and you know

817
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:21,280
establish the authority meetings
consultants attorneys and all this other

818
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:26,640
stuff that going to go along with, you
know, establishing this corridor and

819
01:00:23,839 --> 01:00:33,920
improving it. I'm not saying that State
Street doesn't need to be improved, but

820
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:40,160
I think what I'm saying is that, you
know, we're building this project around

821
01:00:37,359 --> 01:00:46,000
this grant funding where we could
probably

822
01:00:41,839 --> 01:00:51,599
do it cheaper or smarter or, you know,
do we need sidewalks? Do we need

823
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:58,640
you know, these certain things that the
grant is requiring us to have in order

824
01:00:54,240 --> 01:01:02,720
to get the funds for all those things
I I think are problematic. I do think we

825
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:06,160
should explore a little bit more of the
SADs.

826
01:01:04,319 --> 01:01:11,520
Um,
and for all those reasons, I'm probably

827
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:16,319
going to vote I will vote no for this.
And also, I think um one other thing

828
01:01:13,599 --> 01:01:20,799
that I was thinking about today,
you know,

829
01:01:18,559 --> 01:01:25,920
State Street needs improvements, but
there are a lot of other places in the

830
01:01:23,040 --> 01:01:32,079
township that are going to need
improvements. And here we're carving out

831
01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:38,079
these funds that will only be able to go
down this corridor

832
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:42,000
and we're earmarking it for 20 years. I
mean, at this point, I don't even know

833
01:01:39,599 --> 01:01:45,920
when the project will start.
You know, is it going to start in the

834
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:50,079
20th year? Is it going to start in the
15th year? Is it going to start 10th

835
01:01:47,599 --> 01:01:56,880
year or the third year? How are we gonna
how are we going to fund it up front? I

836
01:01:53,920 --> 01:02:02,640
for me there's a lot of questions. So I
don't genuinely

837
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:07,119
agree with this because I feel like
we we should had more options. So thank

838
01:02:06,799 --> 01:02:11,200
you.
>> I have to address some of those things.

839
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:14,240
» Okay. So um this is a this is a big
project and that's that's part of the

840
01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:18,799
thing and I think when you do any sort
of budget or planning you are even our

841
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:22,640
own budget leader will be assuming some
some the 2.5 will be assuming things

842
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:27,760
there's things that have to be assumed
along the way. Um when it comes to a

843
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:31,839
giant quarter like that and again this
is something that if we didn't get a

844
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:36,720
grant we could decide then what we want
to do with it. Um but if we do get a

845
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:42,799
giant
giant 40ome million dollar grant to redo

846
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:46,960
the road, we will miss out on it without
having the um the funds to go with it.

847
01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:51,359
Um and that's something that we can
decide clearly. Um it's also when you

848
01:02:49,599 --> 01:02:55,760
think about a special assessment
district and that is pulling funds from

849
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:58,640
that actual corridor. So it's those
businesses within that corridor in that

850
01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:04,960
increment. So it's not like we're
pulling from all over the place. Um in

851
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:10,799
in that respect, we also have the this
is a a regional corridor. So when you do

852
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:15,280
a Tiff, you are pulling from the county
and other areas that actually have some

853
01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:19,280
some say in this. Um, a special
assessment district. I don't know how

854
01:03:17,839 --> 01:03:23,039
much those businesses along that
corridor are benefiting from the extra

855
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:26,559
traffic there. You know, maybe if you
think a a carpenter road corridor or

856
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:29,839
something that they are actually
benefiting from that road being

857
01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:35,280
improvement and having more foot traffic
in their location. um the businesses for

858
01:03:32,799 --> 01:03:38,559
the most part down state road um you
know their employees use that road to

859
01:03:37,039 --> 01:03:42,720
cope to and fro they're not going to get
more benefit from that. So I would

860
01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:46,799
disagree on the special assessment
district part of it. Um and and I've

861
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:49,520
said before if the county did not want
to be part of this and we're not getting

862
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:53,440
that extra money which is a a pretty
large amount I would say that no I don't

863
01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:59,599
think we should do this either. Then we
just you know look at it and and pull as

864
01:03:55,760 --> 01:04:06,640
we would. Um, obviously this is just us
saving money um for this this project in

865
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:11,119
this important corridor. Um, yes, you
could say that Plat Road and and other

866
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:14,640
roads need it. Um, but we don't have the
kind of industrial the amount of money

867
01:04:12,799 --> 01:04:20,720
that we bring in and that corridor and
businesses to offset taxes for the rest

868
01:04:17,359 --> 01:04:24,960
of our residents is huge. And if we
cannot if we lose people on that

869
01:04:22,799 --> 01:04:28,960
corridor um and we don't keep up on it,
we don't have the um it takes a lot to

870
01:04:27,039 --> 01:04:33,119
attract it. You know, I'm you work with
Spark and they and they talk about how

871
01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:36,160
important it is to have a whole package
when you're attracting it. We you know,

872
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:42,960
we lose a lot of businesses to other
areas and the amount of um offsetting

873
01:04:40,079 --> 01:04:47,039
that that does. And when we do work with
businesses that come in the area, we are

874
01:04:44,799 --> 01:04:50,640
and I know our director um of community
development can say we're constantly

875
01:04:49,119 --> 01:04:53,200
trying to figure out, okay, if you're
coming in here, are you going to improve

876
01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:57,839
this brewery? We are we're not going to
not do that. That will continue. And

877
01:04:56,000 --> 01:05:02,079
yes, there's obviously going to be some
costs involved in having these meetings

878
01:05:00,799 --> 01:05:06,240
and making sure that we're doing
everything legally. Um this was started

879
01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:12,079
a while ago, so we do have the base work
already there. And as we change and

880
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:16,480
modify it, yes, there will be some costs
along the way. However, the cost that we

881
01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:20,240
will incur will make up for that. And
this is an important corridor. Um, and

882
01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:25,920
the assumptions that have to be made
along the way. You can we could give you

883
01:05:22,319 --> 01:05:30,319
numbers of what the actual um road could
cost today. But this is going to be

884
01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:33,359
timing and when things are done and then
obviously with materials and things,

885
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:37,680
it's not going to be the same. all we
can do is go based on what we have to

886
01:05:35,119 --> 01:05:41,280
know um the percentage to give an idea
of what's going to be needed. So those

887
01:05:39,839 --> 01:05:44,480
are my um thoughts on it. I don't know
if anybody else wants to kind of chime

888
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:48,160
in or their thoughts.
>> Yeah, I would like to

889
01:05:45,599 --> 01:05:53,039
» Yes, please. Thanks.
>> So I think the point that can't be

890
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:56,960
overlooked here is this is a cut
through. It's not just uh improving the

891
01:05:55,520 --> 01:06:01,920
life of the businesses and the people
that use that in our community. this a

892
01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:06,640
major cut through uh and there are
things that are external to our control

893
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:10,799
that make this situation worse. And now
while it may be a regional benefit to

894
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:14,400
have uh and actually I shouldn't say
benefit, it's outside of our control and

895
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:18,960
regardless how we feel about it, there
are major projects that were made just

896
01:06:16,319 --> 01:06:23,280
north on State Street. The Arbor South
project is going to come now. It is

897
01:06:21,119 --> 01:06:27,280
going to have over a thousand new
housing units that are going to be

898
01:06:24,799 --> 01:06:31,839
there. Those residents are in our
taxable jurisdiction. They are going to

899
01:06:29,839 --> 01:06:37,039
be using this as a cut through to get to
US23 to Michigan Avenue, things of that

900
01:06:34,559 --> 01:06:42,079
nature. Our vehicle to have access to
county and statewide funds. Is this and

901
01:06:40,559 --> 01:06:45,920
and what just to be clear and I want to
ask this as a question. What we're

902
01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:50,079
voting on tonight is not the approval of
the project. It's not the definition of

903
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:55,440
the funds within it. It's actually
looking at this is establishing the

904
01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:58,559
boundary. So if we do do a CIA or a tiff
capture, this is the taxable

905
01:06:57,039 --> 01:07:03,440
jurisdiction. So then we can do
projections based on this definition,

906
01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:08,160
the boundaries. And then the second
thing that we're considering tonight is

907
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:12,559
just the board of that we still have a
lot of work to do. And candidly before I

908
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:16,319
would be an affirmative vote in this. I
need to see the data too. I need to see

909
01:07:14,160 --> 01:07:21,039
the finances at a deeper detail. that
this is a necessary step to say okay

910
01:07:19,119 --> 01:07:25,680
with this taxable jurisdiction or these
boundaries this is the projection

911
01:07:22,799 --> 01:07:29,680
revenue that base offset etc and this is
a in my opinion this feels like a

912
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:35,200
necessary step to even get to that next
step of the data and if we do not do

913
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:38,799
something like this I wish there was a a
different mechanism for this but then we

914
01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:43,039
don't have access to county dollars we
don't have access to the state dollars

915
01:07:40,319 --> 01:07:49,440
so this is an X this in my opinion is a
way for us to put in 10 cents on the

916
01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:54,400
to get this pro thing that's already a
problem today and those thousand uh new

917
01:07:52,079 --> 01:07:57,680
housing units plus the extra growth that
we have in this region will just

918
01:07:56,000 --> 01:08:01,599
exacerbate this issue over the next
three to five years. So if we don't take

919
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:05,760
necessary steps to start improving this
now we are going to start introducing I

920
01:08:03,839 --> 01:08:10,000
believe public health and public safety
concerns along that corridor as well.

921
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:16,719
you know, if there's a a public safety
call that's around any type of uh time

922
01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:19,759
between call at 7:30 and 9 a.m. and
NASCO through State Street corridor,

923
01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:25,279
there's going to be delayed response.
The same is going to be true around uh

924
01:08:22,480 --> 01:08:28,640
the rush hour at the end of the day. And
these are things that aren't just the

925
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:31,600
responsibility of those businesses and
those condos and things that are right

926
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:36,239
along the State Street Corridor project.
This is a major regional corridor cut

927
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:41,920
through that's material different than
plat and other areas because of the

928
01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:46,480
regional connect of tissue that stays
between those areas. So again I just

929
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:49,199
want to close by saying the way I
understand this in the order of

930
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:53,520
operations is we're not voting on the
whole CIA the tip. This is really if we

931
01:08:51,839 --> 01:08:57,679
do this this is the boundary. This is
what we're about to consider here. And

932
01:08:55,199 --> 01:09:01,440
the second step is okay another legal
step is for us to even explore the next

933
01:08:59,279 --> 01:09:04,159
step of this conversation. We need the
board.

934
01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:08,480
» Correct. And at that point, we will hit
the next toll gates as we get more data.

935
01:09:05,839 --> 01:09:11,600
Then we can make the affirmative or not
decision to move forward with this

936
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:15,199
project. These are necessary steps to
even explore this as an option. Correct.

937
01:09:14,319 --> 01:09:18,640
Okay. Thank you.
>> That's a very good point and we're

938
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:22,719
basically planning kind of putting
together a plan for if we do and if the

939
01:09:21,359 --> 01:09:27,679
numbers aren't ended the date and it
comes back and it's not um doable then

940
01:09:26,239 --> 01:09:32,560
it's not. But we at least we've taken
the steps to be able to have the option.

941
01:09:30,560 --> 01:09:37,440
I just want to add one small you guys
have covered most of everything. uh from

942
01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:44,799
from what I found I don't think there's
any other product any other format to

943
01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:53,359
finance a future um
large project such as this sad as far as

944
01:09:47,679 --> 01:09:58,640
I know are very specific and only cover
doesn't

945
01:09:55,920 --> 01:10:04,640
in as much as you know
the issue is a difficult one to

946
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:09,440
to swallow sometimes is the reality that
the only ways like this are funded

947
01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:14,800
through this process and the only way
you qualify for those major grants are

948
01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:22,199
through this process. So before we can
even answer all the questions we have to

949
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:22,199
we have to walk through the steps

950
01:10:24,480 --> 01:10:29,480
» more discussion or questions.

951
01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:35,840
Okay.
U may ask for a roll call.

952
01:10:34,480 --> 01:10:38,000
» Treasurer Epicanin,
>> yes.

953
01:10:36,719 --> 01:10:39,920
» Trusty Erada Thompson,
>> yes.

954
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:41,679
» Trusty Jaffer,
>> yes.

955
01:10:40,480 --> 01:10:43,360
» Trusty Brbeck,
>> yes.

956
01:10:42,239 --> 01:10:45,040
» Trusty Kurami,
>> yes.

957
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:46,400
» Supervisor Riley,
>> yes.

958
01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:49,920
» Clerk Galdi,
>> no.

959
01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:56,239
» Madam Chair, you have six and one name.
>> All right. Thank you. Um, resolution is

960
01:10:52,400 --> 01:11:01,920
adopted. If we could um get a motion for
9.12. Madam Chair, I move to adopt a

961
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:05,520
resolution to appoint the corridor
Improvement Authority Board.

962
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:08,800
» Second.
>> Any discussion? I think we kind of

963
01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:14,400
covered that in the last conversation,
but if anybody has any issues with the

964
01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:17,120
actual board that's presented
um roll call

965
01:11:16,560 --> 01:11:18,800
Thompson,
>> yes.

966
01:11:17,679 --> 01:11:20,400
» Trusty Jaffer,
>> yes.

967
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:21,840
» Trusty Braybeck,
>> yes.

968
01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:23,520
» Trusty Kurami,
>> yes.

969
01:11:22,480 --> 01:11:25,040
» Supervisor Riley,
>> yes.

970
01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:26,480
» Clerk Analdi,
>> yes.

971
01:11:25,440 --> 01:11:32,080
» Treasure Epicanin,
>> yes. Madam supervisor, you have seven.

972
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:36,719
» Thank you. Resolution is adopted. May I
please have a motion for 9.13?

973
01:11:35,280 --> 01:11:43,600
» Madam Chair, I move to adopt a
resolution of support for Chad Tough

974
01:11:38,560 --> 01:11:52,239
Foundation Run Tough Chad TU 1K and FK
or 5K on Saturday September 27th 2026.

975
01:11:49,840 --> 01:11:55,360
Resolution 26-23
support.

976
01:11:53,280 --> 01:12:00,000
» Okay. Any discussion? This is um I think
everybody's familiar with this um

977
01:11:57,040 --> 01:12:05,760
popular run and um support of of Chad
TU. Um it's just one of the federalities

978
01:12:02,719 --> 01:12:08,560
of closing a road. All right, if I could
get a roll call.

979
01:12:07,360 --> 01:12:10,320
» Trusty Jaffer?
>> Yes.

980
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:11,760
» Trusty Braybeck?
>> Yes.

981
01:12:10,719 --> 01:12:13,280
» Trusty Kurami?
>> Yes.

982
01:12:12,239 --> 01:12:14,640
» Supervisor Riley?
>> Yes.

983
01:12:13,679 --> 01:12:16,000
» Clerk Enzaldi?
>> Yes.

984
01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:17,440
» Treasure Epicanin?
>> Yes.

985
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:19,920
» Trusty Erda Thompson?
>> Yes.

986
01:12:18,320 --> 01:12:23,120
» Madam Chair, you have 78.
>> All right. Resolution adopted. And if

987
01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:28,080
you can make it out for the runs, please
do. Uh may I have a motion for 9.14?

988
01:12:26,719 --> 01:12:32,640
» Madam Chair, I move to authorize the
supervisor and clerk to enter into an

989
01:12:29,679 --> 01:12:38,800
agreement and associated distribution
service uh writer and consolation new

990
01:12:35,760 --> 01:12:43,840
energy gas division LLC for the
township's natural gas account. Subject

991
01:12:41,760 --> 01:12:46,800
to the township attorney approval
support.

992
01:12:44,480 --> 01:12:49,600
» Okay. Um if I could actually ask um
Director West to come up and explain a

993
01:12:48,239 --> 01:12:55,679
little about this. actually is a good
cost savings and a good find on um on

994
01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:59,520
our department's part.
>> Good evening. Hello.

995
01:12:57,600 --> 01:13:02,159
» Um I tried to make the memo as detailed
as I could because I know that this

996
01:13:01,040 --> 01:13:06,480
doesn't make a lot of sense and
sometimes when things feel too good to

997
01:13:03,679 --> 01:13:10,000
be true um you know they don't work out.
But we have vetted this out pretty

998
01:13:08,080 --> 01:13:15,040
extensively, including contacting other
municipalities who've been participating

999
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:19,600
in this. Um, effectively because they
don't want um utility companies to be

1000
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:25,199
monopolies, the Michigan Public Service
Commission stepped in and required to

1001
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:29,920
have an alternative gas provider. Um,
they uh named Constellation Energy as

1002
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:33,520
one of those gas providers. And what
they do is effectively cut

1003
01:13:31,440 --> 01:13:40,400
administrative overhead costs out of it.
So our um natural gas provider, uh,

1004
01:13:38,239 --> 01:13:44,159
maintenance, um, all of those things are
still provided through DTE Energy, but

1005
01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:48,880
our billing is done through
Constellation Energy. Um, they basically

1006
01:13:46,159 --> 01:13:53,360
submeter out off of that. Um, and it
gives a pretty significant savings. Um,

1007
01:13:51,920 --> 01:13:57,600
this is something that other
municipalities in our local area,

1008
01:13:54,960 --> 01:14:02,560
including Ann Arbor, Ipsellani Township,
um, Canton Township and others, um, are

1009
01:14:00,159 --> 01:14:06,800
seeing real savings of. Uh, this is not
just a pie in the sky number. Um, Uh

1010
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:09,199
many of them have been doing this for
years and years and years to the point

1011
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:12,000
where they didn't even remember that
they were part of this program any

1012
01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:14,560
longer. So when we got the referral
note, they were like, "I don't know what

1013
01:14:13,199 --> 01:14:19,440
you're talking about." And we had to go
back through and and get that

1014
01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:24,159
understanding. But um the the estimate
um of our gas savings, so they did take

1015
01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:26,560
a look at all of our accounts. Um we did
run this through our finance department

1016
01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:32,320
as well just to make sure that we were
all short up. Um but currently we're

1017
01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:38,000
paying about 63,000
and change for our natural gas. Um, and

1018
01:14:35,120 --> 01:14:42,800
we would be paying about 39722 for
natural gas. Um, so an annual savings of

1019
01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:48,640
approximately $24,000.
Um, the other thing that they did which

1020
01:14:45,280 --> 01:14:53,040
was fantastic, but um, we fixed some
billing errors along the way that they

1021
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:55,760
helped us realize as well. So, um,
they've been really open and

1022
01:14:54,239 --> 01:14:59,120
understanding and answered a million
questions for us in this process. If you

1023
01:14:57,840 --> 01:15:02,480
have any specific questions, I'm happy
to try to answer them. I just want to

1024
01:15:00,560 --> 01:15:05,520
kind of comment that when director West
brought this to me and she's like it

1025
01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:08,239
seems too good to be true and we yeah
and she vetted it out with other

1026
01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:12,560
jurisdictions and everything else
because we we've been tasked to know to

1027
01:15:11,199 --> 01:15:15,679
kind of tighten our belt and this is
helping tighten the belt.

1028
01:15:13,679 --> 01:15:19,520
» I should add we get a lot of requests
from thirdparty providers to do these

1029
01:15:17,440 --> 01:15:23,520
types of submetering things and we've
constantly researched and vetted and

1030
01:15:21,679 --> 01:15:27,760
said no this is not correct. My staff
takes this very seriously. Um, this one

1031
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:32,159
in particular is only applicable to
Wayne and Washington County. That's it.

1032
01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:38,960
Municipalities and Wayne and Washington
County. Um, and so it's very specific to

1033
01:15:35,679 --> 01:15:42,080
the provisions of the MPSC. Um, and like
I said, that's one of the reasons why we

1034
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:45,760
we vetted it for so long. We've been
looking at this for probably over a

1035
01:15:43,600 --> 01:15:50,320
year. Um, and then we've talked to other
municipalities as well to make sure that

1036
01:15:47,440 --> 01:15:55,520
it made complete sense.
>> Any comments or questions on this one?

1037
01:15:53,679 --> 01:16:00,960
» Comment. Thank you for looking into this
and saving taxpayers $24,000 a year.

1038
01:15:58,239 --> 01:16:03,360
» Is it only 24,000?
>> That's all we have in our gas metering

1039
01:16:02,480 --> 01:16:06,400
cost.
>> So, this is part of our sustainability

1040
01:16:04,880 --> 01:16:10,000
mission. I'll put credit out to our
community engagement team as part of our

1041
01:16:08,159 --> 01:16:15,600
community development department. Um,
we're constantly looking for reasons to

1042
01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:19,040
help save and cut back. Um, shout out to
the conference I was at today with the

1043
01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:22,239
Michigan Sustainability Conference um
and the Michigan Green Communities

1044
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:25,600
Challenge. helps us think about these
things and look at these things in

1045
01:16:23,440 --> 01:16:30,320
detail to try to cut back on all of our
energy savings, to reduce our climate

1046
01:16:27,679 --> 01:16:33,199
impact, etc. Um, but this is part of
that sustainability mission.

1047
01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:36,080
» So, we're going to keep plugging away
when things are too good to be true.

1048
01:16:34,560 --> 01:16:40,880
We're we're there.
>> Yeah. All right. Um,

1049
01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:45,440
all in favor?
>> Opposed? All right. Thank you.

1050
01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:49,520
Authorized. Uh, may I please have a
motion for 9:15?

1051
01:16:48,159 --> 01:16:53,520
Madam Chair, I move to authorize the
supervisor and clerk to sign the first

1052
01:16:51,600 --> 01:17:00,239
amendment to the land lease agreement
with Celco Partnership doing business as

1053
01:16:57,679 --> 01:17:04,960
Verizon Wireless extending the lease
term and modifying the associated lease

1054
01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:07,040
provisions subject to the township
attorney approval.

1055
01:17:06,239 --> 01:17:10,880
» Second.
>> Okay. Yeah. And this is something that

1056
01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:14,080
is a continuation of things that we've
done in the past. This in the next one,

1057
01:17:12,239 --> 01:17:16,960
too.
There's any questions on this

1058
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:19,760
discussion?
All right. All in favor?

1059
01:17:18,400 --> 01:17:23,520
» I opposed.
>> All right, that's authorized. May I

1060
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:26,719
please have a motion for 9.16?
>> Madam Chair, I move to authorize the

1061
01:17:24,880 --> 01:17:32,239
supervisor and clerk to sign the uniform
video service local franchise agreement

1062
01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:36,719
with Direct TV LLC continuing its
authorization to provide video services

1063
01:17:34,480 --> 01:17:39,199
within Pittsfield Charter Township
subject to the township attorney

1064
01:17:38,159 --> 01:17:42,159
approval.
>> Second.

1065
01:17:39,840 --> 01:17:46,800
» Okay. Any discussion?
>> All in favor?

1066
01:17:43,280 --> 01:17:52,320
» I opposed. All right. as authorized. May
I please have a motion for 9.17?

1067
01:17:50,560 --> 01:17:55,719
» Madam Chair, I move to approve first
reading ZOA26-236

1068
01:17:55,760 --> 01:18:02,159
to add section 40-11.51
to the zoning ordinance.

1069
01:18:01,600 --> 01:18:05,120
» Second.
>> Okay. And obviously this is just a

1070
01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:08,080
followup to the public hearing we had
earlier. Um please note that again

1071
01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:12,000
there'll be a second reading um and
staff will be recommending changes to

1072
01:18:09,679 --> 01:18:16,480
the noise limits um to implement
clarification on the me measurements. Um

1073
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:18,960
that will more restrictive. Um so won't
be we could be decreasing and making

1074
01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:24,640
sure that we're more nothing will be
increased as a um a result of it but

1075
01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:30,159
there'll be some uh change at least that
change to the next reading.

1076
01:18:27,679 --> 01:18:34,640
Okay. Um any discussion or comments
based on public feedback

1077
01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:38,880
on uh all in favor?
>> I let's let's do a roll call.

1078
01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:42,000
» Roll call. Okay. Sorry. I don't approve.
Yes. Okay. Sorry. Roll call. Thank you.

1079
01:18:40,880 --> 01:18:44,960
» Trusty Braybeck.
>> Yes.

1080
01:18:43,120 --> 01:18:46,400
» Trusty Kurami. Yes.
>> Supervisor Riley.

1081
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:47,679
» Yes.
>> Clerk Henzaldi.

1082
01:18:47,280 --> 01:18:49,040
» Yes.
>> Treasure Epicanin.

1083
01:18:48,640 --> 01:18:50,400
» Yes.
>> Trusty Erda Thompson?

1084
01:18:50,080 --> 01:18:52,159
» Yes.
>> Trusty Jaffer?

1085
01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:55,679
» Yes.
>> Madam Chair, you have seven.

1086
01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:58,320
» Okay. Thank you. Approved um for the
first reading and may have a motion for

1087
01:18:57,360 --> 01:19:04,320
9.18.
>> Madam Chair, I move to approve first

1088
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:08,600
reading ZOA number 26-237
to add section 40-31

1089
01:19:09,199 --> 01:19:16,960
to the zoning ordinance.
>> Second. And just button it up.

1090
01:19:14,719 --> 01:19:18,239
All right, roll call, please. Trusty
Kurami,

1091
01:19:17,760 --> 01:19:19,679
» yes.
>> Supervisor Riley,

1092
01:19:19,360 --> 01:19:21,040
» yes.
>> Clerk Analdi,

1093
01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:22,239
» yes.
>> Treasure Epicanin,

1094
01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:23,679
» yes.
>> Trusty Erda Thompson,

1095
01:19:23,360 --> 01:19:25,199
» yes.
>> Trusty Chaffer,

1096
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:26,800
» yes.
>> Trusty Braybeck,

1097
01:19:26,239 --> 01:19:30,239
» yes.
>> Madam Chair, you have seven. Thank you.

1098
01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:32,960
Almost made a full turnaround on the
roll calls. I don't think we've done

1099
01:19:31,280 --> 01:19:36,560
that in a long while since I've been up
here. I don't think we have done it. All

1100
01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:42,640
right. Um, unfinished business. We don't
have any um any leaison reports or

1101
01:19:39,440 --> 01:19:46,560
trustee reports.
>> Yep.

1102
01:19:44,159 --> 01:19:51,920
I'd like to share the summary of action
from September 4, 2026 plan commission

1103
01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:58,000
meeting. The plan commission voted to
approve wetland permit and final site

1104
01:19:55,120 --> 01:20:04,880
plan for CSPA
22-23 field park.

1105
01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:12,600
Then the planning commissioned to state
the 2025 final site plans extension for

1106
01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:12,600
CSPA 19-20

1107
01:20:13,280 --> 01:20:22,640
located 471 Carpenter Road until such
time the planning commission makes a

1108
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:26,800
decision regarding the 2026 final site
plan extension.

1109
01:20:24,880 --> 01:20:31,480
The next meeting, planning commission
meeting will be on September 17.

1110
01:20:32,159 --> 01:20:37,440
» Thank you.
>> I think that the second one there um

1111
01:20:35,360 --> 01:20:44,080
they're looking to u it's a property
across from Amazon. When Amazon came in

1112
01:20:40,640 --> 01:20:48,159
um some of the the um roadways made a
change, so they have to do another site

1113
01:20:46,480 --> 01:20:51,600
plan and they need another extension on
that. Um and they've already done two.

1114
01:20:50,080 --> 01:20:56,800
So it's it's out of the ordinary.
>> Asking for extension.

1115
01:20:53,760 --> 01:21:00,080
It might be an exception because of it
being across from Amazon, but that's not

1116
01:20:58,800 --> 01:21:02,800
necessarily how we would do things.
There usually isn't a third exception.

1117
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:06,080
Correct.
>> Okay.

1118
01:21:04,480 --> 01:21:12,560
Information to have. All right. Any
other reports or Yes.

1119
01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:16,560
historical district commission. Um
we have two positions that are

1120
01:21:14,159 --> 01:21:20,239
available. One we get a resation from
our architect which means have an

1121
01:21:18,080 --> 01:21:26,320
architect on the board and also
unfortunately we lost Janice passed away

1122
01:21:24,320 --> 01:21:34,880
earlier in August. We just found that
out. So, her positions up. So, that's a

1123
01:21:32,719 --> 01:21:38,080
» and like to say that in um October,
we're going to work with the the

1124
01:21:36,239 --> 01:21:42,880
district commission and the society and
um perhaps do a proclamation for um Al

1125
01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:47,199
Pa and then maybe a moment of silence,
you know, for Janice Harwood um and

1126
01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:52,000
recognize that um none of us really
Yeah. were aware, but and we are working

1127
01:21:49,199 --> 01:21:55,199
on those um architect is a hard one. So,
if anyone does know our architect,

1128
01:21:53,440 --> 01:22:00,719
please let us know who lives in
Pittsfield clearly. Thank you. Thank

1129
01:21:57,760 --> 01:22:03,840
you. All right. Uh, we'll open it up for
public comment, too. Any person may come

1130
01:22:02,639 --> 01:22:06,960
forward at this time to address the
board. Anyone who wishes to speak is

1131
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:12,440
requested, but not required to state his
or her their name um and address for the

1132
01:22:09,440 --> 01:22:12,440
record.

1133
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:23,199
All right. Seeing none, um I'm going to
head and goinghead adjourn at

1134
01:22:23,600 --> 01:22:29,120
7:52, but then we're going to take a
five minute break and then go right into

1135
01:22:26,960 --> 01:22:31,440
working session. So, five minutes and
we're meeting right back here.

1136
01:22:30,239 --> 01:22:33,679
» Madam Chair, I move to
>> Oh,

1137
01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:38,080
sorry.
>> All in favor?

1138
01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:43,760
» I All right. Thank you.
>> Sorry.

1139
01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:46,719
I don't know if I want to touch yet.
>> I know. I know.