We pray, Lord, that you would protect those, that you would guide those that, as decisions are made,
that wisdom would prevail. And Father, we thank you for the partnership between our city and the churches.
But we ask that you'll just continue to foster that, and may we continue to build each other up.
Or we thank you for our time together this evening, and bless all that is done.
It's in Jesus' name. We pray. Amen.
The military officers present arms.
Applegial agents through the flag of the United States of America.
And two of the above, for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Order arms.
Okay, so Commander Hughie, I'm behalf of your membership.
I understand you have three awards you want to hand out. Four. Come on up. It's all yours.
Good evening, everybody. My name is Art Hughie. I'm the Commander of Old settlers.
VFW post 4659 in Shelby Township. Each of the national veterans of foreign wars, selects emergency medical technicians, law enforcement, firefighters, and dispatch personnel to receive VFW public service awards.
We submit these names and biographies to our Michigan department headquarters for the competition, and then the winners are forwarded on the national members headquarters.
The highest individuals meet the criteria, and we're submitted.
Like the officers, please come forward.
Thank you. Our first award goes to Seattle Brown, fire and police dispatch, and contact.
Today, are receiving this award for your own wavering dedication and exceptional ability to remain calm under pressure.
You have consistently ensured the safety of those in urgent need.
Brown has five years of dispatched experience within that time frame. She has won several awards for her hard work and dedication to this job.
In 2022, Brown won Comtech of the Year. One of many life-saving achievements was on October 24th, 2023.
Brown took a call for an unconscious person. She acted fast, keeping a collar calm, and advised the collar on life-saving measures until the MS arrived on scene.
In an emergency, it's easy to feel overwhelmed, but you're quick thinking and clearance instructions.
Make all the difference in a very stressful situation. Thank you for your service.
I want to present Kira, Kira.
Thank you.
Our next award goes to Brendan Rakes, fire fighter and medic.
Today, we're receiving this award in grateful recognition of unyielding adherence to the highest ideals of firefighting and life-saving skills.
Rakes has seven and a half years experience, five with Detroit and two and a half with Shelby Township.
Not only is a firefighter in medic, but he is also a part of the technical rescue unit, diving swift water rescue, and a tactical response unit that is partner with Shelby Township Police.
In 2023, Brendan became involved with neighbors united. A cancer charity dedicated to supporting firefighters in their fight against cancer.
Inspired by the organization's mission, he participated in their annual 140-mile walk from a calm township to Grand Rapids, Michigan, in response to one of his own department's firefighters being diagnosed with cancer.
Brendan was among the select group of firefighters who completed the journey in full firefighting turnout care, demonstrating acceptable endurance and commitment to the cause.
Your work not only saves lives and protects property, but you stand up for others. Thank you for your service, Brendan.
Officer Dennis Washburn and Officer Noah Nye.
Today you are receiving this award in grateful recognition of unyielding adherence to the highest ideals of law enforcement and maintaining, preserving and protecting all citizens.
Officer Washburn has 25 years of experience, 22 of them being a police officer in Shelby Township.
Officer Washburn is a field training officer, accident, accident, reconstructionist, and part of the first ever drone unit in Shelby Township.
Officer Nye has only worked in Shelby Township since 2022. He has already made a huge impact in the department.
Officer Nye has been recognized for his continued dedication as an officer. You both are recognized for this one of many achievements.
On June 13, 2024, Officer Nye and Officer Washburn responded to a call of a baby not breathing.
Upon arrival, the two-year-old had turned blue and did not have a pulse. The officers were informed that the baby might have choked on food and they began CPR.
The third department transported the baby to the hospital where the hospital was airlifted to another hospital and placed on a ventilator.
The nurse at the hospital advised that the baby was taken off the ventilator due to the quick reaction of both officers, the child will make a full recovery.
For your commitment to ensuring the safety and well-being of our community, thank you for your sacrifices to protect and serve all of us.
And I'd just like to do a quick commercial here.
Our post is celebrating our 80th anniversary this November.
And also I wanted to mention again our written fish rise begin this Friday from 4 to 7 at the post just around the quarter.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
And on behalf of the board trustees, we want to congratulate our first responders.
And again, I want to say very special thank you to the VFW Post 4659.
Thank you for being here and thank you for everything you do in the community.
You guys are just your great.
And I guess I'll see you on Friday at the fish right and then Saint John Vianny too, I guess you got one.
So I'm going to go two of them. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Okay. Is there a motion to prove the consent agenda that has been presented?
Oh, we need a real call.
Oh, roll call. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Yes.
Jimny, Jim Carabelli, Lisa Cassali, but she had the sickle.
Here.
Stanley Gros here, Rick Stapacus.
Here.
John Vremelland. Here.
And Vince Viviano.
Excuse.
Yes.
And absent.
Okay.
We got a call.
Thank you.
Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda that has been presented?
No.
Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Rot.
Thanks again, everybody.
Move to approve consent agenda as follows.
Minutes. Board meeting February 4, 2025.
Work session February 10, 2025. Move to approve minutes as presented.
Next item is old settlers post 4659.
Request permission to solicit donations.
Move to grant permission to veterans of foreign wars.
All settlers post 4659.
To solicit donations at storefronts throughout Shelby Township for body,
puppy days on May 1, May 1, 2nd and 3rd, 2025.
All solicitors shall be ready and the identifiable for the insure and
carry proper credentials.
Next item.
Thankions.
Your conversation slide.
Thank you for that.
Alright my thanks.
No one should answer the comments.
One should answer the questions.
Next item is modified that the publicity, publicly funded, held insurance contribution election,
PA-152-2025, both to conclude with the recommendation of human resources, direct to Lisa
and modified the township's publicity, publicly funded.
Public funded, held insurance contribution act, election to plan year 2025, an exempt,
the charter township of Shelby employees and elect public officials, elected public officials
from the requirements of this act, for the remainder of the medical benefit coverage year starting
on April 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025.
Next item is letter of understanding which Shelby Township Patrol offices association,
moved to concur with the recommendation of Chief of Police, Robert Shalai, and Human Resources
Director Lisa Suda, and authorized the Human Resources Director to enter into the
present letter of understanding which Shelby Township Police offices association to address
employee retention and applicant attraction issues by modify certainly French benefits and job
assignment procedures and implement alumps some bonus in 2025 and 2026.
Next item is letter of understanding which the union's regarding held care opt-out,
moved to concur with the recommendation of Human Resources Director Lisa Suda, and authorized
the Human Resources Director to enter into letter of understanding with the POLC
union on behalf of 911 police slash fire communication technicians, the FOP on behalf of
supervisor and municipal employee bargaining unit, the KEPO AM on behalf of 41st
a district court employee, the Shelby Township police commander for the organization,
and the Shelby Township Firefighters Association, regarding modification to the medical insurance
opt-out program as presented.
The next item is assisted supervisor job description, moved to concur with the recommendation
of Human Resources Director Lisa Suda, and approved the job description for the newly created
department head position of assisted supervisor in the supervisor's office as presented.
The next item, Auckland County Tactical Training Consortium, moved to concur with the
recommendation of police chief, Robert J. Shalide, and enter into agreement with the
Auckland County Tactical Training Consortium, A-OK-T-A-C.
Next item, governmental consultant services ink, G-C-S-I contract, moved to concur with
recommendation of township supervisor to enter into contract with governmental consultant services ink
for 12 months, and the cost of $5,000 per month, to a township and finding and obtaining
opportunities, funds are to be taken from general fund, line item number 101-261-802-500.
The next item is to re-appoint solid waste in recycling committee, moved to re-appoint
commission, a basic draft to the solid waste and recycling committee for two year
term expiring and January 20, 2027. Next item is appointment to election commission, moved
to appoint Vince Viviano and Lisa Casali to the election commission, with the term to expire
on November 20, 20, 20, 28.
Almost done.
OK.
We're running out of alphabet letters.
A word contract, 2025, youth baseball slash softball uniforms, moved to concur with
recommendation of PRM director Joe Youngblun and contract with Berks Sport Haven, 215-29
Kelly Road East Point, Michigan 48021, for all seasons of the 2025 youth baseball
slash softball uniforms.
A contract, pricing will be $9.39 per head, $16.69 per youth jersey, and $18.79
per adult jersey.
Funds are to be taken from general fund line item, 101-788-840-787.
Some are fast sponsorship and sales consultant, moved to concur with the recommendation of
community relations director, that a bread base, and contract with CHEP ink to operate as a
sponsorship as sales consultant for the 2025 Shelby Township Summerfest.
Next item is Bill Ron in the amount of 538.
8,600, $620 per cent. This is your provider move to approve consent agenda as presented.
Thank you. Do I have a second?
Motion made by Mr. Grotes, seconded by Mr. Seiko.
I'll roll call, please.
Stanley Grotes, yes, Lucia de Sico.
Yes. Jim Carabelli, Lisa Casali.
Yes.
Rick Stefficus.
Yes.
John Vermilion. Yes.
And Vince Viviano's excuse.
Okay. I see we've got these slides up for the agenda.
So I'll whip right through it.
17 items, actually. So it's a lengthy agenda we have tonight.
The first item is a site plan and introduction of the conditional rezoning.
SLU number 24-32, Derek Ribba for sheets.
The second item is the site plan special land use.
Number 24-26, James Grue.
St. John Bianchi Catholic Church.
Number three is rezoning petition.
Number 24-42.
This is George Lane.
And this is requested by the planning department as well.
Then we moved to number four.
The ACLS Resurification.
Number five.
The 2025 host testing.
This is from the fire department.
And number six.
Is the preventive health screening program requested by the fire department.
Number seven.
Radial counsel luts requested by the police department.
Number eight is a poll barn requested by the police department.
Number nine in car camera purchase.
And that is requested by the police as well.
Number ten is the Shelby Township Summer Fast 2025.
We'll have a let's say about that later.
Number 11 video wall expansion rigging motors.
Number 12, the replacement production fiber and accessories.
Number 13 is a request to purchase.
A John Dears snow machine slash broom.
Number 14 is a resolution.
Number 15 is the ordinance.
Number 303 for legal reestablishment of the Shelby Township Library.
That's more of a housekeeping item actually.
Number 16 is the ordinance 304 permit row facilities establishment.
Tonight we would be adopting it if it passes.
And number 17 is a resolution for fees pursuant to ordinance 304.
So there you have it.
That is the agenda may have please have a motion.
This is supervisor move to approve the agenda's presented support.
Motion made by Mr. Grope seconded by Mr. Remueling.
All those in favor?
Please signify by saying aye.
Aye. Any opposed?
Motion passes.
We have an agenda.
So next residents this is now your opportunity for you to address the board.
Regarding any of the items on the agenda that I discovered.
Your comments pursuant to the board policy are limited to three minutes.
Please keep in mind that while the scope or your discussion at this point of the meeting should be limited to agenda items.
You will also have an opportunity at the end of the meeting to discuss a wider range of topics that relate to Township business.
I do see some new faces here.
So what we do is in your three minutes we give you a 15 second warning before you three minutes is off.
So you can kind of wrap it up.
Okay.
So is there anyone who would like to come up to comment on any of the 17 items that we just covered?
Yes ma'am.
Thank you.
Good evening.
My name is Tammy Porter.
My address is 777222 mile road.
I am opposed to the rezoning of the property next door to my residents from a C1 and O1 office to a C2 for the Sheets 247 gas station.
According to the mission and liquor control court code.
Administration rules and related laws chapter five page five four section 503 paragraph one.
Denying new application for license to sell alcohol beverages at retail within 500 feet of a church or a school building.
There's a church next to my right next to my property.
November 23 at the planning of 2024 at the planning commission meeting.
Sheets representative stated that they don't have to sell alcohol whether sheets sells alcohol or not.
I am opposed to those sheets 247 gas station right next to my property.
It's a residence and it always has been.
This would negatively impact my residents through increased traffic making it more difficult to exit and enter my driveway.
People turning into my driveway as well.
More accidents noise 247 garbage overflow and crying according to the diagram that was showed for the drawings of the sheets.
They widened the entry because the entry that was shared by the office space and the doctors.
And the doctor's office was on the other side of the doctor's office property well away from mine.
Also, when you have office space, it has a designated time of operation Monday through Friday and evenings and weekends are closed.
This is a 247 operation constant traffic constant noise blocking my driveway.
I already have issues with people turning in my driveway even when I was standing there with a bus with my children in the morning.
They were trying to come into my driveway and I have to ask you my children to decide and then go talk to the person and say,
You have a strip, you have a post office, you have a church, do not turn in my driveway blocking my driveway for me and my children getting in there.
It's a residence. It always has been.
For 77 years.
I'm frustrated with that.
Again, office space is more practical for that corner and especially with accidents.
I have lived there for a very long time and in this community even longer.
And the accidents that occur at the circle K.
Both their access on to 22 in Van Dyke.
It's constant.
Okay.
My concern again, those negative impact to my property and to my family with this 247 operation.
It's very unsettling to me.
Thank you for your time.
Okay. Thank you very much.
A couple of comments I want to make.
So the way we handle our meetings is at the end of public discussion.
We answer all the questions instead of taking one out of time.
So if you hear a question, you don't have to ask it again.
You can if you want.
But you don't need to.
We will get to that question at the end of public discussion.
And also, thank you for stating your address.
But we ask everyone who comes before the microphone to state your address.
Okay.
Does anyone else would like to come up?
Yes, ma'am.
So I do have noted the liquor within 500 feet.
We will address that.
Good afternoon.
My name is Miley Wise.
I am a almost 30 year resident of Shelby Township.
As well as the senior warden of said church that was mentioned in the previous.
I will do my best to say this eloquently.
But as this is my first time, I please ask that you have some grace.
You doing well?
As mentioned in the invocation by the fellow church in the room.
We like to foster the relationship between the township and the local churches.
One of the things that I was raised with was when you pray to God in your asking for things for God.
God does not give you those things.
He gives you opportunities.
And so I ask that this board take the opportunity to continue to foster that relationship.
And reviewing the sheets and everything that our neighbor is going through.
I have three main things that I'd like to cover.
First and foremost is our main concern.
The violation of MCL 436-150 denying of being within 500 feet of a church or school.
When I look it up on Google Maps from the center of our church to the farthest sidewalk is only 378 feet.
So we feel that even wherever you draw the line we fall well within that.
We also have three AA groups that routinely come to our church every week.
And we already have one location that is kind of a, you have to drive by and hope that they don't succumb to the voice.
And we have kids not just at her property, but at almost every single property that touches our lot.
The second thing is the excessive congestion and bottleneck due to the proximity of 22 mile in Van Dyke intersection.
We have questions about whether or not a traffic flow study has been done on the possible impact to the area.
Both the neighborhood are church St. Luke's as well as the intersection itself.
St. Luke asks access to our driveway will be severely impeded by the increase of traffic so close to the intersection.
Currently it is very difficult for us, especially coming westbound to access St. Luke's driveway during the afternoon work traffic.
But also just in general because most people don't adhere to the, when you're supposed to turn in for the left hand turn lane.
We start getting into that left hand turn lane in front of our intersection.
We also are wondering if there was any consideration of the fact that there are five driveways less than 500 feet of that 22 mile intersection.
Immediately north and across from what is the proposed sheets entrance.
The USPS neighborhood as well as St. Luke's.
The third item on that is we're wondering if the police has evaluated potential increase on the traffic accident in the area.
The, for the Shelby Township Police Department as of today, there have been 27 accidents within the past 12 months at that intersection.
Lastly, additions of stop and go type businesses tend to bring along unchecked behaviors increase in loitering increase in littering and increasing crime near businesses not operating late into that night.
These are known issues for businesses who operate in this capacity.
Any additional, an additional sheet location was mentioned in a previous article about how this was the case for a gas station.
They took over and they were unable to guarantee that it would go away.
Without a need for an additional gas station, I'm not sure that it is worth adding the additional risk or sinking serious money into the property to build for minimal community gain.
Well, thank you very much. If this is your first time you should go on a public speaking.
Thank you very much.
Okay.
Who would like to anybody else tonight? Yes.
By the way, you know, you talked about our invocation.
The reason we have invocation is we invite God into our meeting to guide us.
And, which we absolutely need as guidance as we conduct the meetings. Yes sir, you can come up.
That's that is the reason for our invocation.
I could even even advise us to caucus and ladies and gentlemen aboard.
My name is Robert Meachek, 4802, Rimmer Avenue, Shelby Township, since January 1986.
I have enjoyed living here at the Green Community.
I also am concerned. I have with a couple of neighbors tonight.
Concern about the location of the proposed sheets.
I had some questions. I was not aware of the planning commission meeting.
That's my bed. I did speak to Mr. Fiori.
It was a very helpful answer to questions with regard to that issue and the proposal for that to be built there.
I wondered why it was three, three.
This is what was tied, which sent to you folks.
And I wondered why.
I heard, I understand some of the pros and cons.
And I understand with regard to the master plan that is not an area for that type of business.
It's a circle.
I understand what's given a waiver to that.
I'm being allowing them to locate across the street.
But two gas stations that I cornered.
I think it's just prohibitive.
The traffic just yesterday.
My wife and I went 22 mile to five o'clock.
I'm going up to Oxford to share grandkids.
And a traffic was backed up.
I mean, bumper to bumper from Van Lake all the way.
Shelby Road.
And this is never the occurrence.
As a former police officer,
I can see where that's going to lead to accidents.
Not only in a 22 increase, but also in Van Lake.
Also with regard to the issue, the lady before we mentioned with regard to crime,
having worked.
I work in the city of Oak Park for 26 years.
And we're located on eight mile.
And occasionally, businesses in that nature,
I'm not saying sheets, but can't attract crime.
And I'd say we're individuals because they have no place else to hang out at four o'clock in the morning.
Let's go to 711.
So I wanted to cheat, consider other locations within the township.
Shelby Township's a very large area.
Did they?
Are you aware?
Did they identify the locations they might consider in the township?
I believe I heard that they might be looking at the hall road and the card,
which I know is as a cone township.
We only know the one tonight.
Okay.
We're looking at it.
That's all we know.
Okay.
Do you know if they look at other locations in Shelby?
Because I really, I really feel that.
That's a terrible location with regard to traffic and potential for issues.
Also, I think with regard to residents being nearby,
and also facilities activities at church.
Additional lighting of this 24 hour operation.
Thank you.
They provide a lot of light at those businesses.
And that might provide a service of too much light, light light pollution,
possibly for nearby residents, anybody in that area.
And also, it's concerned about the impact of the businesses.
Again, the circle case across the street.
We've got a couple of gas stages.
Twenty-three in Van Dyke.
Farther South is a number of gas stations as well as party starts.
And I think this might impact them.
I don't know what sheets is.
Business model is, but I understand they want it.
Possibly 50 to 60 stations within the state of Michigan.
Yeah.
There's a representative from Sheets.
I look to ask them some questions.
Anybody here?
From Sheets?
You are?
I got some questions for you.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
All right.
Thank you very much for your time.
I appreciate it.
Well, you thank you for coming.
Okay.
Is there anyone else?
Yes, sir.
How's everyone doing tonight?
My name is Dietrich.
I'm from the Clark gas station.
You're a resident.
I'm not a resident.
No.
My family's been in the community for maybe like four decades or so.
At the Clark gas station right down the street.
Okay.
46699 Van Dyke Avenue.
Shelby Township, Michigan.
So my family's been here for like a-
I said about four decades in the community. Just pressing on some concerns that Ben mentioned. I'm just going to press on them one more time.
This isn't just a gas station. I'm opposing this. I'm rezoning on this property. Sheets is trying to obtain.
It's a traffic nightmare. Environmental hazard, a crime magnet, and direct threat to our local businesses and property values sheets.
It doesn't care about our community. They care about their profits. More accidents, more pollution, more crime, less local businesses, lower home values, who wins not us.
We must stay together and stop this before it's too late. Shelby Township is not for sale. Not here, not now, not ever. Thank you, everyone.
Okay. Thank you very much. Anybody else?
Yes, ma'am. Sorry. I got to turn this way. I do apologize. Is there anybody behind here? No? Okay.
Good evening.
Faye Nummer with the MENA American Chamber of Commerce. We represent businesses who reside or located along the 22 mile Van Dyke corridor and throughout the city as well throughout the township.
I'm sorry. Which organization again, which chamber?
MENA American Chamber of Commerce, MENA stands for Middle East, North Africa.
Of course. So to answer the gentleman who preceded me, he mentioned he wasn't sure why the planning commission, whose decision you take into consideration as you come to a decision this evening.
He was wondering why that did not approve this proposal.
A motion was introduced by Commissioner Turner, supported by Cassali and the specific reasoning is the applicant has not demonstrated that the property can be developed.
Cannot be developed as it is currently zoned. So current zoning should be a should suffice for the proposal.
The proposed change in land use is not consistent with the Shelby Township master plan.
That's one of the key criteria that typically aboard of your stature would consider and approving such a proposal.
If it fits within the character of the community, the needs of the community, if there is a demonstrated need within the community.
The proposed use is not designated located planned and to be operated with a public health safety and welfare will be protected of the surrounding area.
I'll get to that bullet point in a second. The change in zoning is not out of scale with the needs of the community is out of scale with the needs of the community and the zoning ordinance.
And the proposed use of the site is for fueling station along with the drive through.
It is not consistent with the development pattern in this area of the township and will have an adverse effect.
And the last bullet point that's cited by the planning commissioner is the special land use request is not affirmatively meet the standards in section 6.5 based upon these findings.
So one of the concerns that I have with this proposal outside of the planning commission not giving a concurrence or an approval to this body.
There's a lot of political influence that's leaning very heavily into the decision making tonight.
Often times you come to these board meetings and you wonder if the decision has already been made before you arrive.
And I hope that's not the case tonight. I realize the developers an influential member of this community that they may be utilizing their political influence.
This has retained three political lobbying firms three political lobbying firms in order to advance their mission throughout the municipalities.
They're looking to implement 60 to 80 gas stations throughout the tri-county area, which is already over saturated compared to national levels.
Attorney Peca has disclosed that he represents skill can go the petitioner on this proposal, which is a huge conflict of interest in my opinion.
If he's provided any type of legal opinion to this body.
And if you're utilizing that legal opinion to come to a decision this evening.
But respect to crime increase Gary Zimmerman, who is the vice president of sheets, appear before a congressional committee.
For a hearing the same time last year in Congress in DC to address the increasing crime rate at sheets gas stations.
And he acknowledged before Congress that the type and number of crime incidents of crime that sheets experience as a 24-7 operation selling alcohol is vastly different than other retailers in the similar space.
All right.
Thank you very much for coming in. We really do appreciate it.
You're going to be in trouble if you keep on going on.
I answered your question earlier, so I don't know if that took away from my time.
No, he gave you a few more seconds.
Go ahead.
Why don't you?
With some unanimous, unanimously rejected the proposal last evening.
So I hope you take into consideration neighboring municipalities and how they're responding to the entry.
The aggressive entry.
Thank you for wrapping that up. I do appreciate it.
Thank you.
Okay. Hey, I do want to say one thing about you. You said something about a lobby for no lobbyists contacted me about any of this, but I just want to reassure the public that if they're our lobbyists out there, they haven't contacted any of us.
So to my knowledge.
Yeah.
Okay.
Is there anybody else?
Yes, ma'am.
Patiently waiting.
Thank you.
Is there anyone else after her?
Okay.
So then you will be the last one.
Okay. What's the planning on talking?
So I only have like three points.
My name's Elise.
I live on.
I'll be.
Yep.
So the traffic there is terrible.
Anyways, people going and they speed down.
Oriole to come up.
Roshalbach or over to powers to fly back to Van Dyke.
Kids cannot walk after school.
We don't have sidewalks.
The cars are flying already because they don't want to stop at 22 in Van Dyke.
I think it's just going to make it a lot worse.
We got little ones in the neighborhood.
They can't be out there.
The cars are going too fast.
A half contacted the police department.
They have come out.
They can't sit on our streets all day either though.
They have more important things to do.
The accidents at 22 in Van Dyke are just going to get worse.
There's been multiple accidents that I've seen or they've almost happened.
Right at circle.
People turning in there.
If we have one across the street, it's just going to get worse.
I don't know how she lives next to us with a stress because it's really bad there.
Like I said, I'm back in the neighborhood.
In the cars are flying.
So that's all I have to say.
Thank you very much.
No one else.
Okay.
Oh yeah.
Come on.
Sure.
Never too late.
You did cut that kind of close.
How much is on 541 with my showdowns?
Just one or a second or third or whatever they say.
And that is that one question.
There's a gas station, a 24-room show.
We've got a liquor store.
And it's like, a 500 feet of the Great School right there.
You're from England with that one.
I don't know how to get away with that.
Is that too close or?
We'll discuss that.
Thank you.
Okay.
Anybody else?
Okay.
We're bringing up to the board.
And our plan is here.
Mrs. Julie, Missy.
Julie Missage?
Oh, I'm sorry.
We're going to have to know how to put the sign up.
That's right.
The appeal for free information.
Okay.
I just want to reassure you.
I did write down your questions.
When we're done with this next item, we will address these.
Okay.
Thank you.
Okay.
So, Board, this first item, thank you, Mr. Houth, is an appeal that has a
risen as a result of a response by a free information act director.
This is Lisa Souda.
Mr. Houth and Mrs. Souda.
I would ask you to, Mr. Houth, if you want to lead this discussion, tell us what
this is all about.
Yes, again, Mr. Supervisor.
The Township Police Department and Response Freedom of Information Act Coordinator have
absolutely, in my opinion, been harassed by Mr. Daniel Alten.
Mr. Alten has so far this year, a propounded 33 free
Freedom of Information Act requested a township.
His outstanding fees are over $2,000 that are unpaid.
The contacts with the Police Department are daily and trying to get
individuals to respond to him.
There's been issues aside from that regarding prosecutions and
such.
I'm going to ask you to consider two items for your agenda tonight.
First, Mr. Alten is now filed in appeal, because he doesn't want to pay
a deposit on his last Freedom of Information Act requested.
Thank you.
There have been 33 this year.
And this last one on loan, the concept will have to spend over $1,800
chasing down his information and we have to put it into it.
So we're asking him to pay a deposit as opposed to having people run around
and him that pay a deposit.
So Mr. Alten, if you're here, this is your opportunity,
pursuant to the statute you raised to address the Board and to respond to
the things that I've said.
Can I ask you a question?
If somebody orders a Freedom of Information Act, why don't they have to pay?
Well, typically these things come from our residents and they ask once in a
career.
Yes.
We try to respond together what they need.
Maybe they're doing a history check on some property they're looking at or
things like that.
So the township has had a policy of trying to cooperate.
What's happened is somebody that's taken advantage of it and says they
will pay and then don't.
And then threaten appeals and different other things and
continue to call.
So this person is escalated to this level.
Our problem is it's going to get to the second request.
If the Board votes to deny this appeal, I think that we should take action to see
a circuit court and junction to prohibit him from continuing to contact and harass
members of our police department and members of our building staff.
That'll be the second request.
Okay.
Another question is.
So if he's not paying this, are you saying the taxpayers are on a hook for the
$2,000 outstanding bill and possibly another $1,800 bill?
Well, the nice thing is with this one.
Yes, I don't know for the previous ones, but with this one, we chose not to get started
chasing down documents until he put a deposit in.
And when we ask for deposit, if I'll then appeal.
Okay.
So right now, we certainly don't have this in budget.
So this would be an extra curricular.
So I answer questions from the Board members that I'm asking for
motion to deny the Freedom of Information Act appeal as presented by Mr. Daniel
Alton.
Members.
Move you'd concur with the recommendation of human resources director.
Lisa suit up and uphold the fees related to the FOIA request 20 January and 41 by Daniel
Alden and deny the appeal.
Motion to be.
The appeal in seconded by Mr. Latvia, the sequel.
And is there any other questions?
Are there any other questions or comments before we take a roll call vote?
Okay.
You know, I guess I was not aware that we have an outstanding $2,000 bill and a potential $1,800.
This is all adding up.
And it is not in our budget.
So nor should it be.
Okay.
Roll call vote, please.
Yes.
Lucia de Sico.
Yes.
Stanley Grord.
Yes.
Rick Staphickus.
Jim Carabelli.
And Lisa Cassali.
Yes.
Vince Viviano is absent in excuse.
Okay.
Social unanimous.
It passes.
So go ahead with your second question.
I can't remember.
Thank you all enough to serve here 25 years.
Never have asked for this in the past.
I've always worked these things out.
Just not getting that to that place with this individual.
I'm asking for board authorization to seek a circuit court and assumption prohibiting
Mr. Alton from continuing to communicate for a request with the township.
Motion, please.
Mr. Supervisor.
I will make the motion to concur with the recommendation to seek a circuit court in
Junction to prevent Daniel Alton from continuing to harass the department.
Motion made by Mr. Sico.
Seconded by Mr. Carabelli.
Any further discussion?
Or questions?
Roll call, vote, please.
Mr. Sico.
Yes.
Jim Carabelli.
Lisa Cassali.
Yes.
Stanley Grord. Yes. Rick Staphickus.
Yes.
John Remeland.
Yes.
Vince Viviano.
Excuse.
Thank you very much, Board.
Thank you, Mr. Root.
Okay. Next we will go to the first item.
And this would be the, let's see here.
This would be our plane director.
We'll provide some background information.
It would be the sheets.
So, why don't we ask the presenters to come up from sheets.
And if you have a presentation, now would be the time.
And then I'll get to your questions everybody.
Or he'll actually, I'll just give you the questions when you're done with your presentation.
Question for the audience.
Thank you very much.
Good evening members of the Shelby Township Board of Trustees.
Thank you for having me here tonight.
My name is David Brucklemeyer with sheets.
My address is 3,900 West 12-mile road.
Farmington Hills, Michigan.
We're excited to present this tonight.
I would like to take a moment.
We haven't been in front of you before.
I'd like to take a moment and just go through a little bit about who sheets
as before we get into some of the site specifics and some of the questions
that have been asked here tonight.
A little bit about sheets.
So sheets started in 1952.
Bob sheets went to his dad with his life savings and bought his corner dairy
Deli store.
You can see it there in the picture.
So we really have humble beginnings in the grocery,
Deli carry out business.
So truly this started as a humble family owned business.
Once one shop, it's incredible.
It's grown into today, which is 780 plus locations.
Still family owned and family operated to this day.
There are 16 members of the sheet.
All these families that are involved in making decisions, you know, from top-top down operations real estate, all those things in fact, I report to a sheet's family member.
So they truly are still family owned, family operated and they're really caring about the business on a day-to-day basis.
We'd like to go into a little bit about the sheets experience and what it really looks like more than just seeing lines on paper, right?
So what you're looking at here on the left is the interior seating that we have.
We have 30 interior seats for our 24-7 restaurant that's full service.
So we have full made-to-order food offerings, food to go, things like cut-up vegetables,
cut-up fruits, nice, healthy things, salads, and you can also get a burger and fries
if you'd like something like that.
It's an incredible 1.8 million item menu.
So you can have 1.8 million combinations.
It's pretty incredible.
On the right, you can see our touch screen order points.
It's something we pioneered within the industry.
It's something very unique.
And it's something that's very convenient for our customers coming into the restaurant.
A little bit about our building.
And what do we look like?
You know, we're a premium 1-stop shop.
And we show that with our architecture.
We have best in-class-looking buildings.
We have full section brick and stone, metal awnings,
and just a great-looking, well put together building with good lighting,
and a nice decorative look to it.
We include outdoor dining for people that want to come out
and enjoy a meal outside.
So 16 outdoor dining seats are proposed for this location.
And again, just highlighting the high-quality materials.
brick pavers around all of our buildings.
Zero-variure entry around all of it.
It's a great premium look and a great offer for an architectural package.
This particular site would represent an $8.5 million local investment
with 30 to 35 full-time positions that would be provided by this location.
Lots of local consultants, contractors, increased tax assessments.
All of those things add up as well as all of our charitable givings.
A couple of examples of that.
Sheets for the kids is an organization that was started by Sheets employees.
And we donate to 16 local kids from every store.
It's 1,500 kids a year that get a great Christmas donated to them.
It's an incredible organization.
And 1,500 is a pretty awesome number to be able to talk about.
In addition to that, we donate two local food banks and special Olympics on every level.
You know, local, national, and the state level.
In addition to that, every year, our locations have a budget to donate locally at their discretion.
So things like tea ball teams and things of that nature.
We always give back to the community in that way.
A couple of things about taking care of our family, our employees.
Sheets offers an incredible number of benefits.
Health, vision, dental, 401k, paid time off, parental leave.
The list continues to go on and on.
It's an incredible array of benefits that are very, very affordable for our employees.
And again, those are offered to all of our full-time employees.
How do we prove that we take care of our employees?
How can we provide some evidence of that?
I'd like to talk about a little bit of the awards we've won that are honestly granted to us by our employees.
They're the ones that get the vote on these kind of, these awards and accolades.
And what I'd like to point out is that we rank number two in the nation's retailers.
Best companies to work for.
That's something that we're really proud of.
It's something that just shows that our employees love where they work and they feel that they're treated very well.
With that, I'd like to get into the specifics of the site tonight.
Again, we're requesting a conditional rezoning in special land.
You see approval for this site.
It features a 61-32 square foot restaurant convenience store with associated fuel at 22 and Bandaiq.
This is 1.61 developed acres.
Again, 61-32 foot square foot restaurant in convenience store with five fuel pumps, ten total locations
to fuel.
As you can see here on the site plane, we've got our five fueling pump islands located to the north of the site with the convenience store restaurant located to the south
and access points on the north and east locations.
This is the elevation you'll be looking at if you look at the top elevation that would be facing north towards 22 mile.
And then if you look at the bottom elevation that would be facing east towards Bandaiq.
A little bit more of what it would look like from the real view.
What would this look like in real life?
This takes into account our landscaping plan in our architectural package.
This is looking southwest at the location of the bird's eye view.
We take a lot of pride in all of our landscaping, all of it's irrigated.
You can see it's very healthy, good-looking landscaping package in our architectural package.
And again with that, I'd like to answer any questions you have.
I know that I have a few questions I'm going to give it to you through here tonight.
I'd like to just start out with the one that was probably mentioned that most frequently tonight is traffic.
That is something that we have taken some time to address and evaluate.
We have done a full traffic study.
It has been reviewed by the McCone County Department of Roads as well as Shelby Township staff.
It does a couple of things about this.
The intersection currently operates at a level of service E.
So there is already a lot of existing traffic out there.
We do understand that.
One of the things that is contemplated in this study though is that we take 76% of pass by traffic.
And what that means is, you know, sewing is coming along the road.
There are already on the road and they take a right into our site and a right out.
That's really common.
That's something that's reflected in traffic studies.
Not just here in South East Michigan, but around the country as well.
It's just human nature.
You know, if you've got a convenience store on the right side of the road,
it makes a lot more sense to go right than it makes to go left.
And that's something about the industry.
And it's just something that's taken into account their traffic studies.
There was also some concerns about locations of access drives and things like that for other residents and neighbors.
That is taken into the traffic study.
You know, another thing I'd like to point out is that we've taken a look at our plans.
And we are going to very clearly delineate, you know, the location of our driveway.
I know that was a concern at planning commission.
You know, we're going to have new curbing and a new wider drive aisle that looks commercial.
It's going to have our signage out on the corner.
It's going to look like it belongs on a commercial corridor and not so much for a resident at all.
So we have taken that into account tonight.
One of the other things I'm hearing is is a concern about crime that's very understandable.
We do a lot of background research.
We do a lot of safety studies before we even look at a site and go into contract.
So we go and take a look at it and we think, you know, would we let our kids or our mom come to this location and work or come in and stop and be a customer at night.
Would we feel good about that?
We feel very confident at this location that the answer is yes.
So we do that kind of gut check early on and we take a look at a safety study.
In addition to that, you know, we provide a state-of-the-art security system.
That is monitored 24-7 by sheets and employees back in Central Pennsylvania.
That's something that's industry-leading.
It's really the cutting edge in the convenience store industry.
It's not offered anywhere else.
You know, we also work with local police departments.
We create local resources and local relationships.
That really works out well and we work hand in hand with law enforcement.
We will turn over any kind of video to any authority with power of arrests.
So we routinely work with police departments and local enforcement agencies.
Another thing we've heard in ideas, you know, some concerned about our competition.
Something I'd like to point out, there's competition everywhere in this type of industry around the entire country.
There's not uncommon to go to any corner on a commercial area in a city.
And see two or three convenience stores on a corner.
It's really not uncommon in their all thriving and they're all creating a good sense of competition.
We're excited to offer that here in Shelby Township.
With that, I'd be happy to answer any other major questions you might have tonight.
Yeah, if I could.
There's a question from the floor about 24-7 lighting.
Correct.
I think one lady who lives near there was a concern that it might be too much of a glare.
Absolutely, so we do meet all of the lighting requirements for the Shelby Township code.
What that really means is first off we've got buffering between our site and our neighbors.
We do understand that there is a residence over there.
So if you can see on this picture here, we have provided substantial buffering on the west side of our site to account for that.
That's the first line of defense rate.
The other things that we do is we have only down lighting.
So that means there's no flood light any kind pointing out over to our neighbors properties.
That really helps protect them.
In addition to that, when we're up against residences, we do put shielding on the lights to make sure that you can't look up and see glare.
So we do take several things into account, including landscaping, down lights, and light shielding in order to accommodate for that.
The other question, or a couple people, we're a little concerned about the liquor within 500 feet of the church.
And I guess I would say that if you were 499 feet, the liquor control commissioner would shut you down.
I think they do regulate that.
Do they not?
They do regulate that.
We will not be able to sell beer wine or liquor here if it's against state regulations.
Okay.
You will not have any liquor.
If it's against state regulations, we will not be able to sell liquor or any kind of alcohol.
But if you have it, it would obviously fit the rule of 500 feet or more.
I don't think we can fit that rule here.
So I don't think we can be able to have that against against state law.
Another question was, well, this would be for a plan or about the master plan, and I'll ask her that.
Board members, any other questions?
I think you covered it all.
I don't know.
I don't know if it's a plan or something.
I don't know.
You can ask him or do you, whoever.
She's coming up right now.
This message.
Can you come up?
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Julie misses your planning director.
Mr. Chair, Belly.
Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'm looking at 22 mile road.
By looking at the trends, is it showing that you can only head east out of the gas station on 20.
You can't go towards the residential towards the church.
Is it?
That is correct.
I believe that is why the driveway was widened.
It is just a right hand turn out.
I'm 22.
Is that correct?
Is that the way?
Yes.
I'm 22.
There's a question from the floor about the master plan.
Does this fit the master plan?
It sure does Mr. Supervisor.
It is a commercial area of the township.
If you circle K back in 2016 and 17, we rezone that property as well from C1 and R2, which is
small to do plaques to C2 with especially in use.
They were also granted circle K was in the similar situation and was granted the C2 zoning ordinance.
So it is consistent with our master plan.
I think there's next question I can answer about the planning commission.
The reason I couldn't approve it or not approve it is because we're only six members present.
And there are nine members on board.
That doesn't happen very often, but three were out of town or something.
So it ended up being a three three time.
That's correct.
Okay.
I think that's it.
I miss anything.
I think I answered all the questions from the floor.
Miss message.
Would you like to add anything?
Sure.
I can't.
I'm sorry.
I can't know that we are equals the discussion.
But at the end of the meeting, you can come up and ask if you want to do that.
But once we shut down the discussion, we can't go back to the floor.
I just wanted to know if there was a question I missed.
That's why I wanted to know.
Miss message.
You want to add anything?
The only other items that I wanted to mention is that the applicant has met all the special
and you standards.
As you know, the corner this property was a blighted property for a significant amount of time.
As was the northeast corner where circle K was.
So I mean, this is a portion of the township that is, you know, redevelopment.
A lot of those buildings up and down Van Dyke in that particular area.
You know, some are tired and, you know, this was a site that we had pushed forward and move forward
to, if you recall, this was an office building and there was a daycare center in that building.
And it was pretty well-due-lavitated and considered blight by the township.
So we moved forward and had with our code enforcement department and encouraged the owner to
demolish the building and we ended up with a vacant lot.
I just wanted to note that as well, the site plan meets all zoning ordinance requirements.
No variances are required.
And with that, just wanted also to note this is no different than any other fueling station in the township.
Over the years, the fueling stations were consisted of mechanical shops in different items that has kind of changed.
Fueling stations came in with convenience stores and now they're adding restaurants to them.
So this is no different than any fueling station that we've approved in the township before such as 23 mile in Van Dyke.
The pit stop that's on the southwest corner.
Same type of concept, same as any other gas station in fueling station.
We've approved in the township before.
I mean, no, I do have a question.
Sir, if you could come back up, come sheets.
There.
How much percentage wise, and if you can't give this information, that's okay.
But I'm just curious.
In terms of gross money, how much does fuel account for mean or gross sales?
If you can't give it to me, that's okay.
And I'm just asking for a percent.
I'm just curious.
I probably could not speak that tonight with any kind of accuracy.
I'm looking at food consumer package goods and what have you.
It seems like a wide variety of as with all the gas stations now.
They have dunking donuts and all kinds of things that we never had before.
Yeah.
What I would like to say is that we are very heavily restaurant focused.
Like I said earlier, sheets started as a restaurant, dairy, carryout, a convenience store that had all of those amenities.
And that's something that we continue to hold.
Today, we really watch our insights sales. It's very important to us. In fact, we look at our fuel stations and we're looking at the future and eventually EV is going to be a much larger offer.
So we're looking at our gas margins and assuming that they're not there, we're working on operating our businesses if it's not.
That's how good our restaurant is. People come in and enjoy meal. So we are very heavily focused on that inside sales, so we continue to do that today.
Okay, thank you. Any questions from the board? Shall we?
As you know, I sit on that planning commission and I was one of the members that denied your petition.
And I think as we, as we sit here tonight, we have to remember as board members, we have very few vacant parcels left in our township.
We have to take deep consideration when we are asked to resume in a case like this and what the fit is for the community.
So just I will not be in favor of this this evening for the rezoning.
Okay.
Anyone else?
Mr. Supervisor, I'll just comment. I live at 22 in Shainers, so I drive on 22 mile multiple times a day.
And I will say that, you know, listening to everything with the traffic and the congestion, I do think that there is something to be said about being able to turn in right to a gas station that's convenient and the way you're traveling.
I think that that is something that could alleviate a lot of traffic and congestion that we're seeing is somebody that lives are like, I can't get gas.
And I live there because it's too hard to come out and make a left hand turn. So just with the way it is now.
I'm of the mind, maybe a little bit more optimistic, but it might be an asset and actually relieve some of that congestion.
Okay, thank you.
By the way, no applause please for either viewpoint because we just don't do that and I'll get phone calls if you do that. Thank you.
Please call the police department and I ask people at the police department how how dangerous is this intersection.
And I always told it's no more dangerous than any other intersection.
Okay.
Other questions, discussion?
You know, I just want to say, as you look at the top 10 priorities of Shelby Township on the wall.
Anyway, we do this every year. Since 2010, 2009 actually, what we do is on a website, we put out, actually miss missage coordinates this.
People tell us how they want their money spent. They tell us how they want our budget to be prioritized.
And this actually is our roadmap as to how we spend our money. We take this really seriously.
And we get about a thousand people every year that responded, which we had more.
But I don't know if anywhere in Michigan where you can actually tell your board how you want your money spent, and it's actually on the wall 12 months out of the year.
And as you can see, number one is blight, blight enforcement.
And this is about the third year, I think, that blight has been number one or two under top 10 priorities.
Now, why do I bring that on that corner on 22 mile in Van Dyke?
I've been a resident here in Shelby Township for more than 25 years, and it's been blight.
And I know that some business people have tried some things that didn't work, and it's just not a good looking corner.
And it's not because people have not put forth effort. There have been some business people trying to make a go of that.
But now we're, you know, somebody who actually wants to come in and spend $8.5 million on that corner, which right now is blight.
It would be really hard for me to say no to that.
So whether I like gas stations or not, I'm going to vote for this because we got $8.5 million to fix that corner.
And I think it's really, really important for Shelby Township.
And quite frankly, I do like what I see, but I'm not here to tell you I'm a fan or not a fan of this gas station or that gas station.
I'm just looking out for the people at Shelby Township, and I think this to see go brings up a good point too about turning right in and turning it right out.
And hopefully that will help traffic.
So that's why I'm referring yes.
Okay, is anybody else before we do a real call vote?
Oh, yeah, motion, please.
Mr. Chairman.
Yes, Mr. Remelin.
Move to prove the introduced conditional rezoning and site plan, especially on use site plan 2432.
Direct ribbons, skilled in gold.
48945 Van Dyke Avenue.
In seven, eight, two, eight, 22 mile.
Road, parcel numbers, 23, dash, seven, dash, 28, dash, 226, dash, four, five.
And 23, dash, zero, seven, dash, 28, 226, dash, zero, one, five.
Located at the southwest corner of 22 mile and Van Dyke Avenue.
Proposed rezoning, zero, one office.
Professional office in C1 local business retail.
Two C2 linear retail business for sheets, gas station, and convenience store based upon the following.
Change would not adversely impact any of budding development.
The change in zoning is not out of skill with the needs of the community.
Antiquid access has been provided by way of the entrance off 20.
Van Dyke and 22 mile road.
The submission of eight copies of revised state plan is required incorporating applicable view
comments from the Planning Commission, Township departments and engineers.
Special land use request to firmly meets the standards in section 6.5.
Motion made by Mr. Remelin, seconded by Mr. Sequel.
If I think this is Cassali, I heard you, were you seeing something?
Did I cut you off?
No, I did not.
Okay.
So, roll call, vote please.
Chairman.
Oh, that was her.
I know, I'm sorry.
Discussions.
No, I don't pick anybody.
I don't pick anybody.
I didn't really get that question.
I can't.
This, Mitch Pequett was a, associated at our firm that has done work in the, for
Silken and he disclosed that to the Planning Commission.
any commission. I have not done any work for that entity. We have not advised this entity
anything to do with Shelby Township. We represent Shelby Township only and just pursuant
to the rules of professional conduct. He disclosed that at the Planning Commission meeting.
Well, they do want to see one thing. If anybody out there is listening, don't call please,
it was my mistake. I did make a question too. I asked everybody if there was something I missed.
So you did, I did miss that question. I do apologize. But it's very highly out of order to take
questions after we've gone as far. But I hope we've answered your question. Thank you very much.
Okay. Let's do a real call, vote please. John Brimillan. Yes.
Lucia de Sico. Yes. Jim Carabelle. Hi. Lisa Casali. No.
Stand a grud. Yes. And Rick Stathicus. Yes. And we got Ben's Viviano Episodes. Okay. Okay. Well, thank
you very much everybody. And don't go away. We still have 16 more items. Okay. Thank you very much.
Okay. Our second item. Miss message if you want to just maybe hold off for a couple minutes.
Oh, I thought we had a big audience here. They're all leaving us.
It just so, you know, we do have a meeting on a first and third Tuesday every month in minus a couple
holidays and what have you. So you're invited. You're invited back. Thank you.
Okay. Miss message. Thank you. Supervisor. The next item for your consideration is St. John's Viani Catholic Church
that is located on Shainer Road. The Church is proposing a new multi-purpose building in
adoration chapel along with addition of parking spaces, a driveway on the north side of the
facility. The Church facility, a playground and landscaping as well. The planning commission
heard this at their October 4th meeting where it was postponed because of some residents' comments.
The applicant took those comments back, revised the plan and appeared before the planning commission
on February 10th of this year where it was approved by the Planning Commission.
They meet the Church facilities and the degree of modification will require special
land use in the residential district. They have met all the special land use zoning districts standards
and they meet all the site plan comments as well.
Many discussion questions. I'll take a motion. Make a motion. Sure. Go ahead.
First you concur with the recommendation of planning commission in a proof site,
land special land use, number 24-26, James Grove, San John Viani Catholic Church,
54045, Shainer Road, parcel number 23-07-11-200-006. Located south of 25 mile road,
on a west side of Shainer Road, multi-purpose building and other nation chapel,
the applicant has met the standards in zoning ordinance, including section 6.5,
special land use standard and section 4.4, churches and private schools,
revised site plan must be submitted to comply with all the planning commission
engineering department comments, including the relocation of the dumpster from its current location
to the southern property line of bunning the trees. Motion made by Mr. Groat,
seconded by Mr. Carebelly, any discussion? Mr. Chairman. Yeah.
I want to thank San John Viani. That's our voting location there.
Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thanks for coming in. Once in a while we do our
invocation, we appreciate that too. I know how busy everybody is and you always make time for that.
Thank you very much. By the way, before we vote, I want to give you equal time so if you have W polls,
you also have a fish fry on friday, starting this coming friday. Okay.
Yeah, how much? And when does it start? 14 or 15 depending on how much you, it's worth?
Now you're going to give us a trouble.
Because either way we're going to give you a trouble. So what kind of fish is that? I'm just kidding.
Yeah. Okay. Anyway. Well, I'm sorry I went there. Okay. A real call vote please.
Oh, Stanley grotes. Yes. Jim Caraballi. Hi. Lisa Cassali. Yes.
Michelle Disicle. Yes. Rick Stalfick. Yes. John Rebellion. Yes. And Vince Viviano Excuse.
Okay. Thank you very much. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Number three. Okay. Number three is
requests for a rezoning, a straight rezoning for a percol parcel that is 5.8 acres on the north side of
22 miles just west of Shayna Road. This parcel is right in front of the mobile home park.
And the applicant is requesting, and this is the introduction. This is the first step in the
process for this rezoning request. The applicant is requesting our five, which is multiple family,
five units per acre. With the 5.8 acres, this would be 25 plus units that they are requesting.
The Catholic Drain runs east and west on both of these parcels that are in question and it
contains the 60 foot wide easement along the west side of the parcel from north to south.
The north property is mobile home park development, which is Sun Shelby West mobile home park.
The south is single family residential subdivision. And the name of the subdivision is Franklin
Meadows. Also to the west is a mobile home. It is the same mobile home park that is also to the north.
And the ITC quarter is to the east to the east there. The planning commission heard this
at their January 27th meeting this year, which they recommended denial. And with that,
the current zoning of the property is single family residential. While single family residential
are one B may not be appropriate for this site. There could be some other, you know, we can meet in the
middle with the applicant, however. In 2005, this was also brought to this board in 2006,
where they came in as a PUD that proposed 27 single family small, a lot unit development.
For some reason, that plan was never, they never proceeded with that plan. And now there are before us
again requesting our five, which is multiple family. Okay. Motion please. Mr. Chairman.
Yes, Mr. Remelin. Oh, the concur with recommendation of the planning commission of the night
rezoning to number 24 dash 42 George Leeney, George Leeney, property rental LOC, one two five three three
and one two five nine five twenty two mile road. Process number 23 dash seven dash 23 300 dash nine
in 23 dash seven dash 23 300 dash 11 located on the north side of 22 mile road west of
Sainer Road proposed rezoning from our one B single family residential to our five multi family
rural rise east upon the consensus of the planning commission basis for the motion.
The zoning request is not consistent with the recommendations content in the township's master plan.
The rezoning application is out of skill with the recommended land use pattern in this area 22 in
Sainer.
The applicant is not demonstrated that the property cannot be developed as currently zone.
The proposed zoning classification would have an adverse impact on the single family homes in the area.
Okay. Motion made by Mr. Vermeal and seconded by Mr. Carebele and I'm sorry we do have a group that wants to make a presentation.
We do have a motion on a floor, but we will not vote until after you make your presentation.
And of course, motion maker can change his motion.
At any time.
Hopefully.
Good evening, Mr. Supervisor.
Tom Callis, appearing on behalf of the applicant, George Lini.
And this is our application to raise on the property from its current R1B, which requires 90 foot minimum with lots, total 14,000 square foot lots.
This is a unique piece of property.
It butts a 60 foot wide, ITC corridor with overhead wires.
We have manufactured housing to the north, manufactured housing to the west.
We have furnished on a major road.
There is no way this property can be used for 90 foot lots.
It's Shelby Township has so many other areas, so many nice developments.
We're 90 foot lots are allowed or zoned that are not abutting mobile home parks.
They're not abutting an ITC corridor with overhead wires.
We have all the negativity with overhead wires, especially when you're raising a family, young kids, and frontage on a major road.
This property is a master plan for MHP.
Those are 40 foot lots.
Back in 2006, when my client came in front of the board, it was a 40 foot lot development.
We don't want to do 40 foot lots.
We want to do a nice condominium development here.
Now, I submitted a sketch, because when we were in front of the planning commission, they had some concerns relative to what type of products coming in, density and all that.
The R5 allows us, as your plan are indicated, 25 point, something lots.
We're at 24 lots on our sketch plan.
And that could change to site plan and engineering, because we have, obviously, we have to meet the criteria of the R5 zoning district.
We have detention basin, that could increase or decrease.
We have a 50 foot drain that goes east to west across our property.
Totally dissects it.
This is a very difficult piece of property to develop and use.
Let alone for 90 foot lots.
There is no way, absolutely, no way that this property can be used for 90 foot lots.
It's just, I'm not going to go buy a 90 foot lot in this prop on this property.
Surrounded by all those mobile home park, ITC corridor.
When I can go, in other places of the township and buy a 90 foot lot, there are, you know, off major roads.
There are very deep in the subdivisions, much more appeal, much more attractive.
So we felt that this was a nice, the R5 was actually a nice development.
Compared to what it's master plan for, which is MHP.
We can come in from mobile home park.
We didn't want to do that.
We wanted to come in from a nice condominium development.
That, quite frankly, the township is in need of, there's a demand for it.
Not only in Shelby, but all over.
And we felt that this was a nice zoning.
We did that sketch plan to see how many units we could get.
And that's what dictated our R5 zoning request.
Because we're at 24 and the R5 would allow 25 units.
So, clearly, it's not economically feasible.
As currently zoned, can't be used.
That's going to be easy.
That's going to be easy to prove.
So, we would ask you to reconsider.
I know there's a motion made, planning commission, made the recommendation.
But we feel that this is an ideal site.
It's a five acre infill area.
These condos will fit nicely in that area.
And again, with everything around there.
And we would ask you to reconsider your motion.
Obviously, look at what the plan commission recommended.
But we feel this is a nice development.
I did attach conditions to the rezoning request.
So, you'll know what type of units coming in.
You know, garage is too kind of attached garage.
You're going to have, you know, these are nice units.
Two bad minimum, two bad room, two bath.
You know, so, and you can see I submitted a sketch plan this afternoon.
So, you can kind of see, you know, how this would lay out in the road pattern.
And again, it's a very difficult site.
And, you know, we're limited as to what we can do.
Because of the drain, because of the easement, you know, and the surrounding uses.
So, we would ask you to reconsider or, you know, consider what, you know, we presented.
And, you know, vote for approval.
So, and I'm here to answer any questions you may have.
Sir?
Yes.
Why can't this be developed under a PUD?
Is it was proposed before?
I don't think we didn't think the challenge.
Yeah, we almost was smaller lots.
We didn't think the challenge would want forty-four lots.
Jim.
We've, we've, we've, we've, that was back.
We've approved.
We've got small lots in the past.
Yeah.
Nineteen years.
There are areas along very busy roads.
There was 2006.
The markets changed, you know, economy's changed, material cost have changed.
We feel that a multi-family product would be more scalable, more marketable.
Easier to bring the market and more attainable, you know,
I realize there's more money in it for a developer.
It's, it's a thing where it's, it's, I'm very concerned about the single family homes in the area.
I mean, there's a lot of people that have a very nice investments in their homes there.
And, you know, I, I, I'm just very uncomfortable with, you know.
Well, but you look at, you have to look at what's around us.
Yep.
MHP.
Exactly.
A 60 foot ITC corridor.
No one's going to build a house.
I don't know.
Home of north.
It's right on a right on a ITC corridor myself.
People, there's so much negativity with overhead wires and radioactive effects.
And if you have a young family or young children, or you're building a,
let's, let's look at it, you know, financially, a 90 foot lot.
If you're going to build on a 90 foot lot, you're not going to build a 1,000 square foot house on it.
You're going to build a 3,000 typically a 3,000 square foot house on the 90 foot lot.
Okay.
The cost to put, bring that house to market.
Just straight, a builder cost $250 a square foot or a 7200.
That's 600 to 750,000 dollars for the house.
That doesn't include buying a lot.
Okay, which could be another 90,000, you know, hypothetically, you know, 100,000,
what they're going for in other areas of the township.
No one's going to buy a 90 foot lot in this, on this piece of property.
It's just not going to happen.
Okay.
There's too many, too many issues around it.
Especially when you've got other areas in the township.
You've got developments coming online.
You've got pressing corners.
You've got all these other developments with 90 foot lots, 80 foot lots.
That are more desirable.
They're, they're in better areas.
They're off major roads.
People are going to gravitate to those areas to purchase.
This is a little infilled development.
There's, there's a lot of detriment to it.
Because of, you know, words located, the corridor, ITC corridor,
it's finding, frontage on a major road.
It's ideal for a condo development.
I mean, it's, you couldn't find a better, you know, for an infilled development.
Five acres, small development.
And with the conditions that we're offering, you know, there's no point to do a PUD.
Because the PUDs, if you're typically for larger acreage.
If you're coming in from, you know, multi-family, small lots, big lots.
You've got a mixed use, you know, type product.
This here, you know what you're getting.
We're coming in under our five.
You're getting multi-family attached units.
Anywhere from duplex, we've got a duplex on there.
I think we have three, four plexus and two, five plexus to get us our 24 units.
So, and that could change.
You may have, you know, another four plex, maybe a three plex.
Maybe another duplex, depending on how it all lays out.
When we go on for site plan and engineering approvals.
Well, but this, there's a demand for this product in the township.
And every township quite frankly, all over the Tri-County area.
We're willing to bring it to market here.
My client's own property is a builder.
He's going to build the units.
And this is just an ideal site.
That's what people are looking for, what people need.
We don't need, you know, Shelby doesn't need it more than 90 foot lots.
I mean, that's just a given.
And we felt that this, we saw the fire history with the 44 lots.
You know, 44 lots.
You see them in a royal oak.
Berkley.
We haven't, you know, we didn't think Shelby quite frankly wanted 44 lots.
We feel this is a nicer product.
There's going to be less traffic generated because it's a multi-family product.
Typically, we cater to retirees, empty nesters, people with no kids.
You know, and so you're going to have less traffic coming in and out.
No.
Mr. Chair Belling.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you.
Well, some great points.
Thank you.
And I think our planer actually made some of your points to me yesterday when we were talking.
But unfortunately, I didn't see a plan.
And I don't think that the planning, if I can ask the planer a couple of questions.
Sure.
I can present one.
Excuse me.
Was this plan, is the plan that was presented to the planning commission?
No.
There was no site plan presented to the planning commission.
The email this afternoon at about a little bit after four o'clock.
Okay.
Mr. Chairman.
I did support the motion.
I'll be willing to remove my support of the motion.
And I think this should be referred back with this plan.
Because I see things myself, and I'm not an engineer.
A few changes that may have to be made.
I think this should go back to the planning commission.
If the motion makes this remilin?
I'm I'm I'm leaving it as as it is.
I think it should go back to the planning commission.
For the the reasoning that I don't think that the from what I'm seeing.
I don't think it's a going concern.
I think it has to be go back to a PUD or at single family homes on small lots.
Are you withdraw the motion or are you still making a motion?
Mr. For me.
I'm suggest the man your motion can concur with Mr. Carebelly.
Suggest and back to the planning commission.
Yes.
Okay. Got it.
Okay. His support remains.
Motion on floor to send it back to the.
Planning commission with the additional site plan.
And does not need a roll call vote.
Just so I can explain.
The reason we didn't submit a plan is because it was a straight rezoning.
And if the straight rezoning plans are not binding.
We can come in and come in here and say this is what we're going to do.
You give us a rezoning and we end up doing something totally different.
So.
We can understand the looking for.
I can hear the sentiment of the board.
I don't want to lock down with either.
The conditional rezoning or PUD.
If it comes back up here so that they know what to look at.
I offer conditions.
Okay.
I'm just telling you.
Bank commission.
Back here.
Okay.
We have a motion on floor and we'll just see your roll call.
Okay.
You can do roll call or voice.
Whatever.
What do you want to roll call?
No.
All those in favor.
Please signify by saying aye.
Aye.
Any opposed.
Motion passes.
Go back to planning.
Okay. Thank you.
I didn't see you raise your hand, but I'm glad you got up here.
I just thought it.
Yeah.
Applicant.
I thought automatically gets up.
Thank you presentation.
Thank you.
Thank you for allow me to speak.
Thank you.
Okay.
This message.
That's all I have.
Thank you, Board.
Are you done for the night?
That's it.
Okay. Thank you.
Next.
We have item number four.
The ACLS.
Resturification.
Fire Chief Franklin Pierce.
Who's still here.
There's asking the board tonight to approve his request for.
The certification is pertaining to the Advanced Cardiac Life Support.
ACLS certification is a mandatory requirement for all paramedics.
Traditionally, this training has been conducted through a six hour in person renewal class,
requiring fire fire paramedics to attend on their schedule days off.
This resulted in significant overtime costs.
Now, Chief Pierce is amending this process so that the classroom portion can be completed.
I'm allowing personnel to progress at their own pace while on duty.
So, thank you, Chief.
To appreciate that for the efficient use of training funds for your department.
Motion, please.
Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Ramilla.
Load to concur with the recommendation of Chief.
Fire Chief Frank Pierce.
And approve ACLS Recertification process.
And associated class.
Now to exceed $13,000 to the American Heart Association.
Funds are be taken from fire.
Fund line item 2, 06, 336, 7090.
Motion made by Mr. Ramilla.
Secondary by Mr. Seagull.
Any discussion?
All those in favor, please signify by saying aye.
Any opposed?
Motion passes.
Next, Chief Pierce is asked us to consider a motion to renew the contract with a national
host testing specialties entity to test the fire departments firehouses.
If approved tonight, the testing company will unload, inspect, pressure tests, and re-roll,
and reload the firehouses along with providing complete documentation for the township's records.
This is another example in which Chief Pierce believes that an outside firm
can help lower the township's overall cost considering a staffing time that would be needed
if this was done in house.
Interestingly, I want to note that in the background information,
I noticed that the township has 25,000 feet of firehouses.
Do I read that right?
25,000.
That's incredible.
Anyway, can you imagine almost five miles of firehouses right here in the township?
5,200 feet is a mile, so you're right.
It would be a little more than a half mile.
Okay.
It is.
Okay, we got that settled.
Now let's go ahead and vote.
All those in favor?
Motion, I'm so sorry.
Mr. Supervisor, I'll move to concur with the recommendation of fire chief Frank Pierce and approve the request.
To enter into one-year contract with National Host Testing Society of Inc.
Located on Wyoming, Michigan.
For a testing up to 25,000 feet of hose at a rate of 48 cents per foot estimated
bid of $12,000.
Funds.
Are to be taken from fire, fund, line item 206336 730304 support, motion made by Mr. Seiko, supported by Mr.
Reviewer. No, it's 2,500, 280 feet in a mile. I had to know that, get out of 7th grade. I know that's right.
Or 1760 yards. No, 25,000 is a half of a mile. Wait, 5,200, keep that number here. Half of that is by 26,000. And we're talking 25,000.
I'm telling you, my seventh grade teacher, he would not pass me if I didn't know this. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Carebelly.
We'll further discussion later. I don't owe you, you owe me the cameras on right now.
Okay, all those in favor, please signify by, oh wait, Mr. Seiko made a motion and Mr. Reviewer, seconded it. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye.
Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Next, preventative health screening program. This is another item to consider for chief peers.
The fire department is looking to implement a preventive program for a fire department personnel through the cardiac and cancer screenings and physicals.
This program will allow early detection of career ending diseases and prompt treatment so that highly trained personnel can continue to serve the township and his residents.
If approved tonight, this program will all test scans and blood work that can detect the top causes of death for firefighters.
Chief, this is a great idea and not only in terms of cutting costs here, but obviously helping to keep our fire personnel healthy and, you know, spotting issues before they become difficult to treat at a later date. So who would like to make the motion?
Mr. Chairman. Mr. Reviewer.
Who to concur with the recommendation of Frank.
Chief Frank Pierce and approved a three year proposal with bio care, mobile medical testing located in Hold Michigan to provide cardiac screenings, cancer screenings and NFPA 1582 physicals not to exceed 104,000.
Fifty dollars for twenty twenty five sixty four thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars for twenty twenty six and a hundred and four thousand fifty dollars for twenty twenty seven.
Funds are to be taken from fire fund line item two zero six dash three three six seven one nine dash six hundred and amend the budget accordingly.
The board. Motion made by Mr. Remuel and seconded by Mrs. C. Call. Any questions?
Discussion? All those in favor? Please signify by saying aye.
Aye.
Any opposed motion passes.
Radio council. That's and I see Captain Barnard is here tonight. Thank you very much.
Please Chief Robert Slide is asking the board tonight to approve the purchase of three radio council lists for Motorola.
These council lists will be used to replace three other departments six council lists now in operation.
The chief has learned that Motorola will no longer support these council lists.
Chief Slide has noted that these council lists are very important to keep the 911 service operating smoothly.
They're right. Okay. Any questions? Discussion?
All those of favor? Please signify by saying aye.
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm really rushing through this. I like to make a motion.
I'll make a motion.
Mr. Disco. Thank you.
Thank you.
The recommendation of police chief Robert Slide and approve the purchase of three radio consulates for Motorola ink at a cost not to exceed thirty one thousand seven fifty two dollars.
The funds are to be taken from the 911 emergency response fund line item two six one three zero six eight five seven zero zero zero and amend budget accordingly.
Support.
Motion made by Mr. Disco seconded by Mr. Remuelin.
Now, any discussion questions?
All those in favor? Please signify by saying aye.
Aye.
Any opposed? Motion passes.
This next item chief Slide sought quotes for a poll barn. He's recommending that the township board authorized wing construction to construct a new poll barn.
This poll barn is needed for additional spacing.
As required to keep the equipment radar trailers and other fleet components of the Shelby township police department out of the outside weather.
The current barn is now storing our large tactical van and incident command vehicle.
Any motion please.
Mr. Chairman.
Ms. Kassale.
I move to concur with a recommendation of police chief Robert Jay Shalide and approve the purchase of a poll barn from wing construction incorporated at a cost of one hundred and five thousand dollars into approve the additional engineering cost of sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars from AEW for a total cost of one hundred and twenty one thousand seven hundred dollars.
Funds are to be taken from capital improvement fund nine item four two seven three zero one nine eight five zero zero and amend the budget accordingly.
Support.
Motion made by Mrs. Kassale. Seconded by Mr. Remuelin. Any questions?
All those in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye.
Any opposed? Motion passes.
In car camera purchase chief slide is presented the board tonight with a proposal of purchase three fleet vehicle cameras from.
Exxon enterprise incorporated.
These cameras are necessary for our expanding fleet the chief notes that's imperative that every police vehicle have a camera and a total cost for this camera is I should say camera is approximately twenty eight thousand dollars.
Yes, Mr. Brow.
Off to concur with recommendation police chief.
Robert Jay Shalide and approve purchase of three vehicles cameras from exon enterprise ink at the cost of twenty eight thousand four hundred seven dollars and thirty six cents.
Funds are to be taken from police fund line item two zero seven dash three zero one dash nine eight zero dash zero zero zero and amend the budget accordingly.
Support that I'd like to say that the cameras are absolutely essential given what we have the police are accused of so many things that fall.
When we can have visible evidence that shows hey this person's line we had an incident like that at the overpass at twenty three mile.
In Van Dyke Highway where somebody claim that they were strip searched the person had actually taken off their clothes accused our officers of doing a strip search that was not authorized.
And it created all types of consternation in the media was a source of shame for our our our community.
And when the police pulled out the videos and showed that to the media everything changed and you know our cops anybody has been a policeman will tell you.
You get accused of a lot of things in none of its stroke and the thing is unless we have those cameras.
It helps us to defend against lawsuits it helps to to set the opinion of the public right.
Okay.
Well, now we'll go ahead and proceed with a vote vote a motion made by Mr. Groat seconded by Mr. Remuelin and any other discussion questions.
All those in favor please signify by saying aye.
Any opposed motion passes.
Thank you Captain Martin for coming.
Our tenth item is the.
Shelby township's summer fest 2025.
The next item I've asked the board to consider this.
It is with great pleasure that I note that we are making plans.
I say we it's not us it's actually a community relations for the Shelby township independent state celebration summer fest.
The schedule for June 20th and June 21st.
Now this is one of the township's most anticipated community events every year.
It will play a critical role in fostering community spirit promoting local businesses and providing a memorable experience for residents and visitors alike and we have a lot of them.
If approved tonight funds will be coming from the township budget as well as from the DDA and I'm happy to report that the event this year.
We'll once again include the McCombs Symphony Orchestra.
They did a really great job last year and it will be live and also we will have a family friendly drone display in many family activities as well.
So we're looking forward to summer fest 2025.
Looking for a motion and I know that Mrs. DeSequal has a lot to do with this.
She's on a DDA and is I just want to say thank you for coordinating much of this.
Because I know that we were kind of a tough spot two or three years ago about the fireworks that being able to do them.
And I think this drone idea that you and the DDA came up with is really great and clever.
So would you like to make the motion?
I'll make the motion.
To concur with the recommendation of the township supervisor and amend the motion from 717-24 for the 2025 Shelby township summer fest and adjust the approved cost from the cost now to exceed 200 thousand dollars to a cost now to exceed
$285,000.
Cost will be distributed as follows.
A drone show from firefly productions at a cost of $45,000.
Audio lighting and stage infrastructure rentals from amplify production services at a cost of $47,664.
Stage rentals from sound EFX productions at a cost of $24,750.
Stage ramp infrastructure and barricades from renegade staging at a cost of $12,200
and $266.
Generator light towers and lift provided by some about rentals at a cost of $10,558.
Contract stage hand labor from amplify production services at a cost of $12,100.
A performance from the comb sympathy orchestra at a cost of $16,000.
An additional cost of $116,661.
Funds are to be taken from funds are to be taken as follows.
205,000 from general fund line item 10178-95670.
An 80,000 from DDA.
Item 248-703-801100 and amend the budget accordingly.
Support motion made by Mrs. Disciples, supported by Mr. Remuelin.
Any further discussion?
All those in favor please signify by saying aye.
Aye.
Any opposed? Motion passes?
Thank you very much, Mrs. Disciples.
Video walk expansion.
We actually had a work session on this.
Here are community relations director, Mr. Brad Bates,
a seeking board authorization to purchase rigging motors.
They're necessary to hang the townships expanded video walk.
So the video walk is going to be twice the size as it was last year.
But now it's going to require these special rigging motors to lift it.
So he received three proposals and he's asking the board to forward this with a lowest cost
medal from amplify production services.
Motion please?
Mr. Supervisor, I'll make the motion to congratulate the recommendation of community
relations director, Brad Bates, and purchase rigging motors from township
of for township events at the cost of 38,360 dollars and 68 cents from amplify
production services and great lakes, multimedia supply ink.
Funds are retaken from capital improvement, fund item, line item 427, 757,
9850, and amend the budget accordingly.
Support. Motion made by Mrs. Disciples, supported by Mr. Remuelin.
Any discussion?
All those in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye.
Any opposed? Aye. Motion passes.
Next item is replacement production fiber and accessories.
Mr. Brad Bates has placed this proposal in front of us tonight.
That would permit the department to purchase replacement production fiber and accessories.
The production fiber is the main component of our events.
Carrying video, audio, lighting, network, and data signals between the equipment.
In the current fiber was purchased in 2016 and has now reached the end of life status.
It no longer supports the formats we require.
Mr. Bates saw quotes from four vendors and did receive two in response.
And by the way, because of this added item, this was not in this year's budget.
There's a camera. There's approximately the same cost.
What he's doing is taking that camera and postponing that purchase until next year.
And doing this, which has to be done this year.
So the impact on a budget will be zero.
Motion, please.
Mr. Chair.
Yes, Mr. Miss Puzzle.
I move to concur with the recommendation of community relations director Brad Bates and purchase production fiber and accessories at a cost.
Not to exceed $60,000.
Purchases shall be made through fiber for a TV at a cost of $26,666.
Great Lakes multimedia supply at a cost of $22,035.
And $10,999 in 10 cents for additional accessory purchases through established vendors.
Funds are to be taken from capital improvement, fund 9 item, 427, 757, 95, 00 and amend the budget accordingly.
Support.
Motion made by Mrs. Cassalli, seconded by Mrs. Decico.
Any discussion?
All those in favor, please signify by saying aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion passes.
Our next item is a request of purchase.
Mr. John Dears, no machine broom.
Park recreation and maintenance director Mr. Joe Youngblood has provided information.
Detailing his request, it purchased a John Dears, no machine and broom.
The current John Dears, no plows are 25 years old.
In a cost of parts and repairs is becoming excessively expensive.
Mr. Youngblood researched options and found that John Dears 1550 would meet the departments need perfectly.
If approved tonight, it will be primarily used for township hall and heritage gardens for snow removal,
as well as curb and parking lot sweeping.
Mr. Youngblood was able to achieve a quote directly from the manufacturer, which is.
Equivalent, or better than the state of Michigan, my deal contracts. Motion, please? Mr. Chairman.
Yes, Mr. Remelman.
We're to concur with the recommendation, Parks, Recreation, and Maintenance Director, Joe Youngblood,
and approve the purchase of John Dear 1550, and a 50, 60 inch hydraulic front plate and a 60 inch
heavy duty rotary room at a cost of $29,000, $81 and 59 cents from Tri-County Equipment Funds
are being taken for capital improvement. Fund line item 427-7899500.
Support. Motion made by Mr. Remelman, second by Mrs. Cassali. Any discussion?
All those are favourable please signify by saying aye.
Any opposed? Motion passes.
Next one is a resolution. I've asked the Board to consider and support this resolution.
And we are seeking to indicate our desire to have improvements in Ryan Road, an
Auburn Road area of our community.
That area and this proposal project on the township's 2025 and 2020-6 top 10 priorities
is still as there. We have already committed 40,000 for the preparation of an initial
corridor and traffic study. If approved tonight, this project will be known as the
second road Auburn to 23 mile economic and safety improvement project.
We are asking for economic development initiative of $2 million dollars for a long
other things, preliminary engineering and a right-of-way acquisition.
Motion please?
Mr. Chairman.
Yes, Mr. Reel.
We approve the resolution and support of the request for fiscal year 2026 community project
funding through the Housing and Urban Development, economic development initiative
titled Ryan Road to Dash Auburn to 23 mile economic and safety improvements to the
offices of U.S. House of Representatives, John James, Senator U.S. Senator Gary
Peters and Elizabeth Slotkin or environmental study preliminary engineering and
right-of-way acquisition for improvements to Ryan Road to remote safety and economic
development.
Second.
Motion made by Mr. Reel and seconded by Mr. Road. Any discussion?
All those are favour please signify by saying aye.
Any opposed?
Motion passes.
Yeah.
Hold on, because we need to roll call.
Let's do a roll call.
All right.
Good cash.
Great.
We're going to go with John Reel then.
Yes.
Stanley Grott, yes.
Rick Stalficus?
Yes.
Jim Caraballi?
Aye.
Risa Casale?
Yes.
Monsieur de Sico?
Yes.
And events of Yano excuse.
Okay.
Thank you.
Next is the ordinance 303 for legal re-establishment of the
Shelby Township Library adoption.
This is really more of housekeeping item.
Our library director, Ms. Katie Ester, has asked us to consider the
section ordinance that will re-establish the Shelby Township Library.
Although the library has been established,
the act that is currently initiated under it was repealed.
So the library director, director Ester, is asking us to consider this ordinance to re-establish
the public library as permitted under state law.
So if someone could make a motion, it'd be great.
Mr. Chair, move to concur with Library Director, Katie Ester,
and adopt and publish for the second time.
Oregon's 303 to re-establish the Shelby Township Library,
pursuant to MCL 42.13A.
Second.
Motion made by Mr. Remeland, seconded by Mr.
Grote.
Any discussion?
All those are favourable.
We need a rope on this.
Mr. Grote.
Okay.
Yeah, you're right.
John Brimielland?
Yes.
Stanley Grote. Yes. Rick Staphickus.
Yes.
Jim Caraballi.
Lisa Casale.
Yes.
Did you see the Sico?
Yes.
And events of Yano excuse.
Okay.
This next item is a permit growth facility establishments.
I know we talked about it.
Now we're ready.
I guess to adopt it.
Mr. Houth.
I know we voted on this ordinance.
But can you kind of help tea this up?
Sure.
This will be the fourth time that this township board is acted
if it does tonight regarding this process.
And what it will do is put our ordinance in line with the
voter enacted initiatives of 2016 and 2018 which gives
the township ability to regulate with a great deal more muscle
to grow activities that are occurring here in our community.
We will be able to hopefully get our arms around some of the issues
surrounding the odors.
We will get our arms around where the project is going because they will
be put into the metric system and monitored by the state.
So, anyway, we've taken action with respect to where this is going to be
permitted.
It's a night.
We'll set forth the regulations around again.
Thank you.
Motion, please.
Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Cousalli.
I move to adopt and publish for the second time ordinance 304 to amend
Chapter 14 of the Charter Township of Shelby, Michigan Code of
Justice, to implement the provisions of the Michigan
Regulation and Taxation of marijuana initiated law 1 of
2018 to authorize and provide for the regulations and licensing of
certain medical marijuana businesses within the township according to
the state law to provide penalties for violations for
chapter 14 and to repeal all ordinances or parts of ordinances
to provide and effective dates.
Motion made by Mr. Cousalli.
Support by Mr. Carmelli.
Any discussion?
All those in favor?
Oh, the roll call.
I'm sorry. You only told me.
Risicousalli.
Yes.
Jim Carmelli.
Did you see her the sickle?
Yes.
Mr. and the grotes. Yes.
Mr. Cousalli.
Yes.
Mr. Carmelli. Yes.
Mr. Carmelli.
Yes.
Mr. Carmelli.
Okay. Next one. Mr. Houthis.
I understand it's the resolution pertaining to the
last ordinance that we just enacted.
Yes. Correct.
If the Board decides to act, this resolution would do two things.
It would set the fees for the
roll operations to pay to the township to apply
yearly for the operation.
And secondly, what authorize are firm to be retained
at a fee to review those licenses.
We did this for the city to try it in which the
applicants there would.
We were the only law firm that handled all the
applicants for the city to try it.
And so people would go online fill out all the
information.
And then we would review that information at our office.
And then make a recommendation back to the city.
What I'm proposing here today is just taking extra
step.
I've interviewed with a police officer.
Recently retired from our department here.
It was in the drug enforcement department.
I have an office format in my building.
So he would help me review the applications.
And then given his background in terms of drug
enforcement would be able now to inspect these buildings
because under this new law or new ordinance,
we don't need a search warrant to enter.
If they apply her in a township, they agree
we can enter their building at any time.
So the issue that's happening is there's a
girl around the state of this product that is not being
regulated.
So it's ending up in places.
It shouldn't be.
So now the township has got its arms around it with
top regulation.
We'll send somebody into these.
Grow operations to knows the business.
And knows what's right and not.
So we'll be able to regulate.
So I'm asking the board to consider this resolution by
roll call vote.
Mr. Chairman.
Yes, Mr. Remeland.
We'll do adopt the resolution is presented
to establish fees pursuant to ordinance 304.
Motion made by Mr. Remeland.
Seconded by Mr. Carre Belly.
And we'll see what we'll call vote.
John Remeland.
Yes.
Jim Carre Belly.
Hi.
You see you at the sickle?
Yes.
And he's a Kassale.
Yes.
Stanley Grott. Yes.
Rick Steffick.
Yes.
And Vince Viviano.
Excuse.
Yes.
Okay.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for all that.
Mr. Ruth.
Because we are getting complaints.
We definitely, we need to have your regulation.
We need more enforcement.
And I think this will give us the teeth that we need.
So thank you.
Thank you very much.
Now it's time for township announcements.
We'll start with you, Mr. Seiko.
Okay.
So the first one is household hazardous waste collection day.
Join us for the priority waste.
Shelby Township residential collection event on Saturday, April 26, 2025.
From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Riverbens Park.
This event is open to Shelby Township residents only.
And offers a great opportunity to properly dispose of items like pesticides, oil, paint, car batteries and more.
Please note that electronics will not be accepted.
For more details and for a list of accepted and not accepted items, contact the Shelby Township DPW.
At 586-731-5990.
And let's keep our community safe and clean.
And my next announcement is that Shelby Township is currently hiring part-time seasonal positions.
And you can find all the employment opportunities for the Township on our website under the Human Resources tab to stay updated.
That's all I have.
Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Carebelly.
Mr. Ruth.
Yes, Mr. Supervisor.
Shelby Township cleanup day is approaching.
Expressed approaching it will be held Saturday, April 26, of 2025.
We're looking forward to great event hosted by Shelby Township beautification committee.
If anybody would like to sign up, you can call clerk's office at 586-731-5102 for more details.
Let's work together to keep our community cleaner and greener.
And please don't wait. Please don't delay.
Sign up as soon as you can because we don't want anybody to be turned away.
Thank you.
Mr. Kesale.
Yes, I have some easter activities.
Join us for a fun full Easter celebration on April 5th.
Start your day at 11 a.m. with our Easter Bunny lunch.
Where kids can enjoy delicious pizza and salad lunch.
Complete with a surprise entertainer.
Tickets are just $10 for residents and $15 for non-residents.
Then at 2 p.m. Bring the whole family to our Easter Egg Scramble.
Kids can dive into the excitement of egg hunting.
Plus there will be a special appearance from the Easter Bunny.
Tickets for the Scramble are $3 for residents and $13 for non-residents.
Tickets can be purchased at the register.
It shall be township.org.
Okay. Thank you.
Mr. Renew.
I have a couple.
American Legion post $3.51.
I am just having a fit.
Friday fresh fries from 8 February 28th to 8.
You choice of cod or chicken.
French fries, coleslaw, hush puppies, mac and cheese.
American Legion post $3.51 on cash.
We are also having a great family event.
And it is educational for the kids.
Join us as we turn maple sap into syrup.
Through the process of maple sugar.
Birch is shed but nature center.
Learn how trees make sugar and how people through the ages have harvested it.
There will be on-hand crafts in an opportunity to taste locally.
Produced maple syrup and fresh pancakes.
Charge of organic homemade maple syrup will be available for purchase.
Infants to and under are free.
Five dollars for residents.
Seven dollars are non-resident.
You can register for the event.
Register.
Shelby Township.org.
Thank you, Mr. Renew.
I just have one announcement.
Join us on April 22nd at 1 p.m.
for the Shelby Township Arbor Day Celebration at the Shelby Township Activity Center.
The event will feature tree planting and refreshments for residents.
We hope to see you there.
Now it is time for business from the floor.
We conduct township business.
You are consistent with the way a business meeting is handled.
Here each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes.
To discuss business has relevant to the operation of our true horrific township.
Sure?
Good evening, trustees.
My name is Tom Blackstone.
I live at 5, 4, 8, 5, 0, Kingsley Drive.
And I am here to address priority number two.
Participate in local road improvement funding.
So I would like to talk about a few things pertaining to...
I am sorry, number six.
Two.
Got it.
Yep.
Funding is the important.
The key word in that.
Michigan...
The State Michigan distributes road funding through Act 51.
I think probably most of you are familiar with that.
And it goes to counties and cities and villages.
But not to townships.
Right?
Okay.
I think that has to do with the fact that there are 1200 townships in Michigan.
A lot of them have very small populations.
Some townships of Michigan have less than 500 people.
But in South Eastern Michigan you have townships like Shelby and Canton and McComb that have
80, 90,000 people and more.
And we are losing out on these Act 51 distributions.
Now people and there's 80,000 people.
So in Shelby Township we buy a lot of gasoline.
We pay a lot of gas tax.
We buy cars.
We pay sales tax on cars.
We renew our license plates.
That's a lot of money going to the State of Michigan from Shelby Township.
So I think we have to strive to get some more of that back.
So I've got just a few three possible solutions.
One is to work with our legislature with our representatives, our senator.
Get a lot change so that township, especially populous townships like Shelby, can get Act 51 funding directly.
Doesn't have to go.
I guess you do get it in a way through the county, right?
It's filtered.
But I don't see any reason why we can't get it right from the state.
Another one, and you may not want to hear this transition to a city of cities, as I said, cities get act 51 distributions.
Our neighbor to the west, Rochester Hills, has just a few thousand less people than Shelby, got $9 million last year. It's a lot of money.
And villages get act 51. Our meet a village in the Comcounty, three quarters of a square mile, 1700 people, got over $200,000.
So there's advantages for being a city.
30 seconds.
Pardon me?
Yeah, 30 seconds.
Okay, thank you.
Yeah.
I'm almost done.
Another thing we could do, this is the last thing.
And act a road-funding village, a road-melage. Now we have a police village.
We have a fire village. There's a precedent for this.
I don't know. Over the last 50 years, I've owned three different houses.
I've replaced roofs, furnaces, air conditioning systems.
I've paid, it's spent $25,000 a water proof for one of my basements.
So I didn't want to spend a lot of money, but I had to do it because my property is going to deteriorate if I didn't do it.
That's all I have to say. I think if you're attention.
You know, thank you for coming in. I'm so glad you brought this up.
Anyway, just you can be seated. I get long-winded.
But when you look at the top 10 priorities, you can see that three or four.
I think four are actually roads.
So when people fill this out, they want to see better roads.
So your comments are right on. Let me just talk about act 51.
So all the folks out there, the reason we call it, the reason it's called act 51
is because it was an act put in place in 1951.
And what it is is it gives awards money to every county by linear mileage.
So whether it's a 10 lane highway or a two lane highway, it's the same number of dollars.
So we are very unfairly treated. For one mile, we get the same money that they do up north for two lane highway.
I've got an uncle Liz and up north.
And he says, you know, every three years, they tear this road apart.
It's a beautiful road. Why do they do that?
Because they want to keep getting the funding.
And here we are trying to, we're striving.
We're trying to get by trying to get as much money as we can.
But just to show you how bad this is.
I'm talking about the road situation. In Shelby Township alone,
we've got 72 miles of local roads.
Not many roads. Local roads rated a one or two out of five.
One or two means total reconstruction.
So in order to do total reconstruction for a mile, it's about two million dollars.
So that means we need about 280 million dollars.
Just in Shelby Township to get our roads up to a to a point where they don't need to be almost dirt roads.
So it's nothing right home about.
But if we had 280 million dollars, our roads would be about a sea.
But right now, I'm talking about local roads or about a sea.
Now, if that's Shelby Township, multiply that by 27 communities in Macomb.
That would come up to about 3.5 billion dollars just for local roads.
To get them to a functioning level.
Three billion dollars.
Now, the governor is coming up with his big plan of 1.5 billion dollars for the whole state.
So it's well short of the needs of the townships and cities across the state.
And where this money's going to come from?
I don't know.
But every single year we're losing ground.
Last year, we had 70 miles a road that needed total reconstruction.
This year of 72, next year it'll be 76 or 77.
And I would ask the state to at least reverse that trend and provide money for all the cities in all the townships.
So that we can reverse the trend because we're going in a wrong direction.
And in one final point I want to make is Shane or Road.
Now, I know we've got funding from 23 to 25 mile road.
But there's a bridge between 25 and 26 mile road that needs to be reconstructed.
So the planning commission or should say the road commission is set aside.
Six and a half million dollars to reconstruct Shane or Road to make it a three lane highway.
Because right now it's a country road.
And it's a dangerous road.
And we have access there.
And someone's going to get killed.
And it's almost happened actually eight months ago.
But that bridge has to be replaced before anything gets done.
And that's a four million dollar expense.
So where's that money going to come from?
Well, I've been told that there's not a lot of money or no money right now in the bridge fund for the state.
So that's six and a half million dollars that they set aside for Shane or between 25 and 26 mile road.
If that bridge doesn't get done, that money is going to be redirected elsewhere.
Probably to another township or to another city.
So yeah, we are very, very short of money.
And it's a state of Michigan that provides a money to the county that provides a money to the township.
Now, I don't totally agree with the system of handing out the money.
But because there's so few dollars involved, you know, we're beginning now to look very carefully as a
How this money is given out.
And, you know, I'm not going to judge right now.
But I think the Road Commission is really putting a good effort toward finishing Shane or
And I'm happy about that.
And they've already started the environmental study.
So it's a great great topic.
It's all about roads.
If you don't have roads, you don't have commerce.
And if you don't have commerce, you don't have a township.
So I hope the state comes up with some money.
And as far as us owning the roads, it's not viable.
We'll never be able to come up with that amount of money.
So I hope to answer these questions.
Oh, by the way, we are working very closely with a legislative branch.
Doug Wazanx have been great.
The road commission I know has been up to lancing a few times.
I know Mr. Grote knows a lot of people are lancing.
He's working on it.
We are pulling every lever, pushing every button we can to get more road money.
Because we are really, really short.
There are a lot of needs out there.
They're not being met.
So thank you for coming in.
Okay.
Anybody else from the public?
Then I'll take a motion to adjourn.
Motion made by Mr. Grote.
That's not going to be by Mr. Remeland.
All those in favor of adjourning, please signify by saying aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
This means adjourn.
Thank you, everybody.
We'll see you in a couple of weeks.