[0:00] thank you everyone for your patience if
we could um i'd like to call the meeting
[0:05] of the human services committee to order
we could all stand for the pledge of
[0:08] allegiance please
i pledge
[0:12] [Music]
allegiance and to the republic for which
[0:17] it stands one nation under god
indivisible with liberty and justice for
[0:24] all
[0:26] could the clerk take the role please
commissioner mcconnell here commissioner
[0:30] baldwin
commissioner boehm commissioner dunn
[0:33] here commissioner rushing here
commissioner vandenbosch here
[0:37] commissioner beaton president
are there any additions deletions or
[0:41] changes to the
agenda make a motion to accept the
[0:44] agenda as presented support
all in favor
[0:49] any opposed
uh are there any citizens wishing to be
[0:53] heard tonight
moving on
[0:56] any updates
any conceptual initiatives
[1:02] no old business so moving into new
business item a
[1:06] contract renewal approval request for a
stat courier service make a motion to
[1:10] send it full board support
any discussion
[1:15] all in favor
any opposed
[1:19] motion carries item b resolution 2210
placing proposed sinclair county library
[1:24] system millage on the ballot i'd make
the motion to send it to the full board
[1:28] support
any discussion
[1:32] all in favor
aye any opposed motion carries item c
[1:36] sinclair county library system 2022
closings request
[1:41] make a motion to send that full board
support
[1:44] any discussion
all in favor
[1:48] any opposed
motion carries
[1:51] are there any other human services
matters this evening
[1:56] we did receive in our packets
information only the health department
[1:59] points of interest make a motion to
receive and file
[2:03] support
any discussion
[2:06] all in favor all right any opposed
question carries
[2:11] damn should we receive in final sport
all in favor all right any opposed
[2:17] no she carries
[Applause]
[2:22] we need a motion to adjourn yeah
i moved
[2:26] we did that no no we didn't we didn't
receive it
[2:29] support i'm rusty yeah you are yeah a
motion to adjourn
[2:35] support
so moved
[2:37] all in favor aye aye motion carrying
i'll get better
[2:42] spring break
okay we will call the judiciary public
[2:45] safety committee meeting to order roll
call please commissioner baldwin
[2:49] commissioner beaton president
commissioner boehm commissioner dunn
[2:52] here commissioner rushing here
commissioner vandenbosch here mr
[2:56] mcconnell
here thank you i see no auditions so if
[3:00] we could get a motion to accept the
agendas presented so moved support all
[3:04] in favor all right opposed motion
carries are there any citizens
[3:09] wishing to be heard tonight
seeing none
[3:14] any updates
seeing non-conceptual initiatives
[3:19] we have no old business before us
tonight new business
[3:22] um 7 8 resolution 2211 placing the
proposed sanctuary county ambulance
[3:26] service millage on the ballot
so
[3:29] just send it to the full board
support
[3:33] okay so we have motion and support we we
don't need to do these for final action
[3:38] yet we have a couple days after our
meeting or there is time after the full
[3:43] board meeting to still make the ballot
deadline okay
[3:47] all right any questions yes definitely
um i want to know what kind of funding
[3:52] breaking down so what that's going to
generate if the millage goes through and
[3:55] gets approved by the residents if this
goes through the full board and it does
[3:58] get put on the ballot what kind of money
is going to be generated three million
[4:03] it's in there it is part of the
the language it's right in the language
[4:06] it's three million
i don't know three hundred thousand
[4:09] three hundred and thirty six thousand
sometimes i ask that so the public will
[4:12] get that also so sometimes okay i've
read it i do have questions for uh
[4:17] for ken
yes ken and
[4:20] jeff if they have it
because i think both of you serve
[4:24] my townships my six townships how's that
to affect the funding for the volunteer
[4:29] fire departments
[4:35] good evening commissioners um
my understanding is this would have no
[4:39] impact on funding for fire departments
uh the language as it's written right
[4:43] now uh this is specifically for
ambulance service and ambulance service
[4:48] really defined in in michigan statute is
for agencies that transport uh fire
[4:53] departments in our county with the
exception of the city of marysville um
[4:57] does not they do not transport so they
would not be uh involved in this funding
[5:01] at all marysville however would because
they do operate an ambulance service
[5:05] part of my question is because when i
was township supervisor in riley
[5:09] one of the townships out there that i
now represent
[5:13] wanted to eliminate
all the ems from the fire department or
[5:17] emt to come out and make calls
and they also proposed that for riley
[5:22] township and as supervisor when i was
there i said no i want 10 trucks there
[5:26] you're going to pay for it if my wife
needs somebody i want 10 trucks they're
[5:29] not
to try to save a couple of pennies
[5:32] because if
your ambulance is someplace else i want
[5:36] the first and the fastest they can get
there for the residents that i support
[5:40] so i do the same thing for all district
six so if i was put that question was
[5:43] put to me
uh like the city of memphis
[5:47] uh
they wouldn't get any funding of this at
[5:50] all but potentially maybe they would uh
and i can talk to al titus on that but
[5:54] potentially would their funding or cost
go down to the memphis or amit you know
[6:00] i i
jeff serves the memphis area i mean i
[6:03] could stalk more talk more globally
since tri-hospital does i mean we
[6:07] provide service to 26 of the of the 31
municipalities in the county so we're
[6:12] certainly the largest provider here in
sinclair county um
[6:16] the the
language in the ballot if approved by
[6:19] the voters would would not defer any
funds to fire departments as it sits
[6:24] right now however part of the the intent
behind receiving the additional funds
[6:30] is that as ambulance providers we're
seeing a significant increase in call
[6:35] volume so demand for for for service is
increasing revenues that are used to
[6:41] support ambulance services today are not
increasing and that means that we as
[6:45] providers are forced to add and deploy
more resources out there we cannot do
[6:50] that without additional funding and so
a part of these funds will certainly go
[6:55] to the to adding hopefully adding more
resources out into the marketplace so
[7:00] that we can respond some of those calls
some of that may very well end up
[7:05] reducing some of the fire department's
need the need for fire departments but i
[7:09] i couldn't tell you how much or or what
impact that would have it i don't have
[7:13] if i could and because i'm kind of being
like an attorney here i kind of know the
[7:17] answer to my questions before i ask you
but same thing with the city of memphis
[7:21] and the uh emmett or both fire
departments that serve riley they have a
[7:26] set budget i believe it's right around
120 000 that the communities have to
[7:30] come up with that money if they have
zero runs
[7:33] or 150 runs they still have pretty much
basic same cost they got to have the
[7:37] equipment and the personnel whether
so even if it eliminated some runs i
[7:42] think the cost to the uh memphis fire
department remain constant boy if i
[7:46] could respond to that because that is a
great point commissioner i glad i'm glad
[7:49] you bring that that's precisely why
we're here tonight as ambulance
[7:53] companies we have the same problem it's
it's what we call the cost of readiness
[7:58] we operate in this county right now we
do not receive any uh government support
[8:03] whatsoever to operate ambulance service
in cyclone county it is 100
[8:08] fee for service based which means if
we're transporting patients we're
[8:12] generating income if we're not
transporting patients there is no income
[8:16] being generated by your ambulance
providers right now in in ambulance
[8:20] service
we have what's called the cost of
[8:23] readiness right now today there's an
ambulance sitting across the street
[8:27] waiting staffed equipped ready to go
upon a moment's notice and i think
[8:32] that's what the public expects and
demands quite frankly and they should
[8:36] that's the way it should operate the
problem with it is we are not generating
[8:40] revenue to help support the cost of that
and that's why one of the reasons why
[8:44] we're here
asking for some assistance so that we
[8:47] can continue to keep those resources
staffed equipped strategically located
[8:52] throughout the county so that upon a
moment's notice we have that resource
[8:56] available to a citizen when they need it
and i talked to jeff
[9:00] because i he sure he lives in riley so i
talked to him more but i'll share the
[9:04] podium initially initially i wasn't sure
where i'd go on this but i definitely
[9:08] support it and i would support it uh and
same thing with firefighters but you
[9:14] have additional costs now for the
requirements of the training for your
[9:17] emt it isn't like it was 15 20 years ago
they have to be more trained than they
[9:21] were before yeah and and you know to be
real honest with you and i and i i don't
[9:25] want to repeat what i did i was here
back in october gave a presentation to
[9:28] the board uh kind of outlining the
reasons behind this to to to help
[9:33] justify why but you know we are we like
every other employer in really probably
[9:38] the country but certainly in michigan
are facing extreme staffing shortages
[9:42] right now uh we are coming out of a
pandemic uh our personnel are tired i i
[9:47] don't think i i i think i can speak for
jeff as well we we are all seeing
[9:53] shortfalls in personnel
for us to to fill that gap we have got
[9:59] to create positions in ems that are
attractive that people want to pursue
[10:03] for careers but but when we get them
interested in those positions we have to
[10:08] have the training programs available to
train them ems personnel have to be
[10:13] licensed it is a regulated industry we
cannot hire people off the street like
[10:17] walmart or home depot or some of those
organizations can all of our people must
[10:22] be licensed they have to meet a very
specific set of criteria before we can
[10:27] even employ them and put them on an
ambulance and there is not an abundance
[10:31] of those out there right now in michigan
it's estimated there are over a thousand
[10:35] ems vacancies across the state of
michigan right now so we are hurting big
[10:40] time and so again part of the funds if
approved by the voters will go towards
[10:45] beefing up our training and education
programs i would just say one thing that
[10:49] really caught this community by surprise
was we had we had partnered with the
[10:55] community college for a number of years
to do ems training for us we as an
[10:59] organization got out of the training
program because the college had stepped
[11:04] up to do it however in
july of 2020 i was notified by the
[11:08] college that they were getting out of it
and they were done
[11:11] so it kind of left us high and dry and
so we have had to
[11:14] to struggle to try and
partner with agencies or train programs
[11:19] outside of sinclair county which
becomes a real challenge for us to have
[11:23] our people commute back and forth
to neighboring counties to get their
[11:27] train so we need to bring that training
in-house back to our county and that's
[11:32] what we're committed to do uh with these
funds uh if if approved by the voters
[11:37] i'm good
uh
[11:40] ken i spoke with uh chief uh giro before
the meeting about the city of mary as
[11:44] well as obviously they have their own
ems service right and he said they will
[11:49] receive an annual check for 199 000
yeah as as
[11:55] i'm sorry
no i'm just checking with so the
[11:58] the way it's going to work is if this if
this millage is passed every
[12:01] municipality that collects tax is going
to collect their porsche or receive
[12:05] their portion and then they would in
turn
[12:08] pay it back to the provider of their
choice okay the county is not going to
[12:13] hire
tri hospital the county is not hiring
[12:16] lennox richmond lennox so the county is
not going to hold that money they're
[12:20] going to give it out
right
[12:23] that's correct we'll distribute all of
it okay
[12:26] and commissioner if i could add to that
the reason i think the reason for that
[12:29] is for as long as i've been in in the
ambulance business which quite frankly
[12:33] is 44 years in this county
we have always contracted for ambulance
[12:38] services directly with the local
municipality we have never contracted
[12:41] with the county so the ambulance
contracts the 26 municipalities that i
[12:45] mentioned earlier that we provide
service to we are under contract with
[12:49] each of those municipalities to provide
that service and so it just sort of made
[12:53] sense that when the dollars are
collected it would go to those
[12:57] communities who are actually the ones
that are contracting for those services
[13:00] and in the case of marysville and
richmond they essentially are the
[13:04] provider for those municipalities in
which they have contracts with her very
[13:07] good thank you that's all i have all
right does anybody else have anything i
[13:11] just wanted to explain too a lot of
these lift assists that try goes to
[13:15] they're not billable for
so they we can't they can't get any
[13:21] income out of that and
there's a large number of calls we
[13:25] multiplier and ems go on that are
non-billable for track yeah and those
[13:30] numbers are going up steadily
one of one of the things that um i i
[13:34] looked at as a part of this and and just
for your benefit in the last 10 years we
[13:39] have seen an increase in requests for
ambulance services go up 38
[13:45] um many of those as as commissioner van
bosch said are are calls on which we
[13:50] don't generate any any revenue
whatsoever the resources are avail
[13:54] available they're allocated they respond
but there's no revenue coming in to
[13:59] support them and so that's why we're
having a shortfall right now um in in
[14:04] the ability to function as uh providers
um you know ems i think most people if
[14:09] you were to ask them today uh believe
that ambulance service is an essential
[14:14] service it's something they expect to be
available when they dial 9-1-1
[14:19] and
these funds are absolutely critical for
[14:23] us to ensure that those services are
going to continue to be available moving
[14:27] forward
and they're also a backstop for our fire
[14:30] and police because they do stand by for
every major incident we have
[14:35] and a lot of times ken has to call in
overtime to backfill
[14:40] that and uh
without them being there i know we
[14:44] wouldn't be as safe doing our jobs
in the fire or police services
[14:51] anybody else have any other questions
seeing none all in
[14:56] favor aye opposed motion carries thank
you gentlemen
[15:01] um are there any other judici other
judiciary public safety matters
[15:08] motion to receive and file so moved
sport
[15:12] motion to adjourn
support all in favor
[15:28] i know
[15:36] good evening i'd like to call the saint
county board of commissioners
[15:39] environmental public works committee to
order could have a roll call please
[15:42] commissioner mcconnell president
commissioner baldwin commissioner beeden
[15:46] present
commissioner boehm commissioner rushing
[15:49] here commissioner vandenbosch here
commissioner dunn here
[15:53] item number two addition deletion
changes to the agenda saying none i'd
[15:57] make a motion to approve the agendas
presented support
[16:00] all in favor aye
any opposed motion carries any citizens
[16:05] to be heard tonight
seeing none any updates from
[16:09] commissioners
moving on any conceptual initiatives
[16:14] and this evening no old business will
move into new business
[16:17] um sinclair county board
road commissioner's annual report mr
[16:21] weston is here with his full entourage
tonight i would make a motion to bring
[16:26] this okay all right
sport
[16:30] good evening uh thanks for having us
tonight
[16:33] um
the only thing i want to do tonight
[16:35] you've got a packet there that's our
annual report that we'll submit to you
[16:39] won't take a lot of time on that but one
of the reasons we're here tonight
[16:42] uh for introductions we have
bill bloomrick in the
[16:46] audience which is the chair of the road
commission uh greg owens which is
[16:50] internal services but we have some new
faces out here been with the royal
[16:54] convention for a number of years but
i'll be retiring into august and
[16:59] we have replacements here tonight and i
wanted more to introduce you to those
[17:03] folks than anything else we have tammy
holzberger that is our interim uh deputy
[17:10] director at this time
and was our cpa or still our cpa and
[17:14] bill hazleton
will be our director of uh
[17:18] our managing director so
taking my spot the future i've got a
[17:22] cold and i'm struggling here so
that's why i'm not doing a presentation
[17:26] so um
the the part here is i think the road
[17:31] commission is going to be in very very
good hands
[17:34] uh we worked hard on behalf of the
residents of sinclair county
[17:39] over the years i appreciate this board
the road board that was put in place and
[17:43] we've been able to do some great things
but
[17:46] with bill's expertise his background
along with tammy's
[17:51] i feel we're going to be in great shape
so
[17:54] as far as the
presentation goes a lot of it's there
[17:58] similar to what we've done in back in
past years
[18:01] it was unique like we all know with
colwood
[18:04] different things like that
we commend the employees for being there
[18:08] for us
didn't miss any time where we did have
[18:11] some cases things like that but very
minimal
[18:14] and uh with the work with the with the
board
[18:18] and the employees i think we did okay
with that so
[18:21] that being said instead of
struggling through here i'll let you go
[18:25] and
thank you very much
[18:29] anybody got anything for uh mr weston
tonight just when you feel better i'm
[18:33] sure you'll be back and uh of course
thank you before august we'll be talking
[18:37] to you yeah thank you yeah
it's been it's been great to be able to
[18:41] call when we have a problem
um
[18:45] and
what's the best way to say this pawn it
[18:48] off on somebody else
it's nice when you call somebody and you
[18:52] get get a response
everybody's been very good at the road
[18:57] commission so that's been
it's been helpful yeah we appreciate
[19:02] that we feel we'll be able to continue
to do that or these folks will be able
[19:05] to do that along with the employees they
have and the foreman that they use and
[19:08] just everyone there is a team player so
we're proud of
[19:11] all those employees so mr hazelton is
going to be on speed dial too isn't he
[19:15] yeah yep that's right i've already got
him on so this is the earliest yeah
[19:20] i just like to say kurt thanks for
everything you've done in this position
[19:24] the team you've built the people around
you i've got some experience with
[19:27] everybody here and i
thoroughly feel they're being left in
[19:31] good hands so yeah absolutely
that operation is a fine-tuned machine
[19:35] and i appreciate what you guys have done
thank you so much
[19:39] all right thank you yes sir thank you
uh um all in favor aye aye aye any
[19:44] opposed
motion carries
[19:47] contract approval request for raymond
excavating for final action for the work
[19:51] at the uh
goodwill park park yes i'll make a
[19:54] motion
for to approve it final action
[19:58] support
um do we have nancy with sean here we
[20:03] have uh brad okay tennis tonight anybody
can give us a two minute spiel on it
[20:09] start that's a good because it's a good
chunk of money i think the public should
[20:12] hear what the money's being spent on
[20:18] good evening my name is brad brensky i'm
the deputy director of projects for
[20:21] saint claire county parks and uh tonight
we're talking about our new playground
[20:25] that's going in out at goodwill's
country park now the one we currently
[20:30] have in out there is 22 years old so
it's a bit outdated and we're looking uh
[20:35] and the older they get the more safety
hazards start to come along with it and
[20:40] we've been maintaining them very well
throughout our our system
[20:44] uh but this one's owed and we need to
update it and we're looking at a
[20:49] farm themed playground that will tie it
in nicely with the the barns and the
[20:54] farm area
with the farm museum being there
[20:58] and uh really nice pieces that are all
set to come
[21:02] we're looking at
we just heard that our
[21:06] playground equipment should be on site
by mid-june and we're hoping to have
[21:11] everything placed by
fair so
[21:15] that's uh quite an aggressive schedule
and we're going to set up our pre-con
[21:19] with our contractor at the end of the
month so we can get everything lined up
[21:23] and ready to go
[21:27] any other questions from red
if it's farm why why aren't we using
[21:31] barbed wire fence instead of that
expensive plastic stuff
[21:35] that's the biggest cost of that product
that might help keep the kids off it
[21:39] right right
um you know it's neat it's
[21:44] some people wonder why we have fences
around the playgrounds
[21:48] it helps with public safety and
channelizing the kids and more
[21:54] importantly
it helps
[21:56] prevent from like snatching grabs
for existence when we have our county
[22:01] fair going on we uh we have an ex
a barricade fence we put around the
[22:06] splash pad because there's just so many
people out there that we want to keep
[22:12] from having that
unexplainable event happening so
[22:17] we have that out there for the safety
part of the could part of the cost of
[22:21] this why it's expensive and we had the
thing when i was township supervisor and
[22:25] riley one of the slides was a quarter
inch off
[22:29] and we had to get that repaired we had
to close the slide down or playground
[22:32] down because it didn't pass inspection
and a
[22:35] kid's foot could get caught in there i
mean it was that big but it was a
[22:38] quarter inch off acceptable and we had
to close playground down until we got
[22:42] that fixed oh yes and that's why we
require a certified playground installer
[22:46] to be present when this is going in
[22:50] any other questions
this contract is in the amount of 345
[22:55] thousand dollars
um i will be abstaining from the vote we
[22:58] need a motion for that or
we have motion but we need no he needs a
[23:03] motion to allow him to abstain oh
i would make a motion that he
[23:09] support or all in favor
any opposed
[23:13] motion carries
uh could i have a roll call please
[23:16] commissioner mcconnell yes
commissioner beeden yes
[23:20] commissioner rushing yes commissioner
vandenbosch yes
[23:24] motion carries
oro
[23:28] uh item c resolution 22-09 authorizing
some cog as a collective designated
[23:34] planning agency and authorizing the
application of the materials management
[23:38] grant make a motion senate full board
support
[23:42] all in favor aye aye aye
any opposed
[23:46] motion carries
uh item eight the smith creek landfill
[23:49] activities report
motion to receive and file support
[23:53] all in favor aye any opposed motion
carries any other environmental public
[23:57] works matters
item 10 is information only for the
[24:02] monthly parks and rec financial
documents
[24:04] motion to receive and file
support all in favor all right any
[24:09] opposed item 11 receive and file
make a motion to receive and file
[24:13] support all in favor aye opposed item 12
adjournment
[24:18] make a motion to adjourn
all in favor
[24:21] all right
[24:24] getting adjourned
[24:27] this time i'd like to call the ways and
means committee to order roll call
[24:31] please commissioner mcconnell here
commissioner baldwin commissioner beaton
[24:36] present commissioner boom commissioner
dunn here commissioner vandenbosch here
[24:41] commissioner rushing here
item two i see we have an addition uh i
[24:46] need to have that move to 7f somebody
would make that i would make a motion to
[24:50] move uh item 2a to item 7f
smart
[24:54] for final action
any discussion
[24:58] all in favor aye aye aye aye
and i now have a motion to accept the
[25:03] amended agenda so moved support
[25:07] any discussion all in favor
aye aye aye aye aye any opposed motion
[25:12] passed this time do we have any citizens
wishing to be heard
[25:17] seeing none do we have any updates
none no conceptual initiatives no old
[25:23] business we'll move on to seven a
change to the 2022 budget public
[25:28] guardian's office i'd move this be sent
to the full board
[25:31] support
any discussion
[25:34] all in favor aye aye any opposed
motion passed
[25:40] uh 7b this prosecuting attorney's office
manning table uh apparently he can make
[25:45] it for the 21st meeting but so i need a
motion to send this to the full board
[25:49] motion to send a full board support
any discussion
[25:54] all in favor aye aye aye any opposed
motion passed 7c is for final action
[25:59] this is the foreclosure mowing agreement
with kevin's lawn care and snow removal
[26:04] i would make a motion that we
proved kevin's lawn care and snow
[26:08] removal
i'll support that foreclosure mowing
[26:11] agreement
any discussion
[26:16] it's not that much money but we need a
roll call correct yes if you would
[26:19] please commissioner mcconnell yes
commissioner beaton yes commissioner
[26:23] dunn yes commissioner bandenbosch yes
commissioner rushing
[26:28] yes
uh moving on to 7d
[26:32] uh commissioner vanderbosh district 7
erpa or american rescue plan project
[26:38] generator
i would make a motion to send to the
[26:41] pull board i would support that
and your discussion
[26:46] you feel like it may be at the full
board yeah maybe i'll be doing better
[26:49] than that
all in favor aye aye any opposed motion
[26:52] passed seven eight
if we could have a motion for the
[26:56] warning sirens make a motion
support board
[27:01] any discussion
all in favor aye aye aye any opposed
[27:05] motion passed
uh moving on to seven f
[27:10] uh resolution 2212 authorizing signatory
administrator controller deputy
[27:15] administrator for final action
so moved support
[27:19] and your discussion
all in favor
[27:22] aye any opposed
ocean past
[27:25] this time do we have any other ways and
means matters
[27:29] seeing none information only
motion to receive file packets report
[27:34] any discussion
all in favor aye aye aye aye any opposed
[27:39] motion passed you need a motion to
adjourn so moved support
[27:43] all in favor
aye aye aye any opposed
[27:47] you stand adjourned