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Good evening. We would like to call the
regular meeting of August 18th board

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meeting to order. For those who are
able, if you could stand for the pledge

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of allegiance and remain standing for a
moment of silent prayer, please.

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I pledge algiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the

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republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all.
>> You'll remain standing for a moment of

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silent prayer, please.

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Thank you.
The first um item

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is the approval of the agenda and we
would like to add if we could a DTE

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community lighting for one pole on
textile road near the park. Okay.

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» If if it's okay with board members to
add that to the board agenda.

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» Yes.
>> Yes.

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» There's no objections. We need a motion
to approve the agenda.

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» So move Peterson.
We have a motion in support. Questions

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or comments?
>> Hearing none. All in favor?

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» I.
>> Opposed? Motion carries. The next item

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is a consent agenda which are minutes of
the July 21st regular meeting statements

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and checks and the treasurer's report
for June. A motion is in order.

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» So move.
>> Motion row support Eldridge. Is there

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discussion? Hearing
none. All in favor?

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» I
>> opposed. Motion carries.

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It was also um requested that we move
public comments up after

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the attorney's report.
If everyone is okay with doing that,

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» I concur.
>> All right, Mr. Wyinners,

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» I'm sure you have an update.
>> Does everybody hear me in the back?

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We had not. It's okay.
>> Um,

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I want to take uh a moment at least and
thank all of you who are here tonight as

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well as the phone calls and messages
that have come to our township

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officials, our trustees that have in
turn be have have in turn been relayed

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to me also in regards to what I would
refer to as probably the most devast

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devastating decision
that a university of the stature of U of

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M could make in regards to a their
decision to locate

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two high performance computational
centers,

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data centers on 144 acres of property
located at the Bridge Textile Road.

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And before I get into
that decision,

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uh please keep in mind that it was made
a little more than a uh this time last

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week. It was Tuesday afternoon. And in
keeping with the behavior that they've

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established and the pattern of deceit
that has gone on during the last 18 20

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months
uh this announcement came to the

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township
during a meeting with the full-time

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officials not by U of M. It came to us
by an online newspaper who called to try

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to ascertain what was our reaction.
Did not even have the courtesy to pick

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up the phone and tell us what was going
to what decision they had made. That's

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so that's part for the course. They
didn't call us when they made their

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second purchase of property either. But
all that aside,

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I think I mentioned to a few people even
today that

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growing up, u
your parents always tell you don't tell

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don't tell a lie. Cuz if you tell a lie,
you got to tell 20 more to make up for

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the first lie. That was true then and
it's true today even inside our hallowed

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halls of higher learning and our
government. And when I say

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how this whole saga began, it began with
a lie and it continues through today. So

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a fair question could be okay why do you
say that it began with a lie?

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It was in
the winter, beginning of the winter of

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2024
when the University of Michigan

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filed an application
with the Michigan Economic Development

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Corporation
seeking

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what amounts to a hundred million dollar
corporate welfare check to build these

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data centers. Now, keep in mind in 2024,
uh, we were going through the beginnings

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and you're still seeing it play out
today where people in this county,

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especially in this township, the city,
Eastern Washington County,

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have been have had their Medicaid
benefits

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eliminated,
have had their nutritional benefits

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eliminated,
are struggling to buy groceries.

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Everybody knows what's going on at the
gas pumps

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trying to find shelter. We've seen
uh homeless encampments around the

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county uh grow somewhat exponentially
because of what's happening. It's dire

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it's dire straits for a lot of people.
But against that backdrop, you have the

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University of Michigan,
the third wealthiest university in the

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United States, has a $21 billion
endowment,

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has a budget around $15 million a year.
You had them go up to Lancing,

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not with the blessing of the township.
They went to Lancing and they asked

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MEEDC,
not brother, can you spare a dime, it

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was brothers and sisters, can you spare
$100 million?

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And the reason why they got that request
before the MEEDC board was because they

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obtained what they call a letter of
support

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from the economic
development office, always also known as

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In Arbor Spark. In Arbor Spark, who's
headquartered right down in the middle

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of Ann Arbor, issued a letter saying to
me, "We support this idea of U ofM

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asking for this $100 million to build
these two data centers.

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One was for U of M, very small one in
comparison to Los Alamos."

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Now, they could have came to the
township board

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and said, "What do you think about this
project?" But I think they probably

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realized what the answer was going to
be. And so, they went in the back door

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and that's where the first slide began
because in that application,

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they said they were going to acquire 20
acres

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on the corner of Textile Bridge Road.

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and they were going to build two office
buildings, more or less 20 jobs a year

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for 10 years.
They were going to have a new substation

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built.
DTE claimed that 2/3 would go for these

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two data centers,
one-third for the general public.

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So what happened next? Well, fast
forward to June of 2025.

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The border regents authorized
the acquisition of an additional

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124 acres
right next to the only access road there

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is into the into the township south
hydro park. Township has a north hydro

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park and south hydro park.
has a lot of passive recreation. People

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fish there on the docks, a lot of trails
people walk through. There's the only

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pathway into the South Hydro Park is off
of Tax Stile Road. And that road is now

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on one side the 20 acres of property.
The other side is 124 acres. And if you

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haven't been out to the area for a
while, go down to the uh here in River

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the the the news coverage that uh
covered the breaking news last week has

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some just absolutely beautiful
uh film of what that property looks like

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from the here in Riverside. If you're
standing down near South Hydro Park, the

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canopy of trees that exists there is
probably the most dense of any tree

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canopies in this township. And so
that is the location that the U of M

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after first telling MEDC we'll take 100
million for this 20 acre parcel, it then

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mushroomed into
144 acres.

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And when that came to the township's
attention, we objected strongly to this.

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This is the Heron River. This is a very
ecologically sensitive property and this

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is one that you would not take virgin
land and just destroy.

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But yet they said they would reconsider,
look at their different options. And

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during that year and a half,
there was not one meeting held with this

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township board with U of M's
representatives. They continued to tell

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additional lies. Uh I think they even
told their board of regents that they

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were meeting with the township. Not
true. Not true. There was one 15 maybe

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10 minute Zoom call the week of
Thanksgiving in 2025

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where they we asked them for an update.
Chris Cob said, "We thought you wanted

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an update. We thought you were going to
give us an update." I said, "Well, we

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have we don't have no control over the
situation." And so the the meeting ended

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pretty much the way it began. And with
the comment being added, uh, the

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university moves at a slow pace, so
quote unquote, get used to it. Okay,

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that's how the meeting ended. And that's
the only interaction we've had. One

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meeting in July 25, a 15-minute meeting
in November. So contrary to all the

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public statements they continue to tell,
they meet with us, talk with us,

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absolutely
1,000% untrue. So the lies continue. And

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so what what's going on here right now?
So what what's what's where do we stand

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at the moment right now? Okay. During
that last year and a half, this township

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board did its own investigation, its own
due diligence, passed resolutions,

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appealed to our US senators,
our congresswoman, the governor's

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office, the Michigan legislature,
our state senators. We appeal to

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everybody to please take a stand.
Tell us your position in regards to Los

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Alamos National Laboratory and U ofM
building these data centers which in the

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words of U of M's own vice president
they have quite a few of them. This is

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Vice President Cobb. He's the one said
these computers are going to be the

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biggest, the baddest, and the fastest
computers in the world.

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Now think about that for a second. Of
all the data centers that are being

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built throughout the country, and there
are hundreds of them, this location here

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in Township is going to house the
biggest, the baddest, and the fastest

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computers in the world. And it's also
going to require

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the construction
of a 110

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megawatt substation.
I think we got a picture of what a 110

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megawatt substation looks like up there.

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Okay, there there you go. That's what a
110 megawatt substation looks like. and

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it's going to be pretty close to what's
going to be built if they have their way

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on the corner of Bridge and Textile
Road. Now,

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DTE,
not to be outdone

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in terms of telling untruths,
they have a meeting with us and they try

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to convince us this is a good thing
because if this comes into fruition,

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your rates are going to go down.
Okay, your rates are going to go down.

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In fact, Supervisor Stumbbo, you should
go out there and tell your residents the

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rates are going to go down.
Fortunately, Brenda did not drink that

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Kool-Aid either. And as we pointed out
to them, rates are going up right now.

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Without data centers, rates are going
up. And like we said before, may have

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been born at night, but not last night.
And so we all know the truth here what's

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going on here. That's what they want to
build on the 20 acre property on bridge

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and tax road. So
we now move over to okay

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the actual decision made by announced by
U of M to build these data centers. Now,

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make no mistake about it, uh, the
university president wants to pretend

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like
Los Alamos is not a high value target.

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Nothing could be further from the truth
or reality. The federal government

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itself has 10 criterion
that they rely upon to determine what

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constitutes a high value target.
And there's 10 criteria. You don't have

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to meet all 10, but in the case of Los
Alamos, they check box all 10. Their

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national security, it's restricted
entry. UFM has even said they won't be

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allowed to go inside to see what's going
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They uh are going to be developing
uh they had the brains of the Los Alamos

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facility
in New Mexico.

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And you have U ofM's response saying,
"Well, we're not going to store any

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nuclear material there." Thank you.
We're not going to assemble any nuclear

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bombs there. Okay. Thank you. But this
is where the brains of the operation

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lies with that facility. They're going
to be doing millions to billions of what

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they refer to as computational modeling.
And they're also going to be doing

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research for what they refer to as the
next generation of plutonium pits.

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Plutonium pits is what triggers or
activates a nuclear missile. All this

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research is going to be done in a
facility that's near schools,

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parks, apartment complexes, churches,
residential properties right here. Now,

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there's no protection. You're seeing
what's happening play out right now in

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the in the Middle East. We were told uh
back in February, this war is going to

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be over here pretty soon. It's not going
on. You've seen data centers attacked in

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the Middle East. Amazon lost two or
three. MA lost a data center. Those are

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commercial data centers.
What is a more valuable target than Los

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Alamos who as you know is the one
responsible for the manufacturer

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of the atom va they want located right
here on textile road two-lane highways

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going textile and uh bridge road right
near the yucka wastewater treatment

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facility right near the yucka water
storage tanks on bridge road right near

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the Willerin airport,
right near Metro Airport, but we'll

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locate it over here. There's no And the
president goes, "Well, there's no

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evidence that uh this is an imminent
threat." Well, I think all of you still

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are able to do your own research.
There's been over 40

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cyber attacks during the last four to
five weeks on wastewater facilities in

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Minnesota.
in Michigan, think even in Georgia.

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But the president said it's Minnesota's
fault. They blamed it on the governor

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there in Minnesota.
So there's a denial of what's happening

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at the federal level. U of M who used to
be I think in in all of our eyes uh an

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institution that had values, a moral
compass, we could not be compromised for

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its integrity. We watched them uh sell
their soul by virtue of eliminating at

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the insistence
of the Trump administration. They

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eliminated their DEI program.
They abandon what they called the PhD

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project which was a project that was
going to allow or encourage and help

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facilitate minorities who are going to
major in business to get a PhD. They

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eliminated that and they proudly
declared that they're now considered to

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be uh aligned with the Department of War
and they've aligned themselves with

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Hillsdale College as opposed to MIT,
Harvard, Georgetown, other prestigious

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universities. This is who they are now.
They have lost their moral compass along

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the way. It's a very very sad I think uh
day for us to say this because all of us

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have grown up in the shadows of these
universities of the University of

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Michigan here and we all know very
familiar we all and the students by the

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way and the faculty we continue to hear
from them on a regular basis with uh

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their support their uh their belief that
uh U of M is totally wrong in this issue

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and fortunately many of them have told
us also So they fear

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retribution. They feel being being
thrown out of the university if they

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speak up, express their opinions.
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we now reached last week and the
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to p to locate these facilities at the
corner of bridge and textile road. Keep

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in mind also
a month or so ago again just prior to

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this announcement U of M announced that
they has they are going to purchase

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Concordia University
also located on the banks of the Heron

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River and ironically
consists of the same amount of acreage

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as the one in the corner a bridge and
textile road.

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And so you have a professor uh Steve
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right now. He he was asked uh uh back in
April as to uh why did why did you not

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uh consider building these facilities in
in Arbor? And this is a quote that I've

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kept in front of me.
It says that uh U of M has said it

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picked Ipsane Township rather than in
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Stephen Czecho,
project lead and U of M engineering

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professor, said in an interview with the
in-house communications website that the

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university wanted to build in an arbor,
but the township emerged as a better

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option because it offers quote the
required power, water, and zoning. Now,

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stop right there.
All of us already have learned U O U of

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M is is exempt from zoning. Okay? So
zoning doesn't matter. They can plant

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their flag anywhere they want to in this
state because the Michigan Constitution

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allows them to do so. They don't have to
comply with any zoning

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uh ordinances. They have no site plan
review. They don't go before the

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planning commission. They don't come
before the township board. So if you

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eliminate zoning because it doesn't
apply in Ann Arbor anymore than it

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applies over here. What he's really
saying because we have required power

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and water.
Have you driven down to downtown Ann

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Arbor lately? You can't get around Ann
Arbor because of all the construction

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going on downtown Ann Arbor. They're
building as vertical as much as they

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possibly can. They have plenty of power
and they have plenty of water. We also

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have on record where the NRA planning
commissioner, I believe it was a

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chairperson, was quoted as saying that
the NRA planning commission would never

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allow a smoke stack facility or a data
center to be located in Ann Arbor. Okay.

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So, we know it wasn't the zoning. We
know it's not the money. They just spent

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$60 million for a Concordia. We know
they're the third wealthiest university

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in the United States. They spent $12
million on a law firm just to tell us

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what everybody else already knew that
the football coach had crossed the line

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with his behavior. Okay, we knew that,
right? They spent $12 million at $890 an

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hour for their attorney to do this
report to say, "Yeah, this was a bad

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thing that he did." He spent another
million dollars or close to it on

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investigating one of their own regions,
Jordan Aker, who crossed the line with

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his uh misogynistic and sexist comments.
And even after they did this report and

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he had to finally come clean and say,
"Well, I first denied it, but I said

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it." Even after they spent a million
dollars, he still didn't resign from the

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board. He's still on the board. So, they
got plenty of money over there. So the

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question is right now okay so if they
if they wasn't because of power or water

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it wasn't because of money or anything
why did they pick bridge and tax road

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and I can say this unequivocally
I'll take off my jacket angry

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» appreciate
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get a little bit get a little bit air to
you okay So what was the real reason why

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they picked this location? Okay. And
Paul Brown understands it. This he's a

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region up up for election. This board
understands it. The reason why they

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picked bridge and tax road, this is a
classic example, a textbook example of

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what environmental racism looks like.
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That is the reason that they pick this
site and they know that and they know in

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their hearts they know that. So what
they've done is they have continued to

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make decisions
and they want to go into communities

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that historically has had
this more black and brown poorer

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historically burdened by environmental
inequities than the affluent committee

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than the affluent community from which
the project originates. Now you can go

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to your US census right now and you can
find this out. Ipsson Township's

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population is approximately 31% black,
52% white.

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Hispanic 7.3%.
In Arbor, 6.6 black population, almost

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70% white, 5.5% Hispanic.
It's no it's it's not it's not any

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mystery right now that uh how diverse
our population is as compared to Ann

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Arbor. But that's not the only uh thing
you should look at here. The median

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income is like 32,000 in the township or
the countywide over 50,000.

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We have a much higher poverty rate. We
also have uh lower less access to health

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care than most other parts of county.
Less opportunities to actually uh get

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educational opportunities in eastern
Washington County. We right now

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have in in the in the black community in
our township, they have a lower life

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expectancy of anywhere from 12 to 17
years. That's a fact. So this is what

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environmental racism looks like up here
when you make a decision based upon the

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fact that county continues to be divided
by race and place. has been that way and

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it basically right now once again shows
how a university with the power and

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reputation that it has can basically
select a community with Ipsy Township

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like Ipsy Township with less political
and economic power and deem that to be

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an acceptable place to put this
intensive

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land use as as opposed to putting it in
Ann Arbor. They did have an alternative

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to this site. It's called the city of
Ann Arbor. Okay. If this was so

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important, this project is so important
to the University of Michigan and Los

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Alamos, who they claim have had a
partnership for many years, if it was

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that important to them, they could have
located this facility and still can

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within the city limits or in the campus
of University of Michigan. They won't do

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that because they know that the people
in Naira right now would push back as

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they would and as they should just like
we are going to do as well. So at this

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point in TIME

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also want to also uh point out that you
know it's not lost upon any of us right

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now. We did a foyer request. I asked uh
for a number of documents, environmental

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studies and land use analysis, what your
water and power needs are going to be.

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And I got a response from their FOIA
officer.

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Now, keep in mind, I have a very small
law firm, okay?

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Very small law firm. The U ofM has
legions of CPAs, attorneys, outside

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legal counsel, etc. I write one foyer
request asking for these documents in a

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very identifiable format and they write
back saying we just don't have the

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ability to answer these questions. Now
keep in mind you're building the

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biggest, baddest, and fastest computers
in the world, but you can't answer a

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small township attorney's foyer
requests. Well, some of those foyer

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requests asked for environmental
studies. It asked for their land use

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analysis, things that are very
sensitive. And I think right now there's

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a reason why uh they did not answer
those. And we'll get into that at some

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point in time, no doubt. But I also
can't help but be reminded right now

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that this decision of environmental
racism on their part is somewhat

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consistent
with how they also treated the Native

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Americans.
>> Okay. Now, Many of you may not know that

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back in 1817,
the University of Michigan

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received by way of a treaty almost 2,000
acres as part of this treaty of Fort

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Meeks and it was involved the
Nishami uh Indian nation and section 16

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of that treaty said that U ofM in
exchange for receiving

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these 2,000 near 2,000 acres. They were
going to provide education for native

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children. They sold the property, kept
all the money, and never ever lived up

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to that promise in that treaty. And it
wasn't until 1970

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when a U of M student challenged the
university that they finally had to have

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a reckoning in regards to that history
involving

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indigenous disposition dispossession and
they finally establish established a

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land culture memory and repair project.
Their own historical records acknowledge

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that its origins and financial
foundation are intertwined with

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indigenous land acquired under a treaty
that contemplated educating native

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native children. The university benefit
benefit from the land but for

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generations did not deliver the
educational benefit contemplated by that

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agreement. Now the point I'm making is
that when people tell you who they are

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and they act a certain way and they
continue to do so over a period of time

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going back to that treaty in 1860
to their decision made in 2026 when

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people tell you certain things believe
them. Okay? Believe them because there

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is nothing that will come. You'll never
see a more clear example of

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environmental racism reflected in a
decision than what you've seen here in

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MC Township. Now, what's going to happen
on this property they have their way?

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Well, we know what's going to happen.
They're going to destroy

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the the environment. The natural
environment would be destroyed. That

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tree canopy is all going to be
destroyed.

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The natural habitat will be destroyed.
the wildlife

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that right now uh roam there freely will
be gone.

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Uh we got a lot of pictures of American
bald eagles. They have nests on that

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property. All that's going to be at risk
and that's why the township right now

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has also said that we will do whatever
it takes to prevent U of M from building

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these data centers on that property. And
we continue

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and we continue to look for the best and
the brightest people to assist us. and

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we're getting phone calls every day and
we're doing our triage and trying to

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make sure we make the right
recommendation to the township board

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because as some of you may recall it
wasn't that long ago at the Meccano

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policy conference up here on Mechanino
Island that uh there was this big panel

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of very important people there. You had
former governor Jennifer Granhol sitting

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up there. You had John Roa who is the
chairman of the Wallbridge Alinger who's

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building this link ship data center
in in regard

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in regards to what they were talking
about. Nobody rebuked them but this

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township board because during that panel
conference John Makulta Jr. said

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Michigan should build a 100 data centers
and they should open the Great Lakes

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and use the Great Lakes water to cool
these data centers. That's on the

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record. That's what he said. And he said
>> and he said by any means necessary. So

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this is what you're dealing with right
now. You have a state that has basically

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lost its moral compass by
allowing a 6% sales and use tax

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exemption for these data centers, saving
them billions of dollars. And none of us

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can forget that picture we had up here
for a long time of the groundbreaking in

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Selen Tent Township where you had the
American version of what oligarchy looks

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like. You had some of the 10 richest
billionaires. If you're a millionaire,

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you're not rich anymore in in that
specific club. That you got to be a

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billionaire to be in that club. And they
were there in Seline all smiling and

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waving, breaking ground because they
were taking away billions of dollars in

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tax benefits with them. These are the
richest people in the world. What has

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happened to this state? Now, I am going
to put out a challenge here also.

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Now later on, keep in mind Selene
Township's data center is under

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construction. Okay, it's being built as
we sit here. And so right now, I did see

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where uh US Senate candidate Abdullah El
Sayad showed up, they're protesting the

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construction of the data center. Okay.
But

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my challenge is this.
It's one thing to protest against a data

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center.
It's under construction.

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And it's another thing to let us know
right here, right now, where do you

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stand on Los Alamos and U of M coming to
Taxile Bridge Road?

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» There has not been one shovel in the
ground yet. Okay. They've not had a

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groundbreaking ceremony. So, I would
call upon Democratic candidate Jocelyn

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Benson. Where do you stand?
>> Where do you stand? We have a right to

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know as a township. People have right to
know in this state. Where do you stand

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on coming under bridge textile road in
this issue of U of M and Los Alamos

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putting this township in harm's way?
We also need to have

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Abdullah Salad come over here. You stood
with some people in Selen Township.

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Stand with us. Let us know where you
stand. Do you support what's going on by

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U of M in Los Alamos? Same for
candidate John James for governor and

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Mike Rogers.
>> This we need to know before it's too

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late.
protesting after the fact,

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the toothpaste is out of the tube. We we
need to know right here, right now,

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where do you stand? And the same can be
said for all the candidates for a border

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regions. We have Paul Brown, Amir Mlad,
Lena Epstein, Michael Schust, Andrew

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Shedron, Kyle Moss, all running for U of
M regions. We need to know exactly. We

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do know where Paul Brown stands as he's
told us it's environmental racism. We

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need to know where it stands. So, at
this point in time, you know, I guess

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you ask yourself, you know, where do you
go from here? Well, contrary to what

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some people in local government would
have us do, we're not going to bend the

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knee. We're not going to get down and
gravel.

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I'm not going to listen to state senator
Jeff Irwin who says, "Well, I'm sure you

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could get them to build you a boardwalk
around uh around the perimeter of these

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data centers, and we're not going to
follow the recommendation of Justin

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Hajj, who says, you know, it's better
for you to negotiate

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uh before you make U of M really mad at
you." And then what are you going to do?

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Buy more property? I mean, so that's
kind of a, you know, it's kind of a a

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foolish argument for us. But interesting
about Justin Hajj is that when it came

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time to vote on this resolution to stand
with us, he and two other county

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commissioners said, "Well, we can't vote
on this issue. We have a conflict."

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What's your conflict? Because unless you
have a financial benefit or financial

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loss, you can't choose to not vote. He
said, "Well, I'm a professor at U of M."

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Well, that's not a basis for recusal,
but he did. And then after the

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announcement was made, some of you may
have seen him on TV or in Facebook

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saying how opposed he was to what U of M
was doing. I think what changed was the

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constituents from this audience that
weighed in and let him know that right

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now where you stood and it may have
affected his position. So what I would

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say to uh the border regents right now,
you know, you've not you've not gone so

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far that you cannot stop.
You can still turn this around. And as I

416
00:39:46,720 --> 00:39:56,720
said before, right now, this is still
somewhat of a moment in time that's uh

417
00:39:54,800 --> 00:40:01,440
reminds you of the novel by Charles
Dickens,

418
00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:06,720
A Tale of Two Cities. And Dickens opens
that novel with a sentence,

419
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:13,200
"It was the best of times. It was the
worst of times. It was the age of

420
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:20,640
wisdom. It was the age of foolishness.
It was the epic of belief. It was epic

421
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:26,000
of incredul. It was a season of light.
It was a season of darkness. It was a

422
00:40:23,359 --> 00:40:30,560
spring of hope. It was the winter of
despair. So I would say to the border

423
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:35,280
regents, those who are running and those
who are sitting on the board right now,

424
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:41,280
you still have an opportunity to do the
right thing. You're at a crossroads.

425
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:48,240
Township is not going to back down. We
will leave no stone unturned in making

426
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:53,920
sure that you do not destroy our home
values, our people's way of life, what

427
00:40:51,200 --> 00:41:01,119
they've worked to worked for, their
personal safety by locating

428
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:06,480
a nuclear research laboratory right in
the midst of Ipsane Township. You can

429
00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:14,319
still do the right thing. You can still
do do the right thing and not destroy

430
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:20,960
the woodlands, destroy the Heron River,
destroy the environment, the way of life

431
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:27,200
for over hundreds of years. At the same
time, we also believe that uh I said

432
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:32,640
back in January that I think we're right
on this. I think it's going to show

433
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:36,720
right now there's also uh native
indigenous burial ground on that

434
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,319
property. that's the case, you can't
build on that property.

435
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:44,000
» That's right.
>> You can't build on that property.

436
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:49,760
» And we we'll do what we have to do to
make sure that you don't if there's any

437
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:56,240
what we believe to be the evidence that
we've seen so far. Now, if you're going

438
00:41:53,359 --> 00:42:02,240
to do the right thing,
border regions,

439
00:41:59,599 --> 00:42:03,839
take a ride down the Heron River. Come
out here and walk walk walk walk walk

440
00:42:03,839 --> 00:42:03,920
walk walk walk walk walk walk walk walk
walk walk walk walk walk walk walk walk

441
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:08,920
walk walk walk walk walk walk walk walk

442
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,760
walk walk walk walk walk walk walk walk
walk walk walk walk around around that

443
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:14,079
where the fishing docks are. Visit Ford
Lake. See all the parks that are the

444
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:18,079
benefit from the Hiron River. We know
that we are the

445
00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:22,880
socioeconomically
outliers in Washington County and we

446
00:42:21,599 --> 00:42:26,480
recognize that we have limited
resources,

447
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:31,359
lower incomes,
almost no generational wealth, and that

448
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:35,200
we are home to the largest populations
of brown and black people and families

449
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:41,760
within our county.
and your societal class ratings. We are

450
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:47,760
probably middle class, working class,
lower class in some of your minds.

451
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:53,440
But we have historically and we continue
to face the impact of classism and

452
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:58,800
racism. And because of personal
prejudices, systemic policies, societal

453
00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:06,480
norms, and discrimination in this
county, our residents have always had to

454
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:13,280
stand up to be seen and be heard.
We are struggling right now with making

455
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:17,040
sure that people do not sell their
homes. We get phone calls. So, I don't

456
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:22,960
uh the supervisor and people on this
board, they get phone calls all the time

457
00:43:20,319 --> 00:43:27,599
as to whether or not should we sell our
property? Are our home values going to

458
00:43:25,599 --> 00:43:33,920
go down?
And what do you tell people when they do

459
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:39,119
their research as well and know
how this is going to impact their lives?

460
00:43:36,079 --> 00:43:44,720
Is there anybody on the border regents?
Is there anybody running for the border

461
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:50,240
regents that wants to have their family
live next to these data centers? Wants

462
00:43:48,240 --> 00:43:55,359
wants to raise their children in the
shadows of the data centers. I think

463
00:43:52,800 --> 00:44:02,160
that answer would be a resounding no.
So, we don't have all the the lobbyists

464
00:43:58,319 --> 00:44:07,839
that you do in uh in Lancing. We don't
have the financial wherewithal to spend

465
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:12,160
uh $1,000 an hour for all the most
expensive exclusive law firms located

466
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:18,000
from Chicago to California to to New
York. But we will stand up and fight. We

467
00:44:15,599 --> 00:44:23,200
will protect the People's River. We will
protect our environment. We will fight

468
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:29,119
to protect our businesses and homes. We
will fight to protect the 144 acres from

469
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:34,319
being developed by U ofM Los Alamos
along with 110 megawatt electrical power

470
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:39,520
substation which produces enough
electricity to power 80,000 homes and by

471
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:44,560
itself
equals more electricity than what is

472
00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:49,599
currently being used by the rest of the
township combined. We will continue to

473
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:54,240
do everything possible to stop the
building of these data centers at

474
00:44:51,760 --> 00:45:03,480
textile ridge roads. And just for one
time, just for one time, please do the

475
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:03,480
right thing. Thank you.

476
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:30,640
Thank you, Mr. Wyinners. At this time,
the board members will comment

477
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:38,640
afterwards or do you want to make a
quick comment afterwards? Okay, great

478
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:42,319
summary of where we are at right now.
If the people would like to speak, we

479
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:46,640
have microphones.
You have three minutes.

480
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:50,760
and address your comments to the board.
Julianne, are you up first?

481
00:45:52,160 --> 00:46:00,040
» May I address the
>> just raise Yeah, we'll bring you Well, I

482
00:45:56,160 --> 00:46:00,040
guess we can hear them from here.

483
00:46:04,319 --> 00:46:08,040
» Okay, that's great.

484
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:15,680
» Thank you.
>> Thank you.

485
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:19,680
Um, for those that don't know me, my
name is Amir Ml. I'm an attorney. I'm

486
00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:23,119
from Dearborn, Michigan. I'm also a
candidate for the University of Michigan

487
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:28,560
Board of Regents. And so, I was invited
here today by members of the the

488
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:33,599
township uh board and I'm I'm really
encouraged by the the report that our

489
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:40,160
that your township attorney has given
because I stand in solidarity with this

490
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:45,839
township. I'm here to support it.
And so what I heard from our very

491
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:49,119
able-bodied township attorney, and I've
worked across the table from council

492
00:46:47,839 --> 00:46:54,160
winners before, we've we've actually
litigated a a case before together,

493
00:46:52,160 --> 00:47:00,640
is that sometimes we got to take the
fight out of the boardroom from a

494
00:46:57,599 --> 00:47:06,000
township and into the courtroom. And so
I would support this township's effort

495
00:47:03,839 --> 00:47:10,400
to block this data center. As a member
of the board of regions, I think that

496
00:47:08,319 --> 00:47:13,839
it's important that communities
recognize that they should know what the

497
00:47:12,319 --> 00:47:18,800
impact of these developments are going
to be. Not when the bulldozers arrive,

498
00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:21,760
» but much in advance. We need to know
what the community impact is going to

499
00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:25,920
be, whether it comes from environmental
impact, economic impact, and every type

500
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:31,040
of impact that it's going to have on the
communities where these developments are

501
00:47:27,359 --> 00:47:35,280
happening. And so it's shame on a public
university that's giving corporate

502
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:41,599
welfare to a large military-industrial
complex to the tune of nearly $1 billion

503
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:44,400
that's going to go to a private entity.
That's not what our University of

504
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:47,280
Michigan represents and that's not what
the people of the state of Michigan are

505
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:50,560
looking for. And so when I come to
communities like this and I listen to

506
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:54,640
what the pulse of this community is
saying, we need to have our voices

507
00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:58,640
raised so loud that it reverberates in
Lancing. That where people in our state

508
00:47:56,720 --> 00:48:02,319
government recognize that this community
shouldn't be left behind because of what

509
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:07,520
our economic status or our racial makeup
is. And that's exactly what we bring up

510
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:11,359
when we talk about environmental racism.
This is a problem and we must stand

511
00:48:09,599 --> 00:48:15,359
together and push back and make sure
that our institutions, our public

512
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:19,280
institutions listens to the community
that it's there and designed to serve.

513
00:48:17,599 --> 00:48:22,400
And so I stand in solidarity with the
township. I stand in solidarity with

514
00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:25,839
your township attorney and and the and
the board of trustees and the township

515
00:48:23,839 --> 00:48:29,359
supervisor. And my name is Amir Mlin.
I'm running for the University Board of

516
00:48:27,119 --> 00:48:33,119
Michigan to help fight back because
that's what I've done my whole career as

517
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:38,480
a civil rights attorney. We're here to
push back against large institutions and

518
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:41,920
I'm here and to show and to say that I
do oppose this this development and I

519
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:47,240
would support this cause to end this
data center. Thank you.

520
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:47,240
» Thank you. Thank you.

521
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:53,240
Lori, are you going first?

522
00:48:54,000 --> 00:49:01,920
Hi, I'm Nancy. Um, a member of this
community too, just like most of us

523
00:48:58,720 --> 00:49:08,480
here. I was passing out these the phone
number of Paul Brown. He's on the um uh

524
00:49:06,079 --> 00:49:12,559
U of M uh regent board
>> and if anybody doesn't have his number,

525
00:49:10,559 --> 00:49:17,839
he's looking forward to receiving
people's thoughts, concerns,

526
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:23,440
and whatever questions if you have
questions and uh he's on our side. He's

527
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:26,800
the only one on the board that is on our
side so far, but he's working on other

528
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:31,760
board members. There's going to be a new
president there too soon. uh by the way

529
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:36,400
and uh November 30th there'll be a new
president at U of M. So that's in our

530
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:43,200
favor a little bit too. I think if we
fight hard enough, loud enough, we can

531
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:47,680
win. We have to win. We have no choice.
This is our families are here. You know,

532
00:49:45,599 --> 00:49:52,720
we can't give up on that. And if anybody
doesn't have one of these, please um

533
00:49:51,119 --> 00:49:56,160
I'll just meet people at the door when
they leave.

534
00:49:53,839 --> 00:49:59,280
» We can hand them out as people are
exiting if you want. Thank you, Nancy.

535
00:49:58,079 --> 00:50:02,800
Did you just give the number for the
record?

536
00:50:01,359 --> 00:50:05,200
» Could you read the number into the
record?

537
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,440
» Sorry.
>> The phone number.

538
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:12,000
» Oh, number two.
>> Two.

539
00:50:09,839 --> 00:50:18,480
» Oh, yes, of course I will. The phone
number to Paul Brown is

540
00:50:15,839 --> 00:50:21,480
734
73077.

541
00:50:24,319 --> 00:50:33,040
» Shouldn't we call them all? you want
your text.

542
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:41,200
» And we met with Regent Brown twice and
he really wants people to call him or

543
00:50:37,359 --> 00:50:48,400
text him with his concerns. He means it.
I'm not sure if he realizes what's going

544
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:54,480
to happen, but but the thought that he
really does mean it. He wants people to

545
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:58,319
t he wants to talk to the people and he
wants you to know he wants you to share

546
00:50:56,480 --> 00:51:02,640
your opinions with him, your questions
with him and he will take it to the

547
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:07,040
board of regents. So, please do that.
Thank you, Nancy. Next, Julianne.

548
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:12,160
» Yep, that's a
>> hi there. Andrea Pierce, um over in Gul

549
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:15,760
Village, Ipsy Township resident. Um I
just want to say that we got to do

550
00:51:14,240 --> 00:51:20,640
everything we can to stop this thing.
We've I've been here several times. Um

551
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:24,319
the moratorum is sounds wonderful. Thank
you again. I want to remind people

552
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:30,960
though that while we're talking about a
nuclear data center over there, there's

553
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:36,720
also the Nexus pipeline right by it like
a stones throw, you know, right there.

554
00:51:34,079 --> 00:51:41,520
We are already on the at the um blast
zone from that.

555
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:45,599
Now, what happens when the nuclear or
either one of them blow up, right? Are

556
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:49,839
we going to like how far is this going
to go? There's going to be a big old

557
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:54,640
plutonium pit here. I mean, seriously,
we are in danger,

558
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:57,760
right? We are in danger for our lives,
for our famil family's lives, for those

559
00:51:56,240 --> 00:52:01,839
animals out there. I'm all the time
talking about those animals, those

560
00:51:59,359 --> 00:52:05,280
sacred beings that are out there. You
know, we have to think about them. What

561
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:11,440
are we doing to them? What are we doing
to us? What are we allowing this school

562
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:16,640
to do to us? Okay. Um, I'm in the hail
no boo category.

563
00:52:14,720 --> 00:52:22,079
I think this is terrible that this
university is doing this to a township

564
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:26,000
of people who care, who look out for
each other. We made it through co now we

565
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:30,480
got to fight this university. I think
it's sick and disgusting. And while

566
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:33,680
we're talking about um regents, thank
you Amir. I'm glad that you're here.

567
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:38,160
I've I've seen you speak plenty of
times. Um and you're on my side. You got

568
00:52:35,599 --> 00:52:42,960
my vote. But we have to also think about
the other regents. Sarah Hubbert is

569
00:52:40,720 --> 00:52:48,319
actively a lobbyist who point pushed and
pushed and pushed in Lancing to get this

570
00:52:45,119 --> 00:52:52,400
data centers. She pushed legislation.
She's one she's one of them and she's a

571
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:56,240
regent.
And that's probably why we only have one

572
00:52:54,160 --> 00:53:00,319
up there that's against this, right?
Because she's been sitting there all

573
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:05,359
this time putting her, oh, we can get
money. Yeah. Uh-huh. We need to stop

574
00:53:03,119 --> 00:53:11,280
them. Okay. We need to I think her
turn's up in 29. But if we can find out,

575
00:53:09,119 --> 00:53:15,760
you know, do what we got to do, you
know, talk to her, you know, reach out

576
00:53:13,599 --> 00:53:21,520
to these people. They're supposed to be
human. Let's get them, you know, cuz if

577
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:24,800
we sit back and don't, we're going to
lose. We are We're going to lose. They

578
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:29,280
got all this money that they're trying
to to push on out there. That $100

579
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:35,119
million that they were giving, that's
our money. We can't get health care, but

580
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:38,400
they can get free land. I can't get free
land. I've been sitting on them tax

581
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:43,040
sites all day long trying to get those
lands and I can't get none of them. But

582
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:48,559
you of them can. And they got billions
and billions and billions.

583
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:52,559
Yeah. It's not fair and it's not right.
So I'm in the when we fight we win. So

584
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:54,960
what are we going to do?
>> Fight.

585
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:58,240
» Thank you.
>> And win. When we fight, we win. Oh, you

586
00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:01,920
got a mic. Thank you,
>> Lori.

587
00:54:00,079 --> 00:54:07,119
I'm sorry. Next.
>> My name is Lindsay Pastor. Um, I'm a

588
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:10,119
resident of the town. I live in the
club.

589
00:54:12,240 --> 00:54:16,040
» I think it's on now.

590
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:25,760
» Oh, here. This one's working.
>> This one's working. Okay. My name is

591
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:31,920
Lindsay Passmore. I'm a resident of the
township. I live in the Club View

592
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:38,800
Fairills neighborhood. Never been to a
township meeting before.

593
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:47,200
Um, I want to thank all of you for
standing against this project. Um, I I

594
00:54:44,319 --> 00:54:57,119
have been so proud to be a U OFM
graduate and I am livid about the way

595
00:54:52,640 --> 00:55:02,160
the U of M has behaved. I I'm I can
hardly believe it. And you're right,

596
00:54:59,920 --> 00:55:09,599
they've lost the the university has lost
its moral compass. And I am um I they I

597
00:55:07,119 --> 00:55:16,160
feel like they betrayed their legacy.
They betrayed all of us who went there

598
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:22,640
believing in what the U of M stands for.
I really appreciate um Attorney Winters,

599
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:28,880
how your report just specifically over
and over again calls out the university.

600
00:55:25,119 --> 00:55:34,559
I love the signs about hail no, but
there's no U of M logo on there. And if

601
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:40,880
it wasn't for the U of M, Los Alamos
would not be trying to be here in Ipsy

602
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:47,440
Township. I think I want to know more
about what possible legal recourse we

603
00:55:44,240 --> 00:55:54,000
might have. Um, but I think one of our
strongest strategies is we need to just

604
00:55:50,400 --> 00:56:00,640
shame the hell out of the university. I
want us to be there on football

605
00:55:56,240 --> 00:56:05,760
Saturdays and I am such a sincere fan of
our football and basketball team, but

606
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:11,359
I'm ready to be out there at games with
our signs with leaflets. I think the

607
00:56:08,799 --> 00:56:17,040
students at the law school and at the
School of Natural Resources need to know

608
00:56:14,240 --> 00:56:21,359
about this. I think we need to get some
of those brilliant young minds because

609
00:56:18,799 --> 00:56:26,400
they are idealistic and they they want
to stand for what's right. Um, whatever

610
00:56:24,319 --> 00:56:31,920
we need to do to support your resolution
about a moratorum on electrical

611
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:37,440
infrastructure,
let's let's go. And um but I'm really

612
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:42,400
interested in knowing what else we can
do legally um since they seem to be

613
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:47,079
exempt from all the rules. Thank you so
much though. Thank you, Julianne.

614
00:56:48,559 --> 00:56:54,799
» Hello everyone. Denise Kirchoff. I just
want to let everyone know a couple of

615
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:59,599
things. I don't think a lot of people I
don't even know if the board is aware of

616
00:56:56,079 --> 00:57:07,599
this. Los Alamos actually appointed a
board for the U of M data center in 2023

617
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:11,839
on their website. their board overseeing
the U of M data center, which nobody

618
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:15,920
knew anything about, was appointed in
2023.

619
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:19,280
Now, I think we should all take that in.
Nobody here knew anything. The board

620
00:57:17,599 --> 00:57:24,240
didn't know anything. No, only the
people at U of M knew. And I see a lot

621
00:57:22,559 --> 00:57:27,760
of people and I hear them going, "Well,
it's not that bad. There's going to be

622
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:33,599
jobs." No, there's really not. I think
people need to understand one thing.

623
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:41,040
Since 2025,
our energy bills have increased by 60

624
00:57:38,559 --> 00:57:48,079
billion dollars in the United States.
The United States represents 37%

625
00:57:45,359 --> 00:57:55,359
of data centers worldwide. That was as
of January 1st, 2024.

626
00:57:52,480 --> 00:58:01,440
It is 2026.
One

627
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:08,079
midsize data center uses 300,000
gallons of water a day. 300,000 gallons

628
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:11,520
of water a day. Think about that. And
you wonder why they're looking at the

629
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:15,200
Great Lakes. And a lot of people are
like, "Oh, wow. That information can't

630
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:18,799
be right." You know what? Most of this
information doesn't even come from the

631
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:24,480
United States anymore because we can't
really trust it. So people don't realize

632
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:28,480
another thing. The world is watching us.
They're not just watching, you know,

633
00:58:26,559 --> 00:58:32,799
what's going on in their countries, but
they're watching us because they're

634
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:41,680
seeing more hypers scale centers being
built here. Now, hypers scale centers in

635
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:48,799
less than one year will use over 300
billion gallons of water. Can we think

636
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:53,119
about that? 300 billion gallons of
water.

637
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:58,799
Everybody just sit with that for five
seconds and think about 300 billion

638
00:58:55,520 --> 00:59:05,280
gallons of water.
So what does that leave for us? And I

639
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:10,079
think U of M needs to realize one thing.
The one thing this community will not do

640
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:18,000
is we will not go quietly into the
night. That will never happen. We will

641
00:59:13,359 --> 00:59:24,559
be here day after day after day. If we
have to do encampments, we will do it.

642
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:32,240
Because when I and my brain calculate
300 billion gallons of water,

643
00:59:29,359 --> 00:59:38,559
what does that do to our Great Lakes
when we actually what do we have like

644
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:44,400
over 27% of the world's fresh water is
right here and we are about to let U of

645
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:48,240
M and data centers destroy it. So I
think we need to realize that that

646
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:52,880
that's going to be very serious and
eventually if you look at the map

647
00:59:50,079 --> 00:59:56,240
everybody will live less than 150 miles
away from a data center in the state of

648
00:59:54,319 --> 01:00:01,000
Michigan. Do we really want that?
>> Thank you Denise. Next

649
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:06,680
» number six.
>> Who has number six?

650
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:13,640
» Hi I'm Gary.

651
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:26,880
Lori, you want to find number seven
while I get ready?

652
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:29,920
» Fine. I've been in this community all my
life.

653
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:35,920
» There we go. That's That's what's in it.
The magic. It works now. Go for Anyway,

654
01:00:32,720 --> 01:00:41,520
I want to thank Doug for all your
support with this, all the things you've

655
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:48,240
dug up and sounds good, but we need to
fight more. I was hoping just with the

656
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:54,000
Eagles out there, we get some on the
federal level, maybe. I I don't know.

657
01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:58,160
That's just I'm hoping, you know, DNR or
somebody.

658
01:00:55,520 --> 01:01:04,559
Um, but I'm going to support whatever we
got to do to do get get it gone.

659
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:09,040
I just want to thank you guys. Thank
everybody here and let's get it done.

660
01:01:07,839 --> 01:01:12,280
» Get them out of here.
>> Thank you.

661
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:17,960
» Number seven. Number seven.

662
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:21,640
» Eight.

663
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:24,480
» I have eight.
>> You have eight.

664
01:01:23,839 --> 01:01:30,000
» All right.
>> Um, hi, my name's Emily. I'm an

665
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:35,440
Ipsellante resident and um I'm not
really a public speaker, but I just

666
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:42,720
wanted to say thank you to everybody who
can stand up against this and can put it

667
01:01:39,359 --> 01:01:48,640
into words way better than I can. And I
have so many concerns about the

668
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:53,440
electricity use, the water use, possible
the pollution,

669
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:57,839
um the location,
just not that it should be built

670
01:01:55,760 --> 01:02:05,200
somewhere else. I don't think it should
be built at all because this I thank

671
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:11,040
you. I it it would be bad enough if it
was a regular data center. Um, but it's

672
01:02:08,319 --> 01:02:18,000
even worse that it's going to be used
for nuclear weapons research. Um, and I

673
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:24,799
just think it's horrible um, what U of M
is doing just steamrolling over

674
01:02:21,359 --> 01:02:29,680
Ipsellante. And
yeah, we just like everyone else has

675
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:34,799
said, we have to fight. I don't know how
exactly we're going to be able to beat

676
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:42,079
them, but we have to try. And thank you
so much to everybody out here who has

677
01:02:38,319 --> 01:02:45,200
been standing up and fighting.
Um,

678
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:50,359
I don't really know what else to say,
but thank you.

679
01:02:46,319 --> 01:02:50,359
» That's perfect. Thank you.

680
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:55,880
» Number nine.
Number nine.

681
01:02:56,160 --> 01:03:02,160
» Okay.
>> I know, too.

682
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:08,240
» Hi, my name is Regina Cuddler. live in
Ipsellani Township and I've been kind of

683
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:12,000
involved in this issue for a long time.
I went to the very first U of

684
01:03:10,079 --> 01:03:20,720
Mformformational
session in um September of 2025

685
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:25,680
and it was 8 miles northwest of the
township

686
01:03:22,319 --> 01:03:32,559
and it was at 5:00 in the afternoon
which was just a really lovely drive at

687
01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:39,359
that time of day onto Plymouth Road and
um North Campus. no bus, you know, there

688
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:46,000
isn't bus service and that, you know, an
easy way to take a bus from there, from

689
01:03:42,799 --> 01:03:53,440
here to there. And, you know, there was
a few people there and we walked in and

690
01:03:50,240 --> 01:03:59,920
they had, you know, some refreshments
and they had people standing around by

691
01:03:56,640 --> 01:04:07,680
poster boards, you know, showing each
aspect of their of the data center. And

692
01:04:04,319 --> 01:04:14,000
um I asked each and every person
standing by a poster board, would you

693
01:04:10,799 --> 01:04:21,200
live near a data center? And they all
said no, except for one lady who said

694
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:26,799
she would if the burm was high enough.
And there was a gentleman, I think he

695
01:04:23,119 --> 01:04:30,720
was like a he was an engineer, like an
engineer's engineer. And he said he

696
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:37,440
would. And I thought he'd probably live
in one. So

697
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:42,880
Anyway, so then um went to the second
one right over here at the ballroom at

698
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:49,680
the hotel Marriott.
>> Exact same situation except I got a lot

699
01:04:47,039 --> 01:04:57,440
more information because I spent a lot
of time with the fellow from Los Alamos.

700
01:04:53,839 --> 01:05:04,559
And one thing that he revealed is that
what makes Michigan such an attractive

701
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:10,160
scene for the data center is that a lot
of people that might want to recruit in

702
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:17,200
that don't want to live out there
anymore in Mexico. The weather's bad.

703
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:22,559
There's fires. There's no I mean it's
just not like a really nice place to

704
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:29,039
live. I guess they'd like to live here
in Michigan because we have water, we

705
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:35,520
have trees, we have, you know, look at,
we even had the right wildlife, you

706
01:05:32,240 --> 01:05:45,359
know, that kind of stuff. And he also
told me that they were going to focus on

707
01:05:42,559 --> 01:05:49,280
weapon delivery with drones.
>> Shame. So, so that

708
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:51,280
» Can you put the microphone up to your
mic?

709
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:54,880
» Oh, I'm sorry. Weapon delivery with
drones.

710
01:05:53,200 --> 01:06:01,920
And if any of you have been watching the
news, you've seen what drones can do.

711
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:08,559
But what do drones need? They need the
brains, the technology

712
01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:14,799
» to um guide their navigation systems,
their delivery systems, and don't forget

713
01:06:12,079 --> 01:06:21,520
the reconnaissance systems and the
surveillance systems.

714
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:23,760
So that is what that Los Alamus data
center is going to do.

715
01:06:22,799 --> 01:06:28,319
» Thank you, Regina.
>> Oh, can I just add one more thing along

716
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:34,240
that line? They sent a bunch of material
and one one thing they said about this

717
01:06:30,799 --> 01:06:38,640
site is that it's very attractive
because

718
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:45,359
um um
this site is very attractive because it

719
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:48,960
has developmental flexibility
and long-term capacity.

720
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:52,079
» Thank you.
>> And so you think about what they could

721
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:55,599
be planning.
>> Thank you. Thank you for attending every

722
01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:58,599
meeting. Thank you.
>> Julianne

723
01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:04,280
number 11.
>> Julian.

724
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:13,839
» There it is.
>> Bruce Williamson and I live in the

725
01:07:11,359 --> 01:07:22,160
township and uh I'm not used to talking
to crowds of people so bear with me. Two

726
01:07:17,359 --> 01:07:30,000
things to say. Uh the first is that in
high school I had a science teacher

727
01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:36,079
and first day of the class the very
first thing he said is we have and I

728
01:07:33,520 --> 01:07:41,680
didn't remember the number but it's 27%
of the fresh water in the world and

729
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:47,599
somebody's going to come after it and
it's going to be up to your generation

730
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:52,079
to stop it. I never thought that we'd
have to defend it against an internal

731
01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:58,160
foe.
>> But the other thing is, um, I've lived

732
01:07:55,760 --> 01:08:04,799
here since 1993.
I've seen a lot of things happen. I've

733
01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:09,920
seen a a lot of tough times, the GM
plants closing,

734
01:08:06,960 --> 01:08:17,440
the ramifications of that, and I've seen
this community bounce back. And I think

735
01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:24,880
one of our strongest assets is our
diversity and and the way we look at

736
01:08:21,440 --> 01:08:29,759
things from different angles and we can
if we work together

737
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:33,839
putting looking at all these different
angles, I think we'll succeed.

738
01:08:33,199 --> 01:08:39,600
» That's it.
>> Thank you.

739
01:08:36,719 --> 01:08:44,480
» Number 12
over there.

740
01:08:42,159 --> 01:08:50,560
Thank you. Hi. Uh my name is Juliet
Heinley. I am a township resident since

741
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:55,040
2018. And um thank you everybody for
being here. Thank you for being in

742
01:08:52,400 --> 01:09:00,640
opposition to this terrible thing. And I
just want to ask the room, sorry, I get

743
01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:04,719
so nervous when I speak in front of you.
Um thank you. I just want to ask

744
01:09:02,239 --> 01:09:08,000
everybody in the room who is here
because somebody else in their family

745
01:09:06,159 --> 01:09:12,080
can't be here or one of their friends is
working or like some their friends are,

746
01:09:10,319 --> 01:09:15,359
you know, taking care of their kids,
right? Like we're all here to represent

747
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:18,880
other people who aren't in this room
with us right now. And so I just want to

748
01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:22,960
remind us all that there are even more
of us in opposition than are in this

749
01:09:21,199 --> 01:09:27,080
room right now. And thank you all for
being here.

750
01:09:23,839 --> 01:09:27,080
» Thank you.

751
01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:31,880
» Number 13.

752
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:39,239
I'd like to say I see mayor elect Yousef
Robbie has JOINED

753
01:09:53,440 --> 01:09:58,080
HIM.
>> YEAH, that's what worked for you. I'm

754
01:09:55,760 --> 01:10:01,400
not going to
be a problem.

755
01:10:07,360 --> 01:10:13,840
» Can we
Sorry.

756
01:10:11,600 --> 01:10:17,199
» Once you grab it, you can't touch the
button.

757
01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:20,400
» No. And it's it's not even that. It's
just being

758
01:10:18,560 --> 01:10:23,440
» That was
>> How about this time? We good?

759
01:10:22,159 --> 01:10:27,760
» All right.
Uh so my name is Jessica Krueger. I live

760
01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:34,320
in Ipsilani Township. I've been a
resident here since uh shortly in the

761
01:10:31,199 --> 01:10:41,840
middle of CO I think. And we had someone
earlier who gave a really amazing

762
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:48,239
um speech about water and the amount of
water that will be consumed and is

763
01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:55,679
already being consumed by these types of
computational facilities, data centers.

764
01:10:51,760 --> 01:11:00,800
um however you want to term them. But I
want you to think about this from a

765
01:10:58,159 --> 01:11:06,640
different angle for a second because we
are entering what is going to be and in

766
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:11,520
some places already is a global water
crisis.

767
01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:17,280
So many refugees are fleeing because of
water shortages or because of conflict

768
01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:21,440
over water or impure water. And I want
you to sit and think for a minute. And I

769
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:27,920
hope somewhere out there the regions
will do this too. Sit and think about

770
01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:32,800
spending a day without water. Not being
able to drink, not being able to use

771
01:11:30,159 --> 01:11:37,199
your sink, wash your dishes, take a
shower,

772
01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:46,159
use a toilet,
nothing. And now think about not just a

773
01:11:40,800 --> 01:11:50,719
day of that, but a week, a month. How
would that impact your life? What would

774
01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:59,280
the world around you look like?
Because someday in our near future, if

775
01:11:54,000 --> 01:12:03,280
we as Michigan, as a country, as a world
keep going down the road that we're

776
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:09,679
going, that's going to be what we're all
looking at. So, it's now more important

777
01:12:06,480 --> 01:12:16,080
than ever to protect that 27%
that we have in our hands

778
01:12:12,719 --> 01:12:22,000
and take a stand so that we can all have
a brighter future where we can drink, we

779
01:12:19,120 --> 01:12:25,920
can shower, we can use indoor plumbing,
and we can have access to the kind of

780
01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:31,199
life that we live right now without
interference. Thank you.

781
01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:34,880
» Thank you.
Next.

782
01:12:34,159 --> 01:12:41,159
» Number 14.
>> Number 14.

783
01:12:37,199 --> 01:12:41,159
» Pass. Number 15.

784
01:12:42,880 --> 01:12:48,159
» If you could say your name.
>> Sure. You're a township res.

785
01:12:46,480 --> 01:12:53,360
» Yep.
>> Hi. Uh, my name is Nara. I'm a township

786
01:12:50,960 --> 01:12:58,239
resident. In fact, I live in the condos
on the other side of the Heron River

787
01:12:55,760 --> 01:13:06,760
where this is going to go or proposed to
go. So, this will affect my family

788
01:13:03,760 --> 01:13:06,760
immensely.

789
01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:14,560
And um
I'm mad because I look at U of M and

790
01:13:13,199 --> 01:13:19,280
it's supposed to be an institution of
higher learning

791
01:13:16,480 --> 01:13:26,239
and instead it's become a corporation
where all they care about is money

792
01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:30,800
and how much money they can make for
themselves. They don't care about

793
01:13:28,719 --> 01:13:36,239
people. They don't care about the
residents.

794
01:13:32,320 --> 01:13:41,159
They don't care about us.
And it angers me because I'm a former

795
01:13:38,159 --> 01:13:41,159
employee.

796
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:51,600
And um I'll tell you, working there,
it's obvious they don't even care about

797
01:13:49,040 --> 01:13:57,199
their employees.
Oh no.

798
01:13:52,800 --> 01:14:02,480
» And I think we need to be very loud and
very present. And I guess I want to know

799
01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:06,480
how we are going to organize that
because I found out about this meeting

800
01:14:04,480 --> 01:14:10,640
today.
And I have found out about other

801
01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:17,600
meetings literally the day after they've
happened. Otherwise, I would have been

802
01:14:12,239 --> 01:14:22,480
here. And I want to see organization and
communication

803
01:14:19,440 --> 01:14:27,120
to all of the residents here and beyond
because this doesn't just affect us. The

804
01:14:24,719 --> 01:14:32,480
Hiron River continues down into
Belleville. It continues going. This is

805
01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:37,520
going to affect our neighbors because we
are all one big community.

806
01:14:35,679 --> 01:14:43,440
And I was talking to a friend today
telling her about this and she didn't

807
01:14:40,480 --> 01:14:51,280
even know where this was going and how
close to her home it is.

808
01:14:47,440 --> 01:14:55,760
And I think that we
need to get that out

809
01:14:54,080 --> 01:15:00,320
um
more like this communication because I

810
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:04,960
know that there could be more people
here that we could pack this room that

811
01:15:03,600 --> 01:15:11,679
we could pack the room. I think it's
what? September 9th is the meeting with

812
01:15:08,080 --> 01:15:18,000
the um the regions. Is that what that
is? Yes, the meeting with the regions.

813
01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:22,159
And I think we need to pack that. And
I don't know exactly how to go about

814
01:15:19,840 --> 01:15:27,360
that because I saw this on Facebook, but
Facebook, Tik Tok, Instagram. Um, we

815
01:15:25,679 --> 01:15:32,320
need to get the young people involved
because when we're gone, this is their

816
01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:34,239
um,
>> as many social media platforms as

817
01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:37,520
possible.
>> As many social media platforms as

818
01:15:35,760 --> 01:15:40,000
possible as my daughter says because
this affects all of us.

819
01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:43,280
» All right. Thank you.
>> Sign up to sign up for the meeting.

820
01:15:42,320 --> 01:15:46,159
» Okay. But
>> it's September.

821
01:15:44,320 --> 01:15:51,280
» September. I saw that. Yes, I have that
saved so I can do that this uh, evening.

822
01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:57,760
» You're Thank you. Um the three minutes
is up and just so you know we are we

823
01:15:54,640 --> 01:16:01,679
have pushed it out the September 9th
meeting

824
01:15:59,040 --> 01:16:06,640
» on all of the social media platforms. We
pushed them out today because today is a

825
01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:08,880
day we received the link from the
University of Michigan.

826
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:14,320
» Yeah, I did see that
>> last Tuesday.

827
01:16:11,199 --> 01:16:17,840
The University of Michigan announced
>> a whole week,

828
01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:25,440
» a whole week ago, they announced that
they were going to locate it at Textile

829
01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:31,440
and Bridge. 27 minutes later,
they texted me to have a phone call and

830
01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:36,880
it was already out in the social media.
So, the reason we get it out as soon as

831
01:16:34,320 --> 01:16:42,000
we get it, the University of Michigan
controls the information and how it

832
01:16:39,920 --> 01:16:47,679
drips out and it's torture what they're
doing to our community.

833
01:16:44,159 --> 01:16:52,239
But, but but
we will continue to get it out as soon

834
01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:59,280
as we can get it. We're going to do a
mailer to every single resident.

835
01:16:56,239 --> 01:17:05,920
We they're having
another forum in October.

836
01:17:03,440 --> 01:17:11,760
They won't give us the date of that yet.
If we knew the date, we could put it in

837
01:17:07,679 --> 01:17:16,480
the mailer. They control every aspect of
information and decisions and it's with

838
01:17:14,960 --> 01:17:23,199
disrespect
to our community, our people, to anyone

839
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:28,400
in county and the board of regents
should not allow this. If it's such a

840
01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:33,280
great
wonderful

841
01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:39,199
state-ofthe-art future,
then why don't they proudly let people

842
01:17:36,159 --> 01:17:42,000
know? So, we will get it out even more.
So,

843
01:17:40,480 --> 01:17:46,239
» I'm sorry. Who's next?
>> Is there a way that we can organize

844
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:48,719
protests at U of M?
>> Yes.

845
01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:51,679
» Yes, you can.
>> But we have to be careful because they

846
01:17:50,320 --> 01:17:55,440
have new rules.
>> Let's have Who's next, please? Number

847
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:59,679
speaker.
>> 16.

848
01:17:58,159 --> 01:18:02,159
» Lori.
>> No, let's wait. We got to get Who's

849
01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:04,480
next?
>> Number 16.

850
01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:09,080
» Okay.
>> Okay. Thank you. Number 17.

851
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:16,960
» 18. 18.
>> I got 18. I'm not going to pass.

852
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:20,400
» All right.
>> State your name. And if you

853
01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:28,800
» My name's Chris Rizzo. I live in Ipsy
Township and uh I'm I oppose this uh

854
01:18:25,199 --> 01:18:38,320
data center because I saw your uh the
email about the coming up at U of M. I

855
01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:45,360
mean at the center at the EMU center and
uh I noticed as I read carefully it said

856
01:18:41,679 --> 01:18:51,600
it's a a guided discussion.
So it's not like town hall or open town

857
01:18:48,080 --> 01:18:54,800
hall. It's a guided disc discussion and
I'm wondering if that means they're

858
01:18:53,280 --> 01:18:58,800
going to shove their hand up your
backside and work your jaw for you

859
01:18:57,440 --> 01:19:02,800
» since they're from Antarctica.
>> That's a fair question.

860
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:07,280
» Yeah. Which I'm sure they would avoid.
But I think this guided discussion is

861
01:19:04,719 --> 01:19:12,080
just pre-programmed propaganda being
planned by M. It's just another slap in

862
01:19:09,520 --> 01:19:16,320
the face to Ipsy Township. Slap in your
face.

863
01:19:13,679 --> 01:19:22,480
And uh it's it's what I really want to
say is I think this whole data say

864
01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:26,960
center thing is just a ruse and a ploy
to introduce small nuclear reactors into

865
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:30,960
the energy grid under the guise of
national security. That's what that's

866
01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:35,600
what the investors in Wall Street are
seeing. They know that for the next 10

867
01:19:33,199 --> 01:19:38,000
years there's going to be a
>> just a moment

868
01:19:36,159 --> 01:19:42,400
» there's going to be a increased demand
for electrical energy and that just you

869
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:47,199
know that's what the Wall Street
investors are looking for a return on

870
01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:52,239
their investment for the next 10 years
there's going to be an increase in

871
01:19:49,760 --> 01:19:57,199
demand for electrical energy and I think
that these data centers are just a ploy

872
01:19:54,960 --> 01:20:01,360
to introduce these small nuclear
reactors and if you do a search on the

873
01:19:59,440 --> 01:20:06,159
internet under small nuclear reactor
actors, you'll see that they're they're

874
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:12,800
they're
aimed at these data centers. And I think

875
01:20:10,239 --> 01:20:18,640
that appropriate legal prohibitions and
laws need to be created to prevent small

876
01:20:15,679 --> 01:20:23,600
nuclear reactors from being used in Ipsy
Township under any circumstances unless

877
01:20:21,520 --> 01:20:29,760
the exhausted and depleted uranium fuel
is stored in Ann Arbor.

878
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:34,960
» That's all I really want to say.
>> Thank you. Thank you.

879
01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:37,360
» That's a
good point.

880
01:20:36,080 --> 01:20:42,400
» Well, well, it's less than three
minutes. I can tell you that. But, uh,

881
01:20:39,199 --> 01:20:47,440
I've been to Los Alamos and, uh, when I
went through there, which was maybe a

882
01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:52,800
year or two ago, it reminded me of a
combination of downtown Ann Arbor and

883
01:20:50,080 --> 01:20:55,600
Somerset Mall. That was my impression of
it.

884
01:20:55,120 --> 01:21:03,000
» You bet.
>> They can stay there. Number 18.

885
01:20:59,600 --> 01:21:03,000
Oh, 19.

886
01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:11,600
» Uh, I'm going to make sure I kind of
keep flipping to my phone, so please

887
01:21:08,560 --> 01:21:16,000
start the time clock now. Um, with that
being said, my name is Monica Ross

888
01:21:13,520 --> 01:21:21,920
Williams. I am a West Willow resident
and lifelong Ipsani uh area resident. I

889
01:21:20,080 --> 01:21:24,640
have some questions today and that's why
I'm going to address the questions. I

890
01:21:23,360 --> 01:21:28,800
know the board can't address them
because it would have to go to uh Jeff

891
01:21:26,320 --> 01:21:32,159
Irwin. State Senator Jeff Irwin is a
vice chair of the universities and

892
01:21:30,719 --> 01:21:37,440
community college appropriation
subcommittee and also basically the

893
01:21:34,560 --> 01:21:41,760
Michigan Senate Appropriation Committee.
So the questions are what project

894
01:21:40,159 --> 01:21:45,840
information was provided to Senator
Irwin or his office during the state

895
01:21:43,920 --> 01:21:52,800
funding process for the $und00 million
grant? When was that information

896
01:21:48,159 --> 01:21:57,679
provided? When did Senator Irwin know uh
the original 19.82 82 acres property

897
01:21:55,920 --> 01:22:05,440
could expand through the acquisition of
another 124.6 acres. When did Senator

898
01:22:02,480 --> 01:22:10,880
Irwin know the and learn the extent of
the planned electrical infrastructure?

899
01:22:08,159 --> 01:22:15,840
When did Senator Irwin learn about the
details of the Los Alamo's computerbased

900
01:22:13,520 --> 01:22:20,239
nuclear stockpile mission? The reason
why it needs to be called computerbased

901
01:22:18,480 --> 01:22:25,760
nuclear is because that's what Jeff
Irwing called it.

902
01:22:23,120 --> 01:22:34,080
So that that is the couple of the
questions that I have. Now I need to

903
01:22:28,719 --> 01:22:39,520
also ask some other questions. Um what
information about the lost Elmo's U of M

904
01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:43,840
project was available within Jeff's
office? If I have it correct, one of the

905
01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:49,679
county commissioners, Miss Somerville,
is his chief of staff.

906
01:22:46,320 --> 01:22:54,639
When was that available in his office?
What information, if any, was

907
01:22:51,760 --> 01:22:58,560
communicated to uh Chief of Staff
Somerville in connection with her

908
01:22:56,239 --> 01:23:06,000
separate role as a county commissioner?
These questions are very important

909
01:23:01,840 --> 01:23:10,960
because when this project was announced,
I'm not going to say names, but I asked

910
01:23:08,159 --> 01:23:17,679
a specific question to someone I spoke
to on Tuesday night while I was in DC.

911
01:23:15,440 --> 01:23:22,800
The question was,
did this authority go all the way up to

912
01:23:20,080 --> 01:23:27,280
the top of the chain, including the
governor's office about the pending

913
01:23:25,600 --> 01:23:34,480
announcement?
I got silence. What silence mean is that

914
01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:39,920
it is not a no. That means that it is a
yes. So before this project was

915
01:23:37,199 --> 01:23:45,440
announced, it was basically brung down
to be announced in my strong opinion

916
01:23:42,639 --> 01:23:51,040
from Governor Gretchen Whitmer to say
it's going to go here. I also got from

917
01:23:48,159 --> 01:23:57,040
that same conversation that this project
was about to be ready to be stopped by

918
01:23:53,920 --> 01:24:02,560
all of the residents and pro protesting
and also having issues with this

919
01:23:59,120 --> 01:24:08,639
project. To me, there is now to be need
to be not only congress uh legislative

920
01:24:06,639 --> 01:24:11,920
investigations inside the Michigan ha
house and the senate, but there also

921
01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:16,080
maybe need to be some criminal
investigations at this point because who

922
01:24:13,760 --> 01:24:21,199
has got paid? What did they know and
when did they know it? With that, I will

923
01:24:17,840 --> 01:24:24,199
give up the mic. Thank you.
Next.

924
01:24:25,120 --> 01:24:28,520
Number 20.

925
01:24:29,920 --> 01:24:40,480
Where's 21?
Who's 21? You're all right. Miss Sarah

926
01:24:36,480 --> 01:24:45,280
» Jay, resident. Um, I've been down
Textile Road in the last week between

927
01:24:42,719 --> 01:24:50,239
Bridge and Rosville. And they're
actually installing water manes on the

928
01:24:48,159 --> 01:24:54,159
property where the data center is going
to be going

929
01:24:52,080 --> 01:25:01,120
down. one that access roads just pass
plant where they own it. You can see

930
01:24:57,840 --> 01:25:06,719
probably 12 to 18 in water lines already
fused together going down that whole

931
01:25:03,199 --> 01:25:13,040
access road on that one side.
And they already put survey stakes up.

932
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:18,320
And just let people know that if you
think it's funny, go pull them up. They

933
01:25:15,760 --> 01:25:22,960
usually put a metal stake in the ground.
So you'll need a metal detector to find

934
01:25:20,159 --> 01:25:27,440
it.
Um,

935
01:25:25,040 --> 01:25:32,800
hypothetically.
Um,

936
01:25:29,280 --> 01:25:37,120
and also if you're we have to look to to
our other outside communities. Van

937
01:25:34,639 --> 01:25:42,159
Beerren Township
um just gave full tax credit to the

938
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:46,320
Google Dana Center. And I don't know if
anybody knows been down on Ecourse Road

939
01:25:44,719 --> 01:25:51,600
on the other side of the world around
airport just between Beck Road and

940
01:25:49,120 --> 01:25:55,840
Denton. There's a data center being
built right there and I can guarantee

941
01:25:54,239 --> 01:26:00,239
you it's probably getting water from
Yako

942
01:25:57,679 --> 01:26:06,000
or something around there. It's getting
water from somewhere right

943
01:26:03,520 --> 01:26:07,760
» but it's
still there

944
01:26:07,440 --> 01:26:12,960
» but
>> it's still water

945
01:26:09,199 --> 01:26:17,840
» but Yaka also serves parts of Canton
Township. So they do serve part of parts

946
01:26:15,199 --> 01:26:22,159
of Wayne County already. So anywhere
they can distribute their water because

947
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:26,639
they need to get use it because they
lost big services when the industries in

948
01:26:24,239 --> 01:26:31,840
that area went down. So they they don't
really care to a point who they give it

949
01:26:29,760 --> 01:26:38,960
to or sell it to because it's money for
them and money for the infrastructure.

950
01:26:35,440 --> 01:26:45,440
And we just need to look to our other
communities, especially Augusta Township

951
01:26:41,120 --> 01:26:50,880
right now with a big um Thor lab thing
going in. And I already talked to one of

952
01:26:48,239 --> 01:26:57,120
the trustees there and he's he don't
mind having miniature nuclear things

953
01:26:53,600 --> 01:27:01,600
coming in there to power it because
you know,

954
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:07,040
» so this is what I mean. you guys need to
go to these other places, talk to these

955
01:27:04,719 --> 01:27:10,639
officials where they can be off the
record and ask them questions. And

956
01:27:08,960 --> 01:27:16,960
that's how I found out that he's okay
with it. And know 375 residents will get

957
01:27:14,239 --> 01:27:25,440
water from this thing. But is it worth
the outcome of it? And that's what is

958
01:27:20,239 --> 01:27:31,520
really not worth the waste of the water.
And just let you know, the U of M

959
01:27:28,800 --> 01:27:35,840
student council allows public comment
for people from the public. So if you

960
01:27:34,159 --> 01:27:40,800
want to show up to the student council
meeting at the U of M student council,

961
01:27:38,639 --> 01:27:44,000
his first name is Summit. He's the U of
M president for the U of M student

962
01:27:42,400 --> 01:27:48,800
council. I met him at a U of M regent
meeting and I plan on attending to

963
01:27:47,920 --> 01:27:54,000
» Thank you.
>> that meeting. So

964
01:27:50,800 --> 01:28:00,560
» thank you very much. the the line
they're putting in. There is a moratorum

965
01:27:57,520 --> 01:28:07,679
on water and sewer lines
>> for um any data, AI, computational,

966
01:28:04,880 --> 01:28:15,520
whatever ounce you want to call them.
That is actually um a gas line that was

967
01:28:12,480 --> 01:28:21,280
approved back in 2024
25. I'm talking about the wine kind of

968
01:28:19,360 --> 01:28:28,280
water line,
>> but we'll double check it

969
01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:28,280
» next. We will.

970
01:28:28,400 --> 01:28:35,120
» Hi everyone. I'm Sarah Brabs. I live a
couple townships over in York Township

971
01:28:33,040 --> 01:28:40,480
and have been here before and used to
teach at Eastern Michigan. And I'm here

972
01:28:37,600 --> 01:28:44,960
for solidarity and for saying truth
along with the rest of you. Um, I just

973
01:28:43,120 --> 01:28:50,239
want to say I can't remember who said
this that I heard it recently, but we're

974
01:28:46,719 --> 01:28:53,679
the many against the money. And so, in
my opinion, we should encourage U of M

975
01:28:52,239 --> 01:28:58,400
students and donors to use their
influence and connections to back out of

976
01:28:56,560 --> 01:29:04,159
supporting the University of Michigan
with what means the most, which is their

977
01:29:01,199 --> 01:29:07,040
dollars. So, I really think that that's
a great call to action, especially, you

978
01:29:05,679 --> 01:29:11,440
know, those of us that don't do things
like give U ofM thousands of dollars all

979
01:29:09,360 --> 01:29:15,679
the time habitually. Maybe we could ask
them to do that. And maybe along that

980
01:29:13,920 --> 01:29:19,199
same lines, we could talk to the people
who were a multid-disciplinary team of

981
01:29:17,679 --> 01:29:23,440
researchers from the University of
Michigan who wrote the report last year

982
01:29:21,280 --> 01:29:27,840
called the reactor around the corner
about small modular nuclear reactors and

983
01:29:25,920 --> 01:29:33,280
sounded a huge alarm. It's over 100
pages long about the technology that is

984
01:29:30,560 --> 01:29:39,120
not tested or safe and everything about
that way more than I understood.

985
01:29:35,600 --> 01:29:44,080
Followed by this year our president was
so great, so nice of him. He just

986
01:29:41,360 --> 01:29:49,840
removed all sorts of energy requirements
for specifically small modular nuclear

987
01:29:47,040 --> 01:29:54,480
reactors. So there's a lack of safety in
the Department of Energy and testing and

988
01:29:51,760 --> 01:29:58,960
efficacy plus federal grant funding
because that's also cool for

989
01:29:57,120 --> 01:30:04,000
specifically these small modular nuclear
reactors which have been established by

990
01:30:01,679 --> 01:30:08,960
the University of Michigan. They are not
safe and none of us were born last night

991
01:30:06,639 --> 01:30:13,280
or yesterday. So that may not be part of
the plans that were national security

992
01:30:10,719 --> 01:30:18,320
not told and repeatedly lied to about.
But around the country, they are

993
01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:22,159
starting to happen in places. They're
happening in other countries. There's

994
01:30:20,320 --> 01:30:26,960
already data centers going on our public
land and bait and switches all over the

995
01:30:24,159 --> 01:30:32,159
place. So whatever we each need to do to
get super loud right now and talk about

996
01:30:29,760 --> 01:30:36,159
the truth and make it uncomfortable for
people who have their heads up their

997
01:30:34,080 --> 01:30:40,639
ass, that is what we need to be doing
right now. Thank you. I had a lot of

998
01:30:38,400 --> 01:30:46,320
other things planned to say, but thank
you, Sena. Also, you need to all of you

999
01:30:43,600 --> 01:30:51,040
tell everyone money out of politics. Our
legislators are getting ready to vote to

1000
01:30:48,480 --> 01:30:57,840
maybe just pass that as law. If they do
that, it weakens it. We 800,000ish

1001
01:30:55,199 --> 01:31:02,159
people total in Michigan signed that. It
needs to go on our ballot. We need to

1002
01:31:00,239 --> 01:31:07,040
call our representatives and tell them,
"Vote no, do not make this law." They

1003
01:31:04,800 --> 01:31:12,159
can weaken it later if they do. Which
DTE and all of them know that's their

1004
01:31:09,679 --> 01:31:15,920
last big play at least. So we need to do
that. We need to tell everyone to do

1005
01:31:13,199 --> 01:31:19,320
that right now.
>> Number 22.

1006
01:31:21,440 --> 01:31:30,320
» Good evening board. Uh my name is Leam
Mills Chapman and I live in West Willow.

1007
01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:36,159
Um, I just first wanted to always say
thank you all for um joining alongside

1008
01:31:33,360 --> 01:31:43,280
the citizens here, the residents here um
in this fight against U ofM and Los

1009
01:31:39,199 --> 01:31:47,440
Alamos. Um, I want for us to think just
for a second about the phrase power and

1010
01:31:45,840 --> 01:31:56,480
control.
When you look at U of M, they are a form

1011
01:31:52,400 --> 01:32:04,639
in their minds of a god.
They feel that no one can usurp them.

1012
01:32:00,960 --> 01:32:08,159
They are in total power. It leaves us
sometimes feeling a little helpless,

1013
01:32:06,400 --> 01:32:11,520
feeling a little hopeless, right? Not
necessarily knowing which way we're

1014
01:32:09,679 --> 01:32:16,320
going to turn. And I appreciate all of
the work um attorney Wyinners that

1015
01:32:13,440 --> 01:32:21,280
you've been doing to try to figure out
what avenue possible that we can take.

1016
01:32:19,120 --> 01:32:28,880
Um I just wanted to lend one additional
one. Um I appreciate Paul Brown. I

1017
01:32:25,040 --> 01:32:37,600
really do um for coming out and making a
statement and and for speaking with uh

1018
01:32:33,120 --> 01:32:44,960
the township officials. But I also um
have an issue and the issue that I have

1019
01:32:40,960 --> 01:32:50,719
is going back to this power and control.
we've already been forced into a

1020
01:32:47,440 --> 01:32:57,440
particular situation and now we have
someone that's saying hey I agree right

1021
01:32:53,679 --> 01:33:03,360
and and I am opposed to this but at the
same token they are also saying that I

1022
01:33:01,440 --> 01:33:06,960
want to create the conditions in which I
speak to you

1023
01:33:05,760 --> 01:33:12,800
» right
>> that for me and I'm just speaking for me

1024
01:33:10,400 --> 01:33:20,560
that for me is problematic
reason being is that harm has been

1025
01:33:16,320 --> 01:33:26,880
imposed on us. And for him to create the
conditions of I will only speak to 10

1026
01:33:22,960 --> 01:33:31,360
people at a time lets me know that it's
still about right him feeling

1027
01:33:29,520 --> 01:33:36,320
comfortable. Somebody said make them
feel uncomfortable.

1028
01:33:33,600 --> 01:33:41,840
He needs to be put in a position where
he has to sit in space with us and feel

1029
01:33:39,679 --> 01:33:47,199
the same amount of discomfort that we
feel

1030
01:33:43,840 --> 01:33:52,159
every single day as we get the news
right. Every single day as we drive past

1031
01:33:49,600 --> 01:33:56,560
bridge and textile, every day we have to
think about how there is an impending

1032
01:33:54,560 --> 01:34:02,480
threat on our lives and our famil
family's lives for generations to come.

1033
01:33:58,800 --> 01:34:11,199
He too needs to feel right a bit of
discomfort. And so when I say no blue, I

1034
01:34:07,199 --> 01:34:16,000
mean no. No to everything that they are
coming to us with because they've had

1035
01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:21,840
enough leverage. We got to take our
POWER BACK. AND THAT means even on

1036
01:34:18,800 --> 01:34:26,320
SEPTEMBER 9TH, THEY'RE SETTING THE
conditions of when they will speak to us

1037
01:34:24,080 --> 01:34:31,520
and when we have their attention and
when we're able to come before them.

1038
01:34:28,239 --> 01:34:35,920
Absolutely not. We need to be saying
when we want you here.

1039
01:34:33,440 --> 01:34:40,639
» We need to be saying show up on this
particular day, not waiting for October

1040
01:34:38,480 --> 01:34:46,400
to f, you know, figure out when they're
going to come and speak to us. How dare

1041
01:34:42,960 --> 01:34:53,199
THEY AFTER IMPOSING SUCH A threat
>> come to me and say I want you to come

1042
01:34:50,080 --> 01:34:58,719
when uh uh uh the power and control
dynamic has to be broken and we have to

1043
01:34:56,320 --> 01:35:04,800
figure out how do we gain leverage and
usurp them and this is one way that I

1044
01:35:01,679 --> 01:35:08,639
believe we can stand in solidarity and
say no all of the neighborhood

1045
01:35:06,719 --> 01:35:14,239
associations that may have said to him
already yeah I'll meet with you don't

1046
01:35:11,840 --> 01:35:18,400
Don't make him feel uncomfortable. And
then the board, you figure out a time

1047
01:35:16,560 --> 01:35:24,000
where you bring him here and he has to
face everyone because guess what? He

1048
01:35:20,800 --> 01:35:28,960
went down to Detroit to the Michigan
Democratic Convention and spoke before

1049
01:35:26,719 --> 01:35:33,320
thousands of people so he can do the
same here. Thank you.

1050
01:35:30,000 --> 01:35:33,320
» Thank you, Leah.

1051
01:35:36,480 --> 01:35:48,639
» Hi, my name is Jen. Um, I moved I bought
a house here in 2022. I lived here years

1052
01:35:44,480 --> 01:35:55,040
before and graduated from Eastern. Um,
so there's a few things. I went on a

1053
01:35:51,280 --> 01:35:59,199
little dive of my own. Um, on their
website, U ofM says that they are going

1054
01:35:56,880 --> 01:36:06,239
to preserve the Hiron River portion of
textile. I want to know exactly how

1055
01:36:02,880 --> 01:36:13,520
how how are you going to preserve the
river from your center from all of the

1056
01:36:09,600 --> 01:36:20,080
rubble and debris that happens when you
start a construction project? How are

1057
01:36:16,400 --> 01:36:26,639
you going to make sure every single
piece of debris and

1058
01:36:23,840 --> 01:36:32,159
what nails and everything that goes into
that? How are you going to make sure all

1059
01:36:28,800 --> 01:36:36,639
of that is cleaned up and does not not a
single thing ends up in that river? I

1060
01:36:35,600 --> 01:36:44,639
don't know how they're going to do it,
but I want to know how.

1061
01:36:38,960 --> 01:36:50,480
Um, let's see. They also said that DTE
says that there will not be direct

1062
01:36:47,280 --> 01:36:57,440
financial or tech burden on the
residents here. Is U of M paying for the

1063
01:36:55,440 --> 01:37:02,719
energy bills
>> because I don't see them doing that.

1064
01:37:01,199 --> 01:37:11,239
Also,
no direct financial burden. What is the

1065
01:37:06,560 --> 01:37:11,239
indirect financial burden?

1066
01:37:12,880 --> 01:37:19,679
Um,
sorry, Attorney Winters, you answered a

1067
01:37:17,679 --> 01:37:27,520
lot of things. Thank you for your foyer
request, by the way. Excuse me as I flip

1068
01:37:22,880 --> 01:37:33,920
this piece of paper. Um,
they also say that the

1069
01:37:31,360 --> 01:37:39,679
um the decibel level will be no louder
than a household air conditioning unit.

1070
01:37:37,280 --> 01:37:44,960
I don't know about you, but I don't run
my air conditioning unit all day every

1071
01:37:42,159 --> 01:37:49,920
day. I know that I know when it turns on
and I can hear that. And I know that if

1072
01:37:47,679 --> 01:37:54,760
I were to have to listen to that all
day, it would drive me batshit insane.

1073
01:37:55,040 --> 01:38:06,800
So yeah, their decel level might be, you
know, under the 70 dB. So people don't

1074
01:38:03,600 --> 01:38:12,800
have hearing loss because at 80 dB you
start having hearing loss people. It's

1075
01:38:09,199 --> 01:38:22,400
great. Um, but if you have to listen to
a slow hum all day and all night,

1076
01:38:17,840 --> 01:38:27,280
that's it's just absolutely nuts. We
talked a lot about water here today. Um,

1077
01:38:24,719 --> 01:38:32,159
I'm going to go back to water. Let's
talk about we've already dealt with so

1078
01:38:29,840 --> 01:38:40,320
many water issues here. The Flint water
crisis, which is still going on.

1079
01:38:37,040 --> 01:38:46,159
So, why are we going to do that to Ipsy?
Um, also back in 2021,

1080
01:38:43,920 --> 01:38:52,960
the state decided to sell our Great
Lakes to Nestle.

1081
01:38:48,719 --> 01:38:58,080
There is no official count of how many
Nestle plants are on our great on the

1082
01:38:56,560 --> 01:39:03,199
side of our Great Lakes. If you go to
Lake Erie, it is practically dead. I

1083
01:39:00,719 --> 01:39:06,400
went there to go to Cedar Point. It was
nasty.

1084
01:39:04,480 --> 01:39:12,040
» Thank you very much. You made some great
points. Indirect, I like that. 24.

1085
01:39:13,760 --> 01:39:22,800
» Thank you. I'm I'm an Ipsy resident. I
want to thank the board for defending

1086
01:39:19,199 --> 01:39:25,600
this township every single meeting. I I
mean, we all stand impressed with

1087
01:39:24,080 --> 01:39:30,159
Attorney Winters, but every single one
of you up there to the very impressive

1088
01:39:28,239 --> 01:39:34,719
young lady that just spoke. We need
young people like you. You've got all

1089
01:39:31,840 --> 01:39:38,239
your notes. You did your homework. I
think we're all really proud of you. Um,

1090
01:39:37,040 --> 01:39:43,360
so I want to echo something Attorney
Winter said earlier. He said there is

1091
01:39:40,560 --> 01:39:48,320
still time to do the right thing. Just
remember that there is still time. Now I

1092
01:39:46,080 --> 01:39:53,360
think it's important to remember that
sometimes people, organizations,

1093
01:39:50,480 --> 01:39:56,960
universities, whatever the case may be,
make decisions. Maybe they don't have

1094
01:39:55,199 --> 01:40:01,040
all the information. Maybe maybe they
do, but maybe they realize, hey, oh, I

1095
01:39:59,520 --> 01:40:05,280
didn't think about the security threat.
Oh, maybe I didn't think about the

1096
01:40:03,440 --> 01:40:11,280
Native American implications. Oh,
there's an eagle nest there and now it's

1097
01:40:07,520 --> 01:40:15,920
too late to save face. Well, let's let's
just put it down. Maybe we need to have

1098
01:40:13,679 --> 01:40:20,560
a little bit of grace and let them come
to us and say, you know, you got a point

1099
01:40:18,159 --> 01:40:25,840
there. And and I would love to see a
pivot on this. I would love to There are

1100
01:40:22,560 --> 01:40:31,840
other options. Okay. Um we talked about
New Mexico. we talked about um I don't

1101
01:40:29,280 --> 01:40:35,840
know like exactly at the Concordia site
if I mean they don't want to build there

1102
01:40:33,840 --> 01:40:40,480
but there is time to make it right so I
just wanted to echo that um secondly I

1103
01:40:38,960 --> 01:40:46,480
have a lot of questions it seems like
the more we learn the more questions I

1104
01:40:42,080 --> 01:40:51,280
have so the the resident behind me said
where is this going or something like

1105
01:40:48,080 --> 01:40:56,239
that and what what road are we on okay
so today we know whenever you have a

1106
01:40:54,400 --> 01:41:00,719
project you should you should disclose
knows from beginning to end where you

1107
01:40:58,639 --> 01:41:05,440
are with that. But I don't know that
they even know that. So now we're going

1108
01:41:02,560 --> 01:41:10,560
to have a computational data center for
how many years? For for one year, 2

1109
01:41:07,679 --> 01:41:17,600
year, 5 year, 10 year, 50 year. What if
that need goes away and it's sold to a

1110
01:41:13,199 --> 01:41:22,560
corporation like Open AI?
There are individuals in this room that

1111
01:41:19,520 --> 01:41:27,600
know a lot about that issue and and
honestly, we don't know this. So, I'm

1112
01:41:24,400 --> 01:41:32,639
wondering also now pulling back with
what we do know, when we have a like a

1113
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:36,239
let's say a storm come through and and
the power is down, are they on the

1114
01:41:34,320 --> 01:41:39,920
prioritized substation and the residents
are not? I mean, we know the hospitals

1115
01:41:37,920 --> 01:41:42,800
and the the school I think it's the
hospitals and the schools are. Are they

1116
01:41:41,679 --> 01:41:47,040
going to be on that prioritized
substation? So, our power comes up

1117
01:41:44,480 --> 01:41:53,199
later. Has DT addressed that? I I'm not
aware. And then finally, um, this is a

1118
01:41:51,280 --> 01:41:59,440
scary phrase, but I I'm going to lay it
down there for everybody to think about.

1119
01:41:55,600 --> 01:42:04,159
What if this is an expansion project and
it leads to eminent domain? Why aren't

1120
01:42:02,320 --> 01:42:08,400
we talking about this? And if it
doesn't, great. But if it doesn't,

1121
01:42:06,159 --> 01:42:12,400
great. Do we have that in writing? What
I like to see in writing is this is what

1122
01:42:10,239 --> 01:42:16,159
we're not gonna do. But I don't see
that. I just see like a subset of here's

1123
01:42:14,960 --> 01:42:20,719
what we're gonna do, but I don't have
the full plan. So that makes me nervous

1124
01:42:19,119 --> 01:42:23,280
and that may be why that's another
reason why no one wants to live next to

1125
01:42:21,920 --> 01:42:25,600
these things and why we're concerned
about our property values.

1126
01:42:24,800 --> 01:42:28,760
» Thank you.
>> Thank you.

1127
01:42:29,440 --> 01:42:32,440
» 25.

1128
01:42:36,480 --> 01:42:45,440
Where's 26?
Hello. My name is Natalie. I am an AU

1129
01:42:42,719 --> 01:42:49,760
graduate and I am a community organizer.
So, I'm here to kind of say that there

1130
01:42:47,600 --> 01:42:53,360
are people fighting out against this. I
look around and I see a room full of

1131
01:42:51,119 --> 01:42:57,679
people who really care and that really
want to do something. And there are

1132
01:42:55,520 --> 01:43:01,840
places where you can go and you can do
something about this. Like everybody

1133
01:42:59,440 --> 01:43:07,040
here decided to come. What day is it? On
a Tuesday at 6:00.

1134
01:43:04,239 --> 01:43:11,520
That's a weird time. And there's a lot
of other times and su and places where

1135
01:43:09,040 --> 01:43:14,880
we can go and like collaborate together
and do something about this together.

1136
01:43:13,360 --> 01:43:19,360
So, I'm going to kind of let you guys
know some opportunities. Um, there is a

1137
01:43:17,440 --> 01:43:25,920
stop the data meeting in North Hydro
Park on 8:29. So, the 29 29th of this

1138
01:43:23,840 --> 01:43:29,600
month, we are going to be holding a
meeting to kind of discuss what we can

1139
01:43:27,520 --> 01:43:32,960
do as a community to fight against the
data center and kind of organize

1140
01:43:31,119 --> 01:43:37,840
together. So, each one of us can have an
active role in fighting against this. As

1141
01:43:35,760 --> 01:43:41,920
well as me being a community organizer,
I'm organizing event this September 12th

1142
01:43:41,119 --> 01:43:46,000
where we're going to do an
informational. We're going to teach in

1143
01:43:43,679 --> 01:43:48,719
about everything data center related.
We're going to give any information that

1144
01:43:47,280 --> 01:43:52,400
we've been able to find and scour and
answer all of your questions. That way

1145
01:43:50,719 --> 01:43:56,880
we are no longer in the dark about this
because that is how U of M and Los

1146
01:43:55,040 --> 01:44:01,840
Alamos have been able to get as far as
they have is by not answering anything.

1147
01:44:00,239 --> 01:44:06,639
And so we're here to kind of bring all
that information to light.

1148
01:44:04,000 --> 01:44:10,960
» Thank you.
>> Um

1149
01:44:09,040 --> 01:44:15,679
» yes. So for the meetings it's stop the
data on Instagram and then I work

1150
01:44:13,440 --> 01:44:19,520
through we have some flyers in the back
over here for the meeting and then for

1151
01:44:18,080 --> 01:44:22,880
the organization where I work through
which is Michigan student action um you

1152
01:44:21,360 --> 01:44:27,520
can follow us on Instagram as well it's
washnah Michigan student action

1153
01:44:25,520 --> 01:44:31,360
MSA_washna
um and that is where information about

1154
01:44:29,280 --> 01:44:33,920
the teaching will be posted and also
come up to me afterwards if you guys

1155
01:44:32,800 --> 01:44:38,000
have questions or want to get into
contact with me

1156
01:44:35,119 --> 01:44:38,000
» thank you very

1157
01:44:41,840 --> 01:44:46,679
26.
>> Okay.

1158
01:44:47,600 --> 01:44:53,040
» As I was saying, I want to thank you
guys for being so committed to um the

1159
01:44:51,280 --> 01:44:58,639
things that are dear to us cuz this is
really so dear to me cuz I'm watching.

1160
01:44:56,480 --> 01:45:03,280
I'm a young grandmother and I have
grandchildren that are in the

1161
01:45:00,560 --> 01:45:08,800
neighborhood at school. So it's very
close to home in all matters concerning

1162
01:45:05,679 --> 01:45:12,880
me. I would take um leadership stand for
food cuz I service the community here

1163
01:45:10,960 --> 01:45:17,040
through my business both my business are
food related. So my question to U of M

1164
01:45:15,119 --> 01:45:20,960
would be what are the things that you're
going to do in the area for food

1165
01:45:18,719 --> 01:45:26,080
sovereignty because if we're struggling
with water we definitely we struggling

1166
01:45:22,960 --> 01:45:30,320
with food. So, um, a lot of my concerns
have been voiced today, but as a

1167
01:45:27,920 --> 01:45:33,920
community, I'm asking you guys that we
all kind of band together since it's

1168
01:45:32,000 --> 01:45:38,000
more of us. We need to really hit their
pockets. We know that they're about the

1169
01:45:36,320 --> 01:45:42,800
money now. And since they're getting the
money, we need to start diverting money

1170
01:45:40,239 --> 01:45:47,920
to smaller businesses or people that
think like we do and not feed the people

1171
01:45:45,280 --> 01:45:51,840
that are causing us harm. And since they
don't care about us, they should not be

1172
01:45:49,440 --> 01:45:56,719
caring about our dollars. So in any way
that you're able to redivert your

1173
01:45:53,760 --> 01:46:00,639
spending daily habits, make sure that
currently U of M is not on that agenda

1174
01:45:58,800 --> 01:46:06,080
to receive any funding from you because
we don't want to support those that are

1175
01:46:02,800 --> 01:46:10,880
causing us harm. So I'm going to follow
up with the community organizer on there

1176
01:46:08,400 --> 01:46:14,239
and see what I can do and hopefully you
guys will be able to figure out ways

1177
01:46:12,480 --> 01:46:17,920
that we can all divert our fundings that
we're paying to U of them.

1178
01:46:15,679 --> 01:46:21,159
» That includes that.
>> Thank you.

1179
01:46:25,600 --> 01:46:31,119
Hi, thank you so much for being here
tonight board and for staying so late

1180
01:46:29,040 --> 01:46:35,280
listening to all of our concerns. My
name is Dr. Juliana Richie. I have a PhD

1181
01:46:33,760 --> 01:46:40,719
from the University of Michigan in
biomed engineering um and I live in the

1182
01:46:38,560 --> 01:46:45,360
township. One thing that I've heard a
lot from the community is the concern

1183
01:46:42,639 --> 01:46:50,560
for nuclear power and nuclear uh
weaponry. However, one thing that I

1184
01:46:48,159 --> 01:46:54,880
think is very insidious and that needs
to be addressed is the fact that U ofM

1185
01:46:52,800 --> 01:46:59,280
has re has come back being like, "Oh,
we're going to do healthcare research

1186
01:46:56,239 --> 01:47:04,480
with the data center."
Specifically, they have called out

1187
01:47:00,960 --> 01:47:10,239
cancer research, which fun fact, data
centers have been linked to causing rare

1188
01:47:06,400 --> 01:47:15,199
cancers. So, you know, I'm a little bit
tied into that as a biomedical

1189
01:47:13,199 --> 01:47:20,960
uh scientist and I work at the cancer
center currently. Um,

1190
01:47:18,480 --> 01:47:25,440
additionally, AI does not have any
regulation on what it can do with our

1191
01:47:23,280 --> 01:47:29,360
healthcare information. I have people
who work at the call center who daily

1192
01:47:27,600 --> 01:47:33,760
are getting yelled at and cussed out
because they think U of M is already

1193
01:47:31,280 --> 01:47:37,760
using AI callers and they do not want
their information given to an AI that is

1194
01:47:36,000 --> 01:47:43,520
unregulated with what they can and
cannot do with our data like sell it to

1195
01:47:39,920 --> 01:47:48,320
insurance companies or any other thing
that you can think of. Um but we also

1196
01:47:46,960 --> 01:47:53,520
have to think about the health concerns
that come with data centers. Many towns

1197
01:47:50,400 --> 01:47:58,560
have reported this have reports of hey
the data center moved in and suddenly

1198
01:47:56,000 --> 01:48:04,719
still births went up in the count in the
cattle around in farms. Suddenly we

1199
01:48:01,920 --> 01:48:11,119
weren't getting uh colony collapse for
the bees and as Ipsellani is bee city.

1200
01:48:08,320 --> 01:48:16,080
I'm very pro bee. I'm worried about that
because if the bees go, so does our food

1201
01:48:14,480 --> 01:48:20,239
and the bees are not going to be moving
to New Mexico

1202
01:48:18,880 --> 01:48:25,360
and the people who are going to be
staying behind are going to have further

1203
01:48:22,000 --> 01:48:30,480
food shortages and further water
inequalities.

1204
01:48:27,199 --> 01:48:34,639
And this is more than just
this is more than just nuclear weapons.

1205
01:48:32,639 --> 01:48:41,600
This is more than just warfare. This is
also becoming a healthc care issue.

1206
01:48:38,080 --> 01:48:45,199
further disservicing the minorities and
the disenfranchised that live in this

1207
01:48:43,520 --> 01:48:49,280
community.
The things that U of M and Ann Arbor and

1208
01:48:48,000 --> 01:48:52,560
the people who are on the board of
regions do not have to think about

1209
01:48:50,880 --> 01:48:59,199
because they are in a different tax
bracket than pretty probably everyone in

1210
01:48:54,880 --> 01:49:05,560
this room. Um, thank you.
Thank you, Dr.

1211
01:49:02,560 --> 01:49:05,560
28.

1212
01:49:09,520 --> 01:49:18,000
Hi, I'm Lisa and I'm a township
president. Um, thanks Natalie.

1213
01:49:15,520 --> 01:49:21,840
Uh, so yeah, thank you so much um to the
board. Thank you for everybody being

1214
01:49:19,520 --> 01:49:27,280
here. I know it's been I know it's a
lot. We all have a lot going on um in

1215
01:49:24,159 --> 01:49:32,159
our lives and so uh it's so meaningful
for people to take time to be here um in

1216
01:49:29,679 --> 01:49:38,480
opposition to this project and you know
so much uh of my concerns have been

1217
01:49:34,159 --> 01:49:44,480
voiced um and you know I have sat next
to Jeff Irwin and expressed some

1218
01:49:40,960 --> 01:49:49,119
concerns to these concerns to him um and
been told that you know the concerns are

1219
01:49:47,280 --> 01:49:54,400
overblown and it's not really that big
of a deal like I know everybody um has

1220
01:49:52,320 --> 01:49:58,719
been told uh and I think we will
continue to be told. Um but again, like

1221
01:49:57,280 --> 01:50:02,800
many of you have said, I think these
people don't even really know where

1222
01:50:00,560 --> 01:50:06,880
they're going or how big of a deal a lot
of this is. The Selen Data Center, they

1223
01:50:05,119 --> 01:50:12,880
originally estimated that cost to be
$4.8 billion. That project is now $43

1224
01:50:10,000 --> 01:50:19,119
billion. These people are really bad at
predicting that impact of their projects

1225
01:50:16,719 --> 01:50:23,199
and they're not slowing down or even
giving us the information when we ask

1226
01:50:20,880 --> 01:50:28,080
them. Um to your point about yeah, how
are you going to protect the river? I've

1227
01:50:25,119 --> 01:50:32,480
driven to Seline and driven behind a
truck that literally just had gravel

1228
01:50:29,840 --> 01:50:38,080
just falling out of it. Um hit my
window. Uh, and I don't even really want

1229
01:50:35,679 --> 01:50:44,639
to go to Seline right now because I'm
like that is very likely going to

1230
01:50:40,000 --> 01:50:49,760
happen. Um, construction is extremely uh
extremely damaging and um again, yeah,

1231
01:50:47,840 --> 01:50:54,560
with the water um they're like, "Oh,
it's it's a closed loop system. It's no

1232
01:50:51,760 --> 01:50:58,159
big deal." Uh well, as again we're we
understand from Seline, the closed loop

1233
01:50:56,800 --> 01:51:03,360
is that they take the water out of the
river, they run it through the data

1234
01:51:00,719 --> 01:51:07,679
center and put chemicals in it, and then
they put it back in the river, and

1235
01:51:05,199 --> 01:51:10,880
that's the closed loop. Um so again, a
lot of these things that they tell us,

1236
01:51:08,880 --> 01:51:15,840
oh, it's it's green, it's a closed loop,
it's no big deal. Um once we find out

1237
01:51:13,920 --> 01:51:20,639
more information that U of M is
currently withholding from us, we find

1238
01:51:17,360 --> 01:51:23,760
out that it is actually a big deal. Um,
so yeah, thank you also for being here

1239
01:51:22,000 --> 01:51:29,000
and for all of your comments and again
to the board and attorney Winters.

1240
01:51:25,760 --> 01:51:29,000
» Thank you.

1241
01:51:29,119 --> 01:51:32,119
» 29.

1242
01:51:40,320 --> 01:51:48,239
» Okay. My name is Valyriia Banks. I am a
resident of Ipsellani Township. Thank

1243
01:51:46,239 --> 01:51:54,400
you very much to the board for having
this meeting. It is one of many, many

1244
01:51:51,679 --> 01:52:00,639
meetings that they had and we'll go
forward. I love the blue and yellow

1245
01:51:57,920 --> 01:52:07,199
t-shirts,
but what we need to do

1246
01:52:03,760 --> 01:52:14,480
is to go to
epsilon I mean Ann Arbor

1247
01:52:10,880 --> 01:52:21,840
council meetings with these t-shirts
with our children. It's a lot of women

1248
01:52:17,440 --> 01:52:29,119
that is here that are childbearing age
>> that we don't know what the impact is

1249
01:52:24,239 --> 01:52:34,880
going to have on you nor our babies. We
talk about nature and their environment,

1250
01:52:32,159 --> 01:52:38,560
but what about the children? What's
going to happen to them as a result of

1251
01:52:37,119 --> 01:52:45,599
this?
Yes, we need to start attending

1252
01:52:42,800 --> 01:52:52,800
city of Ann Arbor council meeting to let
them see our faces, to let them know our

1253
01:52:49,679 --> 01:52:59,119
concerns because if you don't want them
in your backyard, why should we want

1254
01:52:55,840 --> 01:53:08,480
them in our backyard? M
>> second of all, yes, there is only two

1255
01:53:03,440 --> 01:53:12,040
regent off um officers, Paul and Yousef,
that is running.

1256
01:53:12,480 --> 01:53:22,000
» Amir, I'm sorry. Amir, that is running.
But we need to be calling each and every

1257
01:53:18,080 --> 01:53:26,880
one that is on the board. I believe that
if the squeaky wheel, it's the one

1258
01:53:24,560 --> 01:53:32,320
that's going to get oil. They're the
ones who control the money. They're the

1259
01:53:29,599 --> 01:53:36,800
ones who give their approval. So, yes,
we need to be calling them. We need to

1260
01:53:34,320 --> 01:53:43,679
be emailing them on a daily basis, a
weekly basis to let them know this this

1261
01:53:40,480 --> 01:53:49,840
is not going to happen to us.
This is not going to happen to us.

1262
01:53:46,719 --> 01:53:54,639
everybody that is on
ev every board, every council,

1263
01:53:51,679 --> 01:54:00,080
Washington um commissioners, we need to
be reaching out to each and everyone

1264
01:53:57,199 --> 01:54:05,920
because what I thought about today was
do anyone remember that movie movie

1265
01:54:03,280 --> 01:54:09,400
called television
under the dome?

1266
01:54:09,920 --> 01:54:18,719
If something happens to that data
center,

1267
01:54:14,639 --> 01:54:25,199
will the fallout just occur in Ipsellani
Township or will that fall out happen in

1268
01:54:23,119 --> 01:54:29,840
Ann Arbor
and Wayne County? And this is what we

1269
01:54:27,679 --> 01:54:35,840
need to know and this is what we need to
tell them. We don't live under a dome.

1270
01:54:33,440 --> 01:54:41,920
So if something happens to that data
center as far as security

1271
01:54:39,199 --> 01:54:47,520
or anything else, we're not going to
stand for it. So yes, we need to push

1272
01:54:44,560 --> 01:54:52,080
back. We need to let Ann Arbor know we
are not going to stand for this. If you

1273
01:54:49,599 --> 01:54:59,360
don't want it in your backyard,
why do we want it in ours?

1274
01:54:55,119 --> 01:55:06,560
So yes, tomorrow, tonight, start
emailing the folks that's on the region.

1275
01:55:02,639 --> 01:55:12,159
start voting um emailing people that are
our commissioners and our public

1276
01:55:09,119 --> 01:55:18,320
officers. Let them know, no, we're not
going to stand for this and let our

1277
01:55:16,000 --> 01:55:24,320
governor know
um your exit interview

1278
01:55:21,360 --> 01:55:27,560
» is a F.
>> Thank you.

1279
01:55:31,920 --> 01:55:38,560
Yes. Yes.
>> All right. I got number 30 and I don't

1280
01:55:35,360 --> 01:55:40,719
think I can top that.
>> I love you.

1281
01:55:39,199 --> 01:55:44,560
» I love you, too. I love you, too. First
of all, I want to say uh Oh, great.

1282
01:55:42,880 --> 01:55:49,920
Thank you so much. First of all, I want
to say thank you so much to this board

1283
01:55:46,880 --> 01:55:54,480
uh for hosting this community forum. I
I've been to a lot of these types of

1284
01:55:52,000 --> 01:55:58,719
meetings across the county. uh and what
I have noticed and observed in other

1285
01:55:56,400 --> 01:56:01,360
cases is hostility between the folks on
that side of the dis and the folks on

1286
01:56:00,159 --> 01:56:05,440
this side of the DAS. What I'm seeing
here today is a lot of love and a lot of

1287
01:56:03,199 --> 01:56:09,199
solidarity and that is very noticeable
not just in how you are reacting but in

1288
01:56:07,599 --> 01:56:13,360
how the staff in the room are reacting.
You can yeah give that a round of

1289
01:56:10,480 --> 01:56:17,119
applause. I think that I've also been
very impressed with how the township

1290
01:56:15,679 --> 01:56:20,960
board and the staff have stood up
against this data center against the

1291
01:56:18,880 --> 01:56:24,960
University of Michigan and and stood
strong. So my name is Yousef. I am a

1292
01:56:23,679 --> 01:56:28,400
county commissioner. I represent
downtown Ann Arbor and most of the

1293
01:56:26,400 --> 01:56:32,520
University of Michigan's campus. I am
also the next mayor of Ann Arbor.

1294
01:56:33,440 --> 01:56:40,480
I
I thank you. I am proud to be here today

1295
01:56:38,560 --> 01:56:46,880
to stand in solidarity with the people
of Ipsani and Epsilani Township to say

1296
01:56:43,679 --> 01:56:51,520
no Los Alamos data center. I'm here
because I know that the air you breathe

1297
01:56:48,960 --> 01:56:55,760
is the same air that I breathe. I'm here
because I know that the water you drink

1298
01:56:53,440 --> 01:56:58,960
is the same water that I drink. I'm here
because I know that when you pay your

1299
01:56:57,520 --> 01:57:02,320
utility rates, which are already too
high, you're paying it to the same

1300
01:57:00,480 --> 01:57:06,159
company that I'm paying my utility rates
to. I don't want your rates to go up. I

1301
01:57:04,159 --> 01:57:11,280
don't want my rates to go up. I'm here
because I know that the military

1302
01:57:08,800 --> 01:57:15,199
industrial complex, every dollar that we
spend on that is a dollar less that we

1303
01:57:13,119 --> 01:57:19,760
can spend on education. I'm here because
every dollar that we spend on

1304
01:57:16,719 --> 01:57:24,320
researching new ways to kill children is
a dollar less that we can spend helping

1305
01:57:22,239 --> 01:57:28,960
families who are currently right now
grieving lost loved ones to a health

1306
01:57:26,320 --> 01:57:33,840
care system that is inhumane that favors
profit over humanity. I am here because

1307
01:57:31,280 --> 01:57:38,239
I know that the power of the people and
the power of this board and the power of

1308
01:57:36,000 --> 01:57:43,280
people all over this county can come
together and win. I've seen Supervisor

1309
01:57:41,040 --> 01:57:46,560
Stumbbo with me in Selen Township
standing up against that data center.

1310
01:57:45,040 --> 01:57:51,040
This is a fight that we are fighting on
many fronts. Data centers are coming to

1311
01:57:48,719 --> 01:57:54,719
our county and I don't want them in Ann
Arbor. I don't want them in township. I

1312
01:57:53,119 --> 01:57:57,679
don't want them in Selen Township. I
don't want them anywhere in our state

1313
01:57:56,080 --> 01:58:02,639
and I'm ready to stand up with the
people all over Michigan to say no. And

1314
01:58:00,639 --> 01:58:06,000
as the sign says, what does it say? Hell
no.

1315
01:58:03,679 --> 01:58:10,159
» By the way, I JUST BOUGHT MY SIGN. I
JUST BOUGHT my sign and and I'm going to

1316
01:58:08,239 --> 01:58:13,760
put it up in my yard in Ann Arbor. I'm
very proud of that and I'm proud of the

1317
01:58:11,760 --> 01:58:17,679
fact that as somebody who represents the
University of Michigan campus and who is

1318
01:58:15,520 --> 01:58:22,159
going to uh very soon be the mayor of
Ann Arbor that I'm here with you today

1319
01:58:19,840 --> 01:58:28,080
to stand in solidarity. This is a fight
that when we are unified, we can win.

1320
01:58:25,920 --> 01:58:32,040
Thank you for having me and keep up the
fight.

1321
01:58:28,800 --> 01:58:32,040
» Thank you.

1322
01:58:36,480 --> 01:58:43,119
Thank you. Tough act to follow. Thank
you, Ysef, for coming. Hi, my name is

1323
01:58:40,800 --> 01:58:46,800
Courtney. Um, I see Township resident.
I've been here for about 6 years. My

1324
01:58:44,639 --> 01:58:50,159
family's been here for an eternity. Um,
I wasn't going to speak tonight, but I

1325
01:58:48,320 --> 01:58:53,599
would be remissed if I didn't echo
everything in the room and also bring up

1326
01:58:52,159 --> 01:58:58,159
some things that I brought up at the
last meeting that most of you were not

1327
01:58:55,760 --> 01:59:01,599
at. Um, Yseph just brought up our water
rates going up. Those water rates are

1328
01:58:59,760 --> 01:59:05,920
going up. Um, we discussed at the last
meeting. uh our Yucka director could not

1329
01:59:04,000 --> 01:59:10,080
deny that Great Lakes Water Authority is
raising our rates because of the data

1330
01:59:07,679 --> 01:59:15,440
centers. So our rates are now going up
uh about 5% due to uh about 6% actually

1331
01:59:13,599 --> 01:59:19,199
due to Great Lakes Water Authority and a
little bit more due to what we need for

1332
01:59:17,199 --> 01:59:22,480
our own infrastructure. Um so I wanted
to bring up that issue and also an issue

1333
01:59:20,880 --> 01:59:28,880
I brought up last time that the board is
aware of. Um what uh we also are working

1334
01:59:26,320 --> 01:59:33,119
with uh an association and a firm and
MEEDC if you look at our master plan

1335
01:59:31,280 --> 01:59:38,239
that was made in 2020 the language of
the master plan um and the association

1336
01:59:35,360 --> 01:59:43,360
that is telling Seline Township uh
Dundee Allen Park and multiple other

1337
01:59:41,119 --> 01:59:47,440
areas um that this firm works with that
we can't exclusively zone them out and

1338
01:59:45,520 --> 01:59:51,599
that we uh can't ban them. But if you
look at the language of the plan they

1339
01:59:48,800 --> 01:59:56,400
are inviting them in. Uh this uh the
site here was reszoned in 2022 to

1340
01:59:54,159 --> 01:59:59,760
industrial. Inviting them right in. Um
the master plan for the bomber plant

1341
01:59:58,239 --> 02:00:04,400
says they want to be a technology
magnet. Inviting them right in. Doug, I

1342
02:00:02,560 --> 02:00:08,000
thank you so much. Brenda, you as well.
All of you guys are working very hard.

1343
02:00:06,000 --> 02:00:12,159
Uh they encouraged me to get involved in
reworking the master plan. I encourage

1344
02:00:09,599 --> 02:00:16,400
all of you to do that as well. Um to
change that language so that it's not

1345
02:00:13,920 --> 02:00:19,840
inviting. um they they're going to tell
us we can't ban them, but we're, you

1346
02:00:18,560 --> 02:00:23,360
know, we we're not inviting them in
either. We don't want them here. I also

1347
02:00:21,599 --> 02:00:26,639
uh really quick want to mention I'm also
planning and I want to work with our

1348
02:00:24,880 --> 02:00:31,599
Stop the Data Center friends. We are
planning a um a protest on September

1349
02:00:29,679 --> 02:00:37,280
5th, which will be uh Michigan's first
home game. So, we will be protesting at

1350
02:00:34,000 --> 02:00:40,960
the bridge um with Van Beern uh right,
you know, Van Beern's right on

1351
02:00:38,880 --> 02:00:45,920
Rosenville Road, and so are we. We're
going to um in solidarity protest with

1352
02:00:43,520 --> 02:00:50,000
them. We are also working with um uh
Ipsy uh Peace House. We are going to be

1353
02:00:48,239 --> 02:00:54,080
accepting clothing donations so you can
get rid of your U OFM clothing and

1354
02:00:52,000 --> 02:00:59,679
purchase one of Leah's great shirts
instead. So if you want to support Ipsy,

1355
02:00:57,440 --> 02:01:04,880
get rid of your U of M clothing and any
uh lightly used or new clothing that you

1356
02:01:02,080 --> 02:01:08,960
no longer wish to um use and donate that
to a good cause to support Ipsy unlike U

1357
02:01:07,040 --> 02:01:12,960
of M is doing. We're going to do that on
September 5th on their game day to show

1358
02:01:11,199 --> 02:01:16,960
show them out and show them up. We want
everybody on that bridge on Rossonville,

1359
02:01:14,800 --> 02:01:21,280
on Bridge Road, and at the park. We're
going to show up, show out. Um, right

1360
02:01:19,280 --> 02:01:25,119
now I'm I'm going to say noon to two.
Uh, still in the works, but we are

1361
02:01:23,040 --> 02:01:28,560
talking with Ipsy Peace House to take
those donations. So, let's uh get

1362
02:01:27,199 --> 02:01:34,239
together and do that.
>> Thank you, Courtney.

1363
02:01:31,440 --> 02:01:38,000
» Are there any other That's all the
numbers we had.

1364
02:01:35,520 --> 02:01:43,920
» 32. Sorry, I didn't know we had 32.
>> I got special permission from people to

1365
02:01:40,719 --> 02:01:47,440
speak again. This is some of what I
meant to say the first time. So, Related

1366
02:01:45,760 --> 02:01:51,360
Digital, you know, which Steven Ross
owns, Ross Business School, related

1367
02:01:49,599 --> 02:01:56,239
companies that's involved in Los Alamos,
as well as the Selen Township Data

1368
02:01:53,040 --> 02:02:03,199
Center. Um, they filed a permit to Eagle
for a domestic wastewater discharge

1369
02:01:59,760 --> 02:02:08,480
plant for their 450 mostly imaginary
employees all flushing toilets. And it's

1370
02:02:06,080 --> 02:02:13,840
totally just going to be toilet water,
you know. So, um, I know from data like

1371
02:02:12,000 --> 02:02:18,960
Virginia and Wyoming and other places
that closed loop is for obvious

1372
02:02:17,280 --> 02:02:24,480
reasons that don't even take a scientist
to understand. Um, and also with 150

1373
02:02:22,560 --> 02:02:30,320
buildings, most of which have server
racks running hot, um, the drains that

1374
02:02:28,159 --> 02:02:34,800
will go be part of the drain system
through that just themselves, that is

1375
02:02:33,119 --> 02:02:39,360
going to have sludge and contaminants.
So, it's sort of like watching the

1376
02:02:36,560 --> 02:02:43,840
dioxane plume ahead of time and just
watching and watching how it's a

1377
02:02:41,440 --> 02:02:49,040
domestic wastewater discharge permanent.
So, Eagle has public comment open until

1378
02:02:46,560 --> 02:02:53,440
August 24th. The Protect Seline data
center Facebook page, which I finally

1379
02:02:51,520 --> 02:02:57,520
was given permission to be an admin on.
It's a long story. Anyways, um there's

1380
02:02:56,080 --> 02:03:01,679
information there about that. If you
could yell about that loudly, that would

1381
02:02:59,599 --> 02:03:04,719
be really helpful in public comment.
There's a lot of work we've been doing

1382
02:03:02,960 --> 02:03:09,520
behind the scenes to learn how to do
that better. So, we'll be putting stuff

1383
02:03:06,800 --> 02:03:14,080
up there soon related to that. Um, and
the other thing I wanted to say is Milin

1384
02:03:12,239 --> 02:03:18,880
Township, I don't think there are any
organizers there really. And everyone

1385
02:03:16,960 --> 02:03:23,119
that I know, the hundreds of people, no
one has stepped up to organize this.

1386
02:03:20,800 --> 02:03:28,000
They are facing a power plant now from
consumers. Yes. That's right down the

1387
02:03:25,520 --> 02:03:33,280
road. Right. So, the Lima Township DTE
power plant had crazy like connected

1388
02:03:30,880 --> 02:03:38,719
organizers and got them to apologize and
it was a weird unicorn situation. So,

1389
02:03:35,920 --> 02:03:42,239
but now they're doing that. Um, and they
had a meeting and kind of misled people

1390
02:03:40,560 --> 02:03:44,960
about how the room should look and what
was on the agenda and then at the last

1391
02:03:43,599 --> 02:03:48,639
minute people found out that wasn't
really the case. So, there was just a

1392
02:03:47,119 --> 02:03:51,760
Zoom and a whole meeting about it. I
wasn't able to go. But you should be

1393
02:03:50,320 --> 02:03:56,000
aware of that. And if anyone has
organizing capabilities and actually has

1394
02:03:54,080 --> 02:03:59,760
time, that community needs some
attention. That air travels as we all

1395
02:03:57,760 --> 02:04:03,360
know. And it's all part of the complete
hypocrisy and crap around we need to

1396
02:04:02,080 --> 02:04:07,360
build out the grid for these hypers
scale AI harmful data centers of

1397
02:04:05,440 --> 02:04:11,679
surveillance and war. All of which we
know is So I just wanted to

1398
02:04:09,679 --> 02:04:12,880
highlight those two things as calls to
action.

1399
02:04:12,000 --> 02:04:17,040
» Thank you, Sierra.
>> Yep.

1400
02:04:13,440 --> 02:04:21,040
» Thank you very much.
Is that

1401
02:04:19,360 --> 02:04:24,320
conclude our board members? Would you
like to say something before we move on?

1402
02:04:22,480 --> 02:04:28,040
I do want people to know that this is a
regular board meeting,

1403
02:04:28,159 --> 02:04:36,159
» but but
>> but we welcome and have received people

1404
02:04:33,760 --> 02:04:41,679
coming to our meeting for months and
months and months. We've also had

1405
02:04:38,480 --> 02:04:46,400
special meetings that are public hearing
meetings, not a hearing, just public

1406
02:04:43,360 --> 02:04:52,320
meetings and input three times for four
three times. So, but this is just a

1407
02:04:49,599 --> 02:04:56,400
regular board meeting and because it was
announced

1408
02:04:54,159 --> 02:05:02,159
Tuesday a week ago, that's why people
are coming here because they and we are

1409
02:04:59,840 --> 02:05:07,199
very upset. Are there any board members
that have any comments that they would

1410
02:05:04,239 --> 02:05:14,159
like to make? If
If not, I do want to just say um that

1411
02:05:11,760 --> 02:05:19,360
the University of Michigan, they might
have a constitutional right to not pay

1412
02:05:17,599 --> 02:05:24,480
taxes.
They have a constitutional right to not

1413
02:05:21,520 --> 02:05:32,080
go through planning processes, fire
department reviews, building reviews.

1414
02:05:28,480 --> 02:05:39,840
They do not have a constitutional right
to harm our people, to harm our land,

1415
02:05:36,320 --> 02:05:42,840
and to harm our community.
AND

1416
02:05:43,360 --> 02:05:51,840
I think if we were playing baseball, and
we've just begun, folks, like we've been

1417
02:05:49,920 --> 02:05:57,040
dealing this with this for a long time,
and we have been strategizing for a long

1418
02:05:55,599 --> 02:06:02,159
time.
We can't always say

1419
02:05:59,920 --> 02:06:07,840
the legal strategy that we're taking,
but please know that our attorney,

1420
02:06:05,760 --> 02:06:14,400
other staff members, other board
members, other professionals have been

1421
02:06:10,400 --> 02:06:20,480
working on this night and day since
they've tried and did since they did the

1422
02:06:17,280 --> 02:06:29,760
bait and switch for the 20 acres, 200
jobs, two office buildings at $200,000 a

1423
02:06:25,199 --> 02:06:35,840
year. That was the bait. That's right.
>> And yes, I supported it because it

1424
02:06:33,679 --> 02:06:41,119
sounded
they didn't say it was a data center.

1425
02:06:38,880 --> 02:06:47,599
That's not the words they used. And then
they're simultaneously buying

1426
02:06:44,079 --> 02:06:53,440
124 acres behind our backs, behind the
people's backs. But there are a lot of

1427
02:06:49,840 --> 02:06:59,440
people who knew about this project way
way before it ca became public. And the

1428
02:06:57,679 --> 02:07:06,239
Doug, I'm like you. I'm getting hot
here. Getting hot up in here.

1429
02:07:03,280 --> 02:07:11,360
Strike one.
This must be the most environmentally

1430
02:07:08,480 --> 02:07:18,560
sensitive area that we have in in
Ipsellandi Township, possibly county.

1431
02:07:14,400 --> 02:07:26,000
Why would you choose this for two data
centers? You know, it will heat up the

1432
02:07:21,599 --> 02:07:33,520
earth. You know, the noise, the constant
cumulative noise will damage people,

1433
02:07:30,000 --> 02:07:38,239
children, pe anyone that has auto um
sensitivity.

1434
02:07:35,040 --> 02:07:43,679
Damaging. And someone said it tonight.
They said it'll drive you crazy. And it

1435
02:07:40,800 --> 02:07:49,760
does.
the air, the earth. I don't It's 165

1436
02:07:47,599 --> 02:07:54,880
feet from the corner of textile and
bridge

1437
02:07:51,520 --> 02:08:00,960
to a more affordable
housing.

1438
02:07:57,119 --> 02:08:04,400
That's where you choose to locate
165

1439
02:08:02,560 --> 02:08:07,800
feet
from people.

1440
02:08:07,920 --> 02:08:11,400
Strike two.

1441
02:08:11,599 --> 02:08:20,719
It's in the lowest opportunity index.
Everyone knows it because University of

1442
02:08:17,280 --> 02:08:26,719
Michigan did the report on this.
>> It was their report that we used

1443
02:08:24,480 --> 02:08:32,800
to determine how we deal with the future
in Ipsellani Township. They talked about

1444
02:08:28,960 --> 02:08:38,560
the health and how we have to increase
the health indicators of our residents

1445
02:08:36,719 --> 02:08:46,480
in 48197
and 48198.

1446
02:08:40,960 --> 02:08:51,520
And that's where you choose to locate.
This is beyond shocking. And what they

1447
02:08:48,719 --> 02:08:55,760
will say, well, we didn't know that that
department was doing that. We've met

1448
02:08:54,320 --> 02:09:01,520
with the University of Michigan. When
you talk to people, I mean, it's very u

1449
02:08:59,360 --> 02:09:06,880
military.
There's six vice presidents.

1450
02:09:04,239 --> 02:09:11,760
They report to their president, the
board of regents, and Regent Brown. I

1451
02:09:09,520 --> 02:09:18,480
and I know
there's some questions on better ways to

1452
02:09:15,280 --> 02:09:25,920
have larger meetings and not let them
control, but he has been the only regent

1453
02:09:22,719 --> 02:09:32,639
that has come out against this, against
the environmental racism,

1454
02:09:28,639 --> 02:09:39,520
against the health racism, against
poverty. He is the only one. He is pro-

1455
02:09:36,400 --> 02:09:44,719
environment and he's feeling it. He's
feeling it from

1456
02:09:41,599 --> 02:09:50,639
the opposition, which is now the
University of Michigan. So, I know it's

1457
02:09:48,000 --> 02:09:57,119
tough, but at least he stood up when no
one We need more people to stand up, and

1458
02:09:54,159 --> 02:10:04,320
they won't. We need our county board of
commissioners to stand up because if you

1459
02:09:59,920 --> 02:10:08,079
do not stand up against it, then you are
for it.

1460
02:10:06,320 --> 02:10:14,400
» There's
there's just no choice on that. Strike

1461
02:10:10,960 --> 02:10:21,280
three. And we just started
tribal lands,

1462
02:10:17,040 --> 02:10:28,040
Native American burials
identified

1463
02:10:23,440 --> 02:10:28,040
immediately west of Bridge Road.

1464
02:10:29,280 --> 02:10:40,079
There are many more strikes that can go
against the University of Michigan.

1465
02:10:35,199 --> 02:10:45,679
Shame on you. These three things alone
is enough to say, you know what, we made

1466
02:10:42,880 --> 02:10:50,079
the wrong decision.
And yes, we'll file lawsuit if we have

1467
02:10:48,079 --> 02:10:56,320
to.
Don't make the decision. That is the

1468
02:10:53,040 --> 02:11:02,639
best offensive move that we can use is
have the University of Michigan border

1469
02:10:58,239 --> 02:11:09,280
regents reverse their decision. They
have a new president that's coming. The

1470
02:11:05,760 --> 02:11:13,599
woman from Chicago read a little about
about it. I'm a little concerned, but

1471
02:11:11,440 --> 02:11:22,159
she has to do better than what we have
now. And the board of regents cannot be

1472
02:11:17,360 --> 02:11:26,480
silent on this. Email them. And um Mila
is in the back. She has the form and

1473
02:11:24,880 --> 02:11:31,760
it's just a piece of paper. Has all
their email and all their phone numbers.

1474
02:11:30,159 --> 02:11:37,040
Tell them we need to reverse this
decision.

1475
02:11:33,440 --> 02:11:42,400
Strike three, you are out. U of them and
get out of our community. We don't want

1476
02:11:39,599 --> 02:11:48,239
you and we don't need this kind of
economic development and harm that you

1477
02:11:45,760 --> 02:11:52,599
are doing to our people and our
community. Thank you.

1478
02:11:57,040 --> 02:12:04,560
Okay, we're going to go on with the
regular meeting. We will still and

1479
02:12:02,079 --> 02:12:11,119
hopefully September 9th, we've done all
the social the social media platforms.

1480
02:12:07,920 --> 02:12:15,280
Register to get there. There's only 300
people allowed.

1481
02:12:13,119 --> 02:12:20,719
They will be on a waiting list according
to what they say. Now, Leah, like you

1482
02:12:18,159 --> 02:12:27,199
said, they're controlling it. and then
the meeting in October, you will be on

1483
02:12:23,679 --> 02:12:32,880
that list to go there. So, please go and
register for the meeting and get on the

1484
02:12:30,320 --> 02:12:37,280
waiting list if you have to. We went to
a meeting for the post office that

1485
02:12:34,560 --> 02:12:42,800
Congresswoman Dingle held. There was
over 7 800 people there.

1486
02:12:40,079 --> 02:12:47,280
» Why there's only 300 people allowed
>> in the whole ballroom?

1487
02:12:44,000 --> 02:12:51,599
» In the largest ballroom in county. Yeah,
we need to make we need to ask them

1488
02:12:50,079 --> 02:12:56,000
» to get the whole ballroom. That's
ridiculous.

1489
02:12:53,440 --> 02:13:00,239
» Again, like like Leah said, it's all
about control. And I did send an email

1490
02:12:58,159 --> 02:13:04,960
to ask.
All right, we're going to go on to the

1491
02:13:01,840 --> 02:13:10,320
agenda. Mr. Wyinners, thank you for an
outstanding job

1492
02:13:07,599 --> 02:13:15,360
and we will fight this. Under old
business, we have the second reading of

1493
02:13:12,239 --> 02:13:23,679
ordinance 2026515,
which is an ordinance to amend chapter

1494
02:13:17,440 --> 02:13:28,400
62, article 4, section 62- 76A of the
code of ordinances, charter township of

1495
02:13:25,840 --> 02:13:32,719
Ipsellani to adjust to water service
rates. Clerk Swanson

1496
02:13:31,040 --> 02:13:38,239
» be it ordered by the charter township of
Ipsilani that chapter 62 article 4

1497
02:13:35,520 --> 02:13:43,360
section 62-76A
of the court of ordinances is amended as

1498
02:13:40,880 --> 02:13:47,840
follows except as otherwise provided in
this section water to be furnished by

1499
02:13:45,599 --> 02:13:52,880
the system shall be measured by a meter
controlled by the epsilani community

1500
02:13:50,639 --> 02:13:57,760
utilities authority for all billings
rendered prior to September 1st 2026

1501
02:13:56,000 --> 02:14:03,360
existing water service rate shall
prevail for all Billings rendered on or

1502
02:14:00,239 --> 02:14:08,239
after September 1st, 2026. Charges for
water service rates shall be as follows

1503
02:14:05,679 --> 02:14:14,719
for each bimonthly two-month period.
Readiness to serve rates based on size

1504
02:14:10,239 --> 02:14:21,679
of meter. Meter size 5/8 to 3/4 in
$20.66

1505
02:14:16,880 --> 02:14:30,000
1 in $51.65 65 1 and a2 one to one and a
1 1/2 in $103.31

1506
02:14:26,560 --> 02:14:36,159
2 in $165.30
in $51655

1507
02:14:33,599 --> 02:14:42,560
4 in,
$3310

1508
02:14:38,960 --> 02:14:52,119
6 in $2,66.91
19 8 in $3,615.84

1509
02:14:47,040 --> 02:14:52,119
84 10 in 5,682.3

1510
02:14:52,960 --> 02:14:56,679
12 in $6,715.13

1511
02:14:56,960 --> 02:15:03,520
commodity rate $447
per 100 cubic feet. So moved

1512
02:15:02,320 --> 02:15:10,079
» support
>> motion Swanson support row to approve

1513
02:15:06,400 --> 02:15:16,560
the second reading of the resolution and
it effectively will be a 5.75 increase

1514
02:15:13,360 --> 02:15:22,159
in the township um division by monthly
bill according to the memo and it was

1515
02:15:18,639 --> 02:15:25,199
presented at the last meeting as well.
We have to do a roll call vote.

1516
02:15:24,560 --> 02:15:26,480
» Row
>> yes.

1517
02:15:25,760 --> 02:15:27,679
» Newman
>> yes.

1518
02:15:26,960 --> 02:15:28,960
» Peterson
>> yes.

1519
02:15:28,159 --> 02:15:31,199
» Swanson
>> yes.

1520
02:15:29,360 --> 02:15:32,960
» Stumbo votes yes. Eldridge.
>> Yes.

1521
02:15:31,920 --> 02:15:36,560
» And Thornton.
>> Yes.

1522
02:15:33,520 --> 02:15:40,079
» The second reading is approved
under old business number two. And then

1523
02:15:38,400 --> 02:15:46,560
we'll take a break for
>> if that's okay real quick. Um number two

1524
02:15:42,560 --> 02:15:53,199
is second reading of ordinance 20 26516
and ordinance to amend chapter 62

1525
02:15:49,599 --> 02:15:57,920
article 4 section 62-7
of the code of ordinance charter

1526
02:15:55,199 --> 02:16:01,760
township of Ipsellani to adjust sewer
service rates. Be it ordered by the

1527
02:16:00,159 --> 02:16:07,679
charter township of Ipsilani that
chapter 62 article 4 section 62-77

1528
02:16:05,520 --> 02:16:12,960
of the code of ordinances is amended as
follows. For all billings rendered prior

1529
02:16:09,920 --> 02:16:17,119
to September 1st 2026 existing sewage
disposal service rate shall prevail for

1530
02:16:15,440 --> 02:16:22,560
all billings rendered on or after
September 1st 2026. Charges for sewage

1531
02:16:20,000 --> 02:16:26,880
disposal services shall be as follows
for each bimonthly two-month period.

1532
02:16:24,960 --> 02:16:34,119
Readiness to serve rates based on size
of meter. 58 to three/4 inches, $20. One

1533
02:16:30,639 --> 02:16:34,119
inch, $49.99.

1534
02:16:34,319 --> 02:16:39,399
One in or 1 and a2 $99.96.

1535
02:16:40,000 --> 02:16:52,599
2 in $159.95.
3 in $499.84.

1536
02:16:46,719 --> 02:16:52,599
4 in 900 999.67.

1537
02:16:52,639 --> 02:16:56,519
6 in, $1,999.33.

1538
02:16:56,880 --> 02:17:00,599
8 in, $3,498.83.

1539
02:17:01,120 --> 02:17:05,240
10 in, $5,498.16.

1540
02:17:05,519 --> 02:17:09,319
12 in, $6,497.83.

1541
02:17:09,519 --> 02:17:19,760
Commodity rate $3.29 per 100 cubic feet.
So moved. Motion Swanson.

1542
02:17:18,479 --> 02:17:24,800
» Port Peterson.
>> Port Peterson. Discussion.

1543
02:17:22,399 --> 02:17:26,000
Hearing none. Roll call vote. Row
>> yes.

1544
02:17:25,280 --> 02:17:27,760
» Newman
>> yes.

1545
02:17:26,880 --> 02:17:29,040
» Peterson
>> yes.

1546
02:17:28,319 --> 02:17:31,760
» Swanson
>> yes. Stumbo vote yes. Eldridge

1547
02:17:31,439 --> 02:17:33,280
» yes.
>> And Thornton

1548
02:17:32,719 --> 02:17:38,399
» yes.
>> The um second reading is approved.

1549
02:17:35,760 --> 02:17:43,439
Before we break I know I the judge
Washington and um the magistrate here.

1550
02:17:40,880 --> 02:17:50,719
So, if we could do new business number
one, which is approve new participation

1551
02:17:46,880 --> 02:17:58,559
agreement with 14B court and
13 verticals LLC and pay the onetime

1552
02:17:54,319 --> 02:18:00,240
licensing fee of $15, which is budgeted.
>> Move.

1553
02:17:59,280 --> 02:18:03,240
» Motion will
>> support.

1554
02:18:03,439 --> 02:18:10,359
» We have a motion and support.
Magistrate.

1555
02:18:12,479 --> 02:18:19,960
» I wasn't sure if you needed me to say
anything. Do you have any questions?

1556
02:18:16,960 --> 02:18:19,960
» Good.

1557
02:18:22,000 --> 02:18:26,800
» We told her we're good.
>> Yep.

1558
02:18:25,760 --> 02:18:30,559
» Okay.
>> Nice presentation in your writing.

1559
02:18:29,679 --> 02:18:34,639
» All those in favor?
>> Thank you.

1560
02:18:33,200 --> 02:18:37,200
» Do you have any questions or would you
like

1561
02:18:35,040 --> 02:18:38,800
» I do not. And if you have any questions
for me, just let me know.

1562
02:18:38,399 --> 02:18:42,639
» No.
>> All right, we have a motion and support

1563
02:18:41,040 --> 02:18:49,760
then. All in favor?
>> I opposed. Motion carried. Number two is

1564
02:18:46,000 --> 02:18:56,000
alo also um
>> part of the 14B court. um approved

1565
02:18:54,160 --> 02:19:03,679
Michigan Indigent Defense Council
contracts with the County Public

1566
02:18:58,000 --> 02:19:08,359
Defenders Office for 2025 26 and 26 27
fiscal years in the amount of 42,67.90

1567
02:19:10,000 --> 02:19:16,359
which is budgeted in general fund
township 10128781007

1568
02:19:17,519 --> 02:19:20,160
move
>> motion row

1569
02:19:19,040 --> 02:19:24,639
» support Thornon
>> support Thornon is Is there discussion

1570
02:19:22,399 --> 02:19:30,240
on this? We do this every year and I see
it's a two-year agreement. That's great.

1571
02:19:29,040 --> 02:19:34,479
» All in favor?
>> I

1572
02:19:31,280 --> 02:19:37,679
» opposed. Motion carried. Number three is
to approve the new participation

1573
02:19:36,080 --> 02:19:42,479
agreement with the courts and law
enforcement management system which is

1574
02:19:40,000 --> 02:19:49,520
Clemus authority and accept the quote
for the 202627

1575
02:19:45,040 --> 02:19:54,680
fiscal year in the amount of 9,527
which is budgeted in the court

1576
02:19:51,680 --> 02:19:54,680
236286819006

1577
02:19:56,479 --> 02:19:59,680
Peterson
>> motion Peterson

1578
02:19:58,960 --> 02:20:05,120
» support
>> support Eldridge

1579
02:20:01,760 --> 02:20:08,080
is there discussion on this. We do this
every year as well.

1580
02:20:06,479 --> 02:20:10,800
» Yes.
>> Hearing none. All in favor?

1581
02:20:09,760 --> 02:20:14,880
» I
>> oppose. Motion carries.

1582
02:20:13,280 --> 02:20:19,200
» All right. Thank you very much.
>> You are very welcome and thank you and

1583
02:20:16,800 --> 02:20:24,640
we apologize for the delay.
>> No. Thank you. I should township too.

1584
02:20:23,200 --> 02:20:28,560
Number four
>> is approved the charter township of

1585
02:20:26,080 --> 02:20:33,840
Vipsy road closures parades event
celebrations festivals policy

1586
02:20:32,960 --> 02:20:40,359
so moved
>> motion Eldridge support row is there

1587
02:20:36,560 --> 02:20:40,359
discussion on this

1588
02:20:41,280 --> 02:20:50,160
» hearing none all in favor
>> opposed motion carries number five is to

1589
02:20:47,680 --> 02:20:56,000
approve entering into negotiations to
sell township owned property

1590
02:20:52,399 --> 02:21:00,960
at 1710 Outer Lane Drive.
>> So move

1591
02:20:57,439 --> 02:21:05,439
» motion row support Swanson. This will be
brought back to the board.

1592
02:21:04,080 --> 02:21:09,600
» All in favor?
>> I

1593
02:21:06,319 --> 02:21:14,000
» opposed. Motion carried.
Number six is the first reading

1594
02:21:11,520 --> 02:21:20,880
resolution 202617
which is in reference to ordinance 2026

1595
02:21:17,520 --> 02:21:28,479
517. It's an ordinance to amend zoning
ordinance tech land use table formbbased

1596
02:21:24,319 --> 02:21:31,800
code regulations changes and amendments.
Clerk Swanson.

1597
02:21:32,560 --> 02:21:39,520
» Whereas
whereas the township passed a new zoning

1598
02:21:36,560 --> 02:21:44,160
ordinance in 2022 that was a document
aligned with the charter township 2040

1599
02:21:42,000 --> 02:21:48,000
master plan.
And whereas the township from time to

1600
02:21:46,080 --> 02:21:52,399
time wants to update and clean up the
zoning ordinance for for easier to

1601
02:21:50,560 --> 02:21:56,240
understand and implement process and
regulations that continue to align with

1602
02:21:54,240 --> 02:22:01,040
the master plan. And whereas this
ordinance proposes zoning text amendment

1603
02:21:58,479 --> 02:22:05,280
updates to three sections of the code
which include the land use table, the

1604
02:22:03,120 --> 02:22:10,000
formbbased code regulations and the
changes to the amendments for reszoning

1605
02:22:07,040 --> 02:22:15,600
and conditional resoning. And whereas at
its regularly scheduled meeting held

1606
02:22:12,479 --> 02:22:19,439
July 14th, 2026, the Charter Township of
Ipsy Planning Commission held a public

1607
02:22:17,439 --> 02:22:22,960
hearing, discussed the proposed text
amendments, and recommended that the

1608
02:22:21,120 --> 02:22:26,960
township board approve the ordinance
amendment as presented. Now, therefore,

1609
02:22:24,960 --> 02:22:31,600
be it resolved that the Charter Township
of Ipsani board hereby adopts and

1610
02:22:29,280 --> 02:22:37,359
incorporates by reference ordinance
number 2026-517

1611
02:22:34,880 --> 02:22:43,200
attached here 2 by reference in its
entirety. So moved.

1612
02:22:40,560 --> 02:22:46,000
» Motion Swanson.
>> Support Peterson.

1613
02:22:44,240 --> 02:22:49,760
» Support Peterson. Would you like a
presentation board members? This is

1614
02:22:48,640 --> 02:22:53,280
first reading.
>> We'll have the second one.

1615
02:22:51,920 --> 02:22:54,720
» Want to brought back?
>> Yep.

1616
02:22:53,920 --> 02:22:55,840
» Second one.
>> Yeah.

1617
02:22:55,439 --> 02:22:57,760
» With me.
>> And have a presentation then?

1618
02:22:57,439 --> 02:22:59,439
» Yep.
>> Okay.

1619
02:22:58,080 --> 02:23:05,040
» Sounds good.
>> Very good. Um, we have to do a roll call

1620
02:23:01,840 --> 02:23:06,319
vote on a ordinance which is Row.
>> Yes.

1621
02:23:05,600 --> 02:23:08,000
» Newman.
>> Yes.

1622
02:23:06,960 --> 02:23:09,120
» Peterson. Yes.
>> Swanson,

1623
02:23:08,720 --> 02:23:11,520
» yes.
>> Stumbo, vote, yes. Eldridge,

1624
02:23:11,120 --> 02:23:12,720
» yes.
>> Thornton,

1625
02:23:12,240 --> 02:23:18,080
» yes.
>> The first reading is approved. Mark,

1626
02:23:15,680 --> 02:23:23,680
thank you for your patience and we'll do
a complete presentation before adopting

1627
02:23:20,960 --> 02:23:30,720
the final reading. Number seven is
resolution 2026, MDNR trust fund project

1628
02:23:27,760 --> 02:23:39,120
development agreement for North Bay Park
Pavilion improvements. Move Peterson

1629
02:23:34,160 --> 02:23:43,359
» support roll. Is that a resolution?
>> We have a motion.

1630
02:23:41,600 --> 02:23:46,560
Uh Peterson is that
>> yes

1631
02:23:43,760 --> 02:23:54,319
» and support row.
Questions or comments?

1632
02:23:50,000 --> 02:23:58,359
» So it was motion row. No motion Peterson
support row.

1633
02:23:55,040 --> 02:23:58,359
» Sorry. Sorry.

1634
02:24:00,960 --> 02:24:08,240
» Okay.
>> Okay.

1635
02:24:04,160 --> 02:24:13,359
This um this is just for um we were
awarded the grant

1636
02:24:09,920 --> 02:24:16,520
» and we um this is a formal acceptance of
the grant.

1637
02:24:16,800 --> 02:24:22,240
» Good evening. John Hines, mal service
director.

1638
02:24:20,240 --> 02:24:28,399
Uh this and the following agenda item
are the official um as supervisor Stumbo

1639
02:24:26,160 --> 02:24:32,399
said um the official awards of the 2025
Indian trust fund grant. This was

1640
02:24:30,800 --> 02:24:40,560
applied for last year. So again, budget
year 2025 for their um MD&R's um uh

1641
02:24:38,240 --> 02:24:45,359
budget cycle, project cycle, excuse me.
So this would be to renovate the North

1642
02:24:43,040 --> 02:24:49,280
Bay Park pavilion, which would be a
complete demolition and reconstruction

1643
02:24:47,200 --> 02:24:55,120
of the bathroom and pavilion number one
in North Bay Park. So um this is a

1644
02:24:53,200 --> 02:25:00,000
requirement to accept the grant as well
as the next agenda item.

1645
02:24:57,760 --> 02:25:07,399
The amount for the project is a 50/50
match of

1646
02:25:02,880 --> 02:25:07,399
uh I think it's $38,600.

1647
02:25:08,000 --> 02:25:12,080
» Thank you.
>> Mhm.

1648
02:25:10,399 --> 02:25:13,760
» Questions or comments? This is good
news.

1649
02:25:12,880 --> 02:25:18,960
» Yes.
>> Yes. We got a grant. Woohoo. Um we have

1650
02:25:16,479 --> 02:25:25,680
a motion and support. All in favor?
>> I opposed. Motion carried. Number eight

1651
02:25:22,399 --> 02:25:31,840
is to approve 2025 MDNR trust fund
development project agreement for North

1652
02:25:27,760 --> 02:25:35,359
Bay Park the pavilion project.
>> So moved

1653
02:25:32,720 --> 02:25:38,920
» motion Thornton
>> support Aldridge

1654
02:25:39,680 --> 02:25:43,600
for engineering right?
>> Yes.

1655
02:25:41,920 --> 02:25:46,960
» This is the official project. The next
one's for engineering. This is you have

1656
02:25:45,280 --> 02:25:51,600
to do a resolution and a project
agreement to submit to the MDNR. So we

1657
02:25:50,160 --> 02:25:55,040
actually applied for this grant
initially with Ernack Consulting and

1658
02:25:52,960 --> 02:25:59,040
then Spicer Group helped us finish it.
So these two items along with an updated

1659
02:25:57,439 --> 02:26:03,439
legal description and project boundary
map are the four things we need to do to

1660
02:26:01,200 --> 02:26:08,479
officially accept the grant and then we
can get started after that.

1661
02:26:07,439 --> 02:26:14,880
» Thank you.
>> We have a motion support. All in favor?

1662
02:26:11,040 --> 02:26:18,720
» I opposed. Motion carried. Number nine
is to award Manic and Smith Group as a

1663
02:26:17,200 --> 02:26:26,280
prime professional engineer for the
North Bay Park pavilion and restroom

1664
02:26:20,880 --> 02:26:26,280
project in the amount of $66,49766

1665
02:26:27,040 --> 02:26:34,960
which is budgeted and will be reimbursed
50% by the Michigan Natural Resources

1666
02:26:32,960 --> 02:26:37,920
MDNR trust fund grant.
>> So move motion Thornton

1667
02:26:37,280 --> 02:26:44,399
» support
>> support row. Any questions or comments?

1668
02:26:42,880 --> 02:26:45,200
get this project moving. Thank you,
John.

1669
02:26:44,800 --> 02:26:47,359
» Yes.
>> All in favor?

1670
02:26:46,319 --> 02:26:54,000
» I
>> opposed. Motion carried. Number 10 is um

1671
02:26:51,840 --> 02:26:59,680
request to approve OM advisors for
design, engineering, and bidding

1672
02:26:55,760 --> 02:27:05,920
services for the Lon Feather Point Park
Dock replacement project with a not to

1673
02:27:02,880 --> 02:27:10,600
exceed amount of 24,000, which is
budgeted in two 21391-975587.

1674
02:27:12,479 --> 02:27:16,479
So move
>> motion Eldridge

1675
02:27:15,120 --> 02:27:21,920
» support
>> support. Tharton

1676
02:27:19,359 --> 02:27:24,800
discussion on this item
hearing. None. All in favor?

1677
02:27:23,600 --> 02:27:30,319
» I
>> opposed. Motion carries. Great park

1678
02:27:27,840 --> 02:27:35,680
improvements here. Number 11. Approve
fishback for construction administration

1679
02:27:32,800 --> 02:27:41,600
services for the Club View Park Pavilion
project in the amount of $4,400

1680
02:27:38,720 --> 02:27:45,680
which is budgeted. So move Peterson
>> support

1681
02:27:42,240 --> 02:27:50,160
» motion Peterson support Newman
discussion

1682
02:27:47,760 --> 02:27:54,000
and this will be done this year.
>> Correct. That is the goal. Um later on

1683
02:27:52,000 --> 02:27:58,080
the agenda we are bringing a contractor
that was um the bid on the project. So

1684
02:27:56,640 --> 02:28:01,920
with Fishbach we're going to meet on
Monday if approved tonight and hopefully

1685
02:28:00,479 --> 02:28:04,800
get everything ordered and done before
the winter this year.

1686
02:28:03,520 --> 02:28:07,120
» Thank you.
>> All in favor?

1687
02:28:06,319 --> 02:28:11,600
» I
>> opposed.

1688
02:28:08,640 --> 02:28:14,880
Motion carries. Number 12 is resolution
202619

1689
02:28:13,200 --> 02:28:20,800
which is a second amendment to the
articles of incorporation the regional

1690
02:28:18,000 --> 02:28:26,560
resource management authority and the
only change is the number of times in

1691
02:28:23,600 --> 02:28:29,280
which they meet or how often they meet.
>> That is the only change.

1692
02:28:28,000 --> 02:28:32,479
» Yeah, the only change is uh the
requirement was monthly and now they're

1693
02:28:31,040 --> 02:28:37,840
moving to quarterly.
>> That is the only change. So we need a

1694
02:28:34,720 --> 02:28:44,000
motion and did I get one? So moved
>> support

1695
02:28:39,200 --> 02:28:49,520
» motion Eldridge support Thornton.
All in favor?

1696
02:28:46,000 --> 02:28:56,640
» Opposed? Motion carried. Number 13 is
resolution 202620 which is participation

1697
02:28:53,200 --> 02:28:59,760
in purchase of development rights
program.

1698
02:28:59,040 --> 02:29:02,240
» So moved.
>> Motion Eldridge

1699
02:29:01,200 --> 02:29:05,520
» support.
>> Support row.

1700
02:29:03,760 --> 02:29:08,240
» They've never wanted to use our land.
So, it changed.

1701
02:29:06,960 --> 02:29:11,840
» I'm just thankful, Karen.
>> I am too.

1702
02:29:09,040 --> 02:29:15,280
» Yeah. And first time for everything.
>> First time in what, 30 years we've been

1703
02:29:13,520 --> 02:29:18,240
paying the millage or 40, whatever it
is. So,

1704
02:29:16,800 --> 02:29:23,439
» but we're glad.
>> Glad.

1705
02:29:19,840 --> 02:29:30,080
So, this will allow us to participate in
purchasing agricultural land for um

1706
02:29:27,680 --> 02:29:37,040
preservation.
We have a motion support. All in favor?

1707
02:29:33,280 --> 02:29:41,280
» Opposed? Motion carried. Number 14 is to
accept the resignation of Erica Vier

1708
02:29:39,439 --> 02:29:45,600
from the zoning board of appeals
effective September 5th, 2026.

1709
02:29:44,560 --> 02:29:52,080
» Peterson support.
>> Motion Peterson support row. This will

1710
02:29:48,720 --> 02:29:56,880
be advertised for vacancy. All in favor?
>> I

1711
02:29:52,960 --> 02:30:03,439
» opposed. Motion carried.
Number 15 is resolution 202621

1712
02:30:01,040 --> 02:30:09,520
which is a resolution establishing a
temporary moratorum on establishment,

1713
02:30:07,840 --> 02:30:16,240
construction,
expansion or approval of major electric

1714
02:30:13,920 --> 02:30:20,399
utility infrastructure within the
charter township of Ipsilante.

1715
02:30:19,439 --> 02:30:26,720
» So moved.
>> Support motion Eldridge support. Um,

1716
02:30:25,040 --> 02:30:29,760
Thornton,
I think this one should be read into the

1717
02:30:28,560 --> 02:30:32,800
record.
>> Yes,

1718
02:30:30,160 --> 02:30:36,080
» Mr. Wyinners.
>> That correct?

1719
02:30:33,840 --> 02:30:40,720
» Swanson said I could read it if I wanted
to.

1720
02:30:38,160 --> 02:30:43,760
» So, I will do the pleasure. Resolution
2026-21,

1721
02:30:42,240 --> 02:30:47,200
a resolution establishing a temporary
moratorium on establishment,

1722
02:30:45,040 --> 02:30:50,800
construction, expansion, or approval of
major electric utility infrastructure

1723
02:30:48,880 --> 02:30:54,560
within the chart of Epsilani. The
Charter Touch of Epsilani hereby finds

1724
02:30:52,560 --> 02:30:57,680
and determines as follows. Number one,
purpose and findings. Whereas the

1725
02:30:55,920 --> 02:31:01,600
charter townships has a responsibility
to protect the public health, safety,

1726
02:30:59,680 --> 02:31:04,640
and welfare and to provide the orderly
use and development of land within the

1727
02:31:03,040 --> 02:31:09,040
township consistent with applicable
state and federal law. And whereas the

1728
02:31:07,280 --> 02:31:11,760
township's master plan and zoning
ordinance seek to promote orderly

1729
02:31:10,399 --> 02:31:15,920
development, protect residential
neighborhoods and environmentally

1730
02:31:13,680 --> 02:31:19,840
sensitive lands, minimize unreasonable
burdens upon public facilities and

1731
02:31:17,600 --> 02:31:24,560
services, protect natural resources, and
ensure compatibility among land uses.

1732
02:31:22,720 --> 02:31:28,160
And whereas the township zoning
ordinance presently defines and

1733
02:31:26,479 --> 02:31:32,399
regulates certain essential services
provided by public utilities, including

1734
02:31:30,399 --> 02:31:36,080
electrical transmission and distribution
systems. However, the township's

1735
02:31:34,479 --> 02:31:39,760
existing regulations do not
comprehensively address the land use

1736
02:31:38,080 --> 02:31:46,000
impacts associated with the construction
of substantial expansion of modern

1737
02:31:43,200 --> 02:31:50,240
highcapacity electrical substations,
switching stations, transformer yards,

1738
02:31:48,160 --> 02:31:53,760
transmission facilities, and related
major electrical infrastructure. And

1739
02:31:52,640 --> 02:31:58,000
where are the nature and scale of
electrical infrastructure necessary to

1740
02:31:55,600 --> 02:32:01,439
serve new high energy demand land uses
are changing rapidly including

1741
02:31:59,840 --> 02:32:05,040
infrastructure associated but not
limited to hypers scale data centers,

1742
02:32:03,200 --> 02:32:08,960
midsize data simmers, artificial
intelligent computing facilities and

1743
02:32:07,200 --> 02:32:13,520
high performance computational centers,
industrial facilities and other

1744
02:32:10,720 --> 02:32:16,800
intensive electrical users. And whereas
the township has previously recognized

1745
02:32:15,280 --> 02:32:20,720
through its planning zoning actions at
major electrical utility facilities may

1746
02:32:19,200 --> 02:32:24,880
require substantial electrical
infrastructure including but not limit

1747
02:32:22,560 --> 02:32:28,319
to substations, generators, batteries,
transmission improvements, and other

1748
02:32:26,319 --> 02:32:33,120
electrical support facilities. And
whereas the major electric utility

1749
02:32:30,640 --> 02:32:36,800
facilities may have significant land use
impacts that differ substantially from

1750
02:32:34,800 --> 02:32:40,960
routine electrical distribution
facilities, survey homes and businesses

1751
02:32:39,280 --> 02:32:45,280
in including impacts related to
location, land consumption, setback,

1752
02:32:42,960 --> 02:32:50,319
screening, noise, lighting, visual
character, storm water, natural

1753
02:32:47,280 --> 02:32:54,399
resources, in emergency access,
proximity to residential neighborhoods

1754
02:32:52,479 --> 02:32:59,040
and public open spaces, construction
activity, resource consumption, utility

1755
02:32:56,640 --> 02:33:02,399
rates and compatibility existing and
planned development. And whereas the

1756
02:33:00,720 --> 02:33:05,920
establishment of substantial expansion
of such facilities before the township

1757
02:33:04,080 --> 02:33:10,319
has had a reasonable opportunity to
study these issues could result in

1758
02:33:07,600 --> 02:33:14,479
develop development patterns
or impacts that are difficult or

1759
02:33:11,840 --> 02:33:18,240
impossible to remedy after construction.
And whereas the township board therefore

1760
02:33:16,640 --> 02:33:22,640
determines that a temporary narrowly
tailored moratorum is necessary to allow

1761
02:33:20,880 --> 02:33:27,040
the township planning commission,
township staff, consultants, engineers,

1762
02:33:24,640 --> 02:33:32,080
and legal council sufficient time to
study major electric utility facilities

1763
02:33:30,399 --> 02:33:35,680
and determine whether amendments to the
township's master plan, zoning

1764
02:33:33,520 --> 02:33:39,120
ordinances, engine ordinance,
engineering standards, or other

1765
02:33:37,120 --> 02:33:42,720
applicable regulations are necessary to
protect the public health, safety, and

1766
02:33:40,880 --> 02:33:47,520
welfare. And whereas the resolution is
intended solely as a temporary land use

1767
02:33:45,120 --> 02:33:52,080
measure, it is not intended to regulate
electrical utility rates, service

1768
02:33:50,160 --> 02:33:56,640
territories, electric reliability
standards is the generation of sale of

1769
02:33:54,240 --> 02:34:00,640
electricity or any other matter with the
exclusive jurisdiction of the Michigan

1770
02:33:58,560 --> 02:34:04,720
Public Service Commission, federal
energy regulatory commission or other

1771
02:34:02,560 --> 02:34:08,800
state or federal agency. And whereas
nothing in this reg resolution is

1772
02:34:07,359 --> 02:34:13,040
intended to prohibit routine
maintenance, replacements, repair,

1773
02:34:10,880 --> 02:34:16,960
emergency restoration, ordinary customer
connections, or improvements reasonably

1774
02:34:15,200 --> 02:34:21,200
necessary to maintain safe and reliable
electrical service to existing

1775
02:34:18,399 --> 02:34:25,280
residences, businesses.
Section two, definitions for the purpose

1776
02:34:23,359 --> 02:34:29,840
of this resolution. Electric utility
means any person, corporation, municipal

1777
02:34:27,760 --> 02:34:34,640
utility, cooperative, public utility,
electric utility, transmission company,

1778
02:34:32,960 --> 02:34:38,800
affiliated transmission company,
independent transmission company or

1779
02:34:36,319 --> 02:34:43,680
other entity engaged in the generation,
transmission or distribution of electric

1780
02:34:41,040 --> 02:34:47,920
energy including but not limited to
entities such as DT electric company,

1781
02:34:45,680 --> 02:34:53,359
ITC transmission, Michigan Electric
Transmission Company, LLC and their

1782
02:34:50,319 --> 02:34:57,920
successors or affiliates, major electric
utility facility means any of the

1783
02:34:56,080 --> 02:35:01,760
following. A a new electrical
substation, switching station, switch

1784
02:34:59,760 --> 02:35:06,720
yard, transformer station, transformer
yard, or comparable facility designed to

1785
02:35:04,640 --> 02:35:10,319
transform, switch, regulate, control or
transmit electrical power, including

1786
02:35:08,319 --> 02:35:15,120
both as a principal use or as an
accessory. B. The physical expansion of

1787
02:35:13,280 --> 02:35:18,720
an existing electrical substation,
switching station, switch yard,

1788
02:35:16,479 --> 02:35:23,120
transformer station, or transformer
yard, including an increase in the fence

1789
02:35:20,560 --> 02:35:27,120
or developed area of the facility.
installation of additional major power

1790
02:35:25,040 --> 02:35:31,920
transformers or installation of
additional transmission level switching

1791
02:35:29,439 --> 02:35:36,800
or bus equipment including both as a
principal use or an accessory use. C. A

1792
02:35:35,120 --> 02:35:41,840
new overhead electrical transmission
line or transmission corridor. D. a

1793
02:35:40,080 --> 02:35:44,960
substantial expansion of an existing
transmission corridor involving

1794
02:35:43,280 --> 02:35:48,800
additional transmission circuits, new
transmission towers or structures or

1795
02:35:47,439 --> 02:35:52,560
acquisition or establishment of
materially expanded rights of way or e

1796
02:35:51,120 --> 02:35:57,760
buildings, access, roads, control
facilities, storm water improvements or

1797
02:35:55,840 --> 02:36:03,280
other structures principally accessory
to a facility described above. Routine

1798
02:36:00,720 --> 02:36:07,600
utility work means maintenance, repair,
placement, reconstruction, consumer

1799
02:36:05,280 --> 02:36:11,120
connections or customer connections,
distribution system improvements,

1800
02:36:09,120 --> 02:36:14,880
vegetation management, and emergency
restoration or similar work that does

1801
02:36:13,200 --> 02:36:19,439
not constitute the establishment of
substantial expansion of a major

1802
02:36:16,560 --> 02:36:24,399
electric utility facility. Section
three, temporary moratorum. During the

1803
02:36:22,479 --> 02:36:28,399
effective period of this resolution, no
major electric facilities shall be

1804
02:36:26,319 --> 02:36:32,080
established, constructed or
substantially expanded within the

1805
02:36:29,840 --> 02:36:35,680
charter township of Ipsilani when such
activity requires zoning, land use, site

1806
02:36:34,160 --> 02:36:40,240
plan, special land use, variance,
grading, engineering, rightway, or other

1807
02:36:37,760 --> 02:36:43,840
approval from the township
during this moratorum. A. No township

1808
02:36:42,399 --> 02:36:48,319
department, officer, employee,
commission, board, or other body shall

1809
02:36:46,479 --> 02:36:52,880
grant final zoning or land use approval
for the establishment or substantial

1810
02:36:49,920 --> 02:36:57,520
expansion of a major electric utility
facility. B. Applications for a major

1811
02:36:55,680 --> 02:37:02,960
electric utility facility may be
received for administrative purposes if

1812
02:36:59,840 --> 02:37:07,280
required by law, but no final township
land use approval shall be granted

1813
02:37:04,720 --> 02:37:10,479
during the moratorum. C. The mortorium
shall apply to applications pending on

1814
02:37:08,880 --> 02:37:15,680
the effective date of this resolution
that have not received all required

1815
02:37:13,040 --> 02:37:21,120
final township approval except to the
extent an applicant has acquired vested

1816
02:37:18,000 --> 02:37:25,040
rights recognized under Michigan law. D.
No applicant shall obtain vested rights

1817
02:37:23,359 --> 02:37:29,120
solely by filling the application during
the effective period of the moratorum.

1818
02:37:27,040 --> 02:37:32,720
D. Exemptions. This moratorum shall not
apply to a emergency repairs or work

1819
02:37:31,359 --> 02:37:36,560
reasonably or necessary to restore
electrical service following storms,

1820
02:37:34,399 --> 02:37:40,399
accidents, equipment failures, natural
disasters or other emergencies. B

1821
02:37:38,399 --> 02:37:46,399
routine maintenance and order repair of
existing utility features.

1822
02:37:43,760 --> 02:37:49,600
C. Replacement of existing poles, wires,
transformers, conductors, structures or

1823
02:37:48,080 --> 02:37:54,240
equipment with substantially similar
facilities within an existing utility

1824
02:37:51,760 --> 02:37:58,399
corridor or developed utility site. D.
Ordinary electric distribution

1825
02:37:55,760 --> 02:38:03,280
improvements incur customer service
connections that do not involve

1826
02:38:00,240 --> 02:38:07,520
construction or substantial expansion of
a major electric utility facility. E.

1827
02:38:06,000 --> 02:38:10,160
Work demonstrated to the township to be
immediately necessary to correct an

1828
02:38:08,800 --> 02:38:13,680
unsafe condition or prevent a
substantial and imminent threat to

1829
02:38:11,840 --> 02:38:17,760
electrical liability or public safety.
F. projects that received an all

1830
02:38:15,840 --> 02:38:22,560
required final township land use
approvals before the effective date of

1831
02:38:19,760 --> 02:38:27,520
this resolution and for those approvals
for which those approvals remain valid.

1832
02:38:25,600 --> 02:38:31,520
G. Activities for which legally vested
rights existed before the effective date

1833
02:38:29,040 --> 02:38:34,640
of the res of this resolution. Or H any
facility project approval activities

1834
02:38:33,280 --> 02:38:39,280
extent the application of this
resolution is expressly preempted by

1835
02:38:37,200 --> 02:38:44,720
state or federal law or by a valor order
certificate or authorization of an

1836
02:38:41,040 --> 02:38:48,479
agency having controlling jurisdiction.
Section five state and federal

1837
02:38:46,319 --> 02:38:52,399
jurisdiction. This resolution shall be
interpreted in ministry consistent with

1838
02:38:50,240 --> 02:38:56,160
the Michigan zoning enabling act, the
electrical transmission line

1839
02:38:53,760 --> 02:39:00,800
certification act, applicable provisions
of the Michigan Public Service

1840
02:38:57,840 --> 02:39:05,600
Commission enabling statutes, the
Michigan Constitution, and applicable

1841
02:39:02,880 --> 02:39:09,280
federal law. Nothing contained herein
shall be interpreted as attempting to

1842
02:39:07,520 --> 02:39:13,439
supersede or interfere with the
certificate of public convenience and

1843
02:39:11,600 --> 02:39:17,120
necessity over other state or federal
authorization having preemptive effect.

1844
02:39:15,520 --> 02:39:20,479
The township expressly reserves all
authority not presented by state or

1845
02:39:18,560 --> 02:39:24,319
federal law, including its authority
over land use, zoning, township

1846
02:39:22,720 --> 02:39:28,319
property, township rights of way, and
other matters of local concern to the

1847
02:39:25,840 --> 02:39:32,319
fullest extent permitted by law. Section
six, planning and regulatory study.

1848
02:39:30,880 --> 02:39:35,840
During the moratorum, the township
planning commission and township staff

1849
02:39:33,920 --> 02:39:38,640
in consultation with the township
attorney, township engineer, planning

1850
02:39:37,439 --> 02:39:42,319
consultant, and other qualified
professionals as appropriate shall study

1851
02:39:40,560 --> 02:39:47,680
the appropriate regulation of major
electric utility facilities. The study

1852
02:39:45,280 --> 02:39:50,960
should consider as applicable one,
appropriate zoning districts and

1853
02:39:49,040 --> 02:39:55,680
locations for major electric utility
facilities. Two, minimum setbacks from

1854
02:39:53,200 --> 02:39:58,880
residential uses, property lines, parks,
schools, environmentally sensitive

1855
02:39:57,200 --> 02:40:04,000
areas, and other potentially
incompatible uses. Three, screening,

1856
02:40:02,000 --> 02:40:07,200
landscaping, fencing, and buffering.
Four, noise and vibration. Five,

1857
02:40:05,760 --> 02:40:11,040
exterior lighting. Six, heightened
visual impacts of transmission studies

1858
02:40:09,040 --> 02:40:15,200
and utility equipment. Seven, storm
water management and pvious surface

1859
02:40:13,040 --> 02:40:19,120
impacts. Eight, wetlands, woodlands,
flood planes, water courses, and other

1860
02:40:16,880 --> 02:40:23,200
natural resources. Nine, emergency
access, fire protection, and public

1861
02:40:20,880 --> 02:40:28,479
safety considerations. 10, construction,
traffic and impacts upon public roads.

1862
02:40:25,840 --> 02:40:33,359
11, coordination between major electric
infrastructure and the development

1863
02:40:31,040 --> 02:40:38,080
generating electrical demand. 12,
expansion of existing utility sites. 13.

1864
02:40:36,240 --> 02:40:43,520
Site plan, special land use review
procedures. 14. standards distinguishing

1865
02:40:40,960 --> 02:40:47,399
routine utility work from major
infrastructure development.

1866
02:40:47,439 --> 02:40:51,520
15 coordination with the Michigan Public
Service Commission and other

1867
02:40:50,240 --> 02:40:55,359
governmental agencies have in
jurisdiction and 16. Such other matters

1868
02:40:53,920 --> 02:40:59,120
as the planning commission township
board determine relevant to protecting

1869
02:40:56,960 --> 02:41:02,399
the public health, safety, and welfare.
The planning commissioners shall take

1870
02:41:00,640 --> 02:41:05,760
make recommendations to the township
board concerning any appropriate

1871
02:41:04,240 --> 02:41:08,640
amendments to the township zoning
ordinance, master plan, engineering

1872
02:41:07,359 --> 02:41:13,760
standards, or other township
regulations. Section seven, limited

1873
02:41:11,359 --> 02:41:17,600
administrative exception. Upon written
documentation from an electric utility

1874
02:41:15,760 --> 02:41:22,080
establishing that specific work
otherwise subject to this moratorum is

1875
02:41:19,520 --> 02:41:26,319
immediately necessary to remedy and
remedy an existing condition presenting

1876
02:41:24,319 --> 02:41:30,640
a substantial threat to public safety or
the continuity

1877
02:41:28,880 --> 02:41:34,960
of electrical service to existing
township customers. The township board

1878
02:41:33,200 --> 02:41:38,960
may authorize the minimum work
reasonably necessary to address that

1879
02:41:37,120 --> 02:41:42,880
condition. An exception under this
section shall not authorize additional

1880
02:41:40,960 --> 02:41:46,560
infrastructure
principally intended to provide new

1881
02:41:44,720 --> 02:41:50,319
capacity for proposed development of a
new high demand customer unless the

1882
02:41:48,479 --> 02:41:55,120
township is legally required to permit
such work. Section 8 duration. The

1883
02:41:53,280 --> 02:42:00,000
resolution established in the moratorum
herein shall remain in effect for 180

1884
02:41:57,760 --> 02:42:03,760
days following its effective date unless
terminated earlier by action of the

1885
02:42:01,680 --> 02:42:07,280
township board. The township board may
terminate the moratorum before its

1886
02:42:05,280 --> 02:42:11,040
expiration upon determining the
appropriate permanent regulations have

1887
02:42:08,880 --> 02:42:15,040
been adopted or the moratorum is no
longer necessary. Any extension of this

1888
02:42:13,200 --> 02:42:19,200
moratorum shall require separate action
of the township board supported by

1889
02:42:16,800 --> 02:42:22,640
findings demonstrating continued need
for a temporary moratorum and shall be

1890
02:42:21,200 --> 02:42:27,200
limited to the shortest period
reasonably necessary to complete the

1891
02:42:24,160 --> 02:42:32,399
township's review and adoption process.
Section nine, sever severability. In any

1892
02:42:30,399 --> 02:42:36,560
section, subsection, sentence, clause,
phase, definition, or portion of this

1893
02:42:34,160 --> 02:42:41,040
resolution is determined by a court of
competent jurisdiction to be invalid or

1894
02:42:38,640 --> 02:42:45,040
uninforceable. That determination shall
not affect the validity or enforcability

1895
02:42:43,200 --> 02:42:49,359
of the remaining portions of this
resolution. Section 10, conflicting

1896
02:42:47,520 --> 02:42:54,160
provisions for the limited duration of
this moratorum. Any provision of the

1897
02:42:51,359 --> 02:42:57,680
township code or zoning ordinance that
would otherwise require the township to

1898
02:42:56,000 --> 02:43:01,040
approve a major electric utility
facility inconsistent with this

1899
02:42:59,520 --> 02:43:05,200
resolution shall be temporarily
supersede superseded to the maximum

1900
02:43:03,359 --> 02:43:09,840
extent permitted by law. Nothing in this
section shall supersede state or federal

1901
02:43:07,600 --> 02:43:14,080
law. Now though therefore be it resolved
the charter township if resolution

1902
02:43:12,479 --> 02:43:18,640
2026-21
is hereby adopted.

1903
02:43:16,800 --> 02:43:24,560
There was already a motion wasn't there?
No. Was there? No. Yeah.

1904
02:43:22,000 --> 02:43:29,120
» Yeah. Yeah. They already made. Yeah.
>> All right.

1905
02:43:26,319 --> 02:43:35,520
Mr. Wyers, did you have any I mean the
resolution is very in-depth and very

1906
02:43:32,399 --> 02:43:40,960
helpful and very on point and something
that we need. Would you like to do a

1907
02:43:38,160 --> 02:43:47,439
summary of it? I think what you uh
showed this evening in regards to this

1908
02:43:43,600 --> 02:43:52,560
110 megawatt DTE substation
pretty much says it all as to why we

1909
02:43:50,640 --> 02:43:58,880
want we need to make sure that our land
use and zoning uh is in alignment with

1910
02:43:55,600 --> 02:44:04,479
these major utilities that are coming
our way to support data centers. So

1911
02:44:00,960 --> 02:44:11,040
again, I believe as Trusty Ro read on
pages uh 8 and N of the resolution, it's

1912
02:44:08,560 --> 02:44:15,279
going to set for the criteria. It's
going to ensure that u we identify the

1913
02:44:13,840 --> 02:44:19,760
appropriate zoning districts and
locations for these facilities, setback

1914
02:44:18,160 --> 02:44:24,240
requirements, screening, noise,
vibration, on and on. And so I think

1915
02:44:22,880 --> 02:44:27,279
it's something that's probably long
overdue.

1916
02:44:25,760 --> 02:44:31,760
uh none of us probably could have
foreseen

1917
02:44:28,800 --> 02:44:38,479
was coming our way with these uh data
center hypers scale AI centers and this

1918
02:44:34,399 --> 02:44:44,640
I think will at least set uh before the
board uh some parameters and guardrails

1919
02:44:42,240 --> 02:44:50,240
as to how to make sure that these major
electric utility facilities are going to

1920
02:44:47,040 --> 02:44:55,040
be properly located uh to serve whatever
comes our way in regards to these uh

1921
02:44:52,240 --> 02:44:55,040
future data centers.

1922
02:44:57,359 --> 02:45:07,319
And this is the second
behind us is a picture of a 110 megawatt

1923
02:45:07,439 --> 02:45:19,120
substation as well as the um switchyard
which we didn't even know what these

1924
02:45:14,880 --> 02:45:26,479
terms were until this data center issue
comes up. We know there's one by the um

1925
02:45:22,000 --> 02:45:31,040
Willow Run plant, but this is going to
um could be

1926
02:45:28,960 --> 02:45:35,200
the location on the corner textile and
bridge. And just like every other

1927
02:45:33,359 --> 02:45:43,359
utility infrastructure with our water
and sewer, our electric infrastructure,

1928
02:45:38,800 --> 02:45:48,319
we need to know how much of this um
supply they're going to use because it

1929
02:45:45,600 --> 02:45:57,200
determines how our community can grow or
not grow. Be it can use all of your um

1930
02:45:54,880 --> 02:46:02,399
electric, all of your water, and all of
your sewer. If you just have two of

1931
02:45:59,120 --> 02:46:07,359
these, it's it goes hand in hand and um
Mr. Wyers's

1932
02:46:04,640 --> 02:46:12,399
this was your um
idea to do this and it was a great idea

1933
02:46:10,479 --> 02:46:17,680
and people don't think about these
things and we never thought about them

1934
02:46:15,040 --> 02:46:23,120
until these data centers came forward.
So, thank you um for bringing this

1935
02:46:19,680 --> 02:46:29,120
forward. It is a very prudent way to
help plan our community. And as you see,

1936
02:46:26,080 --> 02:46:35,040
DTE just goes up everywhere. And you
really don't know for gas as well as

1937
02:46:32,240 --> 02:46:41,200
electric. They pull a permit from the
county road commission. And even though

1938
02:46:39,040 --> 02:46:45,200
they send an email, you can really get
confused on where all the lines are and

1939
02:46:43,680 --> 02:46:52,640
where they from. They have different
names. And I hope that a process will

1940
02:46:48,880 --> 02:46:58,880
require us to be and our community be
more informed on what they're doing with

1941
02:46:54,880 --> 02:47:04,479
this infrastructure. ITC is the um high
tension wires

1942
02:47:00,880 --> 02:47:11,520
and the hightension wires has to go to a
um the yard

1943
02:47:07,600 --> 02:47:17,600
in order to distribute the electricity
to the substation which then goes to the

1944
02:47:14,479 --> 02:47:23,279
customers. So it's a very elaborate
system as you can tell by Selen

1945
02:47:20,880 --> 02:47:28,960
Township. The reason they went there,
one of the reasons is because of all the

1946
02:47:25,359 --> 02:47:34,640
electrical hightension wires. So, um,
residents are aware of that, not and but

1947
02:47:31,840 --> 02:47:40,640
of course we are now. And to do this and
to pause and to get a plan in place to

1948
02:47:37,760 --> 02:47:44,960
make sure we plan our community the way
um our residents have asked for it, the

1949
02:47:42,640 --> 02:47:50,399
way the master plan calls for it, which
by the way, we are doing an amendment to

1950
02:47:46,960 --> 02:47:55,279
the master plan. It's a 5-year um look
back and see what we want to change. So,

1951
02:47:53,520 --> 02:47:59,840
um, one of our residents, Courtney,
spoke about it about addressing the data

1952
02:47:57,920 --> 02:48:03,840
centers and how we need to get tighter
regulations on that as well. So, thank

1953
02:48:01,840 --> 02:48:08,080
you, Mr. Winters, for bringing this
forward. And

1954
02:48:06,160 --> 02:48:13,359
we just said that there is no
application filed as of this day by DTE

1955
02:48:10,800 --> 02:48:16,880
for that location. But just looking at
that photograph, uh I don't think

1956
02:48:15,200 --> 02:48:23,040
there's any amount of fencing or
buffering or screening that you could

1957
02:48:18,640 --> 02:48:26,880
come up with that would uh uh mitigate
against what you're looking at on that

1958
02:48:24,399 --> 02:48:29,680
screen. And uh well, I'll leave it at
that.

1959
02:48:27,760 --> 02:48:34,000
» Mr. Irwin did. Yeah.
>> So, so this this picture is really

1960
02:48:32,240 --> 02:48:40,080
important, I think, to think about
because um U of M is so crystal clear

1961
02:48:36,880 --> 02:48:45,200
that they've been communicating to us
abundantly, which is not true. Um, the

1962
02:48:42,640 --> 02:48:49,600
first time, I think the first of three
meetings that I was in with them, maybe

1963
02:48:46,880 --> 02:48:55,120
there were four, I'm not sure, was when
they came to tell us a little bit about

1964
02:48:52,240 --> 02:49:03,200
what was going on and they announced
that the 20 acres that they purchased

1965
02:48:59,520 --> 02:49:06,000
was now going to be the switchyard. So,
that was probably the we sat down with

1966
02:49:04,560 --> 02:49:10,000
them. They said, "Yeah, you know, we
talked to DTE DT's original plans, but

1967
02:49:08,880 --> 02:49:14,800
we should buy this other piece of
property. We're going to put this at

1968
02:49:12,479 --> 02:49:19,279
this time. We have no picture of what
that means in our heads, but this is

1969
02:49:17,279 --> 02:49:24,479
what they thought would be appropriate
to come and communicate to us. Yeah, we

1970
02:49:22,240 --> 02:49:28,160
just changed our mind. We're going to
put the switchyard. I don't they call it

1971
02:49:26,399 --> 02:49:32,399
a switchyard. Put the substation there
on the 20 acres

1972
02:49:29,120 --> 02:49:38,479
» that in the north. And this is the right
at the corner gas station that and we

1973
02:49:35,760 --> 02:49:42,319
said there's a major investment that was
done by this business right across the

1974
02:49:40,640 --> 02:49:47,040
street. If you're sitting there pumping
your gas, you're going to be looking out

1975
02:49:43,680 --> 02:49:50,560
on this. And we were like stunned,
shocked that they would just kind of

1976
02:49:48,560 --> 02:49:54,640
throw it out there. So we so we asked to
your point. Um actually we didn't ask.

1977
02:49:52,960 --> 02:49:57,520
Um Senator M was like, "Well, maybe you
guys could you could do some Burming or

1978
02:49:56,160 --> 02:50:00,080
you could do something. Hey, there's a
couple other switchyards other places

1979
02:49:58,800 --> 02:50:05,040
where you could go take a look." And
we're like, like to your point, how are

1980
02:50:02,080 --> 02:50:09,359
you going to cover that up?
I mean, it's just crazy that they would

1981
02:50:07,920 --> 02:50:13,200
think you just come and just
nonchalantly say, "Yeah, we changed our

1982
02:50:11,279 --> 02:50:16,960
mind. This is what we're going to do."
And then you look at it and you see it.

1983
02:50:14,800 --> 02:50:20,560
There was no picture. Like, they didn't
show us what it would look like. We had

1984
02:50:18,399 --> 02:50:26,319
to hunt all this down. But that just
speaks to the lack of respect. And so

1985
02:50:24,319 --> 02:50:31,120
when we get frustrated that they're
saying all of this communication they've

1986
02:50:28,640 --> 02:50:36,000
had with us, that's how they communicate
with us. So we had a Thanksgiving Zoom

1987
02:50:32,960 --> 02:50:38,800
call, get used to it. And uh first
little meeting that said, "Yeah, we

1988
02:50:37,520 --> 02:50:42,800
changed our mind. We're going to put
this substation

1989
02:50:40,640 --> 02:50:49,200
» and a couple texts." It's just it's
appalling to think that they would treat

1990
02:50:45,760 --> 02:50:54,399
us in a way that doesn't warrant
real communication with with us about

1991
02:50:51,520 --> 02:50:56,560
stuff like that. That's unacceptable.
Agreed.

1992
02:50:55,359 --> 02:50:59,920
» unacceptable.
>> Supervisor Stumble, can I just ask one

1993
02:50:58,640 --> 02:51:04,080
quick question,
>> which Debbie just stated? So, you're

1994
02:51:01,760 --> 02:51:09,200
telling me all of that is going across
from Run House? Roundhouse,

1995
02:51:06,960 --> 02:51:11,600
no barrier around it, no wall.
>> We don't know. We have not seen any

1996
02:51:10,960 --> 02:51:16,080
plans.
>> We don't know that yet. But what they

1997
02:51:13,840 --> 02:51:23,200
said is the original 20 acres that were
two office buildings with 200 um people

1998
02:51:19,439 --> 02:51:26,000
on site working at $200,000 a year is
now this

1999
02:51:24,000 --> 02:51:28,880
» that's going to be the but you don't
know if they're going to build anything

2000
02:51:27,279 --> 02:51:32,479
around as of yet.
>> No, we because and they don't have to

2001
02:51:32,080 --> 02:51:38,240
file
>> we won't know until they they don't have

2002
02:51:34,319 --> 02:51:44,560
to file plans with it DTE
because this is part of ITC and DTE too.

2003
02:51:42,319 --> 02:51:47,040
So um
>> we don't know.

2004
02:51:45,760 --> 02:51:50,160
» Trust Peterson.
>> Thank you.

2005
02:51:48,000 --> 02:51:57,200
» Just keep in mind too that it is what I
was saying earlier this substation is is

2006
02:51:53,760 --> 02:52:03,439
equal or is going to produce
uh the equivalent of what the township

2007
02:52:00,560 --> 02:52:07,760
as a whole is currently
using in terms of electricity. Just this

2008
02:52:05,840 --> 02:52:12,240
one substation for these two data
centers is equal to the rest of the

2009
02:52:10,479 --> 02:52:16,720
township combined. It's It's hard to
really wrap your brain around that for

2010
02:52:14,560 --> 02:52:24,000
me when you say that because that
substation can pour out 80,000 homes. I

2011
02:52:20,720 --> 02:52:25,840
think we have like maybe 15 16,000
single family homes right now.

2012
02:52:25,600 --> 02:52:30,640
» Correct.
>> We got apartments obviously in light

2013
02:52:27,439 --> 02:52:36,080
industry, but I think that could somehow
uh power almost uh four times or three

2014
02:52:34,319 --> 02:52:41,279
half times what we currently have in
terms of single family homes. And uh

2015
02:52:38,640 --> 02:52:45,439
it's just staggering at the amount of uh
electricity, the amount of heat that's

2016
02:52:43,279 --> 02:52:49,600
going to be generated. Uh I didn't
mention earlier, but uh the amount of

2017
02:52:47,760 --> 02:52:54,880
heat that's going to be generated from
this facility if it ever came comes to

2018
02:52:51,520 --> 02:53:02,160
fruition. Uh it would take over 5,000
plus uh air conditioning units to

2019
02:52:58,240 --> 02:53:08,399
basically take the heat and move it out.
That's how that's how mammoth that

2020
02:53:04,640 --> 02:53:12,240
project is. So uh they deliberately uh
undersold

2021
02:53:10,000 --> 02:53:18,720
uh their vision as to what this was all
about. DTE is is equally responsible in

2022
02:53:16,319 --> 02:53:22,800
my mind if not worse in some ways of
trying to push these projects forward

2023
02:53:20,319 --> 02:53:27,680
because uh they truly do see this as
being a gold rush opportunity

2024
02:53:25,120 --> 02:53:33,840
» and so does Consumers Energy but they're
doing it at the expense of u the

2025
02:53:30,479 --> 02:53:39,680
remaining uh development. the the grid
cannot support this and uh it's like

2026
02:53:36,560 --> 02:53:44,560
hurry up and uh it's just you know it's
just a disgrace that the state of

2027
02:53:41,840 --> 02:53:49,920
Michigan has basically uh given a quick
claim deed to these data centers and

2028
02:53:47,200 --> 02:53:55,359
energy companies to pretty much uh do as
they see fit

2029
02:53:51,120 --> 02:54:02,399
» and it's also across the street 165 ft
is we measured it I don't know if it's

2030
02:53:57,760 --> 02:54:08,560
correct from actual people live in in
the apartment complex across the street.

2031
02:54:05,520 --> 02:54:15,200
There is no way they would ever do this
in Ann Arbor or any other community to

2032
02:54:11,439 --> 02:54:21,120
locate it that close. It's wrong. But
this will give us time to look at our

2033
02:54:18,160 --> 02:54:26,000
planning and our ordinances in order to
address the electrical um re

2034
02:54:24,160 --> 02:54:31,359
improvements
and additions by DTE and ITC.

2035
02:54:29,760 --> 02:54:35,279
Keep in mind we're all we're supposed to
be addressing in this uh ordinance the

2036
02:54:33,359 --> 02:54:41,600
appropriate zoning districts as well as
the setbacks from residential uses parks

2037
02:54:38,319 --> 02:54:46,399
and everything else. So I'll leave uh
this task to some of the planners but uh

2038
02:54:44,240 --> 02:54:51,359
it's pretty comprehensive as to what the
look supposed to what it's supposed to

2039
02:54:49,120 --> 02:54:56,800
look like when it comes back in terms of
making sure that these major utility

2040
02:54:53,840 --> 02:55:01,760
electric facilities are going to be in
alignment with those uh 20 or so

2041
02:54:58,880 --> 02:55:04,399
criteria there. And so I look forward to
especially with the wetlands there's

2042
02:55:03,040 --> 02:55:07,279
wetlands on that property over there
too.

2043
02:55:04,960 --> 02:55:10,080
» Yeah. And uh so there's a lot of things
in play here regards to this type of

2044
02:55:09,439 --> 02:55:13,840
mortar
>> and how does it affect the bald eagle? I

2045
02:55:12,399 --> 02:55:19,520
mean how does it affect the birds and
the habitat? I just this is this is a

2046
02:55:17,359 --> 02:55:21,920
heavy industrial use.
>> That's what it is.

2047
02:55:20,319 --> 02:55:25,760
» I just encourage the board one last
comment. I guess I know it's been a long

2048
02:55:23,439 --> 02:55:30,560
day, but uh this is going to be more of
a marathon than a sprint. And it's going

2049
02:55:28,240 --> 02:55:35,200
to be very much a long game here.
>> And uh I know that we'd like to have a a

2050
02:55:33,279 --> 02:55:40,160
quick answer, quick resolution, but I'd
rather see it actually uh get it right

2051
02:55:38,000 --> 02:55:45,040
as opposed to trying to do something
quick. And this is another step like we

2052
02:55:43,359 --> 02:55:49,120
did with the yucka moratorum on the
water and sewer. It's going to require a

2053
02:55:47,279 --> 02:55:54,479
lot more time, a lot more energy, a lot
more uh uh of our resources. But this is

2054
02:55:52,880 --> 02:55:58,960
it's the future of the childhood in my
opinion does hang in the balance in

2055
02:55:56,640 --> 02:56:00,399
regards to what happens here.
>> I question.

2056
02:56:00,080 --> 02:56:03,840
» Yeah.
>> Yeah. I I don't know and I'm not

2057
02:56:02,080 --> 02:56:08,479
expecting an answer, but I just it made
me think about um you know how you have

2058
02:56:06,640 --> 02:56:13,279
to own the property before you can like
file to reszone. So maybe they need to

2059
02:56:10,479 --> 02:56:19,520
own the property before you even file a
permit to have

2060
02:56:15,600 --> 02:56:22,560
» a substation built because they should
DTE or whoever. I'm not saying it's

2061
02:56:21,359 --> 02:56:26,399
going to be built, but if it is, it
should be on DTE's property, not U of

2062
02:56:24,319 --> 02:56:29,120
them. Well point.
>> Yeah,

2063
02:56:27,040 --> 02:56:34,000
» good point.
>> All right, we have a motion is in

2064
02:56:31,439 --> 02:56:35,760
support. Is everyone in favor of this
resolution?

2065
02:56:35,040 --> 02:56:40,240
» I
>> I

2066
02:56:36,399 --> 02:56:43,840
» opposed. Motion carried. Number 16 is
budget amendment number 12. Clerk

2067
02:56:42,479 --> 02:56:49,160
Swanson
>> move to increase the fire fund budget by

2068
02:56:46,160 --> 02:56:49,160
$11,355.93

2069
02:56:52,080 --> 02:56:55,720
to 7,485,662

2070
02:56:56,000 --> 02:57:02,319
and approve the department line item
changes as outlined. Move to increase

2071
02:56:59,920 --> 02:57:08,120
the bike, sidewalk, wreck, roads,
general BSR2 fund budget by $36,56.17

2072
02:57:08,319 --> 02:57:11,800
to $3,274,860

2073
02:57:12,240 --> 02:57:17,920
and improve the department line item
changes as outlined. So moved.

2074
02:57:16,000 --> 02:57:22,160
» Motion Swanson.
>> Support.

2075
02:57:18,560 --> 02:57:26,960
» Support Eldridge. Is there discussion?
Hearing none. All in favor? I

2076
02:57:24,640 --> 02:57:32,000
» opposed. Motion carried. Authorization
and bids.

2077
02:57:29,520 --> 02:57:40,200
A motion to award Clo Club View Park
Pavilion Replacement Project bid to KAB

2078
02:57:35,600 --> 02:57:40,200
Enterprises in the amount of $12,856.17

2079
02:57:41,439 --> 02:57:44,479
which is budgeted.
>> So move

2080
02:57:43,439 --> 02:57:47,520
» motion row
>> support

2081
02:57:45,359 --> 02:57:51,600
» support Thornton
discussion

2082
02:57:49,760 --> 02:57:55,840
hearing. None. All in favor?
>> I

2083
02:57:52,319 --> 02:58:04,160
» opposed. Motion carries. Number two is
to seek seal bids for one new 2026

2084
02:57:59,760 --> 02:58:10,000
Polaris Ranger XP 1000 Northstar Edition
premium to support the fire department

2085
02:58:06,399 --> 02:58:14,600
operations and emergency response needs
which is budget and line item 2069197900

2086
02:58:15,439 --> 02:58:21,840
with the bids coming back to the board.
So move

2087
02:58:18,800 --> 02:58:26,800
» support motion Aldridge support row. All
in favor?

2088
02:58:22,880 --> 02:58:32,319
» I opposed. Motion carried.
What we added under other business?

2089
02:58:28,960 --> 02:58:39,040
Thank you. Um board members is to add a
light at textile I mean um textile road

2090
02:58:36,319 --> 02:58:44,560
near the park because people were
crossing there and it's very um dark and

2091
02:58:41,279 --> 02:58:50,399
they have asked for a crossing light to
go there. So, it'll be a street light

2092
02:58:46,560 --> 02:58:57,800
and then with um markings in. I'm not
sure if it'll have a flashing beacon yet

2093
02:58:52,479 --> 02:58:57,800
or not, but for $4,134.88

2094
02:58:57,840 --> 02:59:03,240
in the amount in line item 101446982000.

2095
02:59:04,960 --> 02:59:10,640
We're asking for a motion to approve the
installation of this one street light.

2096
02:59:09,920 --> 02:59:18,720
So move
>> motion row support Peterson.

2097
02:59:15,359 --> 02:59:22,800
Questions or comments? All in favor?
>> I

2098
02:59:19,359 --> 02:59:27,680
» opposed. Motion carries.
Um also under other business just to

2099
02:59:25,120 --> 02:59:36,880
update the board. Um the new accounting
director will begin Monday uh Monday,

2100
02:59:30,240 --> 02:59:40,720
August 24th. So um it's good news and
we keep working hard and thanks for

2101
02:59:38,800 --> 02:59:48,560
everyone. And I really want to thank our
community engagement team and which is

2102
02:59:44,080 --> 02:59:55,359
and the township staff Lori, Julianne,
Elizabeth and Mila. I mean they have

2103
02:59:52,080 --> 03:00:02,000
been just great public servants to the
people um through the data center issues

2104
02:59:58,240 --> 03:00:06,160
as well as other issues. and um I really
appreciate

2105
03:00:03,840 --> 03:00:11,279
very much how you serve the residents of
our community and treat them with so

2106
03:00:08,640 --> 03:00:16,800
much respect and and helpfulness. So I
just want to just say thank you for

2107
03:00:13,279 --> 03:00:18,880
that. A motion to adjurnn is in order
>> motion Peterson

2108
03:00:18,160 --> 03:00:25,600
» support
>> support Eldridge. All in favor I

2109
03:00:22,080 --> 03:00:30,439
» meeting all opposed meeting adjourn at
9:03.

2110
03:00:27,200 --> 03:00:30,439
Thank you.