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MARION TOWNSHIP AGENDA and MINUTES September 28, 2006 Call to Order Pledge of Allegiance Members Present/Absent Call to the Public 1. Approval of Agenda 2. Consent Agenda All items listed are considered to be routine by the Board and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Board member or Citizen so requests, in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered in it's normal sequence on the agenda. a). Approval of September 14, 2006 Regular Meeting Minutes b). Approval of Election Commission Minutes: September 20, 2006 c). Approval of Special Board of Trustee Meeting: September 20, 2006 d). Approval of Special Closed Meeting Minutes: September 21, 2006 e). Planning Commission Report for September 26, 2006 3. Tiihonen Assessing 4. MEMAC (Resolution) 5. MHOG Water Issues 6. Clark Hill Invoice 7. Pump Station and Township Hall Outdoor Lighting 8. Parks & Recreation Work Session 9. Proposed Text Amendments to Comply with PA 110 Z-55-06 Article I - Preamble Article V - Zoning Board of Appeals Article XVI - Interpretation Article XXI - Interpretation Z-56-06 Article VI - General Provisions Sections 6,11, 6.27 & 6.29 Z-57-06 Article XIII - Planned Unit Development 10. Proposed Text Amendments Z-58-06 Article XX - Amendments Z-59-06 Article IV - Administration, Enforcement & Penalties 11. Proposed Text Amendments related to Community Waste Water Utility Systems CWWUS Z-61-06 Section 3.02 - Definitions delete PSWWTF add CWWUS Z-62-06 Section 6.30 - delete Private Sewage Wastewater Treatment Facility Z-63-06 Section 8.02E add an item #13 CWWUS Z-64-06 Section 8-01E add an item #19 CWWUS Z-65-06 Section17.31 - Add CWWUS Special Use language Correspondence/Updates Mr. McCracken General Ordinance for Finalization Procedures (Dan & Dave) Cable Franchise Township-wide Rubbish Removal For the Good of the Public Call to the Public Adjournment MINUTES
MEMBERS PRESENT:
Bob Hanvey, Tammy Beal, Dave Hamann, Dan Lowe, Paula Wyckoff
MEMBERS ABSENT:
None
OTHERS PRESENT:
Phil Westmoreland, OHM; Victoria Moellmann, Township Assessor ***********************************************************************************
CALL TO ORDER Bob Hanvey called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. P
PLEDGE TO FLAG
BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT Th The board members introduced themselves.
CALL TO THE PUBLIC None APPROVAL
OF THE AGENDA Dav Dave
Hamann motioned to approve the agenda. Paula Wyckoff seconded. Motion
carried 5-0.
CONSENT AGENDA Paula Wyckoff made a correction in the spelling of Mr. Cook’s name it should be Mr. Kuck. Dave Hamann motioned to approve the amended consent agenda, with the corrections made. Paula Wyckoff seconded. Roll call vote:
Yeas: Lowe, Hamann,
Nays: None
TIIHONEN ASSESSING M r. Dave
Tiihonen, He said that he went to the Board of Review twice and they never corrected it. Bob Hanvey replied that there was a data entry error and the current Assessor has addressed and corrected the error. Motion was made by Dan Lowe to refund $836.36 to the Tiihonens due to a clerical mistake on tax assessment.
Dave Hamann seconded. Roll Call vote: Yeas: Dave Hamann, Dan Lowe, Tammy Beal N
ays: Paula Wyckoff, Bob Hanvey
MEMAC RESOLUTION Tammy Beal made a motion to change the MEMAC motion to a Resolution. Dave Hamann seconded.
Roll call vote: Yeas: Dave Hamann, Paula Wyckoff, Bob Hanvey, Dan Lowe, Tammy Beal
Nays: None MHOG WATER ISSUES Motion by Dave Hamann to postpone this issue until we get more feed back from MHOG. Dan Lowe seconded.
Motion carried 5-0. Th
It is for our Supreme Court Case for date set yet. Motion by Dave Hamann to approve the $6,453.80 for the payment of the Clark Hill Invoice. Dan Lowe seconded. Roll call vote: Y
Yeas: Dave Hamann, Paula Wyckoff,
Dan Lowe, Tammy Beal N
Nays: None PUMP
STATION & TOWNSHIP HALL LIGHTING Bids from two contractors were examined by board members. The prices are for two motion detectors and one light at
each pump on ( D an L owe thought that it would be a good idea to have two lights at each pump station, one facing the front and one facing the back. D Dan Lowe motioned to hire R.E.M. Electric to do the outdoor lighting for the Township hall and two pump stations and to add extra light to each of the two pump stations facing the back, not to exceed $1,500.00. Dave Hamann seconded. Roll call vote:
Yeas:
Dave Hamann, Paula Wyckoff, Bob Hanvey, Dan Lowe, Tammy Beal
Nays: None T The Parks & Recreation department is asking for input as to what programs are the most important. Paula Wyckoff passed out a survey and asks that the board members fill it out and return it to her.
PROPOSED TEXT AMENDMENTS TO
COMPLY WITH PA 110 Approving these text amendments would make our Ordinance in compliance with Public Act 110. These have all been sent to the County and were approved by them. D Dave Hamann motioned to approve Text Amendment Z-55-06 (Article I, Article V, Article XVI, Article XXI); Z-56-06
(Article VI) and Z-57-06(Article XIII). Paula Wyckoff seconded. Motion
carried 5-0.
PROPOSED TEXT AMENDMENTS T These text amendments need to be approved because Public Act 110 went into effect on July 1, 2006 but approving these would not prevent us from making changes to them in the future. The County has looked at our verbage and gave it their approval. Da Dave Hamann motioned to approve text amendments Z-58-06 (Article XX) and Z-59-06 (Article IV). Tammy Beal
seconded. Motion carried 5-0. P
R PROPOSED TEXT
AMENDMENTS RELATED TO COMMUNITY WASTE WATER UTILITY SYSTEMS Motion by Dave Hamann to send Z-61-06 (Section 3.02), Z-62-06 (Section 6.30), Z-63-06 (Section 8.02 E), Z-64-06 (Section 8.01 E)and Z-65-06 (Section 17.31) text amendments back to the Planning Commission for further review and decision on how they wish to respond if at all. Dan Lowe seconded. Motion carried 5-0. GENERAL ORDINANCES Motion by Dave Hamann to postpone the General Ordinance until we can review it further. Paula Wyckoff seconded.
CORRESPONDENCE/UPDATES McCraken Case: The Court case has been scheduled for October 3, 2006. F Finalization Procedures: No Updates Cable Franchise: No Updates Township wide Rubbish Removal: Tammy Beal explained that she talked to Evelyn David from the MTA and she said it was not a good idea to people as they came into vote but to send a survey out in the Township Newsletter or have a public Forum and invite the residents so that they could voice their opinions.
F FOR THE
GOOD OF THE TOWNSHIP None. CA
CALL TO THE PUBLIC Dave Ti Mr. Tiihonen asked if it could be advertised on the Township’s website about township wide rubbish removal
because he would be interested in hearing the details. Bob Hanvey replied yes, and the cable channel will have something on it but we would like to coordinate them so the newsletter, website and cable channel all start advertising at the same time. AD ADJOURNMENT Dave
Dave Hamann motion to adjourn at 7:55.
Dan Lowe seconded. Motion carried
5-0.
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