Sept 2013 minutes
09/12/2013Sept 2013 minutes
ELMIRA TOWNSHIP
OTSEGO COUNTY
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
A regular meeting of the Elmira Township board was held on September 12, 2013 at the Elmira Township hall commencing at 6:00 p.m. with Supervisor, Diane Franckowiak calling the meeting to order with the Pledge of Allegiance.
Members present were Supervisor, Diane Franckowiak, Treasurer, Diane Purgiel and Trustee, Dale Holzschu. Clerk, Susan Schaedig and Trustee, Leonard Skop were excused.
Township residents in attendance were Duane Hoffman, Courtney Clark, Dave Johannigsmeir, Ron Geiger and Mick Franchino.
Dale made a motion to accept the minutes as presented. Seconded by Diane P and carried.
FIRE AUTHORITY:
Diane F made a motion to appoint Courtney Clark to the Fire Authority. Seconded by Dale and carried.
PUBLIC COMMENT:
Mike Franchino, a representative from the Gaylord Country Club subdivision, came before the board to discuss maintenance of the one mile of roads(Fairway, Golfview, Woodside and Greenview) in the subdivision. Maintenance had been done by the road commission in 2001 and the township has no plans to do any road work in the Country Club.
Duane Hoffman stated that equipment has been left at the auction site at Flott and M32 after the two week deadline. He will inform the county.
ORDINANCE OFFICER REPORT:
Ron reported that the Sam Delaney mobile home on Stonycroft has been removed.
PLANNING COMMISSION REPORT:
Duane H presented completed plans to rebuild the play structure at the park. He & Sue are working with Par Plan to write a grant for up to $5000.00.
Duane stated that he has given Lowes and Home Depot the plans for the play structure for their bids on materials. He is working on setting up a work bee to take the top of the play structure off.
Duane reported that the Master Plan has been sent out to the surrounding areas for review. There will be a hearing for the Plan at the October meeting. Providing there are no problems it will come to the Township Board for approval.
READING OF THE BILLS:
10313 Barbara Lewandowski, deputy treasurer salary 262.50
10314 Susan Schaedig, clerk salary 1,059.91
10315 Ron Geiger, ordinance officer, liquor inspector 242.34
10316 Paul Hartmann, PC meeting, August 110.00
10317 Leonard Skop, trustee salary 128.83
10318 John Middleton, PC meeting, August 110.00
10319 James Theisen, PC meeting, August 110.00
10320 Gloria Torello, PC meeting, August 130.00
10321 Duane Hoffman, PC meeting, August 140.00
10322 Diane Purgiel, treasurer’s salary 1,533.49
10323 Diane Franckowiak, Supervisor salary 1,453.66
10324 Dale Holzschu, trustee salary, pc meeting, August 238.83
10325 Fidlar Technologies, Inc, receipt books-tax accounts 448.09
10326 Municipal Underwriters of Mich, Inc. 6,743.00
10327 Spartan Sewer & Septic 90.00
10328 D & D Assessing 1,700.00
10329 Diane Purgiel, reimb mileage, phone, internet 232.00
10330 Diane Franckowiak, reimb telephone, internet, use of computer 50.00
10331 Calvin Thomas, hall cleaning wages 100.00
10332 Great Lakes Energy 10.08
10333 Susan Schaedig, reimb phone, internet, mileage 48.08
10334 Crossroads Industries Inc. clean up day post cards 404.02
10335 Waste Management 102.97
10336 Otsego County Road Commission, final West Martin Lk Rd 4,245.00
10337 Otsego County Road Commission, 50% design engineering Mt Jack 2,422.50
10338 Alpine Web 16.00
10339 VOID
10340 MC Planning & Design, Master Plan 1,073.27
10341 CenturyLink 44.81
10342 Great Lakes Energy 406.12
10343 Anthony Esson 1,708.16
10344 Michigan Dept of Treasury, July, August, Sept taxes 679.16
E-Pay September taxes 530.54
26,573.36
Diane P made a motion to pay the bills. Seconded by Dale and carried.
TREASURER’S REPORT:
M Bank CD 99,031.79 M Bank Savings 81,798.77 NWST CD 109,758.86
First Federal ICS 200,389.91 Gen Fund 1st Fed checking 38,806.57 529,785.90
First Merit Tax Deposit 357,120.05 First Merit Tax Check 6,003.10 363,123.15
Diane P reported that the tax collection is going well and so is the use of credit cards to pay taxes.
She will be setting up the back-up next week.
NEW BUSINESS:
Diane F made a motion to accept the 2013 Tax Rate Request(L-4029). Township Allocated mileage .8850 and the fire department operating 1.0000. Seconded by Diane P and carried.
Diane P made a motion place an ad for bids in the Gaylord Herald Times for the removal of trees in the Township Park. Seconded by Dale and carried.
Diane F reported that Alan Jaronieski will remove the old sidewalk on Division Street.
Diane P made a motion not to accept the Terrorism Insurance offered by Municipal Underwriters, Inc.. Seconded by Dale and carried.
There being no further business to come before the board Dale made a motion to adjourn. Seconded by Diane P and carried. Meeting adjourned at 7:00 p.m..
Diane Franckowiak/Susan Schaedig