Village Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening and welcome to the February 10th, 2026 council meeting for the village of Holly. Clerk, please call the role. Wurner here. Wendell here. Ryan here. Pascal here. Cole. Ky here. Brandon here. We have a quorum. Council member Kyer is in route. I I meant to say Cole. Uh, so we have a quorum. All right. Um, if you're willing and able, please stand for the pledge of

allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Cole's here. Madam President, Council Member Cole has arrived.

Uh, can we please enter it that Councilwoman Cole has arrived? Yes. Thank you. Okay, this brings us to the approval of our consent agenda. All items listed under consent agenda are considered to be routine and non-controversial by the village council and will be approved by one motion. There will be no separate discussion. If discussion is desired, that item will be removed from the consent agenda and discussed separately immediately after consent agenda approval in its normal sequence on the regular agenda. Lisa, can you please read the consent agenda?

Letter A, agenda approval. Letter B, consideration of the approval of the village council minutes of January 13, 2026. C, consideration of the approval of the village council minutes of January 20th, 2026. Acknowledge Letter D, acknowledgement of receipt of business registration for poetic mosaic. Letter E, consideration of resignation of Shannon Cole as the village of Holly council representation for Holly area youth assistance. Ha. Letter F, consideration of resignation of Buster Weinbrunner from the village of Holly Council Buildings and Grounds Committee. Letter G, consideration of approval of the Oakland County P25 Simiccast system interlocal agreement between Oakland County and the village of Holly. Letter H, acknowledgement of receipt of fiscal year 2024-2025 audit documents presented by Plant Moran and they will be at the March 10th, 2026 regular village council meeting. Letter I, consideration of resolution 2026-7 amending the Michigan Mutual Aid Box Alarm System Association, MIabis agreement with the village of Holly. Letter J, consideration of moving retirement account monies from Mass Mutual to Sigma. Letter K, consideration of the approval of warrant 2026-2 in the amount of $363,9958.

Do I hear a motion to approve the consent agenda? I'll make the motion to approve the consent agenda. Second motion. We have a motion by Ryan. We have a second by Wine Brotherer. Clerk, please call the role. Oh, Madam President.

Oh, sorry. Uh, as in discussion, I would like to request that we add an additional item onto new business, item J. Um, it's in regard to our Morrison Street uh, lift station. It we've had to do some emergency repairs. And so, the item I would like to have added is consideration of council and approving the emergency contracting of Bruce Low excavating for excavation and pipe repairs of the Morrison Street pump station in the not to exceed amount of $20,000. And to add this onto the agenda based on your rules and procedures, we need a super majority which would be a five person vote. Uh can I Councilman Ryan, would you like to amend your motion to approve the agenda as amended? We'd have to vote first.

We need to vote that in first and then do a second motion because that has to go on the agenda first. So yeah, you have to you vote it. You have to vote to add uh to amend the agenda and then to approve the agenda as amended. All right. Going in as new business or old business. This will be new business item J before reports. Okay. Uh clerk, will you please call the role? Wendle, yes. Brian, yes. Kascala, yes. Wine Burner, yes. Cole, yes. Ker, yes. Brandon,

yes. Motion carried. I'll entertain a motion to add item J not to exceed the amount of $20,000. And what was the summary item? So the the actual amended motion be um adding consideration of council on approving the emergency contracting at Bruce Low excavating for excavation and pipe repairs of the Morrison Street pump station in the not not to exceed amount of $20,000. And I believe you should all have uh copies of the the quotes and contract uh and um Danny will provide more information about that when we get to check.

Would anyone like to make the motion? I would like to make the motion to add the Morrison Street lift station emergency repair item as item J onto the agenda. I'll second. We have a motion by Ryan. We have a second by I'm sorry, was that Kyer or Cole? Kaire. Uh clerk, will you please call a roll? Cole, yes. Ly Brener, yes. Kasa, yes. Ker, yes. Wendle, yes. Ryan, yes. Brandon, yes. Motion carried.

Presentations. This brings us to tonight's presentations. Uh, we will do a 10-minute break at the end of all three presentations for photo opportunities. So, we're just going to do the three presentations in a row and then we'll take a 10-minute break. All right. So, our first presentation this evening is a citizen recognition award which will be presented by Councilman Wendell and I'll introduce the item. Um, this is for Seth Sans. And Seth, if you wouldn't mind taking the podium for a picture if Seth Sans is out there. In recognition of your community outreach, welcoming nature, and generosity, and supporting local charities and those in need, your spirit of service brings people together and makes Holly a better place to live, work, and share a meal. Um, Councilman Wendell, if you would like to read the plaque. Community impact recognition recognizing Seth stands with gratitude and respect for your continued commitment to the community generosity and service appreciation member

and Seth for those of you that don't know is the owner of big papas.

Thank you. Our next presentation will be a citizen life-saving citation presented by our chief of police, Jerry. And uh thank you, councel. And before I begin, I'd like to add that recognizing courage, bravery, heroism, kindness, and goodness to the community and professionalism is a great way to start a meeting, isn't it? Awesome. And I have the privilege today of recognizing a citizen in our community. And I'd like to invite Mr. Wade Wines up over here and his family is here. and I'll introduce them u uh shortly. And then also tonight we have the privilege of having the individual who was saved and Mr. Adam Brewer if you could join us as well. He wanted to join us this evening. And I think uh the coolest thing before I read this proclamation is you know we always say shop local. How about save local? We have a Holly resident saved a Holly resident and they're both here with us tonight. So this is awesome. So, I have a citizen lifet saving citation to Mr. Wade Wines. I'm going to present that to him and I'll read what's on that certificate uh for everybody in the room. On January 4th, 2026, at approximately 2:40 p.m., Holly police officers were dispatched to a report of a man and snowmobile that had broken through the ice on Bush Lake near the 800 block of Holly Bush Drive. Upon arrival, officers observed several residents on the shoreline and Mr. Wade Wines on the ice, communicating uh with the victim, who was approximately 100

feet from shore with his arms and upper body, resting on the ice while still in the water. Mr. Wines had been ice fishing and was wearing a flotation suit and ice spikes when he witnessed the snowmobile break through the edge or of the ice. Recognizing the immediate danger, Mr. Mr. Wines secured a rope and cautiously approached the edge of the open water. He provided the victim, 36-year-old Holly resident, with ice spikes and the rope. Mr. Wines then used the rope to pull the man from the water, allowing him to roll away from the opening in the ice out of further danger. Holly police officers then assisted the victim to a waiting ambulance where he was transported for medical care. The quick-thinking, courageous, and selfless actions of Mr. for Wade Wines prevented a drowning and directly saved a life. His actions bring great credit upon himself, his family, and the entire Holly community. Thank you, sir. And if I may, I'd like to let Mr. Wines just describe a little bit about that and perhaps if Mr. Brewer would like to about what he was receiving on the other end.

Absolutely. It was pretty dramatic. Mr. Well, like you said, I was out fishing and uh heard Adam kind of snowmobile rev and go in the water and just kind of ran there when I heard him yelling for help and you was able to get those spikes in his hand so he could secure himself to the side of the ice and then uh get the rope to him and were able to pull him out. But um yeah, the ice was pretty thin in that area. Um, so you could hear it kind of breaking around and other people couldn't really get to it, but I had been watching it all week and kind of knew the best direct route to get there. So just the right place, right time. Glad it had a good outcome. Scary stuff. I'm glad you were there.

Definitely. Adam, I'm glad you're still here.

Yeah, definitely a scary experience. Um, I have a lot of experience on the ice over the years riding snowmobiles and checking for safe ice. Um, that day was one of them days where you kind of let your guard down. I still checked for safety and I found the one spot in the ice that at my most vulnerable time while I was going the slowest, something went wrong. And uh, for those few seconds that I spent under the water and underneath the snowmobile, as many of you know, the sled flipped on top of me. I didn't think I was going to make it, but uh I think that Wade's senses kicked in when he heard my snowmobile ref. And I think Wade was on his way before I even yelled for help. And I'd like to thank him for that because um you don't get a lot of that anymore. You get more of an audience than you get for help. People are more quick to pull out their phones than they are to go into action. And I'd like to thank Wade for doing that. He also put his own life in risk because the that I was trying to get out onto was only about two inches thick. So, anytime I kept making for an escape, it just kept breaking away. And he came right up to me face to face and let me know it was going to be all right. He put his own life in the way danger. So, I'd like to thank you for that. And that and that's the awesome partner I appreciate so much. um having both these gentlemen here uh and um WDE's wife uh Ashley is here and his son Finn and daughter Lily are here and if I can have uh the family come up just for a second because you guys got to see these t-shirts. This this is the coolest thing is caught more than we expected.

Yeah. This this is awesome. Right. So a it's not all heroes wear capes. Was it some somewhere spikes? That is awesome. So proud of dad. Uh proud of the community and proud of everybody here. And also uh tonight we have Adam's parents here, uh Steve and Stephanie. So they're here as well. And if you're on social media right away, you saw Stephanie on there just like I would be as a parent going thank you Mr. wines and was so so thankful for the intervention. So, we'll get some photos afterwards, but thank you again so much. Thank you.

Tough act. Our next presentation is a this is another department life-saving uh citation presented by our chief of fire, Chief Watson.

Thank you, Madam President, members of council, members of the community. Thank you for this opportunity to speak tonight. Tonight, I'm here to formally recognize the outstanding actions of our village of Holly Fire Department EMS crews for a life-saving response that occurred on November 26, 2025. This recognition is for a successful CPR save involving Mr. Roger Coleman, and it represents the very best of what public service and community partnership looks like. On November 26, our AMS crews were dispatched to a medical emergency here in the village of Holly. Upon arrival, they found Mr. Coleman in cardiac arrest. What is critically important to note that this life-saving efforts had already begun before our crews have arrived. I would like to formally recognize Mr. Thomas Kennedy, a citizen of our community who immediately is initiated CPR prior to EMS arrival. Mr. Kennedy's willingness to act, his decisiveness, and his courage in extremely stressful moments made a profound difference. Early effective CPR is often the single most important factor in surviving cardiac arrest. And Mr. Kennedy's actions gave Mr. Coleman the best possible chance at survival. Because of Mr. Kennedy's quick response, our EMS crews were able to seamlessly transition into advanced life-saving care upon arrival. Without hesitation, they continued high-quality CPR, provided effective airway management, oxygen oxygenation, and delivered defibrillation, and administered life support life uh support advanced life support interventions, excuse me. Throughout the incident, the EMS crew demonstrated exceptional teamwork, clear communication, calm professional professionalism under pressure. Their actions were precise, coordinated, and performed in accordance with nationally recognized standards of emergency medical care. As a result of these combined efforts, return to spontaneous circulation was achieved. Mr. Coleman was stabilized and transport to definite medical care.

Simply put, because a citizen stepped forward and our EMS professionals followed through with skilled care, a life was saved in our community. Cardiac arrest calls are among the most challenging situations our crews face. Seconds matter. There is no room for hesitation. There's no margin for error. This save was not the result of luck. It was a result of preparation, training, and a strong partnership between our community and its emergency responders. This incident highlights the importance of CPR education, public awareness, and continued investment in EMS training, equipment, and staffing. While community members are willing to act, and professionals are ready to respond, lives are saved. On the behalf of the village of Holly, I want to publicly commend the EMS crew members involved in this incident for their professionalism, dedication, and service. But I also want to recognize Mr. Thomas Kennedy for exemplifying what it means to be engaged and caring for a member of our community. Their actions, his reactions reflect great credit upon themselves, the fire department, and the village as a whole. I'd also like to acknowledge Mr. Roger Coleman and his family. We are grateful for the opportunity to serve and wish him the best continued recovery and good health. Calls like this remind us why EMS professionals are trained. citizens alike pay such a vital role to the village council. Thank you for your continued support of the fire department and email services. Your commitment to training equipment and continued safety directly contributes to the outcome of ones like this. This life-saving event is a direct reflection of that support. In closing, every second matters, every call matters, and every life matters. The village of Holly Fire Department is proud to serve this community and we're honored to recognize both EMS professionals and remarkable citizen for their extraordinary actions on November 26. Before I bring up the crews uh and Mr. Kennedy, uh I was asked by Miss Coleman uh and Mr. Kennedy that they would like to say

a couple words. So, at this time, uh Miss Coleman, if you could please come to the podium.

Well, I have more than a few words. I think it's important to tell their story that day and uh what everyone did to come together to save Roger's life. Um I'm Jackie, Roger Coleman's wife, and tonight we are here to recognize someone very special to us, Tom Kennedy. I would like to first thank the Holly Village Council for giving us this opportunity to acknowledge Tom. I would also like to give a huge thank you to the village of fire the village of Holly fire department and EMS for their quick response and efforts that contributed to saving Roger's life that day. We are so thankful for each one of you and very grateful you serve our community. A few weeks ago we got a call from Jeremy the fire chief. He said that they wanted to honor Tom during a village council meeting. What were our thoughts? We immediately said yes. A perfect way to share Roger and Tom's story and what Tom did that faithful day. It really is quite a remarkable story about faith, friendship, the power of prayer, and believing in miracles and to hopefully make us all think, could we save someone's life if needed? Do you know that if you don't break a rib during chest compressions, you're not doing it right? Roger at two. Thank you, Tom. On November 26th, Roger told me he was going to help Tom move some furniture. He said he was looking forward to spending some time with Tom. Roger has done work for Tom at his building in Holly for over the past several years. They had developed a friendship and spent many times hanging out at his building. Around 11:30 that day, I received a call from our son that he had got a call from Tom to say Roger's heart had stopped and he had been revived and they were taking him to Henry Ford Hospital. When I arrived to the ER, they put me in a private waiting

room. Finally, an ER doctor came in and asked me what I knew. I told him. He said, "We were told your husband's heart stopped and his friend performed CPR. Then paramedics shocked his heart. They only had to shock it once, which I took as a good sign. He then said, "I need you to prepare yourself for the worst. There is a 3% survival rate for what happened to your husband. The next 24 hours are critical and will determine if he has brain damage." It was then, the first of many from doctors I heard. If he survives, it was his friend's actions that saved him. By now, our son had arrived. As we sat there praying for a miracle, two men came to the door of our room. I knew instantly who they were, even though I'd never personally met them. One of them would be our miracle. It was Tom. I could tell he was visibly distraught and shaken from what he had just been through, which was understandable. He proceeded to tell me and Jack what happened. He said Roger and him went to Commerce to move some furniture. When they got back to his building, they unloaded the furniture and went to the back to park the trailer. He had looked over and Roger was doing the chain on his side and he started to do his chain. When he looked back up, Roger was gone. He walked around the trailer and Roger was on the ground. He knew something was very wrong. Roger was partially under the trailer and he pulled him out and noticed he was breathing, but it was deep snoring breaths. Then the breathing stopped. He called 911 and started chest compressions. He told us he had taken a CPR class to chaperon his son's biking trip. Thank God. He continued chest compressions until Jeremy from the fire department got there to relieve him. EMS got there soon after and shocked Roger's heart, then transported him to the hospital. Tom

then told us he figured from all his accounts that Roger was only without oxygen, less than six minutes. He had searched online how long you could be without oxygen and survive. He was pretty confident Roger was less than that. It was amazing to us. He took the time at calculating the time frame, which we appreciated and it gave us hope. Although Tom still questioned if he did everything right and fast enough, I do remember telling him before he left, "What you did do, Tom, was give Roger a chance." Our first sign of hope was at 8:00 that night, less than 12 hours from Roger being brought to the hospital when he squeezed our daughter Ashley's hand when she asked him to. The next day, Thanksgiving morning, Roger opened his eyes and later was able to be taken off the ventilator. It was then we would know if he had any brain damage. He recognized me and our children and was able to communicate. Praise the Lord. Roger had three complete blocked arteries and had triple bypass open heart surgery on December 17th. And came home the day before Christmas Eve. he will make a full recovery. Thank God for all our answered prayers and for Tom Kennedy. And I can tell you without a doubt from Roger spending four weeks in the hospital and talking to many, many doctors, nurses, and hospital staff that Tom did everything right that day. We heard it over and over again. Your friend saved your life. Your story is really incredible. You are a miracle, Tom. I know you're uncomfortable with all the attention, but what you did was really extraordinary. On behalf of myself,

Roger, our children, our families, and all of our friends. That chance you gave Roger has profoundly changed us. We are so thankful and extremely grateful. You were the friend Roger was with that day and for your quick actions. You truly are our hero. Thank you, Tom.

Thank you, Miss Coleman. Appreciate that. Council, if you would, uh, Mr. Kennedy would also like to say a couple things. Mr. Absolutely. My parents anniversary, 50th anniversary was on Saturday, which was probably my first public speaking engagement in about about 15 years. And I said at the beginning of that one that I hadn't made it through what I was going to say then without crying. So, I doubt I'm going to make it through this after that. And I don't want be too precise, but I think it was only three minutes. I think it was less than three minutes. I think it was less than three minutes. Yeah.

Yeah. Because the I think the I think the like the four minute mark is the part where it gets where Well, you guys would know better than I think it was less than three minutes. So anyways, it was really quick and the reason it was less than three minutes was because I called 911 and you guys were there fast in an unbelievable time frame. I couldn't believe how fast it happened. Uh anyways, I appreciate everyone attending today's events. Uh there's a lot of people um both the community and a lot of my uh just personal friends and family that are here. Number of the members of uh our company Broad Street Valuations, my business partner Raj Boaz and my brother and operations director Ray Kennedy. Um my aunt and uncle are here. My girlfriend Shannon's over here. My great grandma. Oh, our friends Dave and Lorraine. Uh they met they met Roger. They were the last new people you met. It was their furniture that got him. My grandma's here and my oldest son and daughter, Thomas and Carrian, and my younger sons, Brennan, Ken and Riley, couldn't make it tonight. And I hope I didn't miss. Okay, I'm sorry if I did. Um, let's see. Uh, I have always found it very awkward to answer the question on Thanksgiving, like what are you thankful for? I'm just like not great at coming up with good answers for that kind of things. Um but this year Roger's heart attack was right be was Wednesday before Thanksgiving and I had heard from his family that he was doing well by the evening. So then on Thanksgiving when I was asked that question I confidently answered taxes was what I was thankful for. Oh, I forgot. I messed up the line. And I reflected on my experience as an American and business owner and confidently answered taxes.

I'll try it twice. Uh, and what I really meant is that I was just the first step in um the first step in a much bigger process. started with me, then the 911 dispatchers, the emergency services who arrive very quickly and efficiently at uh the office, and then later on doctors, nurses, and surgeons at at the hospital. And I kind of to echo what you already stated, it's the taxes that pay for all this equipment that we need in these emergency situations, but also for the careers and dedication of all the emergency services here in Holly. Uh so, thank you guys for keeping my friend alive. Uh, I met Roger in 2012 when we moved from our building on Broad Street over to the building on Elm Street. And Roger's done a tremendous number of things to improve the building, important renovations and restorations for us to be able to run our business out of there. And over these past 14 years, um, you know, right, it started out as just a contracting situation, but you become a very good friend. Thank you. Uh, as you mentioned, I did take a a CPR course for mountain when my children were doing mountain biking back in 2018. And um, it had a online portion, but then an in-class CPR practice uh, where you practiced on a model and this course did prepare me for the event. And I really want everyone to know that if anything happens, if you encounter somebody who's injured or unconscious, the first step is simply call 911 and then follow directions. And that's really what I did. Uh, additionally, I looked up the cost of the course. It's $92 with the Flint Red Cross where I did it. And, um, I'd like to offer just to reimburse 10 people from our community who want to take the course. You know, just reach out to me.

So, just reach out to me. I meant to bring business cards, but I didn't. But, reach out to me. Let me know you're going to sign up and then we'll arrange a time for anyone to stop by the office and I'll give you $100. Okay. Thank you very much. And Roger, thank you for being a great friend. Yeah. Don't sit down. Yeah. Stand up here for a second. So, at this time, uh this is the this is the formal part. And you know, uh, we also offer CPR classes, uh, at the Village of Holly Fire Department. Uh, one of our instructors is here tonight, uh, Sergeant Katie Hardman. I know you've all seen her many of times. Price.

Uh, I I think we're close to beating that price. Um, so, you know, feel free. We would love to network and host something for our community. Uh at this time I really just want to take another moment to recognize uh not only the EMS cruise but Tom Kennedy what he did that day um with not only a certificate uh but a life-saving uh award too. Thank you sir. Great. Uh at this time I'd like to introduce the crew so you have a name with a face uh that attended that night or that afternoon. Uh Brandon Sinette, firefighter paramedic uh did call me and had a family emergency. Uh he was uh unfortunately unable to attend tonight, but um he was the paramedic lead on that call. Also on the call was firefighter EMT Grant Burgger. Come on up, please. Thank you.

It's not very often uh that members of our crew uh get to have that pen. I've been doing this for a long time and only seen it happen a couple times. So, uh be able to do that. Second on the crew. Uh Mr. Assistant Chief Kurt Nishki. I know we've taken up a lot of time and I apologize for that.

Uh this is a special moment for us. I did want to just one thing to add um as the crew will probably tell you, they go on a lot of calls. CPR saves are rare that they actually happen. But in this last year, this is the second time we've got to do this and it's just because of the training of the community and just you know like we're going to make sure that we are offering as many opportunities so everyone else can get this kind of training and uh you know help out in the same way. So really appreciate it. Thanks. Appreciate that.

Council, thank you for this opportunity. Mr. Coleman, I'm glad to see you. Thank you so much. Thank you, Jerry. Thank you. I'd like to say thank you to all of the heroes in this room, both first responders and civilian. Whether you wear capes, uniforms, spikes, or glasses, let's take a 10-minute recess. Mingle amongst yourselves. If anyone would like to take it up

Ladies and gentlemen, we have one minute until we reenter session. We have one minute, please. four people out there. It could happen, right?

We have 30 seconds, ladies and gentlemen. 30 seconds, please. like poor Marlo all by yourself. We had a bunch of friends.

We're about to resume session. So, if you intend to stay, please have a seat. If you intend to leave, have a great night. Please also tell Councilman Wendell to come in. I'm just trying to see if I get something to yank me out. Okay. That's what I wanted to do here. Sorry.

All right. Welcome back. We are back in session and this brings us to public comment. Members of the audience may address council on any item not on the agenda. Those addressing council will be limited to three minutes of speaking time. After each agenda item, there will be an additional two-minute public comment period to speak on that item before council votes. Could someone shut the door, please? Bob, shut the door.

Shut you in the door. Thanks, James. Thank you, James. Thank you, James.

Uh, where was I? Council will hear all comments for future consideration, but will not have a response at this time. Prior to addressing council, member of the public shall state their name and address for the record. Public comments, please. Hearing none, seeing none. That brings us to new business. Lisa, will you please read item A of new business? Consideration of resolution 2026-3 confirming the village president's appointment of Buster Wein Brener as the village of Holly council representation for Holly area youth assistance ha for a term ending November 2028.

Do I have a first to consider item A of new business? I will motion. We have a motion by Cole. Second. We have a second by Ky. Any public comment on this item? Hearing none. Seeing none. Discussion. I just have a real dumb question because I have missed two meetings. Is there a reason why we had to switch them at all or? Yes. Um I fired Shannon. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. No. No. Shannon's scheduling was in conflict with when highest meetings were because they're in the daytime.

Oh. No, I was just I was just I didn't know why we were doing that. And I I would actually like to give a thank you and a shout out to Shannon right now because um she had to use her own personal leave time when she did attend meetings, but it just kind of came to a point where she couldn't do that anymore. And I spoke with Buster and he was happy to take on the role and that's that. That's good. No, 100%. I just was curious. Yep. Why? I feel good leaving Buster in charge with my HA because I know you guys have all heard my reports and Haya is something that's very dear to me but it is hard. Um their meetings are at school myself so it's been tough ones but Buster's got them. He'll do great. So just to be clear there is no conspiracy. Oh there

Buster who you paying off over there I will do my best. We want you to do better than your best. Okay. You got to beat her. Any further discussion? Council clerk, please call the role. Wurner, yes. Kasa, yes. Ky, yes. Wendell, yes. Ryan, yes. Cole, yes. Brandon, yes. Motion carries. No. Lisa, will you please read item B? Consideration of resolution 2026-4 confirming the village president's appointment of Shannon Cole to the village of Holl's council buildings and ground committee for a term ending November 2026.

Just a quick intro, same topic. I wanted to take a little something off of Well, Shannon actually offered to take something off of Buster's plate to kind of even it out. So that was nice of her. Yeah. Do I have She is a nice lady. I'll make the a motion to uh approve the consideration for making Shannon Cole on the village of Holly Council buildings village of Holly Council buildings and grounds committee for the term ending in November 2026. We have a motion by Wendell. Second. We have a second by Kuscala. And any public comment on this item? Hearing none. Seeing none. Any discussion? Councel clerk, please call the role. Kascala, yes. Ker, yes. Wendell,

yes. Brian, yes. Cole, yes. Wurner, yes. Brandon, yeah. Motion carried. Lisa, will you please read item C? Consideration of resolution 2026-5 confirming the village president's appointment of Jeffrey Carl to the village of Holly Parks Commission with a term ending December 31st, 2028.

I will introduce this item as well. I have a message from Jeffrey Carl, but I'm pretty sure I have his resume on me, too. Uh, good evening, council members and Holly community. I want to apologize for my absence this evening as I am recovering from COVID. When my wife and I moved to the village six years ago, part of the reason we chose Holly was the outdoor recreation it offered. As new parents, we're looking forward to the warmer weather to spend time in our parks. It would be my privilege to serve alongside my neighbors on the parks commission to help ensure safe, clean, and inviting local parks for Holly families and visitors. Thanks, Jeff. Well, I'm getting it.

Can I ask a question what you're getting, Madam President? You sure can. Is it supposed to be November 2028, not December 31st, or is everything cold ends up for November? Like when ours when our terms are up, in November and this one's going till December 31st. I didn't know if that so different different boards of commissions have different cycles. Okay. I didn't that's what I was ask oversight. Yep. Parks commission in December 31st. Okay. I just curious was oversight or not.

Okay. So, he has a master's of arts from Eastern Michigan. He has a bachelor's in science. His major was criminology and criminal justice. He went to Oakland Community College. He had a lot of experience in grant writing and We thought that would be helpful for parks, too. Oh, here's his participation form. Let me enlarge it. So, he is the OC facilit um OC facilitator for some student programs. He's volunteered at Great Lakes National Cemetery. He does the Memorial Day flag placement. He's volunteered at Holly Area Schools, Run Like the Dickens 5K, Career Readiness, Detroit Economic Club. He is the parking lot co- captain in Michigan Career Quest Southeast. Um he does advanced manufacturing short-term training programs on top of being the program coordinator. And um in there it said pretty much the same thing he said in his email to us. So do I have a first to consider item C of new business?

So moved. Motion by Kyer.

Motion by Kyer. Second by Wendell. Any public comment on this item hearing? None. Seeing none council. Any discussion? As a liaison to parks, I'm just very excited with all the accuchments that he comes with. Um, obviously we know we're in kind of tough financial straits. Our parks are one of our least funded departments. So, it's it's going to be very helpful for us to have somebody who has grant knowledge that we can make use of our beautiful natural resources that we all enjoy here.

Anyone else? As a former parks commissioner, because I I will say that was my first dabble in volunteering here in the village and I love my time on parks. But all of your commissioners who are doing this It is the grant writing is on them. So, this is amazing that we have another community member who's willing to step up and council. Okay, Lisa, will you please call the role? Ky, yes. Wendell, yes. Brian, yes. Cole, yes. Wineer, yes. Pascal, yes. Brandon, yes. Motion carried. Lisa, will you please read item D?

Consideration of resolution 2026-6 authorizing budget amendments to the fiscal year 2526 budget. Do I have a first to consider item D of new business? I'll make the motion to consider the resolution 2026006 authorizing budget amendments to the fiscal year 2526 budget. We have a motion by Ryan. We have a second by Wein Bunner. Lisa, would you like to introduce this item? I actually can. Okay.

So, yeah, Madam President, Council, so this item um will be is three budget amendments. Two of them are on the DPW side of the house. One is to cover the brush trial grinding at Sorson's Park for $15,000. We're transferring funds uh from uh our um I from non a non-E departmental transfer of funds to our contractual in order to cover that. Um another is for cemetery to cover uh equipment repairs that we need to do uh in order to be able to mow our grass and everything at the cemetery. And the third one will be for the municipal analytics which we talked about in the right now that is moving from a contractual uh I'm sorry to contractual and non-EP departmental from the transfer fund balances of non-EP departmental um we might have to do a future um funds transfer from uh water and sewer the ones that we talked about covering some of these costs in the future but we want to see proportionally how much of that is represented within the work that they're being done before we do that so we need to pay those Okay. Any public comment on this item hearing? None. Seeing none. Council, any discussion?

Didn't we already approve amount for them to grind the stuff? Swornson, you you approved it, but right now we're having to do basically we have to do budget amendments to make sure the funds are in the appropriate account. We can't just say, hey, we're going to pay it out of this account that isn't appropriate for those funds. So for maximum transparency, we want to make sure if we're going to take it out of contractual that the money is in a contractual rather than paying it from in this one a transfer of fund balance. Again, it's just part of, you know, making sure that we're completely transparent and we're doing everything. So what we already approved, we're just pulling it. You're not improving the expense. You're approving the funds transfer from one account. Yes, I'm Yeah, that's that's what I'm saying. Absolutely. Y okay. Council,

um for municipal analytics, do we have on when we're expecting. So, yep. So, we've already uh at least I have met with him once. We're actually meeting with we have all Thursday blocked off. Uh the next steps after that will be because we're kind of fine-tuning everything on a staff level. The next steps will be meeting with the finance committee and him so we can kind of talk um you know a little bit about you know what the finance committee's um expectations are and then from that that will be the formal presentation that will then go to council. I don't know about timelines, but we'll know more on Thursday when we meet with him. Council. Lisa, will clerk, will you please call the role? Wendell,

yes. Ryan, yes. Cole, yes. Weinber, yes. Kascala, yes. Ky, yes. Brandon, yes. Motion carried. Lisa, will you please read item E. Consideration of council approving the purchase of two refurbished Taser X26PS and related gear from accredited security in the not to exceed amount of $1,413.

Do I have a first to consider item Esider? I second the motion.

We have a motion by Weinbrer and support by Wendell Chief Nar as a method of just introduction of this as well. I just wanted to let these are this is expense that I could just approve um by nature of rule. However, you know, as we talked any kind of expenses over any kind of amount, we're just trying to with maximum transparency bring them before council just so we can having transparency on everything that's going in and out and Chief Nar can talk about like kind of the plan and where this money is coming from.

Yeah. And the awesome part of that is um when you have something like this, the the new tasers are actually running between five and 6,000 a piece. It's insane. Um the I included a cost of this new taser. It's a different model. They're going to be discontinuing this. But we depend on these for our less than lethal force. Um and I want to be able to have every officer on duty to have one. and they last about six to eight years and we've had about four of them um give up the ghost here uh just recently. So, these are going to replace those. We found these at that replacement price which is phenomenal because it includes the holster. Literally everything that I priced out before I knew about this company individually uh with a price of $5,000 for two at uh a new price. So, this is a great price. It's coming out of our uh drug forfeite funds. we have some funds in there uh that we can use these funds for. And in addition, we've applied for a $1,000 grant from our insurance carrier, MMRMA, which we actually already talked to our rep and he said it'll be approved before it gets to them. So, um our our out-of- pocket costs will be about $400 and uh we pick up two refurbished tasers.

Now, are they similar to the ones we have now? Identical. Identical. So, that way then they'll have the same cartridge loads and everything else. Yeah. everything will just blend right up so we don't have to worry about buying separate card then oh I got the right card and you will see probably additional purchases going forward again we want to make sure we can you know as um because we're not only using drug for forfeite but we're also using grant money for this ideally we want to just put this put these ones through the the phases of uh you know making sure the process goes smoothly and then we're going to probably try to get approximately seven total I believe correct yeah about seven new we're going to test these out I've not I've never worked with this company before so you with him then? Uh, we always ask for a volunteer, but that's No, I did that once. That was a long time ago.

Oh, okay. That's good. All right, let's go. I will warn you though, I was 6'2 before I was tased. Oh, no. So, there's that. Um, but it's all grant fund. We're going to have grant funding for the additionals and also out of our drug forfeiture. So, it's the the right use for that kind of money.

And since we got you here about that, just something on the different I just want to thank you for everything you do with your officers. Um, it was nice to see over the past few weeks when people had emergencies, I saw Officer Bob helping them, which was really nice to see. So, people get in a positive remote about the community with the policing and not always seeing negative even though we don't get a lot of negative, but it was nice just to see him there assisting a motor strand instead of being one of those other cops. We got to get a ticket for this this Thank you, Daniel. Is there any public comment on this item? Hearing none. Seeing none, council, any further questions for discussion?

Okay. Thank you, council. Thank you, Chief. Clerk, please call the role. Ryan, yes. Cole, yes. Winner, yes. Pascal, yes. Ky, yes. Wendell, yes. Brandon, yes. Motion carried. Clerk, will you please read item F? Consideration of councel of the change order for work by Allied Building Services for work on the Holly Union Depot in the not to exceed amount of $38,800.

Do I have a first to consider item F? I'll make the motion to consider item F for work done by Alli B building services for work on Holly Union Depot and not to exceed the amount of $38,800. We have a motion by Wendell. I'll second that motion. We have support by Wine Brener. Tim, would you like to introduce this item?

Yes. Um, so this is these are um repairs that are were that were caused you know, the weather. Um, they had to make some changes on how they are actually like seating the the depot down. They had to do some grinding and so they work that's already been done. It's out of the depot fund. There's money's available. There's money available. We're having to be very careful with the money now because we're, you know, getting lower and lower uh on those uh that funding account. Um, and I'll talk a little bit more about that in my report, but just for work that's already been done when they were doing the foundation work. Obviously, it's been an unusually cold year and they weren't expecting a lot of this propane expenses.

Any public comment on this item? Hearing none. Seeing none, council, any discussion? Um just you're saying the fund Tim is getting the balance fund is getting lower in the

Yes. I mean because this this fund was again we're doing this in four phases. The depot the first phase was the acquisition of the property and the depot itself. Once the village purchased both of those things then phase two of that was to actually move it and that's the portion that we just completed. The fundraising that we've completed for is only for phase two. Phase three and four are the exterior and interior uh work that's conducted and that's what we're going to be fundraising for and looking for grant opportunities. So what they're doing now is still under phase two.

Phase two. Yep. Phase two. So phase two is the movement and then the installation of utilities. And so those will only like after they pour the pavevel in there and around and they do utility lines then phase two is complete. It doesn't even include putting a floor down. No, it doesn't. Yeah, that's going to be in phase uh three and four. Y council, any further discussion? So, this quote is still accurate because it says valid until January 2nd. Yeah. And because Daniel forgot to bring it up. The address is still incorrect.

I just Daniel I'm slacking in my behalf. I did have a rough morning upstairs and then a rough time out there. So, say something about it. Council, any further discussion? Clerk, please call the role. Wine Burner, yes. Pascal, yes. Tire, yes. Wendell, only if they fix the address. Yes. There. I'll give them your number. Okay. Yeah. Thank Yes. again. Ryan, yes. Cole, yes. Brandon,

yes. Motion carried. Lisa, will you please read item J? So, consideration of council in approving the emergency contracting of Bruce Low excavating for excavation and pipe repairs of the Morrison Street pump station in the not to exceed amount of $20,000. Where is the Morris Street? Morrison Street. Do I have a first to consider item J of new business? I will make a motion to consider item J of new business. I'll second. Will you do me a favor and um I'm trying I'm trying to remember to do this on every item. Read the actual motion out loud. Yes.

Thank you. Um I will make a motion to recommend approving Kennedy for pump replacement and hiring Bruce excavating for the excavation and pipe repairs for a cost not to exceed $20,000. Thank you. So, the motion was by Kyer and I'm sorry, the support was by Ryan. Yes, support by Ryan. Danny, will you please introduce this item?

Good evening, council. Good to see you again. Uh, so this item, I'll just kind of read it here. Uh, Morrison Street lift station was originally installed in 1979. Uh although we have updated some things in the station, it is to the point that there are imminent failures happening. Um Sunday the 25th, 2026th um uh my crew was dispatched out because we had a high wet well alarm come in and um upon investigation we thought that the piping was frozen. So we heated that for quite a few hours. We got the station to pump down and then uh in coming days we called our uh service company out Kennedy. They came out and found that one of the pumps was actually bad. Um and this is the second time that we've had to replace the pumps in this station the past couple years. I couldn't find exactly when we did the pumps before. Um but lightning had hit that station and took it all out. So, um, fortunately, we are at the point that we have to replace that pump. Kennedy has informed me that they will not do the work until the interior piping and some of the exterior piping of the lift station is reworked. Um, and I agree with that. It it is in dire need. It looks like you could hit it with a hammer and the pipes would break. Um, so with that being said, we did I did solicit bids. Um, we got three bids back. Bruce Laauo is a local excavator and he did come back at the lowest bid. He is a competent person that has done things like this in this nature before. Obviously, Kennedy is the company that we normally use for this type of work in terms of um uh panel upgrades and um pump replacements. So, with all that being said, I also want to share upon some further investigation with our

energy bills, Morrison Street last month was at $31059. A station that is that that services about six homes. Um, Maple Street Lift Station, which is over here, it takes everything to the east of us. It takes the high school and the majority of that side of town was $8161. So an older older technology is costing us immense amounts of money there. Um so I would ask that you approve this temporary repair so that we can get through to next budget season. And like I stated, we will be seeking a full replacement of this station in the coming budget um session. And this is also one of one one item that I requested grant assistance on when we submitted for the financial distress township. One of the items um specifically that we as approximately

800,000. Didn't we just replace one pump station recently before? We have we have a lot. Oh, I know. I'm just saying we did just do one though, right? Uh uh in the spring we're starting on Apollo Street that is also a full replacement similar in size to this. The issue with this one is it's right next to the river. So there will be some dewatering and that's why there is probably some extra cost added on top of where is Morrison Street? I can't find it. So it's Oakland Street and Emily right there. It's Academy. There's three streets there. Any public comment on this item?

This will come out. Council, any discussion? I just want to say sorry for stepping out of line with that question. It's okay. So, this pump station services how many homes? About six. Six homes. And it cost us 500 300 and some or 500. It's way more than what Maple does. And Maple covers. Correct. It'll be about 800,000. You're asking utilities utility cost. Yeah. So just because of the old technology. Yeah. It's at $310 where our larger station that services way more residents is costing us $81. That's only for the consumer's energy bill,

right? That's just the consumer's energy. Well, I mean I mean still that's that's just future speak of like, hey, we really need to do something with this station. And you said it's where Oakland meets academy. It is where Emily and uh Academy come together. Oh, got it. Emily is a dead end street because I saw the vehicles. One was no particular reason. All right. Uh if there's no further discussion, council. All right. Clerk, please call the role. Ryan, yes. Cole, yes. Wine Brener, yes. Yes. Ker, yes. Wendle, yes.

Brandon, yes. Motion carried. Thank you, Danny. Council. Okay. As item G will move us into closed session, we will first have reports as we will adjourn after closed session and voting on closed session minutes. Tim, do you have anything to report? Um, yeah. I have a few items. You know, I'm not going to touch on something. I usually like to put on committee stuff, but I'm not gonna do that because I don't want to steal thunder out of committee because the environment committee met. Um, I'll let you talk about that. Finance committee met. I'll let you guys talk about that. So, you're saying your job's easy today?

The um so the uh council member Wendell has requested that the public works committee meet. So, I'd like to schedule a meeting um to discuss some items uh with that committee. So, after this we can I'll email to the different public works committee team in order to schedule that meeting. Um the we also had an initial meeting for a depot use team. This is separate from the depot movement uh relocation uh committee and so this team is really going to be focused on um just depot use. It's not an official committee yet. It's really like hey how are we doing the ground work? because what we really want to do is start um getting we don't want to lose momentum now that we move this building um and there's a lot of we have fundraising

and so we are um we are uh looking at doing a um some community outreach events uh an open house essentially where you know we'll have like different slides or that will show um you know this is the history of our depot this is why it's important to us this is what other communities have done with their historic depots and these are some proposals that you know we've looked at in the past. We have a 2006 study that's talked about this the depot and um you know what we had some assumptions from that time. I think some of those have changed. So really we want community input. We'll do it in person. We'll do it online to get that. We're hoping to complete that throughout the spring. Um and so that when we're going into the summer we'll have a better idea of these because phase three and four when we're doing interior and exterior work are going to be informed based on how if we need like depending on how the the interior of the building is done will be based on that use and so um we are working on that right now as I mentioned we submitted a couple grant requests for the FDCBT uh grant we'll see how those pan out we the next grant opportunities we're working on congressional funding is our CPS fun CPF funding for fiscal year 27 they pushed up a due date for that. That's going to be in early March that I have to complete all of that. So, I will be working with um staff.

Excuse me. I got to step outside. I got an important

um so, uh I also want to thank uh so if you notice, we have a new little sign up front. I always thought it was kind of bare and uh up front of our uh our council uh area here. that I want to thank Paul Harrington from PCI Signs for helping us to uh coordinate that and get us a nice little sign there. Um we talked um Council Member Windle earlier mentioned just our uh our relationship with our police in our community and I just wanted to point out that that's not by accident. That's very intentional by our chief of police um and our department head our department in that um we've had lots of conversations about how like when we our village police officers are in our community. We want people to be happy to see them. They're not thinking they're trapping them. They're not thinking they're it's a very intentional strategy that the chief of police has to make sure that like we cultivate a positive atmosphere with our community and our police. I also wanted to thank our DPW workers. Um, you know, I can't So, not the week before, um, you know, Danny and his team were out there over by the the middle school, you know, working until the late hours of night and then he was there on Sunday working on the pump station that was, uh, you know, that went out. And so, just they they do so many hours and it's such a small team. Our T our TPW team a few years back went from 12 to six and they've just more has always been asked of them with less and so Like I just can't be thankful enough that we have such a great team that just keeps everything moving uh within our community and we don't really notice them until things go wrong. Um but they are responsible for caring for the system that is you know talked about this pump station from 1979. Most of our infrastructure is 30 to 50 years old. Um

and so they do an amazing job little given to to provide for our community. And um pending any questions, that's all I have right now. Okay. U staff, anyone? I have two things. Yes, please.

Okay. So, um the first thing again, as you guys saw, they uh plant has finally finished their audit. So, they will be coming in in March. So, if you guys have any questions or whatever, they'll be coming in for the March meeting for with their presentation. Um just give a shout out again that um taxes were due September 30th and are payable to the village until February 28th. Um afterwards you'll have to go to the county to pay them, the Oakland County Treasurer. And I also wanted to um we've been getting a lot of feedback regarding the the forms. And I just want to again be on record to say that the Oakland County Treasurer, well actually was their IT department had put a pilot program out with the villages of Oakland County only right now to redo their forms, the tax forms. So, we were one of, as one of the residents said today, one of the guinea pigs. So, they're taking a look at it and um we have a meeting um on a week from uh Thursday and I'm going to give some feedback to Oakland County about I would like to do some changes for next year because the residents thought it was very confusing and some of the fonts and things like that. So, I'll be I will um be very vocal there because again, we've had a lot of complaints. Um, additionally, um, there was, um, as Tim was stating that there was a town hall that happened and, um, there was an inquiry raised at the town hall regarding the decrease in the liabilities and I wanted to respond to that and, um, there was a decrease of approximately 2.7 million and one of uh, people at the town hall had asked the question, you know, what that was in regards to and that figure represents the reduction of bonds because we do pay, you know, principle on bonds and also there was the uh reduction in the pension liability due to that grant that they received. Um I would also like to give an update on um FOYA which is freedom of information act requests. Um I want to let everyone know especially the public

and and the and the um the council that in the months of December and January the village um had received 14 foyer requests. We have completed and closed 10 of the requests. Three requests are waiting payment of deposit and somebody came in and paid one. So we have two now waiting deposit. One we're working on and then one request is in the factf finding status and an extension has been processed. Um and then also I want to just give an update. I mean I know it's only February but you know we're preparing right now. The staff's preparing to get the templates ready for the upcoming budget. I forgot one important update too is that we hired a DDA director and he started and so we've been working with Kevin and to fix a lot of the processes and so um you know very you know him and I have had a lot of conversations about you know what does this reset look like period and how are we working towards like fixing some of the processes that have caused some strain between our you know between the DDA and the village and so really excited to work with them had a lot of good conversations uh about the wayward Still, we're still going to be healing for a while and fixing things, but we are our goals as the entities and as a team are all the same. Like, we all want the same success. And so, if we fix some of these processes, um, then I think that it's going to be invisible to anyone but Okay. Uh, any other staff? Hearing none and seeing none. Okay. Uh, Jim, let's start with you. Thank you.

Funny by me. It cost you $500 an hour.

It's not that much. So, I I did have a couple questions. Um, Mr. Price mentioned that we do have a DA director. I reached out to him for some clarifications on a couple other processes. He wasn't still trying to get his fe everything worked. Um, but one of the items that I was most curious about was um, you kind of caught me off guard. The DA currently is my understanding that they're operating operating under your council.

That is my opinion. I've given that to Tim. I've spoken with the DDA's attorney, shared that opinion. She disagrees with me. So, yes, that is my opinion. So, I looked at it too rules of the board to open the board and the regular meetings to the approval of the govern body. Do you know what their argument is that?

Yes. Uh so the argument is that the only portion that needs to be approved are the bylaws relating to the open meetings act. uh if you look at the section that you just quoted which comes from it's in your ordinance and it's also uh in statute and it's identical between the two and this is only this is the DDA statute right here whatever thickness that is but I don't know that I can put my hands on that exact section but that's the argument when I spoke with her. I caught her cold. Um, she told me what her thoughts were. She said that she really needed to dive into it and get back to me and I just haven't heard back. So, that was her initial reaction. Maybe it's changed. I just

All right. Now, the next question before Before you continue, Jim, um, gentlemen, Tim and Mike, do you guys think it might be a good idea to simply confer with Kevin, the new DDA director, and get his thoughts about how they want to proceed? Yeah, I think there's a lot of this, right? attorneys until they're approved by

Thank you. Go ahead, Jim.

Hang along with that. My problem is is talk about the reset. I mean I was thinking about what the council has done how we could harmed the EA and the only is we said no to their first choices for the conte that that wasn't going probably to happen. So it just it just seems like us exercising our authority is what is upset them. And um that's troubling to me because I think not that we not I'm trying to think of the right word here to say, but I think we need to be actually enforcing our our charter, our ordinances equally. Like I I was I did the same thing when we were talking about the powers that we give to Mr. Price and I don't I didn't think was right on that. So I fairly and I think we have maybe not been doing that in the past for for certain boards. Um so another item for you here what's your opinion on um like one of the last items that I think was DDA talked yesterday about having bank accounts. Uh what's your opinion on our our charter allowing uh bank accounts because the way I read it is all village money must be approved or must be in uh bank accounts approved by the governing body.

Yeah. So the operative language there is village funds. I think it's section 8.8 of your charter says that village council shall designate the depositories for village funds. So the question is what constitutes village funds. Um and uh when you go through the statute the statute references all the possible sources of funding for the DA and While I have not looked at their budget in any detail, um I in my mind there's a real question about uh well are all those funds village funds? I don't believe so is my initial reaction.

So I think that I think that's two different things though. I'm saying for instance the the village of Holly is is the tax authority. The DDA is not the taxing authority. So therefore it should be village money.

Well um but but I I think that all the village is is really a pass through for that. Uh we collect it um and then those funds go immediately over to the DA. I don't think the fact that we collect them makes them village funds at least with the with the tax increment financing you know the captured funds those belong to the DBA that's the heart and soul of the DBA's budget uh so I think although yes we collect them we are collecting them for DDA

so I would agree with that now without the village of Hollywood though DDA does not have money they They don't have tax funds. It doesn't change like they just can't get the money unless we give that to them. So for instance, tomorrow is my understanding we could say as a as a council that we have decided to no longer collect tiff funds. I I don't know that we can do that any more than we can say we're not going to collect funds for the education department or anything else. It's it's a legal Now council can do all kinds of things with you know the tax income and financing plan.

Well that's what I'm saying. So for instance we could say we are no longer going to act. So for instance the law does not mandate that we collect money for the tiff that the law doesn't say the village of must take tiff money. That would be weird. So we could say it doesn't say that we could say we're not doing it. Well yeah I just don't disagree. Sorry, I just don't agree to that. So you think for instance, we're mandated to collect tax money. I I believe that you are. Yes. If there is an EDA est those captured funds, they are set by law.

I believe the toy I think that was saying you were to dissolve the DDA. No, there's no debt to the DDA. There's money in the accounts. So, for instance, we could simply say I can't imagine there's you're going to find a law that stipulates that we must collect tiff funds. Uh Jim, can I ask one question to that? Are you talking about just the village collecting the villages tiff funds or are you collecting like what they collect from the um Oakland County. So, for instance, because I know they collect from a lot of different entities. Sure. I don't believe that we that we are mandated to collect tiff funds. You mean collect the funds from other places?

There's nothing that says you have to collect the tip funds. So if we can do that, then I don't understand why that wouldn't be our money. I I understand your point of view. Given my opinion, I don't believe those are village funds that are subject to 8.8. So you think, for instance, we have to collect because because we're required to collect tiff money. So you said we could I didn't want to get the tiff plan, but you said that we had to because of the tiff plan. So council change the tiff plan.

Not unilaterally. You just can't do it like turning off the switch. There has to be public hearings. There has to be all of that. You can dissolve the I mean you can do all kinds of things. You just can't do it. No. All I'm saying is the village council has some authority over the DA. Um, and I said that maybe the last meeting. I think the budgetary authority is is the real leverage that council has over the DDA. But all that being said, um, I I I still, you know, believe that just because you collect funds doesn't make them village funds. And that's the only charter that's there.

Okay. Thank you. Is that it? You got my wheels running now. Yes. So, finally did meet. We talked about bonds, uh, setting rates. I think that was right. Um, regarding plant Moran's report, I I did talk to a resident about that and I think that this resident summed it up very nicely that it reads like a different what we've received in previous years, like a different company almost. And um because I called them out on the address. I don't know if that's it or not.

It might be. Who knows? I think I think what I'm going to end up doing is because they they used a lot of words in it that we're going to continue to educate. We're continue on these meetings. I think just for simplicity sake, when they're here for next meeting,

we're going to make you the attack dog. I think it's I think it will be important to see what they said in previous council meetings because I don't think there was as much forward looking insight as we got in this but council benefit from based on some of the questions if a future meeting like I did a presentation does on what exactly uh tiff tax increment financing is like what does it actually represent how it's calculated just maybe that would broaden the understanding. I know that based questions I know I know that some people have done you know maybe more research but if that you feel like that would be beneficial and I could cover some of PA57 like broad strokes again not as much as maybe um someone that specializes in it but having read a lot of it

is there a way to contact the Michigan department of the tiff with the stuff they talked about in their amendment thing they said there is a department there there are there are like so there are there's programs like Main Street uh and you know DDA that that can provide some training on that but we got to remember that they also have a main street bias right so they're going to be oh yeah yeah that's what I'm saying if we go to the state of Michigan also

I don't think the department of treasury will really come out and do any kind of training but there is PA57 training and there's uh tip like uh you know training available and that's what I would probably lean on and get you know just some of their slide decks and utilize it make sure to, you know, bring it before even if it was a one-on-one, I would I would I'd be game for that, too.

And even if it was just like a 10, 15 minute, you know, this is what it is because it doesn't it's not only village uh funds. It's also because it's capping the money that is received to that goes to the airport, the the parks, the um Oakland County parks, um the the museum and things like that. So it's it's if if money gets released, one of the reasons that you know we one of the benefits of a tiff plan in a DBA like this is that the money stays within the community. If the money were to get uh turned back to the governing body, well it's not only us. We would get only a percentage of that. It would go back to the county as well and to the airport to each

tax each taxing authority. So we wouldn't it's not like if they were to have to if they had $500,000 doesn't that $500,000 would be coming back to us. We might only see a hundred,000 of that. We might only see a $100. So, how does everyone feel about asking Tim to maybe do a presentation at the beginning of a uh the beginning of another meeting? Yeah, do that. Or or I could do it as part of our budget work session. I know that everyone wants to add another half hour to our Yeah, but if we I mean that might be the best time if we can get some information about TIFF PA57, our relationship to DDA so that we can be educated. I I think that's a great idea. understanding where the money is from can't hurt any of us. I agree with that one, April. Thank you.

Um Jim, was that did that conclude your closing comments? Um yeah. Okay, you'll come back with something in 10 minutes. Are we keeping you awake, Danny

Buster? Um, yeah, I do have something to say in reference to uh leaving buildings and grounds. Um, I worked with uh Chief Nar over there on the police department building along with his expertise on a lot of stuff reference what the building needed and whatot and I really want to thank Chief Nars on that. Thanks, Buster. Thank you, Buster. Tom.

All right. So, I will start off saying that the same day as your guys' round table discussion you had here in the office, um there was a Seven Lake State Park meeting. So, I attended that meeting. Um they went over their general management plan over the next 5 to 10 years. Um they're planning things like more trails. They have a solar program to go carbon neutral for their campground and office buildings there. So that's kind of cool to look at. They are looking for people to start friends of Seven Lakes State Park. So if anyone out there wants to start that program, they are looking for volunteers for that. and the environment committee met. Uh we went over the Michigan green communities challenge and it's pretty much like how we can get rated different ratings for uh a sustainability challenge. Um categories include planning for inclusive and lasting impacts, climate resilience, um energy efficiency, sustainable land usage and various things of that nature. So, if people are doing any projects out there in the village and you think any of those categories kind of meet your needs, reach out to the environment committee, which is myself, April, and Amber, and we'd love to get in touch with you and see how it can benefit the village as a whole.

Thank you, Daniel. Well, the historical uh commission meets uh this Thursday, actually. We haven't met yet, but I do have a bit of information that was given to me by a member of council. Um, it appears that somehow or another, I've been starting mischief in this village since 1914. And I've got to figure out now how to fill out a foyer form so I can foyer that piece of paper because I'd like to be able to have that a copy of that piece of paper and then I can research back onto it to see whether or not It's in due relationship or just because of how it's spelled. It's

Can you read that sentence for us from this uh book from 1914 that we found in our archive? Let me to get to the part here. I just got one little part of it. It says it's called order. I know that the president called Councilman Wendell to order in 19 Loud again. I I couldn't believe I was like I just couldn't believe that when she said that. I'm like, "What did What did I do wrong now?" Oh, come on. I saw that. You know, I had to send it to

I know. I know. I know. And then, um, the council, we did do a walk, as you guys know, we did do a walk today through DBW, which was nice. Thank you, Dan. Um, there are a couple concerned areas that he had that I feel are very important that we need to address either as a council or we with Tim or something like that. And one of them was the kitchen floor. And I mean the roof over the bays, that's a bigger situation, but the kitchen floor seems like it's small enough that it would need even our input on it because you can't keep a kitchen area clean and sanitized and not trip if the tiles are all doing everything. And so I'd like to try to see just because the guys do work hard, you know, when they're out there when they get these snow storms and they got negative degree weather and it's not easy. And I just also want to give a thank you to all of our village staff because yes, Plataran has been one of the better um reports that we've had and I think it's due to the fact of how in depth they've went with everything I think. So

thank you Daniel Shannon. Um

let's see. Well, I left HA, but before doing that, I did start looking at how other area youth assistants collect money and different things. And um the city of the village of Clarkston also utilizes block grants to help fund their um youth assistance. It is a way that we have done it in the past. So when budget talks do come up, I haven't really left high. I will still be advocating and I going to be a great mix. Um, buildings and grounds kind of goes along, but I did meet with Danny and Tim about some things that we saw online where people were concerned about the cemetery and modernization. Um, they were already on it. They have programs in place. It they are lacking manpower, of course, which is where we're at with everything in the village at the moment, but um, they had already looked into that. It was already on their radar, and I love that they're proactive in those kind of things. They are looking at um some data entry projects in the future. I personally would like to reach out to some of our local colleges and and maybe reach and get some interns involved. There are some great programs here. So, I think the village is doing some great things. Today's presentations um you couldn't find a more moving reason to belong in this community. Um I mean seriously, between kindness, neighbors helping neighbors, our public service, that is why live in the village. So, I appreciate all of that. Today was a good day.

I mean, did you hear the one gentleman say he couldn't believe how fast the ambulance service to them and if we didn't have in house, it wouldn't happen like that. We don't want to talk about police response times. I'm just saying that's one of my that's one of my pushes about if we want that good response, we got not that they don't do a great job, they just are far away. Thank you, Shannon. Madame President Prom Ker, thank you for She's got a red pen on the first time today. What was that, Shannon? Wait, she did back back into me at the DBW.

So, parks met last week. Um, we are deep into um budget items. Um again um our DPW is so overexerted basically with all kinds of projects going on um that and we rely heavily on them as a parks board. Um so we are working on that also one of the we also talked about cemetery we found that in our ordinance again I think that's something that needs to be brought up that this council has been very active and our as well within going into these old ordinances seeing things that we aren't doing that we maybe need to do. Um so parks has been offered that opportunity um to go over that. They asked for the ordinances specifically on there was some miscommunication where they felt like they were potentially going to be out there mowing the cemeteries.

Wow. So we We had to get real specific with them and let them know that no, um, again, we would just be kind of doing administrative work that I wasn't going to ask them to mow our cemetery for $15 a month. But, um, we also have a new member coming on board, our parks committee. It's always been one of my favorite committees. I fought for it when I first got on to this board. Um the people that

serve with us on the parks board are just every the embodiment of what this community is about. They are ready to step up. They are the people that are serving you your cider and your donuts and your hot dogs at all of our events. Um park cleanup. Park cleanups. When is the first Waterworks park cleanup? We will be having park cleanup. Let me pull up my calendar because we're going to be doing a walk through in April and so it's still a couple months out. Yes, we usually do it. We try to do park cleanup around um Earth Day. Oh, okay.

Um and I know Sue Julian and the Headwaters Trails, they generally try to do it around the same time, too, so we can get a bunch of people together. We will be focusing again on Waterworks Park. Um, and the parks cleanup will be April 25th is when we have it scheduled. Do you guys usually get a lot of trash from that at all or? Generally, it's a lot of brush clean up. Um, we try to clear up down by the river and you know, we do it once a year. So then by the next time we're there, the next year, what we've done needs to be done again.

No, I No, I totally understand. I just didn't know cuz I was up north at my uncle's house and they had uh something going on at their city hall and they had a rubbish truck there that people were throwing stuff into. I thought, well, maybe we could talk to Republic if the township already does um cleanups. Okay. No, no, I was No, I was saying just for the park one, just for that park. I know how much is really good. They bring out how many do you remember how many dumpsters we filled last year at Brush? Yeah, about 10 of those big dump. I was just I was just shooting a suggestion out that's all I was doing. Yeah.

Yeah. Generally not a whole lot of trash, some but mostly brush and and that kind of stuff getting it away from the water. Um and that's pretty much what we did on parks for this month.

Thank you, Amber. Um there were some churches who want to remain anonymous. our police and the Holly Library and a lot of community members that all came together this last month for some of our most vulnerable community who were facing perhaps sleeping outdoors during the cold snap too. So, thank you to every single one of you for pitching in in the different ways that were applicable. Um DDA, they reschedled the budget workshop. Um, the new DDA director is settling in and he has hit the ground running. He's making a lot of connections out there, visiting businesses and starting to learn some of our history. He said he doesn't really make big changes for the first three, four months. He just tries to do a lot of learning. Um, last night DDA member John Winglemeer suggested spending their three quarter million on uh beautifying north the north end which I believe uh falls right in line with the tiff plan and I fully support it. Um, we had a couple losses this month as well. So I want wanted to take a moment to remember some of these locals that passed away. Richard Johnson leaves behind a loving family and many friends in the village of Holly and beyond. He will be dearly missed. Lobo will be deeply missed. He was involved with the car show here in town and a beloved member of our community. And this is a note from Holly Hotel from Chrissy and George. With hearts full of love and gratitude, we celebrate the life of Stella Schlaf, a tenure sewer uh server at the Holly Hotel. She passed away in early January, surrounded by her loving daughter and dear friends. Stella was a radiant and captivating woman who illuminated and enriched the fabric of our restaurant story. Thank you, Stella. Your dedication is now a lasting legacy. You are home now. So, just a moment of silence to honor them all, please.

And then finally, thank you to everyone who showed up today to support your neighbors during these fine presentations. So, if that concludes reports, uh, Lisa, will you please read item G of new business? Consideration of village council to enter into close session to review the village attorney's written legal memorandum and review the close session minutes from January 13, 2026 and January 20th, 2026 pursuant pursuant to open meetings act 276 of 1976.

Do I have a first to consider this item and will you please make certain to read the full motion? I will make the motion to enter into close session to review the village attorney's written legal memorandum and review the closed session minutes from January 13, 2026 and January 20th, 2026 pursuant to open meetings act 276 of 1976. I'll I'll second that. Madam President, we have a motion by Kire. We have support by Wendell. Clerk, please call the role. Yes. Yes. Wendle, yes. Ryan, yes. Cole, yes. Limebrer, yes. Brandon,

yes. Motion carried. Kind of loud. Sorry. You scared me. I I forgot it was right there. Was with authority. Okay. is the