Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Thursday, December 18, 2025

About this meeting

Government Body
Planning Commission
Meeting Type
Planning Commission
Location
Onekama, MI
Meeting Date
December 18, 2025

Transcript

19 sections (from 115 segments)

0:00 – 0:15Speaker 1

Candidates receiving a majority vote of the entire membership of the commission shall be declared elected and shall serve for one year or until his successor shall take office. That's officers that

0:14 – 0:49Speaker 1

vacancies and okay officers. Sorry. Okay. regular meetings forum voting absences. I feel like it's not anything. It may not. I just hearings zoning. think it would be in that first section. And

0:53 – 1:37Speaker 1

well, without it jumping out at us, let's Yeah, I mean, because I can look at the bylaws later. I just want to make sure that they match. Maybe it jumped out at you. No, I just want to make sure they match. Yeah, see it. But speed reading. Jennifer's no longer on. I don't know. She hop back on. I sent her a text, but I don't see her jumping back on. So, we basically have to point two of us to two-year terms and two of us to threeear terms. Yeah. And two of us to one year terms. And did we say that the newest people are going to be on on are going to be the ones?

1:34 – 2:12Speaker 1

Yeah. And then next year we just figure out uh you guys they have to go to three-year term. I guess the the one years, right? That would work. Two, I want to get them on two as quickly as possible. You want to get everybody on two as quickly as possible. But if they go on to two, then the three year and the two-year will expire at the same time. So, they have to go on three. And then go to two. We'll figure it out. This makes my head hurt. But I got to I got to m that. I got this. Um, right now we need a one, a two, and a three, though, in order for it to be two every year.

2:08 – 2:42Speaker 1

All right. Um, so Chris, Jean, and myself, we have to be either twos or threes. How do you see your future? I don't care. You mean Yeah, I don't I don't Yeah, I don't care. Take three, Dave. Roll die. Okay, I'll take three. I'll I'll take three, right? Guess I'll take three. Yeah, I'll take two and Gan will take two

2:39 – 3:19Speaker 1

and we will inform the clerk that these are terms that are expiring. We can we can say we could say January, a year from now. I think I think that what's going to happen is once these terms are completed then you you guys would go on a threeyear and then we all revert to a two as soon as but you can't have a three and a two eventually it's going to not work. I can write it up. Yeah. I'll write it up. I'll let you know. Make a make a make a nice

3:15 – 3:54Speaker 1

chart. Make a chart. Make it animated. YouTube, Tik Tok, and the uh All right. Okay. And then we do election of officers in April. You know, I'm I'm gonna um Well, I'm looking at the statute and I think I'm interpreting it different than you. Okay.

3:51 – 4:13Speaker 1

Um you just have to stagger them. So, just one third. Well, that's what I read, but Cindy says she's seeing something different. Well, I'm talking about the a new person being first. I think what this is mean one year. Yeah.

4:18Speaker 1

Love the internet.

4:25 – 5:09Speaker 1

How are you interpreting it? See, I'm interpreting it that this is saying like when you start having a planning commission, day one of when you have it, the ones first appointed, you need to have some with one term, one-year terms, but we're sort of starting over from scratch, but I guess it doesn't have to be the first appointed. Okay. Yeah. I'm just saying that it doesn't I don't think it means that Ted and David have to have one-year terms. They could have whatever your terms. That's how I read this. Yeah. Yeah. That's the way that's the way I would read it just so that they're standard and they don't

5:07 – 5:51Speaker 1

Yeah. So you never lose more than 33%. Yeah. So does it it says when it's first appointed a number shall be appointed to one-year term two-year terms such that as nearly as possible the one/3 and then terms otherwise are three years right because once the ball's rolling the new should be at three because everybody else has gone down a year that's so it's just staggering up front and you can st you can have anybody have the one here. So, good point. Just because you have one your turn doesn't mean we're going to let you go, right?

5:48 – 6:29Speaker 1

Do you want to switch? I will do whatever you all mean. I don't think it matters. All it matters. I The only thing that matters is we have it in the clerk's record books. put it in the minutes. So when the terms are and in the minutes that um and where are we going to start these terms? What do you mean where? Well, it's it's one year. It's one one year from today. If your office selections are in April, that's when the That's what I was going to say. April. That's what I would do

6:27 – 7:08Speaker 1

from April. So, we'll do it like at our annual meeting or whatever. Okay. Now, could now that you're settled, can you read off who's in what groups again? Okay. Um Um but but doesn't matter because we're saying we're not going to do that till April. Oh, we're not? Yeah. Oh, okay. Because the April April date sets the initiation of everybody's term. So therefore 32 and one take effect upon the April date. So let's try without names if that's when your terms are

7:09 – 7:49Speaker 1

just we do a just I'm still going to do a chart without names just because I'm a little confused about how you can have three rotating three-year terms. Well, we have we have three months to figure it out. Yep. Yeah. Sounds good. Okay. So, we're waiting. Is that what we're saying? Well, we're not exactly waiting. We've we've accepted the fact that we don't know when the terms were and we have to fix this. Okay. And we have a plan to fix it in April. Um, well, no. Yes. No. Maybe.

7:46 – 7:59Speaker 1

No. Jennifer's trying to get in and it won't let her in because it's saying that the other meeting is still in progress, which I don't know how it can be.

8:04 – 8:43Speaker 1

Session and then reopen. See what happens. But the computer killed it, I thought. But now I see a two down here. So maybe while she's doing that, the last time you guys had election of officers What did the minutes say as far as when it was supposed to start? Just to make sure. The minutes or the bylaws read. The minutes. Minutes. Say that again. The last time you had election of officers when you got seated as secretary and Jean got seated as vice. When did that happen? Does it matter if the bylaw say it's supposed to happen in the first meeting?

8:40 – 9:20Speaker 1

I don't know why you're asking. Because if the minute said something and you're going to change that, you should probably note it in the next minutes when the, you know, despite the fact that we said in such and such a time this thing, we're not going to do that. We're going to do this thing now. It should probably be noted that you're deviating from what you said you were going to do. Well, it's it's two different issues, but we should we should we should go back into the minutes and look and see when the elections were, which are different than terms of odds, terms of tenure or just Yeah.

9:18 – 9:58Speaker 1

Because I would have I I believe I would have noted that that term starts at such and such a date and ends at such and such a date. And if you're going to change that, it should it should be noted somehow. Well, let's yeah, election of officers was in December of 2023, but that was because um Jim passed and um Jean resigned as secretary. So, we had unusual elections last year, remember? I do remember that. But that's two years ago. 23. We should have done something in 24,

9:56 – 10:24Speaker 1

but April. So, you're looking for April, but I thought we kind of all took care of it all in in Hang on. I thought we took care of it all in December because Yeah, I don't see I don't see any elections here in April. So, what was it that you specifically

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